I haven’t bought an HDD in a long time, but is the drive’s packaging itself not designed for shipping? The last one I bought had a ton of empty space and shock-absorbing packaging inside the box.

Peace was never an option.

You bet your ass I would

Nope

Ghost in the Shell has convinced me that even if they become available in my lifetime, it’s probably best to stay away.

If 5 nuggets are a serving, why does a 10-piece combo come with one serving of fries and one drink?

I mean the microphone is active, so it’s listening, but it’s not recording/saving/processing anything until it hears the trigger phrase.

The truth is they really don’t need to. They track you in so many other ways that actually recording you would be pointless AND risky. While most people don’t quite grasp digital privacy and Google can get away with a lot because of it, they do understand actual eavesdropping and probably wouldn’t stand all their private moments being recorded.

Your phone listens for the phrase “Hey Google” and uses little processing power to do so. If it was listening to everything and processing that information, your battery would die incredibly fast. We’re talking charging your phone multiple times a day even if you weren’t using it for anything else.

As someone else mentioned in another commend, being near Spanish speakers’ phones, Bluetooth/Wifi tracking are what Google is using to track you. They search Google in Spanish, Google can tell you spend time with them, Google thinks you speak Spanish.

It’s all crap targeted at children that came out when you were already well into your teens.

KDE Connect might work. I’ve never tried it phone-to-phone, but it works great between PC, Steam Deck, and phone, as long as they are on the same network.

I believe the fancy “DEI term” is the N word, unfortunately.

Privatize the weather!

If it was MY knob, it’d be polished on a daily basis.

Or El Duderino, if they’re not into the whole brevity thing.

If you got nothing to hide, what’s your credit card number?

Or mils

Everyone gets to have their preference. What’s not ok is MS trying to force it on people who don’t want it.

No he hasn’t. He’s just stopped letting you know when he’s been there.

Look for a tiny hole on the side of your laptop, kind of like for a SIM card on your phone.

I didn’t know they made that piece. They were incredibly prolific artists with some amazing work for Marvel and Magic the Gathering