EngineerGaming

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[–] EngineerGaming@feddit.nl 1 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

I would be very much against tying my social media accounts to a government services one. I know it can be correlated if needed, but the government automatically neatly having this information all in one place? No thanks, it's outright dangerous.

[–] EngineerGaming@feddit.nl 3 points 3 weeks ago

Regardless of whether the content is "useful and educative" or "brainrot", I just don't seem how you can comprehend rapidly-changing and very short content at all, this just seems unnatural. Is that how ADHD feels like? And not like you can get comprehensive knowledge from such bite-sized videos anyway, maximum disjointed factoids.

[–] EngineerGaming@feddit.nl 1 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

By "passport" I meant "the universal ID everyone has", maybe it's named differently where you are.

[–] EngineerGaming@feddit.nl 1 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)

Yeah, sorry for being confusing. The library having a record is indeed just an additional concern, personal main one is the reader's manufaturer getting telemetry, including on the DRMless books. I personally download my books from Libgen.

The passport mention is because here - at least as far as I remember - they do want your passport to sign you up for the library system. And I would just be surprised if this massive system isn't a part of the super-invasive surveillance apparatus, or at least isn't freely accessible to whoever wants it in the law enforcement (like most data out there).

[–] EngineerGaming@feddit.nl 1 points 3 weeks ago (5 children)

I do just that. You do you. Even though the topics aren't dangerous, I am still uncomfortable having them recorded tied to my passport.

[–] EngineerGaming@feddit.nl 2 points 3 weeks ago (7 children)

Well yeah, my issue is needing internet connection at all - as well as having my reading in the library app itself being spied on, even if my reader did have an OS I trust to be online.

[–] EngineerGaming@feddit.nl 1 points 3 weeks ago (9 children)

I wouldn't like the surveillance this would indirectly cause. My guess would be that a library app would need an internet connection... And I would not trust my reader to ever be online.

[–] EngineerGaming@feddit.nl 32 points 3 weeks ago

I still cannot get over the fact that a browser requires an account to use.

[–] EngineerGaming@feddit.nl 1 points 3 weeks ago

Fair points, misunderstood indeed.

[–] EngineerGaming@feddit.nl 0 points 4 weeks ago (2 children)

Android virtual machine? Waydroid?

[–] EngineerGaming@feddit.nl 7 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

...Or just not taking a phone and taking public transport instead of a car.

[–] EngineerGaming@feddit.nl 2 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago) (1 children)

They might be cool for gaming at least. Or porn.

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