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What is a nifty little feature modern gadgets have lost? (lemmy.world)

submitted 2 years ago* by fastandcurious@lemmy.world to c/asklemmy@lemmy.world

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For me it’s the notification light you used to find on older phones, was particularly good to know if your phone was charged without picking it up

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[–] banazir@lemmy.ml 193 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Privacy.

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[–] Mr_Blott@lemmy.world 41 points 2 years ago (3 children)

Have you tried not shitting with the door open?

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[–] theherk@lemmy.world 79 points 2 years ago (5 children)

That’s funny. Every time somebody says “If you have nothing to hide, what are you worried about,” I reply, “Do you shit with the door open?”

But now the door isn’t just open. It feels like Uncle Sam is pissing between your legs.

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[–] Mr_Blott@lemmy.world 11 points 2 years ago

Yes we all have an uncle like that. Mine was Jimmy Savile

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[–] axefaire@lemmy.world 9 points 2 years ago (1 child)

Not just Uncle Sam, but every tech company too

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[–] deweydecibel@lemmy.world 6 points 2 years ago

Yeah anyone thinking it's only the government spying is revealing their age and/or their biases.

Uncle Sam doesn't even need to spy. They just get the data from the corporation that spies on us now for their own reasons.

Both are a problem.

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[–] fine_sandy_bottom@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 2 years ago

I'm more concerned with privacy than most, but I do in fact shit with the door open. When I'm at home I mean.

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[–] AnonWyo@startrek.website 2 points 2 years ago

Well. Now we know what kind of porn Uncle Sam is into.

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[–] zerofk@lemm.ee 1 point 2 years ago

Isn’t that why American stalls have those big gaps?

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[–] AeonFelis@lemmy.world 16 points 2 years ago

My cat does not allow it.

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[–] robdor@lemmynsfw.com 1 point 2 years ago

But if I close the door how will people know the bathroom is occupied?

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[–] jflorez@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 years ago (1 child)

Try to let go of Google everything. Start by ditching Chrome and Chromium based browsers

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[–] Hamartiogonic@sopuli.xyz 4 points 2 years ago (1 child)

I switched to duck duck go who knows how many years ago. Haven’t looked back.

Can’t even remember when I started using Firefox, but that was probably around the time when Opera became popular. Before Crome existed, I was already on FF and never regretted staying there. At that point, I was already somewhat aware of privacy matters, so switching to Chrome seemed completely stupid to me.

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[–] NKBTN@feddit.uk 2 points 2 years ago (1 child)

Same, but I find for about 1% of sites I have to load them in chromium. Just works much better

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[–] Hamartiogonic@sopuli.xyz 1 point 2 years ago

It was the same thing with IE back in ancient times. A popular browser violates web standards so many sites were designed with that rogue browser in mind. If you use a browser that actually follows the standards, some sites just won’t work properly for you.

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