The world needs more of this type of thinking

Literal shit post

If you’re looking for privacy, I highly recommend (weirdly enough) a Google Pixel. With GrapheneOS it’s way more secure and private than basically anything else on the market.

“When the last tree has fallen
And the rivers are poisoned
You cannot eat money.”
- AURORA

Most traffic jams actually act as a kind of compression wave moving backwards through traffic. Something as small as a squirrel running across the road can cascade into an hour-long jam.

One person brakes, then the person behind them, then the person behind them, but each time they are getting closer to each other (nobody stays equidistant from the car in front of them when braking). This causes a greater and greater slowdown as more cars are compacted into a tighter space, which travels backwards in traffic like a wave. Often the person who caused it doesn’t even realize anything happened.

A lot of mapping software actually estimates a given traffic slowdown by treating traffic as a fluid with a wave moving backwards through it.

Someone citing actual facts on the internet?! Impossible!!

The Mysterious Benedict Society was my childhood. I swear I read the whole series like 8 times. Got me into mystery novels and I’ve loved them ever since.

Gotta check for shrinkflation

And Samsung devices have a “Lockdown Mode” that can be triggered by holding down the power button which does the exact same thing (also disabling lockscreen notifications if they were on until you enter your pin)

The American way

Oh gosh, that’s even worse than I thought. Nothing like getting doxxed by your social media app; glad I left insta some time ago.

AFAIK the new update makes it so your current location is shared with every post, by default, rather than just being something you can do if you feel like it

I mean from my tests it does seem to work, tho I also just straight-up nuke Copilot in its entirety when setting Win11 up

In Win11 Pro/Enterprise, this can be disabled via Group Policy alongside most other tracking and logging “features”. In corporate environments, it often is. Their primary target here is individual consumers.

On the other hand, even on Home edition you can at least disable this yourself with a few registry tweaks or by using a tool like DoNotSpy11. I highly recommend checking it out if you’re forced to use Windows but want some semblance of privacy.