It’s fine right now still, but given it’s a centralized, corporate-run platform at the end of the day, I’m skeptical of its long-term prospects; what’s stopping the guys in charge of that platform from going turncoat and turning it fully into Twitter 2.0?

Mastodon by contrast of being an open, decentralized platform, has some immunity against the enshittification that will inevitably ruin any centralized platform.

Loose mainboards don’t ship with an OS by default and typically ship with SecureBoot disabled by default as well, it would be pretty hard to force an OS on something that has no OS installed by default unless it’s forced in ROM.

Although, I suppose lose PC parts could simply be banned and custom PC builds could be criminalized, and only completely soldered-down prebuilts could be legally allowed to be sold in their borders with force-enabled SecureBoot and Pluton blocking non-Windows OSes.

…Right as the EU is trying to get away from Windows for their government stuff.

Forcing SecureBoot platform-wide would kill the loose PC parts market.

Except that would require a rewrite of the PC spec which I’m not sure would work out too well given the existence of loose mainboards for custom builds which ship with no OS by default and expect you to supply the OS yourself, ditto for niche manufacturers like Framework who also offer the option of letting you supply your own OS.

Good luck applying this sorta lockdown to PCs.

Or self-host if that’s feasible, MAS has been self-hosting for a while now, for example.

Anyone who has projects on Github they care about, you might wanna move it to self-hosting or another git host while you still can, because once MS gets tired of killing e-mails, Github repos are probably going to start getting sniped next.

Hopefully Google doesn’t bypass that and record your history to guess your age regardless.

In fact, Google probably still records your view and search history even if you turn those off, and turning off view and search history probably just blocks it from getting added to the recommendation algorithm.

Basically, the best course of action, while it still is a course of action, is to just watch YT either on one of the few Invidious instances left standing, or on Grayjay, but still, purge your search and view history and disable it moving forward for added peace of mind if anything.

Better yet would be to straight-up log out of YT on your browser and only watch YT in Invidious or logged in on Grayjay moving forward.

How long before that extends to PCs and non-Windows OSes are blocked? Also, add non-Chrome browsers to that as well (that includes Edge, Chromium, Brave, etc. as well as Firefox and its forks).

No, the PS3 had an analog multi-out still, it’s the PS4 which phased that out and went HDMI-only.

Sounds like the ‘clank’ slur from the Deus Ex universe.

You got Monero for starters.

Next step would be Collective Shout and the Payment Cartels bullying ISPs into blocking that site and also potentially alternative social media and anything else they don’t like, basically forcing them into only being accessible through VPNs or through Tor/I2P, at least unless VPNs start getting blocked and Tor/I2P is deanonymized somehow thanks to these organizations’ bullying as well.

Assuming PeerTube as a platform embraces AI in the same way Google/Meta/etc. are, even though that’s fundamentally impossible based on its decentralized nature?

You can’t force AI in a decentralized platform which allows people to self-host their content, and that also applies to Lemmy and to Mastodon and Pixelfed too, ditto for Matrix and PeerSuite.

Good thing PeerTube exists, you could always just move there. Google stopped being trustworthy for creators as soon as they announced Veo 3 if not even before then.

Similarly, with Reddit, Meta, Twitter, and Pinterest further embracing AI, you got this site, Mastodon, and Pixelfed to move to as far as the Fediverse goes and even Bsky while they’re still anti-AI, although given Bsky is a centralized, corporate platform, what’s stopping them from going the way of Google, Reddit, Meta, Twitter, and Pinterest at some point in the future?

They can force custom proprietary spying software on your devices.

• That would block Linux from their borders, which means goodbye Steam Deck in the UK among other things.

Assuming he doesn’t find a way to stay in office indefinitely.

Going to the club. I mean, if you want to hit up a nightclub, you do you, that’s your decision and your avenue of leisure, but I’m really not into that.

You’re talking on another viable platform right now, plus Mastodon and even Bsky for that matter although given Bsky is centralized ultimately, and also ultimately corporate-ran, who knows when or if they won’t go down the same dark path to ruin as Twitter or Facebook some day.

Cripple free press, then go after free speech and free expression on the whole next.