I am pretty sure my phone started listening to me...

A few days ago I downloaded a app similar to Craigslist but a little more modern. THE ABSOLUTE FIRST THING MY EYES SEE IS A CAR. NOT ANY OLD CAR. BUT THE SAME YEAR, MAKE, AND MODEL OF THE CAR I OWN. May I also mention I’m on vacation on the OPPOSITE SIDE OF THE COUNTRY?!?

Wtf.

If it was listening to you, why would It try to make you buy the same car you own?

@j4cobgarby because I miss it

Maybe it’s made by Facebook lol, they were accused of listening like that before

Plot twist: it is your car.

@electrineer 😶

@electrineer in that case, someone is getting ripped off

There's been a video about this: https://youtube.com/watch/...

Regardless of the whole Zucc issue - I think that the Senate has been very ignorant about what Facebook can and can't do - with Google the concern has been very much legit. In fact it's legit for whoever can run arbitrary code on your OS. Hence why in case of Microsoft, I removed the webcam and microphone module from my AIO. Not something that I wanted to do and most certainly something that I'd like to be able to put back at some point because the microphone was really good, but I can't trust Microsoft with it. It really disheartens me that I have to distrust the OS that I'm running these days. Then again, it was my own bad choice to go with an Intel+Nvidia graphics hybrid back in 2015. Having a desire to run Linux on everything, I should've known better. NVIDIA, FUCK YOU!!!

@Condor I understand; even the reference everyone knows lol. I’ve tried Linux but my hardware, being three monitors on a gtx 1060, doesn’t want to cooperate.

I’m at the point where I know someone is listening and don’t have the time to worry about or fix it. It’s a shame tho

@Gerrymandered Looks like you're on the same boat as me then. Here I have Intel iGPU coupled with an Nvidia GTX 920M and despite all my attempts to make it work with Linux (including at some point unchecking all Nvidia drivers in the kernel - to block the GPU that at the time I thought was powerful - but eventually just blocking it altogether, and the system still wouldn't work nicely with a dualhead 1920x1080+1920x1080 setup. And when I bought a 2560x1080 ultrawide to replace the right Full HD monitor, things only got worse. So now I'm stuck with Windows which has decent drivers to drive both monitors, all because of my own ignorance. I feel like kicking myself in the nuts just for that.. I should've known better.

@Condor for me, I got awfully close but had v-sync issues but depression happened and I wiped the drive. I also want to attempt a hackintosh again to see if it’ll work with my Ryzen 5 1600X

@Gerrymandered Ryzen should be supported in recent stable versions of upstream Linux kernels at this point, and most certainly be covered in mainline. I'm not sure about Hackintosh, but in Linux is certainly should be! Whenever I get the money for it, I'll probably also target the Ryzen series for both CPU and GPU. It'd be quite the investment though, because I'd have to buy everything new just for that host. Luckily my ultrawide supports Freesync so at least I wouldn't have to invest in that anymore :')

@Condor I would try Linux again but now I’m out of drives... third world problems am I right?

Also for AMD OS X, https://AMD-OSX.com

@Gerrymandered Haha, it most certainly is a third-world problem :P
Here I've ended up removing the laptop's SSD from my from my laptop and migrating it into my desktop, and migrated the laptop's OS (Arch Linux) into a USB flash drive. Those are small anyway and don't really *need* to hold more than just a little bit of data - I've got a 4TB server for data storage anyway. So yeah, USB sticks can provide some storage and a partition table, therefore they can hold a Linux OS :)

@Condor lucky… my server is about 800gb

@Gerrymandered yeah, most certainly.. they're just 2x2TB WD Reds in a RAID-0 configuration (which are mirrored to another 4TB WD Book and those WD Reds are extremely reliable so I don't expect them to fail anytime soon) which I was able to buy from my former teacher for €100 in total.. quite a nice deal! Turns out that he wasn't using them anymore as he's got a 25TB (iirc) RAID-5 NAS right now for all his storage needs.

@Condor not bad for the price

My drive is one I got for free from a friend

Nvidia drivers are always depressingly behind. I built my current system about 4 years ago and put a GTX 750 ti in it. I couldn't even get any graphical distro to boot because there weren't any kernel drivers yet. That's been fixed now, obviously, and my two 1900x1200 monitors mostly work (KDE Plasma won't display a wallpaper on the primary screen and some other minor niggles), but it's still frustrating.