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elfin

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I make things, I fix things, and quite often break things. A Silicon Valley refugee living in the Pacific North West.

Three decades in the world of computers and most of it developing the Internet (largely as a Web Thing, but not really).

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kde , to KDE
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Phone Link is Microsoft's late and closed source alternative to KDE Connect. It requires you sign in to a Microsoft Account for it to work.

https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/topic/phone-link-requirements-and-setup-cd2a1ee7-75a7-66a6-9d4e-bf22e735f9e3

This means all the transactions between your phone and your PC are monitored and sucked up by Microsoft.

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elfin ,
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@kde @kde Which, funny enough, is Precisely Why I run KDE Connect.

Also, I don't let my androids fraternize with Windows machines, I'd have to boil them all later because, ew.

rbreich , to Random
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Prior to 1982, the SEC considered stock buybacks to be illegal stock manipulation. But under President Reagan, stock buybacks were made legal. Now, instead of investing profits into people, big corporations use them to line the pockets of wealthy shareholders. They're a scam.

elfin ,
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@rbreich Reagan. Big surprise.

georgetakei , to Random
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What's the big dill?

elfin ,
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@georgetakei Those are the Bestest sort of CoWorkers.

georgetakei , to Random
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Shameful. https://www.comicsands.com/white-wisconsin-dad-black-superintendent-2668470959.html?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=infeed&utm_campaign=linkprogram

elfin ,
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@georgetakei What the actual fuck?

I'd heard about this but hadn't seen the video. Well, That was enlightening.

And look at her. She's crushed.

His racism destroyed Her Moment, and that's the saddest part.

georgetakei , to Random
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When he tells you who he is... https://secondnexus.com/biden-trump-unified-reich-nazi?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=infeed&utm_campaign=linkprogram

elfin ,
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@georgetakei Oh, they're actually saying the quiet part out loud?

Little shits are getting Entirely too bold.

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