Move out to a rural area were our speeds are mind-numbingly slow and you can still experience the phenomenon you describe. Only problem is now a days there isn't much you can do about it if forced to use Windows.

[–] VieuxQueb@lemmy.ca 18 points 1 month ago (3 children)

You used to be able to tell what every process was doing on your computer. Nowadays there are so many processes running and they all have tons of child processes that you can't tell what is doing what.

[–] skuzz@discuss.tchncs.de 15 points 1 month ago (1 children)

And they have so much processing horsepower anymore, things that weren't conceivable just happen and there's no easy way to disable them, like how Macs run mediaanalysisd (which you can at least see, but disabling will break OS updates) that scrape every image file on your computer and OCR/categorize them and tag them, iPhones/iPads do too, and you can't even find or see the running process let alone kill it.

So every piece of media on your computer/phone just gets analyzed without your consent. Sure, maybe it is neat that you can search for a word that was in an image and that image comes up, but it would be nice if users of devices were allowed to choose what is/is not indexed.

Its like you're a passenger on your tools anymore, rather than the driver.

[–] jaennaet@sopuli.xyz 8 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

And media analysis is like the least creepy shit Apple does. They also analyse your social networks (based on who you interact with using Apple services), and the database where they store that shit has labels for eg. political affiliations etc. (can't remember off-hand which of the many many Apple spyware dbs it was. One of the sqlite databases under ~/Library in any case. Might have been the appropriately named IntelligencePlatform databases, but I'm too lazy to check right now)

[–] psud@aussie.zone 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Even on Linux where it's easy to find what any running service does, the are so many

[–] firelizzard@programming.dev 2 points 1 month ago

This is why I use a distro that doesn’t add lots of extra bullshit I don’t need

[–] firelizzard@programming.dev 3 points 1 month ago

This is why I use Linux