Sophocles

This was never a debate. This is me calling out your hateful behavior. Ad hominem is exactly what I'm doing, because I'm not arguing with you, I'm calling you out on your bad character. This is supposed to be a place for uplifting content, yet all I see you doing is tearing people down

Looking at your mostly downvoted comment history, I can see you're the irrelivant, wrong and off topic one. If you don't relate or care about a post, stay on Reddit with the other bigots and haters. Don't relate to a post? Move on. Don't like religion? Keep the hate to yourself. Simple.

I found the Redditor

Like others have said, this is an age old question. Plato's Cave is my favorite rendition of the question.

The simple solution would be reason. Unless we live in a dystopia in full effect, like in 1984 or Fahrenheit 451, there will usually be multiple sources and perspectives on an issue or event, AI or not. Get info from all sides, and make a well informed personal decision with the info available. Never believe something initially and only do so if it is confirmed by multiple sources. Use logic, science, reason, ethos, or even faith as tools to seek and verify truth

Tempe is probably the 1 place I would want a car. No one wants to walk around in 110°F / 43°C heat. I've traveled there a few times and it's like being cooked in an oven

I feel like stories have never been my go to. I always find myself playing games with excellent gameplay, rather than story (Mindustry, Balatro, Galaga, etc). I love a good story don't get me wrong, but gameplay is my main attraction to games, and I feel thats where games started. If you look at retro games like Dig Dug or Adventure, or even modern indie titles like Balatro the attraction is basically 90% gameplay

I agree, AAA games are long dead. However there was a time where AAA games were amazing, maybe around the PS2/Gamecube/Xbox era. Back when devs were allowed creative freetom to make the games they actually wanted and try new things. I think a lot of people with these complaints miss that level of catered quality from back then

I found that apps and browsers could fingerprint me with aspect ratio alone. For me it was DuckDuckGo giving me localized results; I'm pretty sure both apps and browsers can get this info very easily. I'm sure Tiktok can fingerprint your phone with very few information points, especially if it's an app running on your phone, if not a simple website on your browser.

You might be able to get around fingerprinting if you use a firefox fork like Iceraven or Fennec, install ublock origin and privacy badger, and browse via the website, but even there they may have enough information points to fingerprint you. Megacorps like TikTok and Meta bend over backwards to get your info

To add to this, in CalyxOS you can enable Global VPN, Always on VPN, and Block connections without VPN in your network settings. All great settings to leave on by default

The medium usually doesn't change the story itself for me, but it does change the vibe of the reading experience. I've always compared reading physical books vs ebooks to a sense of place, like reading a book in a fluorescent-lit office vs reading in a comfy chair in front of the fireplace. The office is better for efficiency and learning, while the fireplace is much more comfy and relaxing

Sometimes a server change on a vpn fixes the login errors on Aurora for me.

The only alternatives I can think of would be services like APKMirror, where you can download the apk itself, although a lot of those sites are a little sketchy imo. You can scan the apks with a website called VirusTotal. Some apps also have a github, and you can use Obtainium to update them. Lastly, you can use Firefox or a fork like Iceraven to install a website as an "app" and just use the website like that

Edit: typo

I recently discovered that Fahrenheit 451 (my favorite dystopian novel) is considered a banned book. This is really ironic because it's litterally about a dystopia that bans books.