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I'm no Windows expert, but basically yes, especially if the program has administrator access. There's no file security on Windows, and basically anything you install can grab files, unless they are in a "protected" folder like System32 or Program Files. Then the program needs to be elevated to Administrator to access those files.

My solution to this would be a program called Simplewall which blocks internet access to applications of your choosing. This isn't a comprehensive security solution, but it does protect against basic data harvesting by apps & programs.

Microsoft is a harder problem though. They are constantly bypassing measures I have tried to combat telemetry, and as the makers of the OS itself it's gonna be pretty hard to be 100% protected from them, especially seeing that Windows is proprietary. They can theoretically do whatever they want if they hide it well enough. If this is a problem might as well use Linux because Windows is only getting worse with privacy concerns every day

There's a lot of passages about getting rid of corrupt authority; my favorite of which is definitely a story about Ehud in Judges. It has interesting specific details and is kinda comical in a dark way.

Basically, a corrupt leader gains rule over Israel, and a left-handed assassin takes up to killing him. He sneaks a dagger into the corrupt king's chamber, stabs him in the bathroom, and the king is so fat that the dagger basically gets stuck in the king. No one finds the body immediately because the servants are like "Oh he must be taking a deuce."

The verses are Judges 3:12-30 for anyone curious

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It's a reference to this post. A lot of people found it funny but a lot of lemmings also thought it was insulting and spam

Things you should never get caught liking on Lemmy:
Nintendo
Windows
Auth-right, lib-right, or lib-left politics
A can of beans
Police
Man vs bear hypothetical
CalyxOS
Etc.

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All of my favorite Star Wars games are on sale. When star wars games were good; "before the dark times, before EA."

Knights of the Old Republic I & II
Dark forces
Empire at War
Jedi Academy
Jedi Outcast
Republic Commando
Battlefront I & II (Lucasarts ones not EA)
Shadows of the Empire
Bounty Hunter

All great games worth playing imo

I'm interested to read your interview, I've often wondered what motivations are present for the minds behind services like that. I wonder how many are from a benevolent will to share entertainment & preserve games, and how many are simply just financial

In my opinion Gajim for desktop looks pretty sleek. Cheogram has a 2020 look to it, but it's still great looking imo. Not everything has to have sleek gradients and overly rounded borders. I actually prefer 2015 UI where things were more boxy and very slightly rounded e.g. the old instagram app logo.

I've also gotten my friend to use Cheogram, and her #1 complaint is not having chat effects from imessage. I feel like if you just slap on integrated gifs and add a couple of UI animations, non-techies would be all over it. Maybe XMPP just needs some frontend UI pazazz for people to take notice

Webp is definitely what makes it evil

Chaotic Evil:

Print it out, stuff it in a green bell pepper, char the green pepper into ash, eat it, wait 3 days, take a picture of it with a nintendo dsi, transfer it via ftp to hannah montana linux, add green bellpepper watermark via GIMP, save as webp in root directory

Xenia was one of the few programs I kept windows for, good to check it off the list. I'll definitely be downloading and tinkering with it soon

Command and Conquer perhaps? CC Tiberium Wars came out around 2007. Starcraft is also a similar RTS; Starcraft 2 came out in 2010