EXCLUSIVE: Leaked email shows Project Veritas begging donors to stay after removing James O'Keefe
(thepostmillennial.com)
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That's why I don't do it. I don't carry a cellphone/tracking device. I type on a real desktop computer.
Which is also chock full of telemetry.
No it's not. I built it myself from scratch over 10 years ago. I know what's in it. There's no camera or microphone. It doesn't even have wireless. It has to be plugged directly into a router to use the internet. I also installed all the software on it. Very little is not open source.
I have 4 desktops and 2 laptops .... all running unix;)
The most I've run at one time is two, and that was many years ago. I had both towers connected to a Belkin switch box, so I could use the same keyboard, mouse, and monitor for each. Only one was online. The other was not connected.
If you run an Nvidia GPU, it has telemetry. If you run an AMD GPU, it has telemetry.
The drivers themselves contain telemetry for your PC components.
If you are online, it has telemetry. It doesn't matter if you "built it from scratch", because you didn't create the microarchitecture of each individual piece, you didn't create the drivers that allow it to run.
Building your PC just lets you control what components are put in, it doesn't change what those components do.
Also, if you're on Windows, that has telemetry. Linux forks are starting to add it as well.
Many of us build our own PCs "from scratch", but "from scratch" doesn't mean we make all the components and code them.
When did this start? Everything in my computer is way over 10 years old. So long ago I don't even remember the brands inside. I'd have to pop the case and check. And it's so heavy, it's hard for me to move easily. It has the largest tower case in the computer store at the time and the largest power supply they had.
I use a landline. Might as well as that's the fastest sure internet around here. It doesn't cost that much when you consider that it includes DSL as well.