Imagine a restaurant that doesn’t ask you what you want. Instead the chef tells you “This is the best food possible” and just makes what they want.

that is exactly how restaurants work. have you ever been to one? you are offered a choice of meals they designed and if you don’t like it, well, there is about billion other restaurants you may try, they are not going to start crafting custom meal for you.

Love the handle, BTW. :)

thank you

I think downloading is against Google’s TOS

maybe, but you are not going to jail for that. at least not today.

Most modern operating systems randomize the MAC.

that doesn’t seem to be uniform behaviour. but i think we agree on the merit. if you are this paranoid, you just don’t use networks where you don’t have control over the local segment.

[admin@MikroTik] > ip arp print 
Flags: X - disabled, I - invalid, H - DHCP, D - dynamic, P - published, C - complete 
 #    ADDRESS         MAC-ADDRESS       INTERFACE                                                    
 0 DC 192.168.88.160  A2:35:xx:xx:xx:xx bridge                                                       
 1 DC 192.168.88.159  F4:60:xx:xx:xx:xx bridge                                                       
 2 DC 192.168.0.1     44:32:xx:xx:xx:xx ether1                                                       
 3 DC 192.168.88.168  18:3D:xx:xx:xx:xx bridge                                                       
 4 DC 192.168.88.156  70:BB:xx:xx:xx:xx bridge 

Your router always knows your Mac address, no matter how you got your ip assigned. And yes, you can use it to identify the client - that is why it is there. This whole post is nonsense written by someone who doesn’t really understand what dhcp is or how it works. Long story short, don’t look for privacy on local Ethernet segment :D

but unless i am missing some edge case, there isn’t really a reason, downloading video from youtube is perfectly legal, it wouldn’t work otherwise after all

you still can…

He is 62 now and his wish to spend more time as a private person with the people important to him is a valid one.

okm now it makes little more sense. well, good luck to him.

he literally did accepted it when he stepped down. that is what accepting “it” means in this case. it is the difference between words and actions.

and again, i understand if he is scared for his family or something and it is terrible, i am merely speaking to the logic of his statement.

if he said “it is with deep sorrow that i must now, in face of political terrorism, step down to protect my family” - that would be powerful message. saying “we don’t accept it” when you are clearly accepting it just does not make sense.

We cannot simply accept this.

unfortunately by deciding “to spend more time with his family” he is doing exactly that. i understand it is not easy situation for him, but the rhetoric does not make sense.

“see them while you can” will just speed up their deterioration, nice self-fulfilling prophecy you have there… 😆

You’ll end up looking like Batman or a police officer.

the word you are looking for is clown. you’ll end up looking like a clown 😆

there are various types and sizes of bags. there are small two/one shoulder backpacks. there are messenger bags. there are cargo pants.

I envy woman for being able to walk around with a bag the size of a phone without looking stupid.

what? https://www.google.com/search?q=one+strap+bag

Deletion requests do federate

in my experience - not very well. i have received answer to deleted comment more than once.

good luck convincing communists to give back what is not theirs 😂

but really, lemmy is not good for this. your comment exists in multiple physical copies on every instance from which someone interacted with the thread. it is prime example of once it is out there, it is out there forever…

unfortunately, trump is not a cause of the problem - he is just a symptom of bigger underlying problem in society, which is manifesting itself all over the world. so your passport is really not a solution, at least not long term one.

i read it as “with that .ml, you might be military enthusiast, so you should know about nato”…

the trend between 3 years ago and now. also, don’t forget to combine that knowledge with my point 2.

that’s my point. read what i am reacting to.

my point is, if they actually asked, i am betting my left hand they would be in in the first possible wave (contrary to… majority of countries in that queue). 2030 would actually be super fast.