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Aren’t there laws in place about consent and recording phone calls specifically?

Both my partner and I use “dude” interchangeably for all genders. They’re NB for context

Or the Marionberry, the Tayberry’s tart younger cousin

Thanks for being a good human, Internet Stranger.

Okami

Sorry to break it to you bruh, but if Facebook owns the IP, they’re harvesting and monetizing the account data, end of.

This includes all of the subsidiaries like Instagram and WhatsApp as well.

Let’s also not forget that illegal activity exposes user data in addition to greed, and just the fact that your data is in yet another pot increases your risk. Also yes all corporations are greedy and evil but they’re definitely not all equal in how bad they are, and FB is one of the worst

Are you willing to compromise on all of these intrusions into your life? Many people are, but I’m not one.

I’m glad that worked for you, but not everyone’s body chemistry is the same. For some people these meds are vital to a stable lifestyle.

Pushing people to make medical decisions (of any kind) about their own bodies is an irresponsible overstep and might cause more harm than help.

Ok so, replacing the head unit might work?

Is there anything a mildly competent electronics enthusiast could do to disable any outbound data?

Certainly! I’m not sure when I’ll get around to actually doing it, but my intent was to create an emergency boot drive to send to my elderly family members that they could plug in if the system ever started acting up, and I’ll build it in such a way that it’ll be able to be booted as a Linux live USB, and also have a Windows partition for any tools that I might need for remote access and in-system diagnostics.

I’ve built a few scripts for the Linux bootable but I can’t seem to remember where I stored that particular repo at the moment, so I’ll share later.

Some of my stuff is up on my GitHub (same username)

Thanks a ton for all the advice! 👍🏼

This sounds like a perfectly workable solution!

I assume getting a persistent environment in a USB recovery stick is a bigger task? I’m imagining that, with your method, I would need to repeat this process any time I wanted to update the image or load specific new kernel modules/drivers?

Customizing a base distro sounds like a good place to start 👍🏽

Hijacking for my own idea: what if I wanted to make my own updated version of say, hiren’s Linux environment that included tools for data recovery and drive administration among other things. I would love to basically build my own custom recovery environment preloaded with all my favorite tools.

Tbf, with a few hours of googling, I could probably figure this out for myself so don’t go through a bunch of trouble unless you want to document for others. I’m mainly posting because I saw OP and wondered if something easy already existed?

The dad jokes are strong with this one

Think you might be a little lost my friend…

I could learn a lot from you

Lol so he put even less effort into it than we thought

👏⏱️👏

NTA- he’s gotta sort out his own feelings of discomfort about the concept you just presented this poor sheltered man, and that’s his choice to make.

That being said, you might not have wanted to bring this up at a work event since this is the kind of honesty that the social contract usually keeps between more friendly relationships. You may find your experience at the office is different now depending on how office politics trends. You may find some people approve of what you said, bit I’ll bet management won’t like it. Not that they can do anything about it legally, but you might find yourself the target of less than favorable consideration. I don’t you’ll get fired or any kind of overt retaliation, more just that this person and anyone who “takes his side” will at the least be less friendly and helpful.

I’d say you should have stayed quiet, but not for ‘Jack’. Teaching an asshole a life lesson shouldn’t cost you your own peace of mind at work