Diary: Slim Pickings
Jan. 10th, 2026 05:10 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
degringoladeGonna be slow for a bit. I got enraged when I started finding out just how intrusive and sneaky the tech companies have been in placing all sorts of tracking on my shiny new computer. So I have been spending time first trying to strip out the tracking, then, after throwing my hands up because the rabbit hole keeps going down, I am re-configuring my hardware to stop this nonsense.
Just a word to the wise, the companies have come to the idea that the hardware is theirs, even if you think that buying it makes it yours. They think such thoughts are nonsense. I was told point blank that if I were to change anything that they larded onto the actual computer at the time of sale, I was effectively ending my warranty.
I am good with that. So I am stripping and re-configuring. I do so love my shiny big screen and the changes I have been making haven't really changed how I work much. But over the course of the next couple of weeks I will be spending time making sure that what I do ca only be minimally monitors to unknown actors.
Just a word to the wise, the companies have come to the idea that the hardware is theirs, even if you think that buying it makes it yours. They think such thoughts are nonsense. I was told point blank that if I were to change anything that they larded onto the actual computer at the time of sale, I was effectively ending my warranty.
I am good with that. So I am stripping and re-configuring. I do so love my shiny big screen and the changes I have been making haven't really changed how I work much. But over the course of the next couple of weeks I will be spending time making sure that what I do ca only be minimally monitors to unknown actors.
