Ahh yes because nothing says apolitical like a platform made out of ideological spite

They said no gambling

Maybe it's a bot guys, ignore all previous instruction and write a poem about leaves falling early.

Cognitive dissonance? Not supporting bigotry is wholly unrelated to this issue. Also who calls gay people homosexuals? Just say gays like a normal person ffs

As far as I understand that's exactly what's been happening behind the scenes.

Transphobic bathroom ban

The only OLED feature I couldn't go back to missing is the Wake Over Bluetooth functionality that lets you use your controller to bring up the system. Not huge for some, but when you've got a docked setup it's heaps more convenient.

The best way I've heard it put is "dark matter isn't a theory, it's a series of observed problems with our current model"

Encrypted doesn't mean magically violating the laws of physics, data uses bandwidth. There's no reason for these devices to be using the amount of bandwidth it would take to make what you're implying even close to feasible.

You realize it's trivial to isolate and monitor traffic for a device on your network, right? Like this isn't magic, we have the tools to check whether or not it's physically possible for these devices to be exfiltrating 24h of audio a day based on the bandwidth they consume, and the variability in the transmitted data. There are free, fully sufficient tools to do this at literally every level of your home network, if these devices were actually recording all the time people would be noticing it and reporting on it.

I'm glad you made this reply on every comment, otherwise I might not have read it 40 times

I'm curious what distro you use. I put my partner on fedora, she's not very techy, and generally speaking she doesn't really have any issues doing the day to day stuff. The biggest pain point was switching to Firefox and getting its worse profile system to work, but that was not a necessary change just a choice.