Plenty of report out there that even if WhatsApp is e2e meta is harvesting as much info as it can from it. Signal has proven to store as minimal as possible.

Amazon renewed I find dell Inspiron or xps work well. Used to be Lenovo think pads but not so sure about the newer ones.

Cookies are essentially an older way to store data for web pages. The browser knows to attach this information on every request to the website.

Where they got a bad rap is companies like Facebook, Twitter, ect. Started embedding them in the “like” buttons on pages passively tracking every website you went to, whether you were logged in or not. Gaining massive tracking of the whole Internet.

Once people started getting wind of this there was massive pushback against cookies and various legislation was for sites to have to tell you that the site uses cookies for various things and how they track your activities.

Yeah but Bill Clinton began the huge increase in police. Where that and combination of 9/11 has created this vast paramilitarized police force we are still dealing with today. The current iteration of which is the ICE power grab happening.

I guess not doubling down where there is significant tensions is a slight positive difference.

The fact that json serializes easily to basic data structures simplifies code so much. Most use cases don’t need fully sematic data storage much of which you have to write the same amount of documentation about the data structures anyways. I’ll give XML one thing though, schemas are nice and easy, but high barrier to entry in json.

It can be a good way to get a foot in the door somewhere. But also you can talk to local shops see if they want to take you on. You’ll want to ensure there is room for growth and they aren’t just expecting to hire just a lube tech, that you want to learn.

I mean it is open source and you can go with something like lineage or graphineos to get around those things

Commercial data centers. Auto scaling infrastructure and just sheer scale. At $2 it may be at cost or a loss to generate future sales.

Recently got a switch. Digital games are same price as physical, locked to my account/switch and saves don’t move easily between devices. Steam deck, I can play on any hardware that can support it TV, PC laptop games cloud save for free. I can play online games for free. I know that games I buy today will be available in 10 years on my next PC. I only buy carts for the switch cause they give me more flexibility still not even the same as steam.