stupid_asshole69 [none/use name]

You can always do a computer swap. Figure out what you want, like for example a dell or thinkpad with core or libreboot and swap your mac for it. That way there’s no money that changes hands. There’s a hardware list on both projects websites if you wanna windowshop on ebay.

One way to improve your privacy that people always overlook is to stop registering to vote. The rolls are basically public information, all you gotta have is a specific type of company to get access to them.

So, that has nothing to do with apple or macs. (Except a part at the end which might not be what you’re talking about)

When you use a credit card the transaction record is kept by the merchant who sells you the computer, the card processor and the card issuer (I’m probably using the wrong terms, it’s been awhile since I had to accurately talk about the precise operation of credit card payments.). So when you buy anything using a credit card, at least three entities who can be ordered to submit to law enforcement requests and are legally required to keep records of transactions actually have records of that transaction.

So when I swipe my visa to get a bag of apples at the wal mart, wal mart, their processor and my bank all have record that they’re required to keep for accounting purposes and will turn over when they get a lawful order to do so.

I don’t remember if it’s the law now, back when I was really in pos there were lots of bills trying to make it law, but it’s certainly industry practice to record serial numbers of high dollar items. The goal is to have a more precise and quick return/service process. You bought unit abcdef123456 and that means if they don’t get abcdef123456 back when you try to return it then there’s a problem.

So when I buy an ideapad at Walmart with cash they record the serial at time of sale and when I try to return a different one with my receipt there’s a serial number line that can be compared and verified.

That transaction is only stored by wal mart, but can be corroborated by my banks records where I withdrew enough money to buy a computer all at once in person because it’s more than they let me pull from an atm at one time.

I’ll go even farther:

Know your customer laws require that merchants verify and in some cases record ids of people making some purchases. So when I go to the wal mart to buy a cheap phone and a prepaid SIM card to stuff in my glovebox, they’re required to record my id for both purchases.

Now one thing that is true of apple computers and phones and that you might be referring to is that it’s super fucking difficult to remove a device from someone’s appleid without that person doing it for you. When you first use a mac or iPhone you have the chance to tie it to an iCloud account, just like you can with google accounts in android devices and Microsoft accounts on windows computers. If you do, then in order for someone else to reset the device and wipe/reinstall/take ownership of it you have to remove it from your account. Theres a wizard that guides you through the process just like in windows and android. If you never do this then the person who bought the device (or stole it, or dug it out of the trash) can’t use it.

If you lose your password then apple can verify your identity using their records (if you have their adp turned on then you just have to give em your code and make a new one when you’re done doing whatever you’re doing) and reset the password and remove devices from your account. Certified resellers/repair shops can do this too, but they’re under a lot of scrutiny when they do because Apple views them as possible cracks in the anti-theft armor.

So that means that when I dig a mac out of the trash to fix and use or sell, I have to either contact the iCloud account holder and convince them to drop the device from their profile or perform some decently tough microsoldering and reprogramming of tiny chips on the mainboard.

Of course, all that is optional. People just almost never choose not to do it because it is all upside and no downside for the owner. You as the computer owner get theft prevention, stolen device tracking and control over who can use things you bought in exchange for essentially nothing (especially if you turn on adp).

I haven’t read extreme privacy. I will as soon as I can, but I gotta ask: what are you trying to accomplish or understand? Sometimes for people who aren’t technical it’s easier to start from goals as opposed to metabolizing a bunch of literature on the topic.

No, if what you described were true it would be impossible to give someone an apple computer without getting confused for the person you gave it to.

Or to refurbish and use a mac from the trash can without being mistaken for the previous user.

I have done both with no problems.

Apple does know what you bought from them… because they sold it to you and gave you a receipt and kept a record of it to accurately account for taxes just like wal mart does when I buy a bag of apples from the produce department.

Wal mart doesn’t serialize their apples, but they do serialize their game consoles and keep track of those, so maybe that’s a better example.

I guess I gotta ask: what do you think is happening between the credit card and the serial number of the computer and how do you think it’s happening?

Again, it truly depends on who you want to avoid sticking out to.

If you don’t know that or don’t feel comfortable articulating it then I can’t help you.

I can’t just give a detailed explanation about what you might decide with regard to even some of the broad categories of entities that might hold, access, search or compile data about you and leave it up to you to figure out which person concerned about which entity in which circumstances you are because there’s a lot of circumstances around that and it would be unreasonable to write all that out and it would still be too general to be useful.

It depends on your goal.

If you want to prevent cops from using information about you in data brokers’ dbs, yes it’s worth your time.

If you want to keep from getting scammed or duped or have accounts open in your name then yes.

If you just feel worried then probably not, just freeze your credit with the reporting agencies and schedule a temporary unfreeze when you want to apply for something.

No matter what you decide, rotate the passwords to each account you’re worried about to a new unique one.

You got a pair of kwests on that thing?

The forehead meme is getting out of control

If your obscure film isn’t already on cinemageddon then that’s the place.

Cine.

I’m not suggesting that dental care is widespread, only that the conditions which proscribe water supply fluoridation are no longer present and we shouldn’t be saying “no, keep the fluoridation” but instead “you’re right, municipal fluoridation is an outdated practice, fluoride rinse for children and free dental care for all!”

I know. It would be cheaper and more effective to administer fluoride rinse than to treat the whole water supply.

I’m saying administer it in schools like before.

What do you mean? In my admittedly limited experience less than ten percent of private wells get fluoridated. American housing has seen tremendous growth in areas not served by municipal water. Fluoridation becomes less effective with each passing year. Why not switch to targeting the treatment directly and close that gap?

It does but not near as much as it does in children who are building up enamel much faster. The whole point of water supply fluoridation was to reach children, not adults.

My point is that water supply fluoridation only made sense in a situation where you couldn’t reliably reach children and people didn’t have dental care. In a nation with mandatory public schooling and one which could easily provide dental care to children at the very least it is a goofy system.

Back when I was your age…

They brought fluoride concentrates with bubblegum flavor in little paper cups on a brown plastic tray for us to swish with for like five minutes or whatever in kindergarten.

I’ve met other people who got disposable arc shaped cups that someone would squeeze a fluoride gel out in and have them bite down into. That was how some dentists offices would do it too.

It’s a more targeted and effective way to make sure the people who benefit most (children) get the most intense and useful dosage in a controlled and precise way.

We don’t need to spray and pray into municipal water supplies now that there are more effective and reliable ways to reach people with preventative care. I think it’s actually counterproductive to rely on municipal water supplies because more and more Americans live out in the sticks on wells that don’t provide the treatment.

Of course, if we weren’t paying for massive amounts of industrial grade fluorine to dump into water supplies then the companies that make it would have to pay to dispose of it so it’s unlikely that better system of care will naturally come about under the perverse incentives of the market.

Why is there an argument with the right about this?

Just say “okay, we’re replacing fluoride in tap water with mandatory swish or bite plate application. It works better, costs less, has less chance of user error and it sidesteps all the legitimate concerns about over or mis application of fluorine.“

I’m not sneezing at it. It’s more than my use in a month, but I’m not trying to maximize my bandwidth use with 100gb of space.

Just as a thought experiment let’s assume you’re able to use the maximum amount of total bandwidth in a month with your 100gb storage. That’s 40 complete write cycles a month on your ssd.

Now there’s nuance to the idea of minimizing write cycles, the specific technology plays a big role and ssds that stay constantly powered on can avoid the worst degradation for a long time but:

That’s 480 write cycles a year.

No problem if you’re keeping the ssd always powered on, but you may end up with data loss if it’s in a laptop that gets turned off for a little bit.

That’s why I said a hard drive may be cheaper than Usenet or debrid over the course of a year. Because it’s a solution that kills a lot of birds with one stone.

I have and use both.

Without choosing some sort of dns based ip blacklist (offered by both providers btw), neither one really does what you asked about.

What are you actually trying to prevent? If you don’t know what language to use, just describe the situation.

You said in another comment that you have a 100gb hd and a 4tb monthly bandwidth cap?

Torrents probably aren’t the solution for you. Spend some time learning about newsgroups. It costs money but you aren’t expected to keep files after you download them or upload for everyone else.

I think realdebrid also does this but it also costs money.

You’re excluded from the informal economy because of your situation so you gotta participate in the formal economy. You could always buy a hard drive and set a bandwidth limit in your client too. I expect that would be cheaper over a year than either usenet or debrid.

You don’t know or understand what laws you may be in violation of. If you ask a lawyer they’ll advise you to stop doing crimes.

If you want to obscure your actions, switch to DoT or DoH and bind your torrent client or computer to a vpn with port forwarding. Don’t do just one. Use a paid vpn not owned by kape technologies because that umbrella company is an Israeli honeypot.

Turn off pex and dht and only use private trackers.