If I buy a computer on Amazon from a trusted brand like Apple or Lenovo, will they keep my name and address and connect that information to the serial numbers of the computer's parts?
Most retailers don't do this -
(edit: specifically they don't correlate a laptop hardware ID like the MAC address with the purchaser. Not because they can't, but because they don't need to. They know most users will log into something that tracks them minutes after they get home. That said yeah, they keep a record of the serial number. But the serial number isn't particularly useful for tracking your online use of the device.)
I'm very wary that Amazon has the most motive and ability to do this (correlate your network chip MAC to your real name) and probably wouldn't tell us if they did start, until long after. Followed by Google in a close second.
That said, a Chromebook accomplishes every kind of tracking the moment I sign into the mandatory Google account, anyway.
Same with any Windows laptop and Microsoft, today.
Edit 2: Lots of devices support rotating network MAC addresses, now, anyway, at least on Android and Linux. If you're concerned, it's worth looking into and setting up, as well.
Would it be wiser to purchase it from a physical store using cash, or a second-hand computer from ebay instead?
For those wondering where this landed, Seems he was convicted, and served / is serving his sentence.. Looks like he's at least taking responsibility for his abuse. I respect that he's not trying to gaslight his victim alongside the original abuse, as some in Hollywood have done.
While I understand that he's trying to overcome a shitty childhood, I think it's reasonable that Marvel parted ways.
For most of those devices, it depends what your goals are, but many privacy minded folks consider them unsalvageable.
If you can root the device, you could install the latest compatible version of the Android Open Source Project, and then use your newfound root powers to disable components you don't want, to the extent that the older versions of Android support doing so.
Technically, that's all LineageOS is doing for you. So if you're willing to put the effort in, the device can be salvaged. For most of us, it makes more sense to get a newer device, researching what OS-es are supported.
Tensions swelled in the 1980s amid a growing debate over strategy, when the American leadership of the union shifted toward a less aggressive position while the Canadian side wanted to maintain firm pressure on the auto companies.
Correlates with when a lot of Americans bit down hard on the fishhook of Reaganomics.
This may be literally life of death for some affected persons. A lot of folks in Alaska could die if deprived of a public option for transportation of goods they rely on for survival.
If a private railway is a good capitalist idea, let's let the magic hand of capitalism provide a new separate private line.
Maintaining a public option is common sense economics. The market can add more options, if there's actually real value being missed, but the rest of us can still vote against it with our time and energy when it tries to enshitify.
They find it burdensome to be required to have a short conversation before bankrupting a family. Here's my sympathy for them expressed on the world tiniest violin: .
And yes, they should have to put it in writing. And yes, that costs software development time.
I make software, and I deserve to know what things cost.
So yes, they need to be forced to pay me.
And to be completely transparent, no I won't tell them what it's going to cost in advance. Let's see how they like it. Lol.
Alternatively, we could all go with free public health care, and I'll go write some other software.
That's not "Linux isn't ready", it's "I still play games from companies that like to fuck with me."
It's fine, and we get it. But Linux isn't ever going to fix that.
Edit: We are seeing a lot more care from companies now that the SteamDeck is popular, so I hope your favorites get some relief.
I've accepted that I'll need a weird rig to play my favorite games that come from developers with shitty practices.
Ironically, mine tend to be Linux rigs emulating Windows to get things just right. But we do what we have to do play our favorite games.
Anyway, I'm not judging you, or your gaming choice.
I'm judging the game developers for choosing shitty tools that make our lives harder.