I clicked on the link and it opened my steam app on the “enter payment details” page, because I added a load of shit to my basket earlier and aborted because I got a new bank card who’s number I don’t know by heart yet. Something about clicking a lemmy link about steam and it opening the credit card entry page just made me laugh a lot.

The disabling process is kinda convoluted.

1. Delete word
2. Install libre office
3. ???
4. Profit!

I think of it as the Shidas Touch

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Exactly. So it’s pure surreptitious data exfiltration. They only reason they send the data back is because they can, and there is value for them.

I think yes, to your first question. Couldn’t it just crunch the lidardata locally to feed into cartographer, I don’t understand why you don’t understand that this is the issue.