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Show threadtotallysober92Jun 23, 2025

I really disagree with this. Her nose job, which was initially good, no longer fits her face. Her nose is super straight and it doesn’t really flow or move in the same way the lines of her face do. She also has some more asymmetry in her face (that probably can’t be changed with plastic surgery because it relates to eye position and bone length) in part due to aging and her nose isn’t at the right angle to fit the different planes of her face.

This is probably the effect of aging, not more and more plastic surgery. She probably had 1 nosejob possibly with cheek implants and has occasionally gotten lip fillers and possibly cheek fillers.

So at this point, Laura Loomer would look better with a revision rhinoplasty that made her nose look a bit bigger, more flow-ing, and less straight. The bridge could be at a slightly different angle to fit her face. Her nose would look worse but the overall flow and feeling of her face would be much better. If she has cheekplants, and I’m not sure if she does, she should take those out if she can.

So doing that would be expensive, time-consuming, and hard to do. Revision surgeries are riskier and cost more. They have longer recovery time and much more can go wrong. Additionally, it’s hard to made a nose that is “too straight” flow in a more natural way because you sort of would have to intentionally make the nose look a bit worse. She could do it and end up looking worse, even if she tries to be smart about. It would probably also cost a lot, probably many tens of thousands of dollars.

She is a political commentator, there’s no indication she’s super rich. She probably did the initial surgeries because she thought they would help her in her career and make her more attractive and doing revisions is expensive, has risks, and would require downtime.

I don’t agree with her politics, but this is not dysmorphia.

Show threadtotallysober92Jun 21, 2025
you may be right, i’ll have to find out more before doing anything else
Show threadtotallysober92Jun 21, 2025
thanks for being the first person or one of the few to understand the concern
Show threadtotallysober92Jun 21, 2025

i could do that. i still hate how many apps that have things like firebase and other analytics code baked into the compiled apk probably are trying to collect hardware identifiers. even if they are only collecting vm identifiers, those VM identifiers are now linked to me.

we live in a strange and rapidly changing world. look at the “ice” goons with face masks going around abducting people and some random white people emulating ice people to rob latinos. i am not latino, but i am LGBT, and i’m not so naive as to think this couldn’t impact me. i may be in wave 2 of whatever “this” is.

what if i want to run an LGBT dating app in an android VM to try to meet someone new WITHOUT it being linked to my name in some databroker database? the identifiers will be the same in that, even if i reinstall it (perhaps there would be a new media id and advertiser id, but the emulated hardware identifiers are persistent, like a hash of the underlying hardware identifiers. my strength is not in coding so if this is wrong, please let me know.

the strange thing about privacy awareness is that it’s all paranoia and conspiracy theories until suddenly there’s some unexpected radical movement or change in power that persecutes some minority group and demands compliance from data brokers, who only care about money. i’m sure many people apprehended by ICE never thought about data privacy prior to being disappeared.

Show threadtotallysober92Jun 21, 2025
they actually didn’t say. i think i remember the webpage they sent me to said free tablet and yoga mat, but i didn’t know. i wasn’t thinking about it because i figured i could root or disable all permissions.
Show threadtotallysober92Jun 21, 2025

So even if I call them and try to keep the tablet, I have no idea if they meant to give me the tablet as a gift or not

but if they were to say it’s a gift, then I have some questions about this rooting…

it looks like this rooting requires windows

if i run Windows inside a VM for rooting purposes, or run these programs with Wine, will they work?

Show threadtotallysober92Jun 19, 2025

it feels invasive in principle.

also, people do not know which devices are nearby me. i use linux. no one collects anything where i am. and now databrokers are able to know which specific devices are around me, meaning that if I buy a smart device in cash and set it up, data brokers will be able to infer it’s me based on the proximity of nearby devices collected by this health tablet. that actually is invasive, data brokers and smart devices are that good at inferences, and i feel like I was duped into this.

totallysober92Jun 19, 2025

Got a "Free Tablet" for Health App, but it's managed. Can I root this or is it a lost cause?

https://lemmy.world/post/31677562

Got a "Free Tablet" for Health App, but it's managed. Can I root this or is it a lost cause? - Lemmy.World

I don’t use Android or iPhones because of privacy concerns. I got into an accident over a year ago and have been in horrible pain. My employer has contracted with some healthtech company, Hinge Health, which provides videos and instructions to help people reduce pain. They have no website, of course, and only have an Android App or iPhone App. I kept ignoring their emails spamming their product, despite really needing it, but then they said if I signed up I could get a free massager. This would really help me. So I signed up using the web, thinking things had possibly changed and added web features, and after that they told me I had to download the App and do a lesson to get the massager. I expressed my frustration to them and said I couldn’t do it. I am poor, I don’t have a smart phone nor do I want one. They said they could send a free tablet to help. I was like, great, thinking I’d turn off bluetooth, nearby device permission, location, and connect to WiFi only to a pihole to preserve some of my privacy, get a massager, and be in less horrible pain. When the tablet arrived, it’s a Lenovo TB310FU or Tab M9. It was a beautiful tablet. So I turn it on and their corporate logo shows up, which was slightly concerning. Then the tablet loads and there is their Hinge App, a Chrome Browser, and Settings, and that’s it. I made sure to turn off location, not connect to anything, and keep bluetooth off. Then I go into the settings to try to figure out what’s happening. There’s an admin account attached and also an app called Esper. For Esper, it can’t be uninstalled and it has access to location, nearby device permissions, bluetooth, and every permission that is available and none of them can be turned off. Esper is listed as an admin App. I also am unable to reset the tablet and it said “Blocked by your IT administrator.” Since I am using a health device, it felt extraordinarily invasive to me. I do not trust big tech or health tech to keep my data safe, I’ve had data breaches before, and I also don’t entirely understand why this company needs to know my nearby devices if it’s just for health. Even though I made it clear I reserve my HIPPA rights and opt out of research, those are still on. What was frustrating is this was presented to me in a way in which I thought it was a free tablet. After I got it and looked at it more, I wasn’t sure whether it was free or not or if they thought they were letting me borrow it and they expected it to be returned. I also wonder if they are giving the tablet to me for free and somehow monetizing marketing data. I contacted them about returning it, since I didn’t feel comfortable with them having root access to a Tablet that collect data and interact with other electronics nearby when it’s a health device. They said they understood and would send something to return it. The Esper Device Management also access “physical activity” upon turning it on, which seems invasive and I can’t turn that off. Keep in mind, I haven’t even opened the App. I have two concerns. 1) I am actually still in pain. It would have been nice to use this Hinge App in an isolated environment where I didn’t feel like it was collecting nearby devices information and GPS coordinates and other things which didn’t seem related to health issues. 2) This tablet may have already collected information through bluetooth, GPS, etc, and although I haven’t connected it to the Internet, if I send it back to them then that information can go into their network, which I really didn’t want and never would have agreed to. So, my main question is whether I can use something like adb in a terminal to get into this app and break Esper, root it to something like Calyx or Bliss, and use the App without permissions being enabled in the OS like this to reduce my pain. Would this be possible? I don’t want to go down this rabbit hole if it’s a waste of time. I would also have to check with the company to see if it’s even allowed. This is a company that is also contracted through my employer and I am worried if I do anything that they don’t like, it could cause trouble with my employment, but it seems unlikely. The other thing is whether there is a way to delete any data Esper stored. I am not able to “Erase all data” and when I try it says “Blocked by your IT admin.” And I never would have agreed to this had I known this was a managed device and I also can’t purge it of collected data that isn’t related to health that I didn’t consent to being collected. This is just so frustrating because I really am in a lot of terrible pain, but I really go out of my way to never use any Google or Apple products in my personal life because of privacy concerns, and I thought I could make an exception but limit it and it turns out it’s 1000 times worse than a normal tablet. Am I overreacting? I told them I would send it back, but it now likely has nearby device data and information about my personal network and other info I did not want to share and I can’t delete it, nor do I even know what was collected.