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remember: never let your smart devices talk to the internet.

Especially a smart phone!

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it comes with the territory. Working in U.S. tourism occaisionally means eating an inordinate amount of shit.

So your saying it was a mistake to return to facebook?

I never stopped using Kodi

“Ultimately, arguing that you don’t care about the right to privacy because you have nothing to hide is no different than saying you don’t care about free speech because you have nothing to say”

It’s still a higher growth rate than here, in the U.S… Does that mean we shouldn’t concern ourselves with chinese expansion and focus intstead on our own economy?

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I’ve effectively excised fb from my life and i’m becomming kinda proud since so many people still struggle with that one.

Everything you said except for the last paragraph. We did fine for close to a century without traffic cams when it was up to a cop to catch a violator in the act. now it’s surveillance cameras and A.I. that’s automated the task and I consider akin to the police cheating at their jobs, yet somehow we still justify their ever-increasing budgets. -How does that not end up as a totalitarian police-state?

Replace the cameras with dummy cameras, because like you said “It doesn’t happen anymore.”

I was always raised not to share personal information with complete strangers on the web. I overlooked that rule for a time, but between that and the revelations by Snowden and then Cambridge Analytica I’ve gradually taken increasing steps towards a more privacy-oriented internet experience. I do take some pride in my tech knowledge but when I have to resolve an issue with a family members’ device I have to mentally switch gears because they are set up for a completely different kind of experience.

if it undermines or circumvents my fifth amendment right not to testify against myself, then I’m not interested in ending the use of passwords.

those are interesting links. I just went off of backblaze reports for hdd failures, and it looked like Western Digital had some of the best results

I’ve been waiting over a month for my MicroCenter to restock Western Digital 14-16 TB HDD to upgrade my NAS. I finally caved and ordered direct from Western Digital. It still took them 10 days to ship the order.

Seagate drives continue to remain in stock but i’d like to reduce my chances of premature drive failures.

It’s a subject that targets people’s deep-seated insecurities. Everybody wants a tooth that can regenerate when they first discover a cavity for themselves.

next the tech-bros will come for you and there will be nobody left to speak up.

I’ve been casually using gnu/linux for nearly twenty years and i’m still looking up commands I use with some regularity.

I can unlock my phone while wearing them.

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-I don’t rely on biometrics, though.