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.

It’s become a critical aspect of my online experience. I currently use Mullvad since leaving PIA. Mullvad seems to suffer from being too popular for it’s own good. An Increasing amount of websites are trying to identify and block traffic coming from VPN servers, sites like Kroger.com, USPS.com, Reddit. I never previously had this much trouble on PIA, but maybe it’s just that the times are a changing. I may search for alternative VPN when my service is up with Mullvad, though. I definitely don’t like the idea of using the internet without a VPN anymore.

Yeah, well it’s not like Amazon’s ever driven their own labor shortage before.

I once got an error code in my car it said “valve-timing removed.”

True. IIRC during his first administration he backed the U.S. out of the international treaty that governed minig ocean floor rare earth deposits because the U.S. didn’t have a dispropotionate amount of power compared to other treaty signatories.

I’m surprised i didn’t think of this but that does sound exactly like what they’re doing.

Suddenly that’s beginning to feel like an attractive idea again.

It’s worth checking out the contribs and talk regarding articles that can be divisive. People acting with ulterior motives and inserting their own bias are fairly common. They also make regular corrections for this reason. I still place more faith and trust in Wikipedia as an info source more than most news articles.

I believe there was just a post the other day arguing that Ring was beginning to collect biometric data on anyone that passed in front of it.

[Edit] It was A Boring Dystopia post from 6 days ago https://lemmy.ml/post/37147235

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I’m pretty sure PornHub is just the most well-known example and they happen to own something like 5 others of the top ten most visited porn sites on the net.