Being poor doesn't make you good. Doing meaningful things does and she did a lot of them.

What have you done?

Her amusement park is also an absolute delight.

When it is closing time a recording of her wishing everyone a good night plays on the pa and it just feels good having her say good night.

Home assistant is so fucking good.

Bingo.

In some GM cars, there was a physical pin bridge that connected the cell radio to the telematics box (onstar). You could simply remove it once you got to the box that housed the two modules.

Now, it's much more difficult. In some cases you can disconnect the telematics box itself or pull a fuse, but you'll have persistent error messages in the display saying how something is wrong. Some features of the car will also be disabled; some expected (app-based controls), others less so.

As time goes on and this surveillance becomes deeply ingrained or dare I say it, legally required, it won't be possible to do this at all. The idea of free movement without being spied on is mostly over now, but the doors will close entirely soon.

Between your mobile phone, your car telematics, flock cameras you can see, other cameras you cannot, electronic toll beacons, there are very few places you can travel in a car without being surveilled.

The worst part is that a lot of people will say that this is good, that this prevents crime. To be very clear about this, surveillance does NOT prevent crime. It might help to solve it after the fact, but a camera will not stop a murder. A telematics beacon will not prevent a kidnapping. The common belief that these things make people safer is 100% false. They are only good to find the body a day or two later. Show me the stats for lower crime rates before/after all this crap went in. The reality is that crime in the US has been on the decline for decades prior to all this nonsense. Wealthy neighborhoods have always had low crime. What have these things done to change anything? Where is the evidence?

The general public is being sold a lie when they're told that cameras prevent crime, don't believe the lie. The only goal of surveillance is to monitor and control the public, most of whom do not commit crimes. Everyone who is ok with the current state of affairs needs a wake up call, but most people do not think outside of their own little bubble. Just like politicians who are against something--until one of their children are impacted by it, then they all of a sudden change their tune.

Every person who cares at all about freedom should be against all of this. No more telematics in the car. No more cameras, no more mass surveillance of the population at large.

Used to work there. They're not going ANYWHERE. They're mean pricks, the entire lot of them, but they're greedy and good at it. They know how to make money. I'm not saying they're good people mind you.

Remember, evil never dies. This place is the very definition of "too big to fail". They could light money on fire to heat every bank branch for years and still not run out.

When it was created, this was true. However, now cars have systems that log just about everything you do and send it to the manufacturer, who then sells it on to insurance, ICE, anyone with money.

So it started off ok, but now I would imagine that if your car has a sensor, it is reporting data back to that central telemetry unit which is sending it up up and away.

My wife likes to point out my faults and remind me of them often. If I say anything about her, she changes the subject back to me. I still have nausea thinking about it...

While you are right, there are almost no laws in the US that protect privacy. Short of being in your own home with the blinds down, there is next to nothing working in your favor. The assumption is that you're in "public" or clear view of the public, thusly, screw you.

Your pool? Clear view from the road. That douchenozzle with a drone, probably not breaking the law when he takes a video flying over. "Oh, I was looking at my own roof" or some bullshit.

There should be privacy laws. The world has changed so much, but most laws are stuck in the stone age and now sold to the highest bidder who actively monetizes the complete lack of privacy laws.

In the US, you can look up TONS of details about anyone's house. From the sale price, the tax history, tons of details about it and even photos of the inside. In what normal world does that make sense?! Your employer sells your salary data to ADP who then sells it to any number of others. What the actual fuck?! Nobody asked for this, it's opt-out only but the opt out expires. I did it a few years ago, and it's back on again.

If privacy were not important, then there should not be bathroom doors.

Two hours ago, I was driving in my little town. Speed limit is about 35. At the edge of town is one of those giant freeway-style lighted signboards that flashes some info about upcoming construction starting soon. When you see them on the freeway, they don't look as big. When you're up close to one, you realize they're pretty freaking big.

Anyway, the signboard is now on it's back, all fucked up, twisted and broken. Looks like a dinosaur picked it up, bit it and threw it. A little farther up the road is a late model kia sedan with the front torn off and some fucking twat of a driver taking pictures of his car.

So I don't know what model he was in, but it was one of the larger sedans, so not an Elantra or something cheap. I know darn well that it at least had to have automatic emergency braking, maybe even some other driver aids. Somehow, this muppet was able to NOT see the giant lit up, bright orange signboard and his car did nothing to stop anything by the looks of it.

So it doesn't surprise me that people turn this shit off, not one tiny bit. It's always the people who need to have them on the most, as usual.

Go here: https://employees.theworknumber.com/. Create account log in, surf through myriad of pages to find the way to opt out. It's in there somewhere.

I live in a nice area. The number of families with absurd amounts of money is staggering. I have a good job and am well paid.

These fuckers put me to shame. Trips to Europe for a weekend. They only go skiing in Colorado, never anywhere else. Expensive hotels, $80k cars for themselves and the kids.

I have zero clue what any of them do. Maybe a handful appear to be marginally intelligent. Did the inherit it? Play the stock lottery?

All I know is that a pair of pervert glasses are fucking NOTHING for these people. A family I know buys the best airpods (I don't know, not an apple person) in bulk because the kids lose them so often. They hand them out like Halloween candy.

Never underestimate the vast number of people with more money than sense.

I am so deeply frustrated that despite busting my ass for years in what is otherwise a successful career that these people could buy and sell me with quarter of one dividend check.

This seems underwhelming.

What I find to be more compelling is to use an old android as a Sendspin client. Pick an open source music server of choice like Music Assistant and now you have multiroom sync players akin to overpriced Sonos devices, you just supply the amp/speakers.

If you really like fancy audio, just connect the old phone via the USB to a nice DAC like a Fosi K11 and you have a very reasonably priced multipoint streaming solution.

Rto does a great job of scaring off talent that has options.

You get to keep all the losers who can't get a better job. You also get to waste a ton of money on rent and office space.

My company went rto. Then they closed a downtown office and forced everyone out to their exurban campus an hour from the city.

Anyone with an ounce of talent left. My remaining team is mostly duds. I need to gtfo, but the money is good--which means they are paying (me at least) a high premium.

Rto is fucking moronic.

Here I am using firefox and ublock or newpipe, I haven't seen a youtube ad in years. 🤷

If you're not able to go out and get some ass in the next 48 hours from a stranger, then you should probably not be replying with advice. For better or for worse, op is looking for a quick shag. Telling him to go to the library or church to find a gentle and kind lover who will appreciate him for his personality is not what is being asked for.

Son wants to clap some cheeks and wants to know where he can find a population of the sort of women who wants to get they cheeks clapped without a lot of questions.

I don't know if it is a realistic request, but thats what he asked.

Tl;dr two over privileged teenage psychopaths stole a stupid idea from Meta/google that was hated by many and are going to make it worse by going all-in on the reasons people hate them.

Let's get these guys some money!!!

Fuck these talentless twerps.

Sadly, will not actually be sufficient. They put the full burden of this shit on the site owner, all of it, without exception.

You could host in a country like Cameroon, they won't give a shit and EU won't bother going after them. They could geoblock the whole country however.

I don't think he has any advanced warning, he probably just is on vacation so much, the odds are in his favor that he'll be out of state when something bad happens.

When you're a useless lazy piece of shit like him, of course you've fucked off to anywhere else but where the work is.

Are we talking about the same apple that invented a new type of screw to keep people from taking their phones apart? The same apple that once people could get a trilobe driver, then made it so that generic replacement screens would not work because of some protection from non-apple hardware? Then went on to make sure that you can't use non-apple parts in a laptop?