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Still happening to me at 52 years old. Fuck growing up.

I live how, when my wife has to leave the city for a day or more, my kid’s reaction is, invariably, “yeah! There won’t be any adults in the house.” 🤣

Make no mistake, it’s a real chore getting kids to understand, but showing them scary shit that happens to others out there for not taking care of their privacy is a seriously useful crutch. I think I’ve made my kids as paranoid as I am, they even bitch at my wife every so often about her still using WhatsApp 🤣

My kids use Fedora, and hate windows with passion (I wonder where they get that from), so they only play games that work in Linux and they can play on steam. Their friends and cousins have adapted to them, instead of the other way around (though I’m pretty sure they still play Fortnite and other ‘winblows only’ shot without my kids). I made my kids understand that anyone that does not respect their wish to control their own lives and privacy is not worth keeping around anyway, and it has worked fine so far. Also, they have time limits for gaming and watching TV, they read and play music instruments way more than using any type of tech.

Of course they are, people are now dating fucking chatbots.

I’m right there with you. If anyone asks me about it, my response is “imagine that Arch Linux and OpenAI were going to have a child, but they were both doing too many drugs and alcohol, smoking 3 packs of camels per day each and lived near a garbage burning field in a Saharan country, Omarchy is the material resulting from that miscarriage”.

There’s just too many good Linux distros out there for me to even entertain the idea of ever giving that shit a chance.

Yeah, I’m on the same boat. Shit, I would even drink coffee at his pace when watching his videos. He’s dropped real low in the lat year or 2.

Then there’s Tom Lawrence for networking. Objective, each tool has it use case and he will push nothing, basically just voice hos opinions and why. Like if Louis Rossmann was all about networking and way less angry 🤣. Full disclosure, I fucking love Rossmann, my wife hates him.

So he is now a socialist? Mandani must be laughing his ass off after seeing this 🤣

I had the coral already, and for the purpose it works pretty well. Still have to see how well it handles 11 cameras. The reason I need the TPU is because the recognition is done by frigate, not by the camera.

Yeah, that’s what I’ll go with in my house, with frigate in HASS and a Coral TPU.

Exactly this. As much as I hate the current AI scenario across the board, the GOS team has shown, time and again, that they are stellar developers and coders, that they genuinely care about security, and that they are the best at countering anti-privacy on the technology front.

If any team can use AI responsibly to improve all this, it’s the GOS team. And if it ends up failing on it’s face, I expect them to move away from it if things go south. Now, if they don’t because of ‘AI addiction’, then I will be looking at what my alternative options are. Until them, I’m 100% with them, as they have not given me any reason yet to doubt their judgement.

I don’t know. If we’re going to look for the “least bad AI company”, I’d have to go with Google (itself a self-contained shot show), because between Anthropic and OpenAI, plus the platforms leveraging them, what we have is a guaranteed eventual end of humanity. The worst part is that it won’t be because they achieve a super intelligence that figures humans are the problem and goes all “Terminator” on us, but because this will expedite the destruction of the world economy, natural resources and potentially going haywire and firing all the nukes available.

Read the damn room.

Yeah. It’s certainly impressive how we’ve come to suspect specific companies of each shitty move in our lives, and usually be 100% correct in our suspicions.

Anything that points at fucking up gaming is going to be Sony, Microsoft, EA or Ubisoft (not accounting for some of the smaller companies that are certain to be part of an organized ring of games-destroying “gaming” companies".

For personal surveillance, while governments, data brokers and hackers are the main beneficiaries, every single tech company is involved at some level, and we can usually point out which ones are part of any specific case fairly easy.

But what blows my mind the most is that, because there is no real push-back, they feel comfortable not trying to deny any of their predatory and mafia-like practices anymore. Sure, if we make enough noise their PR teams will drop a few social media bullshit posts to calm down the masses, and then just drop the subject entirely hoping it just dies down over time, or in extreme cases, pedal back for a few months, and then just do it anyway, since people will stop caring about it at some point (for example, Reddit).

And something I’ve been thinking lately is making more and more sense every day, when I see shot like this. What if they are betting on us getting tired of fighting against this and just giving in because of the sheer volume of shitty things every company is doing? It’s such a large volume of tracking, surveillance, control, deception, predatory TOSs, etc, that they know we cannot focus on all of it at once, much less care about a few for a long period of time because 5 more will pop up between the start of lunch and paying the bill.

Wao, I was going to post a short reply like “yeah, we’re fucked” and ended up basically making a micro-wiki, sorry about that.

I swear that this is intentionally made. It wouldn’t surprise me if the companies that sell our data pushed or even pay for this verbiage in order to scare regular users out of using these helpful extensions.

Yeah, I know I sound paranoid as fuck, but can you really blame me?

Lol, they are butthurt flock beat them to this? 🤣

Wao, I got ripped off. I’m a fucking moron.

Lisa has a dick too? 😵‍💫

More like realistic mindset based on the “been there” factor.

Neither is Nadella 🤔

Good stuff, I hope they keep killing products and slowly disappear into the horizon.