I have no doubts about electric cars being nice or “the future”, but the price of these things is still a problem.

A (reasonably) new one with the range I need (~400km+) costs way more than I care to spend. That is partly because batteries still cost too much, but also very much because they still have a tendancy to gatekeep larger range figures for use in luxury cars.

And getting older second hand is still too much a questionmark in terms of how much of a chance there be you’ll end up having to fork over big for a new battery or motor and/or write it off prematurely.

Another problem is that I also have no way to charge it at home and would be fully at the mercy of public charging infrastructure. And generally speaking as a taller man, I feel some of them can also be quite lacking in terms of interior space.

It is like a camera hidden in a shirt button and that’s exactly the problem.

I understand how creepy this is but why is this any different than the 1000s of cameras on poles literally everywhere these days. Neither of these should be acceptable

Camera’s on poles are obvious, they are mostly immobile apart from some pan tilt zoom, they are subject to privacy and data retention laws, they are announced with signage, they serve a specific public or private interest (like security), they are some auditable entity’s respontibility and they don’t have anywhere near the resolution you can get on the ground with a camera strapped to your face.

The guy with the meta glasses is a huge questionmark on all of that, including intentions and when they are actually recording.

People could do lots of things, but it really isn’t as trivial to secretly get eye level footage of what you’re looking at with a smartphone, as you’re making it out to be.

Things like phones peeking out of breastpockets with their camera stick out like a sore thumb and aren’t nearly as easily directed at whatever you intend to record without people realizing you’re recording something.

And the open prescence of a phone always has some implication of a possibility of recording. Glasses do (or rather did) not.

Also, this specific device is a Meta product. And those, by definition, deserve all the hate they can get on the count of them being a gigantic privacy problem due to the nature of the business Meta is ultimately in.

In my world there is a non-trivial difference between pointing your phone in someone’s general direction and just having inconspicuous looking glasses film everything implicitly.

Do none of these horrible cunts that yearn for that dystopia ever read history books?

It’s the whole entire point of these glasses so this surely cannot be a surprise.

I’m just waiting for bans on these glasses now, because that is inevitably where this is headed as the public at large simply cannot be trusted to handle this kind of technology responsibly.

And the harder these glasses become to spot, the broader the bans will be, undoubtedly right up the point where they’ll just straight up refuse anybody with any kind of thick framed glasses.

AI’s against AI’s. Apps against apps. I want to get off this planet at the next stop.

Open source software comes as-is and without warranty but that doesn’t mean you can’t criticize what people are doing in this space… In fact i’d argue it is integral to it.

They’d have to make Android propiatary for that and that also means that all the contributions made to it by everybody else will stop. Don’t see that happening.

They are working on their “own” phone which should alleviate a fair number of concerns with what Google might be doing to sabotage them.

Yes, please. The more users we have on Graphene the harder we are to ignore as a user base.

You can function in today’s society just fine, it’s just less convenient.

But the problem here is not only that you need a smartphone to begin with, but also one specifically from either Google or Apple. Having something else (like a phone with Sailfish or GrapheneOS or any other custom rom) also doesn’t work.

No no. We don’t do obvious solutions.

Can’t wait to see the mental gymnastics behind pinning this on Obamna or Sleepy Joe.

You could park a Smart Fortwo in front of that honda and it would still not protrude as far out as this truck is.

In simpler terms you need to have an entirely dedicated isolated system to play these games on, at which point the economical option is undoubtedly just to buy the damn game…

Computers not connected to the internet are almost entirely useless for anything else, and computers that are connected to the internet are inevitably logged into to services, and being logged in to something automatically means there’s personal data on it. If only credentials and authentication cookies.

Just stay away from this. Get a console of Denuvo freaks you out, or just stay away from these games untill they patch denuvo out, like you should anyway. The only reason they keep using Denuvo is that they aren’t adequately punished for doing so. Gamers are notoriously bad at voting with their wallet.

Snapshots are not a real backup untill you commit them to some sort of immutable storage.

The AI agent’s misdemeanors were then hugely amplified by a cloud infrastructure provider’s API wiping all backups after the main database was zapped.

In what scenario should wiping backups over an API even be a thing?

As much as I’d love to rail on AI over this, removing backups with an api call? Excuse me?