Security and privacy are especially laughable since iMessage encryption lacks forward secrecy (all your messages throughout time are encrypted with the same keys), and just today we find the encryption hardware on Macs is fatally flawed and can be hacked by a user-mode process (no admin/root privelege required). Oh, and it’s un-patchable because it’s in the hardware itself.

Or controlled for anything else, like exercise, eating habits, etc?

My guess is, at a minimum, computer time has an inverse relationship to exercise. And that’s bad for everything.

“Anymore”

As if it hasn’t always been a dumpster fire.

Haha +1

Too many people have no sense of humor

Radon is a long-term (as in years), thing.

Though how you approach this, with lots of questions, is the way to figure these things out.

Blocking the TVs network, and using Apple just puts all your surveillance into a single system.

Well, if your neighbor has one, I could totally see it being designed to use that connection at least for discovering nearby open networks.

TVs have the capability to sample what’s on the screen so it knows what you watch from a streaming device/dvd/bluray connected via HDMI.

It really needs to have the network blocked.

Because Apple privacy is as much a sham as any other product. They just market and obfuscste well.

FYI, tracking is also (potentially) done via the HDMI connection by the streaming device.

For example: I have an HDMI Blu-ray, and the TV has tech to sample what is on the screen - so it knows what I’m watching even if it’s not streamed. The bastards are always a few steps ahead of us.

Remove any networking you can. Remove wifi antennas and cap them with RF test plugs (I forget what they’re called). These absorb RF frequencies, converting them to heat which radiates out of the absorber is IR (If I remember right).

My question is why are the systems designed to be dependent to upstream services 24/7? Wouldn’t a better approach be to have systems that can run disconnected, then simply upload/replicate data when a connection returns?

These are franchises, right?

I deployed such POS (Point of Sale) systems in the late 90’s, because connectivity wasn’t ubiquitous then. They were designed so franchises could upload/replicate however you needed: continuously, when a connection was available, on a schedule, etc. Some places had pooled telephone lines to achieve the needed throughput.

I get the mobile ordering being impacted, but why would you tie the local kiosk to a web service?

Wow, that is really interesting. Now I’m going down the WSPR rabbit hole… Thanks

Uhh, docker is containers, VMware is a virtualization hypervisor?

The iPod was axed after what, 15 years?

They know a lot, potentially, just don’t have a cell connection.

Stoicism.

Many people think Stoicism (the philosophy) means to be unemotional - it doesn’t.

It means to accept that we have emotions, some that seem to “just occur” unbidden, some that are a result of our thinking, and that we can choose how we respond to those emotions.

If we allow ourselves to just be amoeba, we’re then at the whim of every stimulus.

In “Your Erroneous Zones”, Wayne Dyer explains how to use CBT (Cognitive Behavioral Therapy) methods to change how we respond to our emotions.

It’s not a new idea - it started with (or even predates) the Stoics over 2000 years ago, with CBT being a structured method today for applying these ideas.

Another way to look at it - your inner life is for you, what you choose of that to share with others is up to you.

Lol, don’t forget Irish grandmothers are a threat too.

I get a subscription for remote starts that use cell. I don’t want that, why would I want that, when conventional remote start works great.

Best part, remote start for Toyota is about a $100 third party add-on that takes 10 minutes to install. Put one im a friend’s Taco last year.

You could already run Webkit Firefox on iOS - I have for years - it’s how I keep tabs synced between devices

I’m pretty sure this is Firefox with Gecko (is gecko still the engine? My memory ain’t workin too great right now).