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.

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.

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

Meanwhile these same cunts spend more time on the golf course and on random yachts than most people do in their own home, also under the guise of “(net)working” obviously, while at the same time mandating a full return to office for the grunts.

Flexibility is a two way street. You want me to be invested in the work in the company, stop posting linkedin stories and find ways to make exactly that actually enticing.

I just accept that nothing ever looks perfect and do as much as possible myself. Especially since covid and the labour shortages contractors are paid in gold bars.

Basicly the only thing I still really get professionals for when liability is a factor. Structural work, gas fed system, or more complex electrical work. Basicly anything that when it’s not done correctly it could hurt or kill people, i still don’t wanna risk cowboying myself.

I wish this ban was in effect when my stupid cunt of an adolescent brain thought starting smoking would be a good idea.

And also this freedom to increase your chances of lung cancer for litterally no reason at all doesn’t only affect the smoker, but everybody in the general area of said smoker. What about their freedom to breathe clean air.

The world changes, handle it. Older generations took away younger generation’s freedom to have a perspective on any kind of affordable housing.

I don’t think taking away their freedom to make an objectively dumb and pointless choice for their health and finances moves the needle on the scale of problems we are facing.

I agree with what you’re saying in general, but by this logic there’s also value to cocaine.