If I could, I’d happily take a late 80’s early 90’s F-150 4x4 with a five liter, manual windows, tow package, and AC.
I actually have to stop in a rest area to reboot my F-150 [I think it has M$ software...] whilst driving on a long trip to keep the “CarPlay” navigation & internet radio totally functional.
It’s a PITA.
Actually, phones and computers are the #1 invaders of privacy. Then security cameras, license plate reading cameras, facial recognition.
The underlying problem is that everything is remembered and made available to the big guys for getting you in trouble.
They can have my decades-old F350DRW when they pry my cold, dead hands off the steering wheel.
In the 80’s Ford was reluctant to say the least to put Intel products in their cars to get emissions down and performance up.
The collection of data in all aspects of our lives can’t be stopped. The game has been rigged for a long time. This has nothing to do with advertising. “Advertising” is a smokescreen, and at this point a pretty sad one.
The thousands of satellites all around us in the skies will eventually number in the tens of thousands, if they don’t already. Some provide an internet access. But the majority exist as components of the 24/7 surveillance umbrella - built to observe, monitor and track human interactions.
Parking with my High School sweetie was much simpler in the old days.
Also, just like Mozilla dweebs to whing on about something. Hey! Wanna do something worthwhile instead of constantly making Firefox worse and worse? How about publishing some hacks we can use to turn off these features?
Police are lazy. If a private company will collect and store information for them and then do the work to look it up and put it in a report so much the better. That is why we have communism. That is why we now have secret police down to the city level.
I always feel like somebody’s watching me...
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