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As a European: Absolutely not. Never, will not comply, will do everything in my hacking power to not be subjected to this.

This is invasive, the others like Lane "assist" is just outright dangerous. Yanking my steering wheel while I'm driving? WTF? The lines on the road, in many EU cities, are mere suggestions. Especially during road works. I've had two times where I almost killed the bicyclist because the STUPID KIA SPORTAGE thought it knew better.

And now I'm filmed during driving? No. NO!

I made 2 Raspberry Pi5 NAS's. one with 4x 6TB and one with 4x 12TB.

Used mergerfs and snapraid, and a simple NFS share. Absolutely perfect for Proxmox backups, our pictures, media, etc, etc. No fuss, easy replacement of drives without needing to keep drives of the same size around.

I'm good with ZFS, have been for years now managing storage for $COMPANY. And I still freaking love using zfs send/receive with proxmox ;-)

But for most at home stuff: mergerfs and snapraid are just more logical.

I understand where you are going with this, but it also feels incorrect to me to blame people innocently "buying" media from a $corporation.

What are people to do if they want to stay on the non-pirate/legal side of this but also prevent being royally F-ed?

You just cannot make this up. The onion is going out of business this way.

I'd love to pay for this service, I really do. But I can't. Since it's American, and me and my team have vowed to not use American for new projects, and wean other parts off and away from USA tech and services.

There is a clear open market in the EU for such a service.

Do you use an adblocker? If so, how could you know that you do not need all those things they offer in the ads?

A bit tongue in cheek, I know, but a nice comparison I think. If the value is true, it will come to me soon enough without it needing to be pushed in my face every second (AI in notepad for instance, or via a completely unneeded extra keyboard button)

In fact, I see a great need for AI in medical science, security research. But not as a tool to "create art"... (Don't make me ~~puke~~ laugh.) Or as a replacement for human interaction with my insurance company.

similar to how quite a lot of the most technical users in the 80's thought GUI's were a waste of time

Well... They are! ;-) (It's a joke, but at the same time, I do see a terminal resurgence the past few years)

Analogy:

People that like AI are like children watching a magician and are completely hooked and in "awe". They see MAGIC!

Then there are people who see the slight of hand, the misdirection, the plain "being lied to" of the performance. They see the whole picture and can no longer "enjoy" the magic.

AI can be fantastic, there are just to many downsides (we are forced to use it, usage of land, electricity, water, money, other resources, being lied about things, lay-offs, investments that just don't make sense.... etc, etc.)

I hope, I really do, that things will change. And I hope we do not destroy everything we hold dear in the pursuit of "AI everything".

Seeing how we are responding to AI or the copilot button on pc's... I _dare_ to suggest this "Agentic era" is nothing more then wishful thinking. Not supported by any real wish or need on the consumer side.

Well, at least for me: no thanks.

Teens will find a way. So yeah, it doesn't work. But... Blanket banning and outlawing the likes of Meta, Google, , TikTok, etc. Well, now where talking!

Thanks Obama .... /s

You probably do agree that this should not be normal. And not the expected way to get your money back? There is no blocklist option at my bank, so I'd have to do that every month in perpetuity?

Simply because I cannot login and cancel my account?

side note, these are things I feel should be: 1. Illegal: "noreply@" addresses. My inbox is not a dumping ground and email is two way, not one way. 2. Required: phone numbers on you website, easily found, that are picked up by humans.

Remarkable means subscription. And I *DO NOT* want that. If this could support self hosted stuff like Nextcloud or something? Or a simple shared folder?

RSS or Pocket client?

But no, nothing, just the subscription stuff. So it's a no from me.

I do not think the value difference is $100 ;-) In fact, the longer you use it, the more money they can make off of you. (In that sense, that $200 is already WAY too expensive to start ;-) )

So yeah, reversing this would make the most sense. The default is: local data only and not connected. They need to pay me to get data.

Just like car companies, phones, etc, should be forced to do that as well.

It will change once they realize they are a IT company first and a car manufacturer second. Whether they agree or not this is their future.

I ask the person behind me if they would mind me reclining. They've never said no, and both parties now feel better. I'm not "intruding" in their personal space as much, since I asked.

I wish people would talk to each other more.

On the one hand, I'm like: so what, I got no skin in this game... But then again, they will most assuredly get community-money bail outs.

And _also_ raise prices on GPU's.

As an Enterprise user of Rancher, we had long discussions with Suse about Longhorn. And we are not using it.

You need a separate storage lan, a seriously beafy one at to use Longhorn. But even 25Gbit was not enough to keep volumes from being corrupted.

When rebuilds take too long, longhorn fails, crashes, hangs, etc, etc.

We will never make the mistake of using Longhorn again.

As the product offering has changed after purchase. Would this not be grounds for returning the product for a full refund?

These days I use the automated pricing of Uber, and groceries based on the person and/or time of day, what apps you have on your phone, etc as the reason why we DEFINITELY want more privacy.

Without it, we are being manipulated because of all the stuff these parasites now know about us. All in the name of "enhancing the customer experience".. #puke

When it starts curing disease for real, like one or two sessions: done.

Because then I know: they have been using it for real human benefit without trying to get humans hooked on re-occurring costs.

When it starts solving actual human problems like climate or start filling in our gaps of knowledge in science. When it starts lifting humans up to higher grounds instead of replacing them to make a buck.

I just switched to /e/os. Soooo no the fuck they can't!

God. That feels good. Everyone should try this.

Both Audi (as an example) and BYD have chinese components. Yes. But with Audi they feel obligated to check the whole car for correct functioning. Including chinese chips. Making sure there are no backdoors (For example) in those chips. If not for themselves and the customer then for the security of the whole country. At least that option exists..

BYD has no such feelings or obligations. In fact, the opposite.

Also: I do not understand ANYONE opting for a cheap Chinese car, knowing that they are screwing their own and their children's future once all the other options are priced out of the market. Once they have the market: kneel down before them.

Also 2: This is one of the few cases where tariff's could actually correctly be applied.

I cannot talk freely a 100% but I can tell you; the need to move away from ANYTHING "US" made is now a well established goal in all top governments.

The search is on, less features or capabilities are accepted as well...

"Never interrupt your opponent when they are making a mistake." -- Sun Tsu

Reading the Bible made me more Atheist then anything else to be honest.

Loved the watches, hated their "forced upon you" software. I want wearOS, I already have android, I _do not_ want to _have_ to install you shitty crappy software with forced account creation, etc..

Running in the background of my phone, doing whatever. Constantly monitoring where I am, etc. *HATE IT*.

But Fossil hardware with JUST wearOS would be great! I hope it comes in the future.

(Ye gods I hate their software. Was it obvious I hate their software?)

Working from the office ONLY works when everyone else is working from home and I'm the only one there.

At which point I might as well work from home, and sell the extraneous office space.

I believe we are seeing the last few "twitches" of "Office work". Work from home (for office type work) is here to stay and will never leave.

I feel loneliest, when I'm at the office. Even if just one person for a meeting is at home, EVERYONE just logs in for the online meeting. It's handier, better organized, make meeting notes together, etc, etc.

So beeing in the office for such meetings means I need to find a quiet spot, or alienate everyone in the call with a noisy mic.

And when I'm actually trying to get work done, I remember why open floor office's are hell.

No sorry, WFH is here to stay. In fact, I do believe we have crossed a threshold where it just cannot be stopped anymore.

Funny thing is they said my activity level was too high (90%+) so my system was buggy. I said no its because I use key bindings and my input ratio is greater than their average worker.

This is even funnier, this guy knows how to work efficiently, get the job done faster and with less errors. And they fire him because they do not understand that such a person exists. They cannot wrap their head around it...

I've read elsewhere, and I'm agreeing more and more: MS windows is keeping it's users INTENTIONALLY stupid. That is, error's are strange and with weird numbers, checkmarks are unknown what they do. Troubleshooting windows is a nightmare all in an effort to make you go "IT is hard, let's leave it up to Microsoft, let's just rent it all from the cloud"

The more and longer I use Linux, the more I understand it and the landscape around it. Logs are much more "sane". Also: how to do correct troubleshooting steps. (Instead of the "shooting in the dark" type of troubleshooting that people with Windows tend to do.)

I'm at the point of blaming most bad practices in IT departments on the people just being accustom to bad Windows practices and working around them, and seeing that as "the normal". Even though it's actually insane for the amount of time wasted.

But I might me completely wrong. This is just my experience so far.