698
How dare you!
(lemmy.world)
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
view the rest of the comments
this post was submitted on 15 Mar 2024
698 points (94.3% liked)
Political Memes
5247 readers
3184 users here now
Welcome to politcal memes!
These are our rules:
Be civil
Jokes are okay, but don’t intentionally harass or disturb any member of our community. Sexism, racism and bigotry are not allowed. Good faith argumentation only. No posts discouraging people to vote or shaming people for voting.
No misinformation
Don’t post any intentional misinformation. When asked by mods, provide sources for any claims you make.
Posts should be memes
Random pictures do not qualify as memes. Relevance to politics is required.
No bots, spam or self-promotion
Follow instance rules, ask for your bot to be allowed on this community.
founded 1 year ago
MODERATORS
To solve this problem, I'm thinking of just getting a dumb phone again, and maybe throwing out all of my other electronics. Actually, I'll have to just move to the middle of the woods somewhere with no electricity to get actual privacy.
Man this sucks. I wish we could all just mind our own business.
We have never, at any point in human civilization, ever just minded our own business.
Don’t think that’s humanities M.O. we kinda tend to be in each others shit constantly. If there is anything we need to learn as a species it’s to focus on our own shit.
The only reason humanity has a civilization is its preoccupation with its members shit. You see this in some other intelligent group species. Wolves, apes, anything with group dynamics. Enforcing conformity was essential to survival. You can argue that's no longer necessary, but it's how we evolved.
idk. i think you just don't need all the "smart" devices in your hut in the woods. electricity is fine. we had solar panels in dumb calculators and dumb watches for >20 years. plus the dumb stuff needs even less electricity and is easy to repair. you can have a dumb mixer, dumb fridge,, dumb washing machine, dumb dishwasher and a vacuum, just not a roomba that scans your home while it cleans.
Funny you mention dumb devices.I've been searching for a dumb TV now for a bit, can't find them anymore. It's so annoying that everything is connected to the internet now. I don't need my entire life hooked into the internet.
yeah, anything media is hard to get without "smart" stuff, but you don't need the bluetooth enabled shaver, trust me.
i also bought a tv/monitor recently and the size and features i wanted were only available on a smart one, but i never connected it to the web. it just complains about it in a grey box top right every start. it probably uses a bit more electricity, because of a proper CPU running all the time.
How else mega corps are going to find out my ballsack shaving schedule?
😄 It's significant for when to show you more balls related ads on the big screen of the smart TV 😆
Probably not in stores, but you can get PC monitors up to about 43", and there are also "commercial signage" or "business" displays which are about $150-200 more than a similarly spec'ed smart TV from the same company (lots of Samsungs on Amazon), and may not come with a stand or possibly speakers. Some smart TVs also let you switch inputs without connecting to WiFi. I think most mainstream media projectors are not smart yet, though it's creeping into that space as well. If everything else is already tracking you, I do tend to wonder how much worse the TV is, but there are ways to pay for a little less privacy invasion from your "TV."
Every TV can be a dumb TV if you don't give it your wifi password...