That would mean you need to enforce the law for whoever built the model. If the original creator has 100TB of cheese pizza, then they should be the one who gets arrested.

Otherwise you’re busting random customers at a pizza shop for possession of the meth the cook smoked before his shift.

It likely isn’t any different in imported models, flame retardant materials are a very basic and very important safety feature.

Also, it is surprisingly hard to import a car in the US. I’d kill for decent hot hatch that wasn’t $40k.

There isn’t much of an alternative. All major manufacturers have been doing this for a while, we are approaching the point where you’ll need to buy and maintain a classic car to avoid this type of data collection. Unfortunately, most people simply do not have the time, money, and expertise to do that. Nor should they have to.

Mazda is just as involved in this bullshit. All car manufacturers are.

Mozilla tried to rate them a few years ago and basically has to give them all the same grade because basically every can manufacturer’s privacy policy is so cartoonishly horrible.

They’re not actually worried about sharing power, they don’t want to be subject to additional federal regulation.

In this case, the issue is business interest in politics, not our weird toxic individualism.

We were supposed to build one here, but AT&T basically owns our city government lol.

They announced the project wouldn’t be moving forward because they wouldn’t/couldn’t use imminent domain to lay fiber in peoples yards. They’ve used it to build 3 stadiums in the past 20 years, and knock down entire neighborhoods in the process. Literally bulldozed multiple square miles of city.

I fucking hate it here. We gave the stadium owners a bunch of money this week to renovate their stadium for some reason.

You already buy “up to” a certain speed. When the network is congested, you just deal with it.

Trying to make people budget their internet usage is stupid and pointless.

No reason they should exist in any day and age.

Companies do not pay per packet. Paying more for more bandwidth or lower latency kind of makes sense because theoretically they may be prioritizing your traffic when the network is under too much load. But sending 16 petabytes costs exactly the same as 1kb in a month, assuming your connection is fast enough to handle 16 petabytes in a month.

Probably? There’s a decent amount of people on reddit calling for the dissolution and expulsion of Israel. US based companies rarely censor on the whims of the feds.

No, it isn’t universal. Teachers here quit trying basically as soon as smartphones became common.

For me it is equal parts paying attention in class, developing attention spans away from video crack tiktok/shorts/whatever, and generally encouraging them to do other things.

Trying to legislate this is…fucking stupid.

You don’t want your kids to have a smartphone? Fine. Don’t buy one. Kids dont need phones, bur if you’re worried about them being able to contact you, just get a dumbphone on amazon.

I remember getting mine at like 15.

Dumbphones still exist. The only reason a child needs a phone is to place a call during an emergency, so as far as I’m concerned, they should get them whenever they can be trusted not to use them in class.

I don’t have useful input on a new device, since I’ve had my e-reader for many years at this point.

I will say that on a purely ethical level, Kindles are easy to keep offline if you’re worried about spyware. Mine hasn’t been off airplane mode since the day I bought it.

That being said, you are still giving Amazon money so I’d definitely understand finding it objectionable.

Edit: Also consider going used. E-reader technology hasn’t improved much since we got illuminated screens.

Yes, but actually no. In the federal election, it is trending that way.

Our state government has gotten both more corrupt and HARD right, mostly because the only people who care enough to vote in those elections are the crazies.

Mime is from 2016 and does. There’s no outward indication (the smartest thing exposed to the driver is Sirius XM), but the salesman told me it could be located in the event of theft, and it has microphones in it.

Depends on how old, but OnStar has been around since before 2000.

Early implementations may have been less creepy, but I’m not sure there’s any way to know.

If I understand correctly, none of this is legally enforceable anyways.

Fuck it, just rip the antennae out. The only wireless connection a car needs these days is Bluetooth, and there’s workarounds for that.

They are heavily entrenched in Texas. They will have to badly piss off most people enough that they all go vote in the same cycle.

Our state government has actually been getting much more radical over the past few years, because the only people who vote are conservative radicals, because everyone else is either apathetic or aware that their vote won’t matter unless millions of people suddenly wake up tomorrow and vote.

The underlying user/group systems are a little more secure, containerization is common and easy (flatpak, bubblewrap, and firejail), the attack surface is lower, the marketshare is smaller, and repositories are fundamentally superior. Of these, app repositories and the market share are by far the biggest factors.

Getting malware on Linux isn’t totally unheard of, but it is extremely uncommon. I’ve never had any, nor has anyone I know. This guy isn’t the first person I’ve heard of getting malware on Linux, but he is one of very, very few.

Does it? My boss is like 70 and he would know something was up instantly if I was just staring at the desktop.