TrackinDaKraken

I left Digg 15 years ago. I’m surprised it’s still around.

I’ve only heard about it since in this way, some quick announcement about the “new Digg”. And, then, nothing.

Reddit banned me for saying “see a Nazi, punch a Nazi.” There’s no way I’m going to bother with Digg, that’s the past, and I have no doubt they’d sooner than later be the same as Reddit in that regard.

I used Heroic to install FO4 and FOLON, all I care about using GOG for ATM, just to keep Steam from forcing me to update. It works just fine, thank you very much.

I dumped Amazon ten years ago, when I got scammed by a third party seller and Amazon did fuck-all to help. Amazon doesn’t extend the same protections to third party sellers, I suppose that’s in the TOS, which I’m sure everyone has read carefully.

I could go into detail how the scam worked, and probably still does work. The jist is, shippers don’t provide full addresses to Amazon, only the zip code. So, if the scammer shows that they have a shipping receipt for a zip code, Amazon just trusts that the box was shipped to the correct address. Turns out they shipped an empty box to a local restaurant–it took a lot of calls to find that out.

Maybe I’m now in the minority, but I never bought a spy speaker, or bought spy cameras to attach to my house, inside or out.

My suggestion is, if you have them, get rid of them. But, I’m probably just an old man yelling at clouds, and am safe to ignore. Carry on.

I just want it to work and not spy on me. It’s not part of my self-image, I don’t even own a Tux shirt. It’s just a tool.

I run Mint. It works. I’m happy.

Screaming is well and good to build public opinion against this stupidity, but all the CEOs in their towers will heed is no sales.

We need to make it uncool to like or tolerate AI bullshit in consumer products.

If you have friends, and they show you their new fridge with a touch screen, don’t be polite. Tell them it’s the stupidest thing you’ve ever seen, and then mock them for choosing it every chance you get. And, no, I don’t have friends anymore (but, this is not why).