Dyskolos

I’d sniff a line of that hopium too. I just don’t see it being available in the foreseeable future. At least not for an affordable price 😁

Not today anymore. Social-media and the state-of-stupid of the web inhibit that. The masses don’t even know what to protest for or against. And without MASSIVE numbers you’d achieve nothing. Someone just needs to throw enough moneyz at the problem (or pay thousands to flood the net with “I love our overlords because XYZ”) until it’s gone.

It was hard to topple a king some 100yrs ago, but today? We don’t even know our kings anymore. Besides those few media-clown-babies that so desperately crave attention to fill a bottomless void of darkness inside them.

“Bears no resemblance” != the same

If you’re too lazy to think critically this is child-like, yes. But you are basically able to. If you aren’t, for whatever reason, then you can’t be blamed for not knowing better. Otherwise I don’t get your point.

Your arguments are all valid and fine, wouldn’t argue with them. BUT understanding the underlying reasons doesn’t really change the fact and my point.

I can empathise with speeders, murderers, scammers and whatever. But know why someone does something, or even truly empathizing with it, doesn’t change the fact that it’s bad. I could understand a society of murderers and their reasons for murdering. But they’d still destroy their society.

And sadly I really see no way for the government (any gov anywhere) to really pull the rudder. Capitalism just won. And, as you already stated, their goals align excellently with the average Joe/Jane having no clue about the stuff that’s thrown in their faces and are worked to death so that’ll never change.

Yes, but also no. Unmonitored(!) Children are a special case. Them being clueless and easy victims is inherent by design. You can’t lay any blame on them, so they kinda make an unfair argument. Can’t blame a blind person for not seeing you.

Yeah sure, government shall intervene. But…i can probably expect more from anyone else.

And no,I didn’t imply everyone should be expert at everything. That is beyond impossible, even for fractions of fractions of things. But. If you wanna drive a car, you’re forced to learn a shitton and pay like 2k € to be allowed to do so. One of the reasons is safety for others.

If I had no clue about e.g. doorbells, I would ask a pro I know or search the net or whatever. At least the absolute basics of it. Even setting the pure curiosity aside, just to know what the heck I’m getting at. Admitted, I might have much more spare time than the regular Jane or Joe, but I’d still do that if I had to work. Just less intensive.

But yes, this mixture of apathy and ignorance is the leading reason why the internet sucks so much nowadays then 30 or even just 20yrs ago. The majority of absolutely clueless people not knowing how they get fucked and where to draw a line. Sure, to some it’s just a tool they don’t need to know shit about to use it. No judging. BUT that doesn’t change the fact.

Oh I’m lazy too (in regards to boring stuff). But I know what I don’t know and would not start to argue about e.g. car-mechanics or buy something without at least getting a basic grasp of that. Lazyness isn’t an excuse for ignorance 😁

And exactly this behavior (“I have no clue about the thing I will do, but I’ll do it anyway without educating myself prior”) is what makes everything suck more and more because it always gets adapted to the lowest common denominator.

We’re only still alive because people need licenses to drive cars or fly planes.

Why do I need the footage offsite? Because the burglar might’ve stolen the server/raspberry? I actually have my server storage hidden, if that would even be on the radar of a thief, which I really doubt.

But even if, an encrypted storage of your own choosing still beats random access by who-the-fuck-even-knows.

OK, granted, your 19-moneyz-solution is financially hard to beat, and probably no Chinese really gives a rats ass about your data. But even the thought that some random cloud-admin might just take a peek out of boredom…ugh. But OK, I’m a very private person.

A proper solution that does not suck probably costs a bit more than a ring (dunno what they cost though), but if one owns a house, one probably has a few spare hundreds or thousands for a secure surveillance.

Like with every other thing there is: if you don’t know how it basically works or what it even is, you maybe should not really use it. And especially not voice an opinion about it. Furthermore, every tool can be used for self-harm if used incorrectly. You shouldn’t put a screwdriver in your eyes. Just knowing what a plane does won’t make you an able pilot and will likely result in dire harm too.

Not directed at you personally though.

Besides that I would trust a Chinese cloud way more than a murican one (I’m non-US), this really is a lazy excuse. This apathy paired with ignorance or being technically challenged is the main reason dystopian shit like ring even sells at all. Or all those silly “smart” assistants like Alexa.

Phrases like “renewing my subscription” in context of a fucking doorbell itself sounds so absurd to me.

E.g. A raspberry (or the likes) with some run-of-the-mill ip-cam, some wifi-doorbell and AgentDVR would do the same for even less moneyz. And just for you, not the whole world. Wouldn’t take more than some hours of setup.

I could swear this was from futurama and some quote from brannigan?

No thanks. We prefer free time and not being slaves to other beings’ needs. Also we got more interesting hobbies that can surely take that extra cash 😁

I first thought it’s just AI crap…but even ai manages to be funny. These comics are…I don’t even know. Do they just want to make me feel dumb coz I don’t get them?

Are you confusing depression with call-of-the-void or something?

My guess is that it’s a cynical take on optimism and maybe hustle-culture. Whatever people say, it’s futile anyway.

But maybe I’m just too dumb to get the “jokes” buried somewhere in them.😁