@fastfinge@dhamlinmusic@lynessence@pixelate@jonathan859@mcourcel See, those make sense and are something I'd use if I were in a place I could use them. But again, these are things that society wants us to connect to a homepod or an Alexa or something so you can unlock your front door from your bathroom or some shit. Like... why?
@quanin@dhamlinmusic@lynessence@pixelate@jonathan859@mcourcel Yup. It's like everything home related: if you don't know what you're buying, you're going to be sold something that sucks. I'm a computer expert, so I buy smart home tech. But I would never purchase, say, my own windows or flooring. I have a trusted guy to buy that stuff for me.
@fastfinge@dhamlinmusic@lynessence@pixelate@jonathan859@mcourcel I'm a computer expert as well, and I won't touch most of this stuff because it's a fucking privacy nightmare waiting to happen. I mean at least Apple is somewhat better about it than most, but less bad is not the same as good.
@quanin@dhamlinmusic@lynessence@pixelate@jonathan859@mcourcel Right, but it can still hear everything you're saying when you're in the room. And it still knows everywhere you go, because you take it with you. Once you have a powered on phone in the room with you, at this point you just have to assume that the manufacturer of the phone is listening or looking. It doesn't even need to be your phone.
@fastfinge@dhamlinmusic@lynessence@pixelate@jonathan859@mcourcel Eh. I just assume everything's tracking me, even if I forget my phone at home. But that doesn't mean I'm going to make it easier for them. I explicitly disable the webcam on my desktop for that reason. I mean, physically disable.
@quanin@dhamlinmusic@lynessence@pixelate@jonathan859@mcourcel Whereas I have an autofocusing camera with automatic tracking. But I do hear when it's recording, because the motor makes a sound as it moves on the gimble. And I could unplug the USBC port. I don't actually own a desktop. Just laptops and a server that lives in the furnace room.
@fastfinge@dhamlinmusic@lynessence@pixelate@jonathan859@mcourcel Yup, unplugging the USBC port is all I do. My camera's not quite as involved as yours - it sits on top of my monitor and AI handles the autofocus, but yeah... when I'm not using it, it's a paperweight.
@quanin@dhamlinmusic@lynessence@pixelate@jonathan859@mcourcel Wow, you have a monitor? That's actually on a desk, where you could see it if you were sighted? Sorry! Your blind person card has been revoked! My laptop lids stay closed and I have no monitor. Even though that meant getting a tripod with an arm to mount the camera. ROFL
@dhamlinmusic@fastfinge@lynessence@pixelate@jonathan859@mcourcel I've decided that in many cases, children are not in fact smarter than their parents. What happens is by the time the children are old enough to start being a problem, the parents have forgotten that hey, guy? This used to be you.
@quanin@dhamlinmusic@lynessence@pixelate@jonathan859@mcourcel Also, children and tweens have more time. As a parent, you have to set up the web filter and go to work and get the groceries and clean the house and so on. Your tween can spend all day other than homework and school bypassing the web filter you set up.
@quanin@dhamlinmusic@lynessence@pixelate@jonathan859@mcourcel Look at this guy, assuming it's a "he" just because it's good at computers. Burn him at the stake! LOL. Anyway, this has been more than enough silliness from me. I have an actual job to accomplish.
@quanin@fastfinge@lynessence@pixelate@jonathan859@mcourcel It's my daughter, the code to exit changes each, time, and we know she can get out of it, but the store remains disabled, so the best guess is Kids Space itself is able to install things, or the Lenovo software that you can opt to to get suggested apps is running and we cannot locate it. We just block them when she does it as Family Link still informs us she did it.
@quanin@fastfinge@lynessence@pixelate@jonathan859@mcourcel Nope, also blocked, when we set it up we blocked almost everything besides the kids space, YouTube kids, and stuff like clock, calculator, etc, play store she was originally accessing via a banner ad on an app that should not have had them, and disabling it stopped that. I mean she's also learned how to cast to our TV, send things to the printer, and is playing around with Scratch so…
@fastfinge@dhamlinmusic@lynessence@quanin@jonathan859@mcourcel Too much work. I'd actually care about the product too much. I tried to get Claude to code a music haptics app for Android, found that OnePlus doesn't support audio haptic playback, and before I knew it Claude was like okay context full so we did it.
@dhamlinmusic@lynessence@pixelate@quanin@jonathan859@mcourcel Now you've made me wonder if my instance is blocked by WebSense, the old content firewall my high school used. Running an http proxy for everyone at...research.dns2go.com/get/paper.php?url was I believe the address I used, so everyone could get past the firewall and look at whatever they wanted while eating up all of my home internet bandwidth. Good times!
