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CaptainBoing

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https://www.theregister.com/2022/07/12/hive_camera_support_end/?utm_source=daily&utm_medium=newsletter&utm_content=top-article

another one leaves its users in the lurch.  countless home automation, camera, internet radio etc... etc... not to mention "updates" that bust stuff, add "features" you don't want/ask for and move stuff around at the developers whim.

Never been more impetus to home brew and so do-able now-a-days.

I wouldn't touch a CotS system that relied on a network connection with a sh*tty stick.

h.
Edited 2022-07-13 15:53 by CaptainBoing
 
Tinine
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CaptainBoing

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hah! I said exactly this to a friend a while back when he was going to get an "Alexa" (shakes head) - "If the government said everyone had to have a listening device in their homes, there would be uproar. Give it a cute name and charge people $99 for it and they'll line up in droves."

YT is replete with vids of Alexa being asked awkward questions and it either refuses to answer or outright lies.
 
Tinine
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Went back to real books, back in 2010.

George Orwell's 1984 and Aldus Huxley's Brave New World.

I thought they were crazy at the time  

I also read a Dean Koontz novel that mentioned a wuhan virus



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It is too late.... google is everywhere, even when you are "offline"...

1/ try to get "of the chart", just leave all electronics behind, camp into the woods (if there are any near by) and within a week google knows where you are/where.

2/ discuss topic X with your wife, but do NOT show any intention of this discussion o the internet. Within 24 hours you will see commercials of that topic in your browser. The (android) phone is recording your words, even if you have voice recognition off.

I have experience both. I am not making a fuzz about it, but it is fact.

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Tinine
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@Volhout

Which is precisely why phones with removable batteries are harder to come by.

I have had the same experience; discuss some obscure product with someone (phone laying on the desk) and I start receiving ad's for said product.

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DaveJacko
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i don't mean to be a smart-alec, but
Beware of 'Confirmation Bias' ( pls. Google it )
as a species, we have a long history of believing in things that are not there,
granted, sometimes they are there, hard to know the difference.
Try swapping 2 and 3 over
 
Tinine
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  DaveJacko said  i don't mean to be a smart-alec, but
Beware of 'Confirmation Bias' ( pls. Google it )
as a species, we have a long history of believing in things that are not there,
granted, sometimes they are there, hard to know the difference.


There is also a problem with people believing everyth that the media tells them even though the facts were published many years ago

It's the reason that I haven't watched a TV in more than 12 years.

"it's true....it were on t' telly"

One teeny tiny example that can't be erased:
 
Tinine
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Go ahead search...or you can simply roll up your sleeve again and again...






Published many years ago.

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Tinine
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I'm the one standing on the crate. Which one is you?

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Tinine
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Tinine
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Let me guess....
The fact that this guy has since died a "mysterious death" is totally reasonable to YOU?

Yeah it would be.




COVID...THE LEADING CAUSE OF COINCIDENCE

WAKE TF UP!!!
 
Tinine
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Tinine
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Unjabbed
Untested
Unmasked and un f*****g believable that people can be so STUPID to believe this crap.

I make no apologies for this because people are being injected with poison and I care    


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Tinine
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Unjabbed
Untested
Unmasked and un f*****g believable that people can be so STUPID to believe this crap.

I make no apologies for this because people are being injected with poison and I care    


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Tinine
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Good ol' Henry has lots of these:

"control the oil and you control the country, control the food and you control the people"




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Tinine
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Gizmo

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Sorry Tinine, I've disabled your account. No explanation needed I'm sure.

Stick to what this forum is about guys, all the other crap can be discussed on facebook where it belongs.
The best time to plant a tree was twenty years ago, the second best time is right now.
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Mixtel90

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Thanks, Gizmo.
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Volhout
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Hi Gizmo,

Craig is a valued member of this forum. Not a Troll. I feel it is more applicable to remove the post's you judge as are inappropriate. From your post the message (to all) is be clear.

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