A mistake was made when my doctor started this same AI shit, but it was to my benefit, so I’m keeping quiet.

If this is the level of your moral purity tests, I would suggest you just stop using the internet at this point.

If it has a microphone, it is always listening

If it has a camera, it is always watching

If it has a radio, it is always talking

Every traffic light has a camera that feeds to a real time crime center where all your movements are tracked and logged.

There are at least 2 balloons and a dozen KNOWN domestic surveillance satellites all with sub 10cm resolution.

The US government knows everything everyone is doing, they just have to decide when revealing how they’re spying on everyone is worth catching someone. For now they just pass the info to local LEOs to preform pretext stops and take them for whatever it is. Just watch dashcam of any drug bust from the last 10 years. “You were swerving in your lane, oh look, 500000 fent pills.” Police are being fed illegally obtained intel from the feds.

Wonder how much he gave to Scientology to try and make the shit he’s done disappear.

1996: cameras, microphones, radios, in your appliances? You’re schizophrenic

2026: removing the cameras, microphones, and radios from the appliances we use to spy on you is illegal.

Its not about the tech, it how you use it. I’m nomadic, off grid, and pretty tech minimalist. My 5 year old smart phone just has comaps, revanced, Lemmy, signal and a few other basic tools. My PCs stay as airgapped as possible and I’m ready to hunker down and emulate the last 40 years of video games offline. I haven’t kept up with llms but I’d like to get a decent lower power, highly optimized open source model to run locally once they’re at the best they’ll get before being banned. I just want essentially a offline search engine summary. If its critical I’ll get online but a offline local llm is really useful for me to change little 3 hour ADHD adventures into just a few questions.

They’re a relic of the preAI tech boom and vestergaurd, the same guy that does lifestraw, has enough money and connections to go for a long time without any feasibility. Sunk cost.

…yeah, you’re just cooked. Stay inside, dont touch grass. You’ll ruin it.

Tell that to beavers.

I got laid off, didn’t look for a job, and moved to the woods. I no longer participate in the economy.

Yes, I’m an engineer. My focus on the subjects I’ve needed has paid off immensely.

I find it funny that everyone is just going ad hominem instead of continuing the actual discussion of the shortcomings of the current education system.

What?

I would have used it because the class requirements are ridiculous. I forget if these are the correct numbers but to get through my degree you had to average 17 credits per semester. 15 is max full time and you had to get permission to take more than that. Half the people in my course were taking 5 years. I have thermodynamics and calc 2 homework, ai could write my sociology or art history paper.

I asked gpt5 and it told me to check the clutch safety switch. The thing you fixed.