👏 Do 👏 not 👏 buy 👏 smart 👏 stuff 👏
FTFY: 👏 Do 👏 not 👏 buy 👏 smart 👏 stuff 👏connected 👏to 👏the 👏 internet 👏
Nothing wrong with wanting smart stuff, as long as it doesn’t send your data. For example, I run all my home automation hardware on a local network that cannot speak to the web, yet I can control everything I want just as the next guy with his fancy Alexa, Google or whatever, but my house doesn’t leak as much data.For cars this is still very difficult to do. The only way we can stop sharing as much data would be if we had legislation that would ban this type of information sharing/data mining. In Europe we tried barking, but we didn’t bite. The GDPR is a joke, forcing people to consent to cookies, net result is nothing. They should have banned data mining, fingerprinting and tracking al together, but the tech lobby is way too powerful for that.
Yeah, smart stuff is only worth buying if you know what you’re doing. I wouldn’t bother with it otherwise.
I don’t like at all the direction we’re taking with cars, they’re getting too invasive. They’re also extremely inefficient compared to a proper public transport infrastructure
Agree with cars becoming more invasive, but disagree that they are less efficient. The only places where public transport shines is in cities. Outside of cities, it is very difficult to make public transport efficient enough to make it worthwhile. I live in The Netherlands, which is the size of a post stamp, and even here, when you don’t live in the city your commute is 3 to 4 times longer by public transport than a car.