The man bought a vacuum cleaner that required an internet connection, and that didn't make him suspicious?

Not so clever I reckon...

IKR?! (I know right?) TBH (to be honest), I just wanted to leave a comment here for the LOL (laughing out loud) factor. I can do this all day but I don't have all day, have to leave ASAP (as soon as possible). TTYL (talk to you later).

The pigs using ubiquitous street camera surveillance to accuse the woman, or the woman using ubiquitous in-vehicle camera surveillance to prove her innocence.

No part of this story makes me warm or fuzzy.

Those cables look like something that infected the spaceship in act one, and that were finally killed in act three.

and the ubiquitous surveillance of large swathes of the internet as well. Woohoo!

The key is the last word is his nom de guerre. It's not an idle word....

Note to self: stick to Debian and don't touch Ubuntu or Mint for a few versions until the kinks have been worked out.

Hussein Obama himself blocked Chinese solar panel imports with prohibitive tariffs, "to protect AmeriKKKan jobs."

The planet is boiling, a huge hurricane just wrecked the Caribbean, gain, a wildfire burnt down LA, and "dey took our jerbs" is the watchword, even though the US never had any solar manufacturing capacity anyway. The bucktoothed hillbillies aren't going to work anyway. Most of them are on SNAP and have been since LBJ.

By the way, the whole "free Tibet" thing is bullshit. Tibet was never free. Tibet under the lamas was a literal medieval society complete with mandatory state religion and serfs, literal slaves. China's CPC marched in the Red Army, liberated the people, introduced athiesm, and most enraging of all taught women to read.

The lamas believed so much in their people they ran away to India where they still are today.

Ever wanted an atheist government of scientists? The CPC is for you. Xi Jinping is a chemical engineer. Stupids like Trump are locked out of government. Not a single war since 1972. Their cheap solar is powering the world that's smart enough to trade with them.

Good guy CPC.

Installing Windows of any kind is a security risk that can lead to death, on this much I agree with the AI. I still believe anyo e should be allowed to do it though.

I am 100% pro Israel, against Islam, against Hamas, there is no such thing as Palestine. People should be able to fuck whoever, if it is consenting adults.

Government power is evil in itself. Taxes are theft, laissez faire capitalism is the best economic system for long term benefits.

Climate change is real. Immigration is fine as long as there are no welfare systems based on taxes. ruzzians should be contained by a mote with alligators and lasers.

Feminism, welfare systems, urbanization is causing the declining birth rates, this cannot be easily reversed, we will suffer because of this more than from the changing climate as a species.

People must be able to own any weapon systema they can afford. Governments must be decentralized, presidents shouldn't have more power than city mayors. Democracy fails hard because of power monopolization. Power must be decentralized. Property taxes, death taxes, income taxes, capital gains, dividends must never be taxed.

Schools, health care, infrastructure, everything must be private, paid for by selling bonds. Governments must charge fees for use, not rely on taxes. Fees must be directly paying for services rendered, never used for things other than the services rendered.

Money is what the market decides, most of the time markets decide that gold is money. Governments must never be allowed to print money, they may coun it for a fee.

Trade must always be free of all and any government involvement.

etc.etc. I know how this will be moded, but that is the point of this thread.

Why not just go real bare bones and implement the only interface that is needed - Aliens style motion tracker. A couple of dots and a sound that beeps faster and faster when the target is closer?

Shut down all sensors that have nothing to do with navigation, that Google uses to put people under surveillance, stop the data collection and stop sending data to the mothership all the damn time. I guarantee you power usage will go down significantly.

How do I know that? because my Fairphone 4 running CalyxOS gets a few more hours of battery life than the same Fairphone 4 running vanilla Android, and my Fairphone 5 running Ubuntu Touch also does better battery-wise than the same phone running Google's surveillance platform.

Poetic justice.