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  • I’m not sure where you live, but where I live, there is no such thing as a right to privacy.

    I think there should be, but I don’t see that happening anytime soon. So many people are willingly give up anything that resembled privacy for a little convenience and novelty.

    If you’re using any google or apple product, you’re part of the problem. Smartwatch, yes that too. Social media, take everything.

    Until people actually start paying attention and actively refusing to take the bait on these modern conveniences (it just works!!!) this will just get worse.







  • blargh513@sh.itjust.workstomemes@lemmy.worldIt’s a conspiracy
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    6 days ago

    I love how everyone think your audio settings can do anything about this.

    Unless you control the mixing, you get what you get. When Christopher Nolan wants mumbling followed by jet engines, you will suffer accordingly. I still have no idea what Tenent was about between the fucky time shifting and the godawful sound mixing, but I stopped caring half way through.








  • Ooh I do security stuff.

    I’m willing to bet that there are a core of talented systems engineers that built out the control systems for water plants. They are smart people that care deeply about what they do.

    Their “leadership” however is usually made up of a loose group of interchangeable clowns that cycle in and out based on connections, nepotism and financial incentives. Their job is to do stuff to impress other important people and that usually means cutting costs. Sometimes it means getting into bed with a vendor or other company so they can profit from the relationship.

    They will direct the engineers to use stupid shit, turn off controls, use platforms that are wholly inappropriate.

    They will make a mess out of a system that was designed well to the point where fixing all the problems is impossibly expensive. They will declare that its good enough and then take their next job.

    I have watched this cycle happen over and over. Current company has about 10+ years of problems stacked up and it would cost more to fix them than the company makes in revenue for a few years. They won’t be fixed.



  • If you have the mobile app installed, it’s running GPS in the background anway. High accuracy mode just ups the frequency of checkin to your liking. Besides, you only need to have it on for a minute or so to determine vector. You probably already have it, but if there is any question, going high accuracy for a moment will answer it.

    I don’t find that high accuracy does much to battery life as long as you’re smart with it. There are may ways to configure it so it won’t eat your battery.



  • I use home assistant and have a dashboard button that triggers an automation.

    Using the notification action, I turn off do-not-disturb, turn off Bluetooth (so it doesn’t pipe sound to earbuds or remote audio), set notification mode to on (not vibrate) and set the notification volume to max. I used to loop the default notification sound, but then switched so that the notification uses a new channel entirely and set each phone with a song so it will play for a while. You can silence it with the volume key.

    Took a little tinkering to get it right, but works really well.