Yeah. And even “loss of functionality” makes it sound passive; as if it just happened by accident. They Intentionally broke a working product.

I bought one a bunch of years ago. Maybe 10 years. It worked fine. Did it’s thing. Then for no reason google chooses to kill it. Fool me once.

I know you said no gyms, but a few sessions with a personal trainer at a gym isn’t a terrible idea. The PT will give you a realistic plan to get started. Some goals to keep you on track, and they’ll be that important role of the person checking in on your progress, and appointments you need to keep. Yeah, it’s all a bit of self-delusion… you can get most of this from the web for free, but sometimes having another person to push you is hugely helpful.

Also, pick up basketball, hockey, soccer/football, and rugby are fantastic exercise that feel like the chore of exercising because they’re a game. If you like cycling, there’s likely a local group or two you can join for long weekend rides.

I can’t speak to the anxiety and depression, so my advice might not be good advice for you.

Also there’s no legal obligation to answer your door.

Skip the olive oil. If you’re buying it on a beans and rice budget, its gonna be fake olive oil anyway. Just use corn/canola/veg oil.

I’m a little bummed it isn’t called the Brunnel.

Yeah, It’s one tool in the toolbox. and it won’t stop all those other things for sure, but products like this can help build awareness of the ubiquitous surveillance we live under. Awareness might eventually lead to policy change. So it’s not a bad thing, and the article does describe the limitations and weaknesses.

Also, not for nothing, I saw a test on YouTube (Dr. John Padfield - Business Reform) where his tests showed that IR reflective hats worked better than glasses.

Zenni eyewear: the urban surveillance countermeasure you didn’t know you need.

-or-

Why the feds and Wal Mart hate Zenni eyewear.

I’ve had some Hue bulbs and and an LED strip for a bunch of years. It’s been pretty reliable. The LED strips are really awesome and frustratingly expensive. You can chain them together to cover longer/larger areas. I’ve tried a few generic LED strips, and they’ve kinda sucked by comparison. but sometimes that’s ok for a given purpose.

Not that it’s what you’re asking, but I had a 100 year old house with retrofitted LED can lighting. It’s do-able. and might not be as expensive as you think.

I meant how to safely disable it.

Ah. I misread your post. Agreed.

It’s been nearly 30 years since OnStar launched. It’s been a plot device in numerous TV shows and movies. People are informed, but the average citizen falls for the if you’ve got nothing to hide rhetoric, and takes the bait on the it’ll help catch pedophiles trick every time. Average people are informed, they’d just rather not eat the expense of critical thinking.

IP ownership isn’t something that you can definitively establish at the outset of a project (even if you copyright code and secure patents for protectable ideas), and wrapping your work in an MIT license won’t preclude infringement claims later on. Plenty of employers sponsor open source work, so it’s not a crazy ask, but it’s usually work that serves the company’s interests. You can ask for permission to work on a project with the mutual understanding that it be MIT licensed, and 2) once work hits a release milestone, get written confirmation from your employer that they grant any claims of ownership to you (or whoever).

If you want more than informal promises from your employer, you’ll find that a spare PC is gonna be much cheaper than the legal consult and drafting of any agreements you or they may want.

I bought a generic N150 based minipc for a firewall & router (running OPNsense), and repurposed an old desktop PC as a server to host immich, paperless, nextcloud, etc… I considered both RPi and mini pc for the server, but I needed a few TB of storage and wanted redundancy. Spinny disks were a much more affordable option than SSDs, and minipcs and Rpis tend to not have much space for those drives. You can add on storage to them, but then they just become clunkier and more expensive than the old PC I already had laying around. Power consumption is probably a few watts higher on the PC than a Pi would be, but it’s not terrible.

That’s why I went the direction I did. I’m 3 about or 4 months in, and it’s been solid so far.

Lol. GTFO here ya clown. Anyone that lives in a big city knows that cameras don’t stop crimes. Tweekers, dirty cops, politicians… none of em give a shit if they’re on camera.

They also use a heap of cameras with facial recognition to track you.

The website is great:

“97% of people hate their job. But we’re putting an end to all this misery.”

I don’t know. Maybe not. Last I worked with them they were still Hughes, but the ATT acquisition had been announced.

Fun story… it once took a bit over an hour to get from their building on Imperial Hwy to the passenger terminal at LAX, and you can see LAX out the uber window on the other side of the street the entire ride. Lol.

These remaining DirecTV subscribers are gonna be pissed when AT&T swaps out the dial-tone on their landline for an ad stream.

Been using it for a while. It’s pretty awesome.

They were already dangerous when Trump told them to stand back and standby. They became significantly more dangerous when he deputized them and instructed them to wear masks and avoid being identified while they rounded up opposition. They became even more dangerous when Doge gave them access to everything the government knows about citizens to improve the effectiveness of their harassment and intimidation. They need became more dangerous when they arrested blue-state politicians for asking questions and nothing came of it. And yeah… the better their tools get, the more dangerous they become.

But simplifying this to “experts say it’s dangerous” under sells reality so badly.