Have you noticed they – tech corporations – are conditioning people to accept that they have no choice? Accompanying this short article is a screenshot I took of the message box that popped up on my desktop. It states that an “update is available,” which is fine. It goes on to ask whether I “want to restart to install these updates now or try tonight”?
Did you catch that?
It is not really saying the “update” is “available.” Something that’s available is something you don’t have to buy. Are not being pushed to buy. There are chips and so on available at the store down the road. This “update,” on the other hand, insolently being pushed on me. Psychologically, at the very least – via the presumption that it will taker place “now” or “tonight.”
As opposed to never.
Some, of course, will say I am being fussy because it’s just an update and don’t you want your computer to be up-to-date? This entirely misses the point, which is the subtle effrontery of the presumption that you will “update” the thing. It is presented gently, of course – much in the same way that the government “asks” you to do things, like hand over money or wear a “mask.”
The technique first manifested, as far as I can tell, in the suggestive selling of fast food. As a kid, I worked at McDonald’s and we were trained to push fries on people who didn’t order them, indicating the did not want fries. Implying they were too stupid to remember they really did want fries after all. Or that they wanted large fries – if they only ordered just fires. I remember thinking at the time how pushy-peddlery this was and that I loathed being involved in it. I thought then – and still think now – that is barbaric to push people in this way, particularly because it is so mewly.
We have gotten all-too-used-to this sort of thing. More finely, we have gotten all-too-used-to not getting pissed by such things.
I still am, though. Maybe you are, too!
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Since 2017, I’ve owned a 2000 VW Golf. The only thing electronic on it is the door keys; click click it locks, click click it opens. A simple trustworthy machine. Had to do the annual inspection here 2 months ago. They hardly looked at anything, not the windshield wipers, not the brakes, nothing until they stopped me at the final checkout and said the engine OK light didn’t work. I’ve driven the car daily since 2017, passed every annual inspection, and NEVER have I seen this indicator light. They passed the inspection this last time but warned me; next year it works, or else, because the gubmint standards have changed. If it doesn’t work next year, it’s junk. Ain’t it great, gubmint caring for us?
My mac doesn’t update automatically, i have the auto update feature turned off. I need to choose to update. I had resisted updating for months. But they find other ways to get you to update, for example my magic mouse stopped working. Weird so bought a new one and the directions said the mouse would not scroll (seriously!?!,@#) without the computer having the latest update. Sure enough the freaking mouse would not scroll, only point.
That’s pretty Orwellian. I used an old Logitech mouse until finally deciding to update.
Now my car thank god still asks me if I want to update but it has been getting pushier lately asking several times a week now, don’t I just want to install updates now. It is sneaky about it too asking right as we are pulling into the garage. I guess hoping I’ll be careless and not refuse the update. I figure at some point it will stop asking and I will start the car and find lane keep assist, brake assist and speed limits have been auto implemented, just like what happened my 2020 bmw. That thing drove me crazy because i had to turn off all the assists each time I started the ignition.
Morning, RS!
One of the reasons I love my old vehicles is they never “ask” me to “update” anything. They are truly autonomous – in the honest sense of the word. I will never own a vehicle made after (roughly) 2010 or so.
I predict there will be a significant market for restored older cars. There will still be parts available even if they have to be retooled or made new. Even taking into account all the planned and yet to be planned impediments to driving older vehicles I predict the workarounds will be just as ubiquitous. There are a lot of people who don’t like this and don’t want more of it.
Yes, I’ve noticed this, and I hate it. I miss the days when the only way to update software was to do it intentionally using CDs or floppy discs.
its insufferable. I say no, but when I wake up, my phone is still different. I try to decline every time but it just does it by stealth.
TSA is now asking to take biometric information. They just ask you to do a retina scan and almost everyone was doing it. I declined, but I am still holding out refusing to do a body scanner as well
I used to opt out and get the pat down, but now they make it almost impossible, herding people like cattle. A friend said he told them he didn’t want his picture taken and they said OK. It’s more about control than security.
exactly- I had and agent see something she thought was suspicious in my bag, but on opening it there was too much stuff. She xrayed it again and said ‘i dont know, whatever” and gave it to me. I appreciate the speed of the interaction but if it is about security, that would not fly
Shabbos Goyim do most of the prodding. When I was a kid, there was the famous “hot-shot” cattle prod:
https://miller-mfg.com/collections/hot-shot
Now they should call it the Holocaust-prod. Move along goyim, or we’ll label you a holocaust denying antisemite and ruin your life.
Of course the constant software updates, like the constant change into ever more depraved and titillating skin tight sexual organ exposing clothing styles, or the constant miscegenation advertising, or even the push to EV’s is all part of Tikkun Olam.
So Eric, just wondering, does this update to your new desktop (MacOS?) have anything to do with this recent iOS controversy? Supposedly. I wouldn’t know.
https://stonetoss.com/comic/sour-apple/
One of my skills/self businesses is setting people that know not much about computers up with windows machines, I call it 1/2 amalgamated edition.
Apparently someone already makes an amalgamated windows box, but everything is broken. I just set people up with bang-for-their-buck and customize what I can to be less worth, without breaking lots of features.
Windows has gotten pretty bad about this too since covid. Get yer bill gates update in a syringe.
*worse
They’re all pains in the rear, even most of the Linux distros. Systemd I think is the 3-letters closing down that loophole to avoid surveillance. No one really understand it outside Red Hat.
Red Hat is also trying to kill X in favor of Wayland. They almost succeeded, but now X just got forked by one of the developers.
https://rumble.com/v6ud3mj-non-dei-fork-of-xorg-by-most-active-xorg-developer.html
There are still plenty of non-SystemD Linux distros that one can use.
Or there is also FreeBSD, which works fine even on desktops.
And, after all, unlike Windows, Linux updates can be ignored indefinitely, if one wants do do that.
FreeBSD completely owns Linux in every way except one. Wifi drivers.
And for newbies, GhostBSD owns Linux Mint. Again except for Wifi drivers.
I used to keep up with this sheet. It was fun & interesting.
Now, color me: ‘Eric’. I’m not following.
The DOS, is better on GhostBSD? So, get that?
[Insert image of a landline phone with a call party, here.]
I sure did think the tiny Linux-baby on USB was cool.
…I stopped there. I learned of the plans of our overlords, & deep sixxed everything tech &/or dgaf.
It’s ALL co-opted.
“I learned of the plans of our overlords, & deep sixxed everything tech &/or dgaf.”
So you’re typing these comments on a wooden shingle, Helot? Or is it done purely with psychic transmissions? 😉
Hey Horst,
I haven’t had any experience with FreeBSD for about 20 years. I probably should give a modern version a chance. I’m not sure I like the Mac stylings, however.
I’ve also never properly understood the systemd controversy. It’s all a bit too in-the-weeds for me. So it’s a security problem now? I don’t believe I’ve ever experienced a security problem on any Linux distro I’ve used.
GhostBSD is the equivalent to Linux Mint. It has a live version you can test with to see if you like it and if it is compatible with your hardware.
There was the recent issue with malware being inserted into the code of an archiver/zip program that required SystemD to do any damage.
I liked the days when you installed windows and mac os from disks.
Vic, you mean, when you felt like you actually OWNED the product you PAID FOR?
Yah. I hear ya.
This switch from, ‘you own stuff’, to the, “You’ll be happy & own nothing”… it began in ~ 2001, wouldn’t you say?
You overlooked in Systems Settings->General>Updates you have the option to not check at all for updates.
Seems like a fair assumption that since you made the choice to have macOS (or, if you’re into conspiracies not to opt out) check for updates automatically the inference by the interface designer you actually wanted them done, well, automatically.
Turn off Automatic Updates and it never asks again. You have to take positive action to open the Settings panel for it to check.
No dice, Tim –
The only options my machine gives are: “update tonight” or “restart now.”
It’s too late now since the computer knows there’s updates available. You need to turn off Automatic Updates using the slider switch and then it’ll stop checking in the background for future ones.
OT: Ho! Lee! Crap!
https://scitechdaily.com/researchers-transform-carbon-waste-into-valuable-building-material/
Some key quotes:
Researchers at the University of Michigan have contributed to the development of a method that transforms carbon dioxide, an industrial waste product that contributes to atmospheric pollution, into a valuable material: precursors for cement.
“This research shows how we can take carbon dioxide, which everyone knows is a waste product that is of little-to-zero value, and upcycle it into something that’s valuable,” said McCrory, associate professor of chemistry
We’re not going to make it, are we?
Hey Horst,
You know how else you can upcycle CO2 into a valuable building material? Trees.
“…Transforms carbon dioxide, an industrial waste product that contributes to atmospheric pollution, into a valuable material: precursors for cement.”
Know what else did that? The Earth. We might have a unlivable and oppressive atmosphere like that of Venus, but what probably happened is that the CO2 of ancient Earth was sequestered away into carbonates, such as calcium carbonate, or limestone. Subject it to enough heat, and that CO2 is driven off and the limestone becomes CaO, or quicklime, which combines with silicates and aluminates to make what we call cement, a component of our ultimate modern building material: Concrete. Then, as the concrete dries and hardens, it reabsorbs CO2.
“We’re not going to make it, are we?”
Sometimes I have to wonder.
>concrete dries and hardens
Error.
Portland cement concrete does not “dry,” it cures. The hydration reactions are exothermic.
https://www.concrete.org/topicsinconcrete/topicdetail.aspx?search=curing%20of%20concrete
Designing the internal cooling system (water pipes) for cooling a large pour is a big deal. Those with any experience using transit mixed concrete should certainly be familiar with the term “hot load,” which is what happens when the mixture (with water added) has been in the barrel too long. “Hot load” is not a figure of speech, it is literally true, and can be cause for rejecting a load.
Calcium chloride is commonly used as an accelerant, especially for cold weather construction, but that has its disadvantages.
Adi,
“Portland cement concrete does not ‘dry’, it cures”
Sure. Then it’s dry and hard, or apparently so, regardless of the presence of hydrates. Then it’s hard and gets wet at times… “Hot load”…
The Beavis and Butthead in me are snickering.
It’s a little like calling out people when they call a scientific instrument a “machine” rather than an “instrument”. Though I still might do that, the populace just sees that as anal and they do not care.
Being a scientist is to be constantly attacked, with every statement scrutinized for accuracy, but that comes with the territory and it’s necessary to avoid misunderstandings. One could be a politician or a lawyer, however, and then you’re expected to lie and be duplicitous and obfuscatory. What a planet.
So, next time I’ll refer to it as “curing”, Adi, and hopefully not arouse the ire of the applicable parties as would be done when you refer to concrete as “cement”. Oh, do the concrete boys hate that.
https://www.usbr.gov/lc/hooverdam/history/essays/concrete.html
>Bureau of Reclamation engineers calculated that if the dam were built in a single continuous pour, the concrete would have gotten so hot that it would have taken 125 years for the concrete to cool to ambient temperatures. The resulting stresses would have caused the dam to crack and crumble away.
> If the heat produced by the curing concrete could have been concentrated in a baking oven, it would have been sufficient to bake 500,000 loaves of bread per day for three years.
https://www.concretenetwork.com/curing-concrete/
>Curing serves these main purposes:
>It retains moisture in the slab so that the concrete continues to gain strength.
>It delays drying shrinkage until the concrete is strong enough to resist shrinkage cracking.
>Properly curing concrete improves strength, durability, water tightness, and wear resistance.
PCC = Portland Cement Concrete = sand + cement + aggregate
Portland cements made from different quarries are not quite the same, since the underlying raw material varies with location. One of the challenges in Portland cement production is quality control of the mix.
Many years ago, I was involved with a project which installed a continuous monitoring instrument (machine if you prefer) on the main product stream @ Cemex Black Mountain Quarry in Victorville, CA
https://www.tktn.com/projects/southdown-ts2.jpg
The continuous analysis device was based on neutron spectroscopy, and eliminated the need to periodically sample and analyze the product stream by wet chemical methods onsite.
https://www.engr.psu.edu/ce/courses/ce584/concrete/library/construction/curing/curing.html
> Oh, do the concrete boys hate that.
I *AM* one of the “concrete boys,” BaDnOn. 🙂
By the way, do you know the difference between shotcrete and gunite? Without looking it up, I mean.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LObQ5KHshxo
Are you familiar with curing compounds and their usage?
Q. What do a concrete vibrator and an earthquake have in common?
A. Both produce liquifaction by introducing kinetic energy into a substrate. The vibrator liquifies concrete, whereas the earthquake liquifies soil. Some soils are more vulnerable than others.
Have you ever “lost a form” because it was not strong enough to withstand the added K.E. produced by vibration? I have. 🙁
Fortunately, I was able to fix the form in real time, and resume the pour. Some are not so lucky. 🙁
“I *AM* one of the ‘concrete boys’…”
So it appears!
I am not, and that you probably already have deduced. My first big (by my standards) concrete project was pouring the foundations for my lab and garage. I DID have a form fail on that, but it was due to insufficient staking and a wet mix, rather than from vibrational kinetic energy.
I’m familiar with the basic chemistry and fundamentals involved with concrete, but “gunite”? Shotcrete? Not a damn clue.
Interesting about the Hoover Dam. A single pour would’ve also required a hell of a concrete truck.
Off-topic, but we’re there already:
Weren’t you the one to tell me to try planting eucalyptus? I’m trying for of that today. I tried a month or so back and have only a couple sprouts so far, so I’m giving it another shot.
I have found that it’s a bit too cold in the winter here, but a couple species will survive: Eucalyptus Neglecta and Parviflora. Let’s hope for the best!
>I have found that it’s a bit too cold in the winter here, but a couple species will survive: Eucalyptus Neglecta and Parviflora. Let’s hope for the best!
BOL.
Tip:
If you do not already have a copy, I highly recommend the Sunset Western Garden Book. It divides the west into zones, and recommends plant species based on zones. Following their recommendations has generally worked, for me.
But, even within a zone, the actual siting of the plants can make a difference. For example, I have citrus planted on the south facing wall of my garage which have never suffered frost damage, whereas a tree 20 feet away out in the open, has.
My brother, who lives in Pahrump, NV, recently planted two pecan trees. He also is “hoping for the best.”
Again, BOL. 🙂
Thanks, Adi!
It also pays to ask around at plant nurseries in your general vicinity.
The first step is to determine the zone. Don’t know where you live, but I am guessing either Zone 10 or 12, unless you are at a higher elevation near Prescott.
The Garden Book lists cold hardiness for a large variety of Eucalyptus species. This can vary from mid 20s on down to 30 years ago. According to the book, it is cold tolerant to 14-17°F, but perhaps it gets colder where you live.
Caveat:
Don’t put your picnic table under a Eucalyptus, unless you have a death wish. The limbs fail without warning, and a larger one could easily kill you.
The pungent smell of eucalyptus oil is the active ingredient in Vicks Vapo Rub, widely used as a decongestant, and the oil content makes for a *hot* fire, similar to green pine, even with seasoned wood.
Have fun. 🙂
>According to the book,
https://www.plantingtree.com/blogs/gardening/silver-dollar-eucalyptus
is cold tolerant to 14-17°F.
The one I planted >30 years ago has done well here.
Good luck trying to stop these filthy creatures ‘updates’. Think it’s more of a download from your computer to microshaft. I’ve tried blocking, denying, fire-walling, etc., and if you don’t agree it WILL update your computer anyway when you try to turn it off or on. Prior to this generation of bullshit I have NEVER allowed ANY ‘updates’ for 10 or 15 years with NO problems at all and still allow NO ‘updates’ on any of my other machines.
I spent a whole week removing and disabling all the bullshit ‘apps’ and permissions and online cloud trash from a new ROG with Windows 11 pro without breaking it. It’s almost a normal computer now but they have taken so many things out of your control that it’s basically a piece of shit.
Recently last week ALL of my browsers on ALL of my computers stopped connecting with my website only and displayed a 403 Forbidden message. Only Edge browser on my Windows 11 pro worked. Now it’s all back the way it was so idk what they did.
Bottom line is that ALL so-called ‘jew’ need permanently EXPELLED or NONE of our problems with cars, computers, insurance, and everything else will EVER go away. Hate to think or even to talk about these filthy creatures, but that’s the they way it is -BECAUSE OF (((them))).
What do Jews have to do with it? Fuck you! There’s enough of that shit here!
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On a Win 11 Home machine I’ve had to rig a reg-edit do ask before downloading updates, and windows still over-rides me on this. It sucks!
Get linux if you want to avoid updates. Bottom line you are being conditioned to have no control.
“What do Jews have to do with it? ”
The Jews blew up entire Gazan families with their first wave of their terrorist pager attacks. Soon after they were blowing up Hezbollah families too, with a final wave attack on the families of Syrian Army officers. They were using pagers and walkie talkies, which like all modern electronics, have firmware updates.
Were these exploding pagers ever updated online, or was it just the final “update” that sent hundreds of children to the grave that was sent online direct from Tel Aviv?
Unfortunately, we don’t know for sure. But we do know that the Jewish racial supremacist duo Alex Karp and Peter Theil of the infamous vampire company Palantir both want to murder any remaining “antisemites” on the planet.
Jews have been working for decades to migrate chip design from Palo Alto to Tel Aviv. Intel, AMD and I believe ARM set up their VM kernal and microcode development to Israel through unit 8200 and Mossad connections.
Now virtually every CPU across the west has a built in Jewish back door available to Mossad and 8200. This is why when Huwaei refused to allow the Jew back door to be built into their chips that the US declared war on the company and even arrested the founders daughter in Canada.
So on Friday we had another wave of Jewish style cyber hacking causing Iran’s air defenses to be taken off line for several hours during which the Jews were able to destroy much of their capability. This is what Jews do when you allow them anywhere near your electronics.
So now we have to worry about “remote updates” to our automobiles on top of our home computers. The V8 motor in Michael Hastings mercedes flew a couple of city blocks, backwards, after the online Mercedes computer system was hacked and he was assassinated.
Palantir will have positioned themselves somewhere on the cloud between your car and that software update your car’s computer has decided you have to have. Of course Mossad, CIA, and 8200 will already be there. Have a pleasant flight, er drive, like Michael Hastings.
“Michael Hastings’ Last Ride
Michael Hastings, a 33-year old investigative journalist, died June 18, 2013 at about 4 am in a fiery car crash in Los Angeles. Witnesses said Hastings’ Mercedes coupe, traveling at a speed of perhaps 100 mph, ran a red light, veered onto a grassy median strip, plowed into a palm tree and exploded in flames. The collision was so violent that the Mercedes engine and transmission broke loose from the car frame, flew into the oncoming lane of traffic and came to rest 125 feet from the crash.”
http://oldbulllee.com/hastingsride.htm
Looks like Brosi took care of this filthy lying hooknosed shit-creature with the Excellent comment eviscerating it, but I’ll add my two cents for (((steve)))-
GO FUCK YOURSELF ‘jew’-boi. 卐 卐 卐
Blow Me! Cocksucker, breath it down your throat!
You’re everything that’s wrong with this site!
Go ahead Eric, deep6 his comment and my replies, or leave it all up. Have some conviction either way.
The only thing wrong with this site are all the racial supremacies Jews in the comment section who have zero tolerance for people who are critical of the genocide that Jews are committing and covering up in Gaza.
Of course the Israel, the Jew homeland, has also just performed the most despicable perfidious act against Iran and murdered over a dozen of their leaders. This was after the Jews had already performed that same despicable style of act against Nasrallah in Lebabon.
So now Jews have decided that EP auto should not be allowed to allow truths that Jews don’t like to appear in the comments section. Jews always try to ruin whatever the goyim build.
Speaking as a 45+ year veteran software engineer, there is truth to the adage “software is never done” … usually because it’s never “engineered” … usually due to missing or incomplete specifications, incomplete or missing test plans, no systematic verification, etc.
Some software or firmware updates are good, in that one or more legitimate, provable defects were found and corrected.
But some updates are bad, in that the fidgeting, ADHD-addled youths encamped at their last “scrum” meeting (via Zoom) decided to add a feature they thought was important, not giving sufficient thought (or maybe any thought) to the downstream consequences. Or one of the “engineers” who worked on the feature thought they’d implement it “this way” … just because, damn the consequences.
The software profession, if you can call it that, has been a mess for decades.
And it’s extremely disheartening to see how it’s made modern automobiles so unappealing, and in some cases, dangerous.
Sane people: If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it.
Software engineers: If it ain’t broke, let’s fuck with it.
Man, feature creep existed long before the current crop of software weenies was even born. I’m at the tail end of my career in embedded controls. If I had a penny for every time “Let’s just” or “Maybe we can” was mumbled I’d have retired a decade ago wealthy. It’s true on both sides of the cube wall in software and hardware. It’s true in electrical power generation. It’s true of civil engineers. Of mechanical engineers. We tinker, we break it, we repeat it for 40 years until we’re home 24/7 and the domestic program manager asks “Honey, can you” and the pattern is repeated. The one constant is the bugs are always created by the other guy. My shit most certainly does not stink.
Again Microsoft is obsoleting another operating system. I have a perfectly functional 10 year old desktop computer that isn’t “upgradable” per Microsoft. The warning are arriving it won’t be supported after this Fall. I’m really sick of this BS. Printers, scanner, and software I use is also totally OK with me. There is no logical reason for me to do this and it is very wasteful of hardware, also I thought these progressive companies cared about the environment? No thanks Microsoft. I’ll either pay for a third party protection security service or try to sort out Linux. I’m not a computer head so none of this is intuitive for me.
When my father’s 2012 Macbook Pro went end-of-life, I installed Ubuntu on it.
He uses it for browsing the Web 99% of the time, so he’s fine with it.
64 bit Win7 is still supported just not by microshaft
Theres always linux mint.
Ubuntu Mate works OK and if you type Tweak in the search box it will let let you adjust the appearance to look like other operating systems.
Tweak Tool
Features that aren’t broken can be useful. It depends on which version of Ubuntu you go with. I generally stick to LTS versions – fresh installs only.
A friend upgraded his and when they changed some network resources it broke his VPN, took forever to fix in order to listen to PlanetRock
If the computer is behind a NAT on your home network, you will be fine on Windows 10 using Firefox or Chrome until updates stop for those browsers.
100% with you Eric, as I detest the satanic Microsoft updates and do everything to avoid them (including going to a computer shop to have them uninstalled by someone who knows what they’re doing). And have you noticed that these so-called “updates” never improve your computer or add new features but instead always slow it down and impede performance? That’s because the “updates” are actually spyware and other insalubrious insertions designed to steal your info for Bill Gates never-ending data farming operations.
I was positivly fuming when a feature update was forced down my throat when I wasn’t looking. At least let me google wether there are known issues with the version and my device.
Did you notice a recent update quietly disables the ability to roll back updates beyond 60 (probablly 50 for me) days ago.
I’ll be thinking about it now.
‘We have gotten all-too-used-to this sort of thing [cattle prodding].’ — eric
Recall that the 1787 fedgov constitution contains but three (3) federal crimes: treason, piracy and counterfeiting (all of which government officials now commit on a daily basis).
Today we have a complete parallel federal criminal code, covering everything from littering to terrorism.
So predictably, the Minnesota political assassination suspect was hit with federal murder charges after first being arrested on state charges. Fifth amendment, no double jeopardy? LOL! You can blow it out your ass.
It’s just a goddamned piece of paper. — George W Bush
I have always believed that the constant need to set up accounts, updates and the constant clamor for security for even the most banal transactions is designed to create a race of neurotic lemmings.
and its working. everything requires a goddam app to operate.
It is psychological, but it is also about information collection. They want to know who’s doing what and when – at all times. All data collected and stored indefinitely for future use.
The introduction of digital data storage meant the death of anonymity.
When I set up my new laptop a couple of years ago there was a prompt to create a Microsoft account. There did not appear to be any way to decline this if I wanted to continue.
Researching it on the ‘net, I found that indeed, there was a way to continue without avoid creating an account (don’t remember exactly how it was done, I’d have to look it up again) but the programmers had deliberately not given the user an obvious way to decline.
It gets tiring trying to fight constant swindles and gimmicks, but they are everywhere. There’s always a “catch” or some “fine print” or some form of manipulation.
Unfortunately the way I deal with it is to be somewhat reclusive and just not do things because I don’t want to deal with the hassle of dealing with bullshit to do something that would ordinarily be very simple.
I ran into the same problem. After spending literally hours trying to skirt this requirement, I finally figured out to make sure you DO NOT first connect the new computer to the internet. The Windows setup procedure will then allow you to set up the machine “offline” and without a Microsoft account.
Fuck these assholes!
Since it doesn’t look like the Microsoft logo it’s probably one of your programs. Look at the settings screen and see if you can keep delaying it or shut off updates entirely. Generally I find that you never want to be installing the updates first because some times they will really mess up your computer and the update distributor won’t pay for the time or money to restore your confuser to it’s original pre-update condition.
Sadly what happens to your obsolete car that is no longer capable of getting security updates but is connected to the internet? When you consider that at some point a lot of cars will be drive by wire you had better hope that some T group doesn’t pick on the car if you left the sim card in the onboard modem.
There’s a reason everything I depend on his lower tech.
It’s a Mac.
The country has turned mostly into a nation of sheep, Eric. How else can you explain the TSA getting away with gleefully feeling up/molesting Americans at the airport in the name of “safety” in the last 24 years, and without so much as a whimper or a protest? Now, we have naked body scans performed, and still no protest or uproar. I read this article from another newsletter: Adjustable seatbelts. Oh goodie, I cannot wait to read of the first article of someone getting adjusted to death with a seatbelt because the computer thought the driver or passenger was skinner than they actually were. Whoops, awful sorry about that. Forget cattle prodding, we are moving beyond that, I am afraid. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nNVo2QytQAQ
Swift systemic total collapse is our only hope now.
Great point Andy, and I agree wholeheartedly. We would have had that if so many hadn’t taken the bait, of voting, and MAGA.
I have only flown once since the TSA was spewed forth into existence. I almost got into a fight with an “agent” and I haven’t flown again and will not ever. Besides, road trips are fun, especially when you take the back roads.
I’m not one for protesting. My personal protest is choosing not to give them any of my money. My uproar would not be a verbal one, so I stay away from the bastards.