Never used. Each time a website asks me if I want to create one I have this uneasy feeling of not actually owning the key.

If you drive in an area covered by an ALPR-networked camera, your vehicle’s movements may already be in a searchable database. As the tools for building these systems become more widely available, the pressure for clearer rules about who may collect vehicle-location data, on whom, and for how long is unlikely to ease

Two website to be stay informed where these cameras are located in your neighbor and province.

https://maps.panopti.ca/?lat=43.7873&lng=-79.5500&zoom=10.24

https://flockcameralocations.com/locations/canada

The fivty camera in Brampton are already operational since March 2026 from what I can gather. Not to mention the countless others spread around the province.

Give the man that sits at that desk a raise, he’s definitely a hard worker!

More drugs

Do I have the perfect tea for you!

Moss loose leaf tea!

Sometimes the hardware’s good, but the softwares shit. Google’s essentially Hammer Industries.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KpWqTjLn7Fg

So it’s good to have alternatives in most cases.

How’s this different from the Chromebook, that Google cut updates to no less.

https://www.osnews.com/story/146052/google-breaks-promise-to-provide-10-years-of-updates-to-chromebooks/

Will these new googlebooks come with the same update cycles?

How trustworthy are those sites? I do use them time to time but always asking this question to myself.

Sideing with the church on this one

Though the cynic in me believes (at this moment) the church might actually think “AI” is some omnipotent all powerful artificial intelligence, and not just some LLM “word spaghetti generator”.

Probably afraid that people might start treating it as some kind of all knowing “higher power”. (Who needs God if you have AI kind of mentally?).

This really depends on your comfort levels TBH. My first NAS was a old motherboard with about 4gb of memory and a old core 2 duo cpu.

If you have any old components such as a old laptop, or a old pc, or maybe some thing like a raspberry pi you can start tinkering with Samba shares.

With a raspberry pi you could run something like HomeAssistant and setup a small smaba share. Plug a hardrive in and you have a network share to store files.

As for older pc components you can start with something like truenas, it’s a little bit of a learning curve but it’s a good way to tinker and slowly start to learn.

For me I run truenas for all my home NAS and media storage. On the side, another pc runs something called Unraid for services like Nextcloud and Immich to keep things separated.

I like your analogy and think it fits better for sure.

Yup that’s what I was getting at, but I like the pet analogy better that another commenter brought up.

AI is a tool

Similarly you can’t blame a hammer for causing harm, you blame the individual who holds it.

I figured they must be doing something along those lines, thanks for sharing!

Oddly enough, once you make that three fiddy payment signal will now potentially have a payment method linked to your account.

If this is true that payment method can essentially be tied to a identity.

I suppose the reason they are choosing to do this is to prevent a influx of bot accounts and spammers/scammers.

So employees that use a company VPN to access company files between offices are now breaking the law?

What about personal vpns that people setup to access their home devices, like a smart home setup or home security camera? Illegal as well?

Absolutely, make sure to self host the bridge yourself on your own hardware!

Look at Beeper as a alternative, let’s you bridge your WhatsApp chats.

https://www.beeper.com/

https://keepandroidopen.org/

Google says “power users” can “still install” unverified apps. Here’s what that actually looks like:

Delve into System Settings, find About Phone

Tap the build number seven times to enable Developer Mode

Dismiss scare screens about coercion

Enter your PIN

Restart the device

Wait 24 hours

Come back, dismiss more scare screens

Pick “allow temporarily” (7 days) or “allow indefinitely”

Confirm, again, that you understand “the risks”

Nine steps. A mandatory 24-hour cooling-off period. For installing software on a device you own.

Worse: this flow runs entirely through Google Play Services, not the Android OS. Google can change it, tighten it, or kill it at any time, with no OS update required and no consent needed.

Ya there’s going to be wait periods to turn on developer options, and it sucks cause some apps don’t work with developer options turned on, like banking apps for example.

This whole thing sucks, imagine on your laptop not being able to install software and only being locked to getting everything through the Microsoft Store App.