The 'Murica brain, like yours, just can’t comprehend that the vast majority of the world isn’t the US.

Your comment says way more about you than you comprehend and your assumptions about all Americans are laughable. Having a bad day, are we? Maybe you should call your mum.

You should fly yourself and your asshole attitude back to Reddit, find the rest of your miserable flock and claim victory, that is if they don’t ignore your sorry ass there too.

Cities should be just as afraid of deploying Flock cameras.

A while back Amazon started requiring logins to view or search product reviews. (They show a very limited number without login.)

Anyone who’s ever looked through Amazon reviews knows a huge number of them (and sometime the majority) are bullshit, but apparently that’s just fine with Amazon. They were able to completely shut down sites like fakespot.com with that one move so buyers are now on their own.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robbins_v._Lower_Merion_School_District

The school took 66,000 pictures of students in their bedrooms. School administrators should be listed as sex offenders but that doesn’t happen in the U.S. Case in point - our child rapist in chief.

An example of what people in positions of authority think is perfectly acceptable:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robbins_v._Lower_Merion_School_District

School authorities surreptitiously and remotely activated webcams embedded in school-issued laptops the students were using at home. After the suit was brought, the school district, of which the two high schools are part, revealed that it had secretly taken more than 66,000 images.

A lawsuit wasn’t enough, the administrators should be branded as sex offenders and the parents should have taken them out behind the school and beat the crap out of them.

Can you imagine what would happen to an individual who engineered something like this? They’d be arrested and marched off in handcuffs.

Corporations are legal persons except when it comes to criminal activity. For that they’re pretty much untouchable.

Should breathalyzers be mandated in every vehicle because of the number of deaths due to drunk drivers? Should there be mass pedestrian surveillance with facial recognition to prevent crime because there are lots of criminals that use sidewalks?

The problem with any kind of mass surveillance is the information gathered will always be misused because that’s what those in positions of power always do. Police officers are already using camera information to monitor the whereabouts of their exes and girlfriends. Now the data’s being used as a revenue source, not for public safety.

Another example - Schools remotely enabled cameras (and disabled the camera LED) on their student’s PCs and actually spied on those students in their own bedrooms. Administrators saw absolutely nothing wrong with it and tried to punish those students if they didn’t like what they saw.

In my opinion there isn’t any possibility for a happy medium, it’s eventually going to be all or nothing.

So if the phone was on the seat she should get a ticket, if was on the console 2" to the right she should get a ticket, if it was in her pocket she should get a ticket? If it’s in a dash mount within reach she should get a ticket? If the phone’s in a sealed box like an unopened liquor bottle then she shouldn’t?

By the same logic if you’re transporting unopened liquor in a grocery bag on the seat next to you it’s “kinda justified” to be arrested for drinking while driving. After all why would it be in arm’s reach if you weren’t planning on drinking it?

Once the issue was flagged to Phia, a spokesperson told Bloomberg that all necessary changes had been made to fix the issue.

This wasn’t an “issue”, nor have they “fixed” anything. Phia’s code was specifically and deliberately designed to steal commissions. Now that they’ve been caught they’ll will generously take out their malicious code and stop their thievery.

Slow clap…

US Mobile. Switch was somewhat complicated (for instance you can’t upgrade from one plan to another, unlike most postpaid plans) but once through the startup difficulties they’ve been great. Chat support is especially good.

hacking

a cough - harsh, dry, and spasmodic

Was in a Trader Joe’s and this woman was practically shouting into her phone. Even worse, she had it on speaker and the woman on the other end was shouting back. Bad enough in the same isle, but then she walked up right next to me and they continued shouting into my ear. Well, if you’re going to be that rude…

I looked at her and began hacking as loud as could which is really loud. When I paused the shouting resumed so I started hacking again. The look on her face when she shouted, “Ewwww!” and backed away was priceless.

Perhaps not one of my finest moments, but one I will always treasure anyway.

You left out DDNS. It’s free, easy to set up with lots of detailed guides online, and works as well as a static IP.

“Of the people, by the people, and for the people” died long ago. The people don’t have much say in a government run by oligarchs and corporations.

A few years ago I tried to buy a couple of phones at a T-Mobile store and they flatly refused to sell to me unless I purchased their monthly phone insurance. The manager openly admitted he knew the practice was illegal but didn’t care.

The company is also famous for refusing to pay customers trade in value by fraudulently claiming phones have cracked screens and significant damage.

T-Mobile’s been a shit company for years.

US Mobile is still in the “good prices, good service, be nice” phase of their existence. Buy out or enshittification should still be a few years off. It’s a fraction of the price of TMO’s new rates too.

In 2025 T-Mobile reported a net income (net profit) of $11.0 billion. Think of the poor shareholders!

I thought Lemmy was ad-free. Guess not.

US Mobile. No significant complaints after 10 months.