RE: Do We Truly Own Our Devices Anymore? What's Going On With The Tech Industry?

I gave up on Windows as I didn't feel in control of it and it seemed to want to stop me doing things. Linux is not like that, but you have to take responsibility for more aspects. I do use some cloud services, but that is just pragmatism to make my life easier. It all has a price and sometimes that does mean handing over money. In that case I want a better service.

I'm going to write about this more in the next week or so. It's incredible to me how much better most computers run on Linux. The downside is you often have to configure stuff on your own, very little is plug and play. Sometimes you have to get creative to get things to work right as well.

Doorbell cameras are controversial, but ours caught an actual crook who tried to get into our car. We need to know how the data is being used.

We had a similar issue. I'm against the doorbell cameras, but as soon as our car got broken into, the first thing I did was ask the neighbors across the street if they had doorbell footage and sure enough, one of them did. They never caught the guy, but he's on camera doing it to my house and the guy next door.

I've heard that the US government is trying to get details of people who criticise them on social media. That is not on! So much for free speech, but then you have a president who can't stand anything being said against him. There are forces trying to ban being anonymous online and that is also not good. It's not just crooks who like their privacy.

I try to not get too political on here. I may start writing about some of this stuff though. It's getting really weird here. A lot of stuff I never thought I'd see in my lifetime is coming to pass. The assault on free speech, the censorship, scripted news reports, everyone reporting the same story with a minor twist on perspective. Trying to control social media. It goes on and on. Frankly, the entire thing is horrifying to watch unfold. These are truly interesting times we're living in. It doesn't look like it's ending well for so called "freedom and democracy" The good news is more and more people are waking up. The bad news is we can't seem to agree on anything. Truly scary times!