• Zak@lemmy.world
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    18 days ago

    The battery law is “so broad and so restrictive that it prevents the sale of this wonderful, jointly developed, U.S.-European product from being sold in the European Union…”

    No. Meta chose to design e-waste.

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      17 days ago

      People most worry about the hidden cameras and being filmed without noticing and consent. The tech being open wouldn’t change that, even though I agree that an open platform would be awesome.

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      17 days ago

      I suppose all tech is pretty much like this. Controlled by the people, it’s great. Controlled by the oligarchs, it’s shitty and oppressive.

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    17 days ago

    This is good, but it’s already out of control. If you walk past a parked Tesla, just for example, you’ll be filmed. If you walk past any public building, you’ll be filmed. Public place? Damn right, filmed. As soon as you step out of your house, you’re recorded. And despite all the promises made, I bet much more data lands on some obscure server farms or AI Data centers, than they exclaim.

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      17 days ago

      This is the digital cage and the reason 3,000+ data centers are being built. I think we are headed towards a historically unprecedented level of surveillance where nobody can do or say anything without the Epstein class being alerted.

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    17 days ago

    I was really pumped for smart glasses. I do a lot of my learning while I walk and adding a small video window in the corner of my vision would really help with some of what I’m learning.

    Sucks that it turned into what it is…

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      17 days ago

      You don’t need smart glasses for that. You don’t need a camera, internet connection, face recognition or AI to have a small video window in your glasses.

      Unfortunately it’s like with smart watches. You can’t get a watch that’s just a display with some API. They all need to include HR monitors and GPS for some reason.

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        17 days ago

        Uuhhh, so, on your second paragraph: pebble

        I don’t own one, I don’t know if I want one, but it is exactly that: a e-ink display for time and notifications

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          17 days ago

          Yes, re-pebble round is what I’m describing.

          When I was looking for a watch couple of years ago it still didn’t exist. There are the old pebbles but I didn’t know how reliable they still were. I ended up buying a Casio watch with date format setting which was all I needed (pretty much all casio watches use american date format and you need BT to change it).

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    17 days ago

    Heaving just been on a trip to the Italian country side and usinga lot of Google lens, I would love that feature inbuilt in glasses.
    There were so many road signs where I had to guess whether it meant do not drive here or something else.