Very well said. Everything you said I agree about 100%.

We need to get better at convincing non-nerds.

I’m doing my best. It’s hard tho. They just… don’t care. They don’t understand why it is important. Important for their future, and for all of our future. They don’t seem to grasp why it matters so much, and what price we have to pay when we get it wrong.

I try to find concrete examples for them. But when people are invested already in some big tech ecosytem, it’s easy to discount the examples. “That wouldn’t apply to me”.

I’m trying so hard, but it is an up hill fight :(.

visually blocks ads but under the hood clicks on them

I get where they’re coming from on the idea. But the problem I have… it would still run all the fingerprnting scripts and other shit. Sure it makes some bad data added to the good… but still plugs me into huge adware ecosystems. It leaves such a bad taste in my mouth, if any of their shit hits my comp.

I really mostly want to not be part of any of that shit. 🤮 Just leave me alone, surveilance companies, thank you.

Agree. Also it creates a false dichotomy in peoples minds. If you fight the orwellian creep into every kind of tech, you must not care about the children! What kind of sociopath is against protecting children!!

Really, I do believe there are many parts of the world children should be protected from. But NOT by giving away our freedom. NOT by turning the world into one huge mass survielance device. NOT by going full 1984. I can be in favor of protecting children even if I object to dragnet surveilance.

deleted by creator

100% mobile app based public transport, meaning that there is no way of buying or showing a ticket unless it’s the app

Wow. That’s awful. How does it work for poor people who can’t afford a phone to run the app?

Where I live the city buses still accept cash. But I don’t know for how much longer.

I try to get everyone of my friends to pay for everythng with cash. Food, buses, restaurants. Just to support the privacy option, so we don’t lose it. But they think payment apps are more convenient so they don’t listen, lol.

Without that, a lot of apps just don’t behave right,

Agree with what you said. And if I may add a little? Apps not behaving right extends to things average people see as essential in thier life. Like banking apps refusing to run on “untrusted devices”.

Techies can get around most of it. At least today, maybe not in the future. For example use the bank’s web site directly not their app. But my nontechie friends have no idea. From their perspective, something like an alternative to Android simply doesn’t work for what they are used to.

Vendor lock-in.

They could have made it a lot cheaper as a coupe.

Maybe if it sees market success, they’ll branch out into other body styles. I want a car too, not a truck.

have joked … that if I have to buy a new vehicle I am ripping the whole dashboard out.

Desperate times call for desperate measures.

Slate seems to be the only brand currently that intends to deliver vehicles with zero connectivity required.

Do you mean these guys? That’s the first I heard of them so thank you for that! I thought it would turn out to be a European make, but they’re on my side of the pond. A zero-connectivity electric car would be the dream. I like the idea of electric cars but so far they have all been even more wrapped up in telematics than internal combustion cars.