It works when you’re not at home, so probably better for a mobile device.

All of those things should be illegal, and many of them are. Ideally, someone would go to jail, but until that happens, might I suggest a solution to block most mobile ads?

Should it fall upon me?

Maybe.

One option is a proactively regulated market where only companies pre-approved by the government can sell anything, and every product must be checked and approved before it’s offered for sale. Such a market won’t have many fake products, but it also won’t have much competition or innovation. It’s also very likely to attract corruption, where the government conditions approvals on unrelated behavior that the current leadership prefers or requires bribes to do business. We’re seeing the former in the USA with the Trump administration for certain types of businesses, and it isn’t pretty.

The current situation for most product categories is a reactively regulated market. Deceptive practices are illegal, but enforcement depends on someone noticing and reporting them. More deceptive products make it to consumers, but more groundbreaking products do as well. It’s hard for government officials to blackmail most businesses.

This was never the concern that caused people to call users “glassholes”.

Meta spying is its own issue, and I think a very legitimate concern.

I’m understanding the concern the article mentions about smart glasses in general (independent of who manufactures them) being the user recording people. That’s what people seemed to be upset about when Google Glass launched as well.

Smart glasses also raise many privacy concerns, as their cameras and microphones may be recording at any given time, which can be unnerving to people.

This reaction has always struck me as, at best ill-informed. If I search for spy camera glasses on Amazon, I can find much cheaper and less obvious options to record people without their knowledge. If glasses are getting extra scrutiny lately, maybe I’d be better off with a spy camera pen or something like this which can be disguised as part of a button-up shirt.

Of course actually using any of these to record people without their consent in most situations makes you an asshole, but that capability already existed and is continually expanding.

If even 2% of the population would never vote for a women or a person of color then it was enough to have mattered

I suspect the majority of that 2% would also never vote for a Democrat.

Have you seen the man work a crowd?

His antics don’t work on you, or on me, or likely on most people you or I would be friends with. They clearly work on a huge swath of the population though, or we wouldn’t be where we are today.

It seems that has since been updated to a Framework logo key, but I don’t see them selling the key cap alone.

I am still skeptical if this country will EVER elect a woman for POTUS.

I’m not sure that’s a reasonable takeaway from the last two times a woman was a major party nominee.

Hillary Clinton was not especially charismatic, which is arguably what wins general elections in most cases. She was also unpopular with progressive Democrats, and widely seen as having secured the nomination unfairly when Sanders might have been both more popular with the party and a stronger general election candidate.

Kamala Harris was severely handicapped by the combination of being nominated without a primary process, starting her campaign very late, and positioning herself as a continuation of Biden at a time when Biden’s popularity was very low.

If AOC were to win the nomination, she would be in a much stronger position for the general election than either Clinton or Harris.

In the original sense of exposing people to vaccina (cowpox virus), it is not. In the modern sense, it’s an attenuated vaccine.

It’s a racism problem, which one might argue is people being stupid as fuck.

Asking people to leave things means they’re losing a line of communication to friends, family, and interest groups who still use those things. It’s probably more productive to ask people to add the services you prefer rather than leave the ones they’re used to.

I’ve encountered some resistance from Americans who use iPhones and hate the idea of adding a third-party messaging app. None of them seem very interested in justifying that position.

Thunar should be able to access MTP devices when the gvfs-backends package is installed.