Posts made by R3dPand4

@scottalanmiller Ah okay, understandable. I can still use CodeAnywhere, no biggy.

@scottalanmiller I have no idea hence why I don't own them, I just know it caused some buzz. I think the issue was that it was regularly activating itself without the prompt from the user and was recording conversations then relaying them. I'll link the article I'm referring to. http://bgr.com/2017/10/11/google-home-mini-spying-on-user-fix/

@dashrender I deleted my Facebook account going on 5 years ago now, don't regret it at all.

@rojoloco LOL

@nerdydad I certainly hope they wouldn't do something like that, but honestly it's that thinking that's made me avoid an Alexa, Home, etc. That's interesting that you're considering one after that nonsense where someone found their Home recording every conversation and relaying the data back. I haven't read too much on it other than it may have been an actual issue that needed to be patched, so I'm not sure it was the intended behavior.

@scottalanmiller I was just planning to use an SD card for development projects nothing crazy.

@scottalanmiller said in Chromebooks and Mild Paranoia:

@r3dpand4 said in Chromebooks and Mild Paranoia:

@scottalanmiller Awesome, I'm guessing no issues dual booting or are you just running ChromeOS with a terminal application for your Linux management?

Just assume you can't dual boot and you don't want to install anything else on it. If you want to run Linux, you really don't want a Chromebook.

That's fair, thanks for the heads up.

@scottalanmiller Sweet.

@quixoticjeremy Nice!

@rojoloco Not sure why you think gmail has anything to do with any locally stored data. Sure they have my browsing habits and history, but so does every browser that's not remotely what I'm talking about.

@scottalanmiller Awesome, I'm guessing no issues dual booting or are you just running ChromeOS with a terminal application for your Linux management?

I'm looking at the ASUS C201 and it looks pretty solid. The only hardware concern i really have is the lack of an Ethernet port. Depending on how I like the ChromeOS I may go the Mint or Korora route, but that remains to be seen. There's also the mild amount of paranoia that I have since it's a Google device, and the user data they may gather. Anyone happen to have any thoughts on one of these?

@jaredbusch I suppose that's fair just depends on your perspective. I rarely ever buy console games, and their prices barely move even years after release so it seemed worth it for us because they were all games we wanted to play at some point in the near future and ended up being $15-20 cheaper than they would've been had we waited.

@jaredbusch Okay will do! Again I wasn't trying to make ISPs out to be angels or anything, I was just thinking of some of the possible outcomes of this whole thing.

@coliver @RojoLoco It's certainly second tier to the profitability for most I'd assume, but I don't see investors passing on an opportunity where 90+% of the country is horribly dissatisfied with their ISP and not thinking hey this is definitely something we should look into.

@coliver True, that very well could be the case.

@rojoloco Oh no I agree with you completely, I'm probably not as pessimistic as I ought to be. NN being done away with does terrify me, but I also have seen the online community bend large corporations and governments to their will at times so that's pretty much the only hope I'm holding onto.

@dashrender That's very possible, I could also see people with very large pockets getting involved and providing aid through that process. There have been instances where investors see a business opportunity as well as have the ethical motivation to step in, but yeah that's certainly a concern.

@rojoloco I mean you could've said the same thing about cell service providers, but look at how many alternatives there are now.

@coliver I mean that's fine, they can be as nasty as they want about it along the way, but I don't see that winning out in the long run. My point is that services could and maybe likely would spring up based on their terrible behavior like we've seen in other instances. Especially large organizations will try to do anything and everything they can get away with, I understand that. I'm simply stating that especially with subscription based services, you're 100% based on customer satisfaction. If you're not willing to provide something another provider will people will leave in a heartbeat. I've never met someone who is "loyal" to AT&T, Spectrum, etc. if that's making any sense.