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Xingyi's avatar

Great article. A very good couple of first steps is to not watch TV and leave your cell phone in a different room (or at least the far corner).

I noticed that you mentioned kitchen appliances. I recently bought a Moen Motionsense faucet and they gave me a survey where they asked "What other Smart appliances do you have in your home?" along with a super long list! (I had no idea!) Turns out that outside of the faucet, I have zero smart appliances. And the faucet only turns on/off by waving your meat/grease/dirt soaked hands... so it ain't all that "smart" TBH. I'm pretty sure we can all get by with appliances being dumb, like mine, like they used to be.

For god's sake if you eat, sleep, drink, read, watch, wear, and otherwise surround yourselves with the "smart" (aka intrusive monitoring) devices, how can you possibly be surprised to find out they are what they are?

The novelty has worn off long ago. Right about the time we all came to the knowledge of the spying. Would you let *me* (personally, a guy you never met and don't know) put a camera/mic into your house?! Then why do you let other people that you don't know do so?!?! WTF?

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DJ Day's avatar

Recently moved to Oklahoma from Boston and went looking for a truck. I *specifically* looked for a truck that wouldn't beep at me for not wearing a seat belt. I found one that didn't but after a few weeks it would **turn off the radio** if I didn't put my seat belt on (essentially blackmailing me). I took it to a mechanic and he turned that off. Now I bound around the two-land backroads in my 2010 F-150 and, NGL, it's *glorious*.

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