Comment on Amazon Ring Cashes in on Techno-Authoritarianism and Mass Surveillance

• avidamoeba@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  What you’re saying makes me think you aren’t aware of the technical knowledge of your typical doorbell user, which is basically little to none.

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  • Dyskolos@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    And exactly this behavior (“I have no clue about the thing I will do, but I’ll do it anyway without educating myself prior”) is what makes everything suck more and more because it always gets adapted to the lowest common denominator.

    We’re only still alive because people need licenses to drive cars or fly planes.

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    • drmoose@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Its just sheer laziness. These people are dragging our entire society down because they can’t spend 30 minutes to read the manual. This should be shameful unjustifiable behavior.

      Betting 100% that the same people are calling someone else lazy every week without any self awareness.

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      • Dyskolos@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        Oh I’m lazy too (in regards to boring stuff). But I know what I don’t know and would not start to argue about e.g. car-mechanics or buy something without at least getting a basic grasp of that. Lazyness isn’t an excuse for ignorance 😁

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    • avidamoeba@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      But this maybe implies that there’s a possibility to change this behaviour. Which is infeasible. If you’re not implying that and you’re just saying that in vacuum, then yeah sure. That said it’s not the only reaaon why things suck more and changing this behaviour is not the only way to not have things suck, For example a government in a more democratic system might serve its citizens more than its corporations and ban these practices.

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      • Dyskolos@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        Yeah sure, government shall intervene. But…i can probably expect more from anyone else.

        And no,I didn’t imply everyone should be expert at everything. That is beyond impossible, even for fractions of fractions of things. But. If you wanna drive a car, you’re forced to learn a shitton and pay like 2k € to be allowed to do so. One of the reasons is safety for others.

        If I had no clue about e.g. doorbells, I would ask a pro I know or search the net or whatever. At least the absolute basics of it. Even setting the pure curiosity aside, just to know what the heck I’m getting at. Admitted, I might have much more spare time than the regular Jane or Joe, but I’d still do that if I had to work. Just less intensive.

        But yes, this mixture of apathy and ignorance is the leading reason why the internet sucks so much nowadays then 30 or even just 20yrs ago. The majority of absolutely clueless people not knowing how they get fucked and where to draw a line. Sure, to some it’s just a tool they don’t need to know shit about to use it. No judging. BUT that doesn’t change the fact.

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      • drmoose@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        What? We can’t make people read setup manual for 30minutes? Might as well stop living now because whats the point of our society if we are defeated by a pamphlet?

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