If you tell me where one can get real cyber implants that give you the superhuman abilities you mentioned, I’ll get them rightaway.

But unfortunately, RFID / NFC implants and sensing magnets are the best you can get if you’re interested in human augmentation. it’s a bit pathetic, yes, but nobody is working on anything more sophisticated because no doctor will touch operating on healthy human beings for voluntary augmentation with a ten-foot pole.

I want my tiny piece of the future and I got it with my boring implants. Sorry to be so disappointing to you.

But hey at least you are still tracked and logged.

So are you, each time you pull out your payment card to pay for something, because it’s exactly the same thing. Or all the time when you carry your cellphone around.

What’s your point?

I have several RFID and NFC implants. I use them for several things: I have a payment implant so I can pay contactless with my hand (the payment implant is sold by DT’s partner Walletmor), I open doors, start my car without keys, share my contact information, log into my computers and I use my one cryptographic implant for 2FA.

It’s not Ghost in the Shell by any stretch of the imagination, but those little implants that you can get today really do make life better and more convenient.

Yes. On a Pixel 9 Pro Fold.

Not if you run the stock OS you don’t.

My comment was generic. The vast majority of Android users don’t unlock their bootloader and install a custom ROM. The people who do that are fringe users.

My point was that when the normal state of affairs is Google controlling YOUR property that YOU paid with YOUR hard-earned, and you have to be technically competent and willing to risk bricking your device to regain control, that’s full-blown dystopia right there.

It’s so ironic that Pixels are the go to devices for privacy roms these days.

It’s so ironic it’s a show-stopper for me. I’m not paying fucking Google to escape the Google dystopia. Nosiree! That’s just too rich for me.

This is why I own a Fairphone running CalyxOS. Yes, I know GrapheneOS is supposedly more secure - I say supposedly because I think 95% of users don’t have a threat model that justifies the extra security really. But I don’t care: my number one priority is not giving Google a single cent. If it means running a less secure OS, I’m fine with that.

There’s no way on God’s green Earth I’m buying a Pixel phone to run a deGoogled OS. That’s such an insane proposition I don’t even know how anybody can twist their brain into believing this is a rational thing to do.

Who truly owns the device is a question that has been answered ever since Android came into being.

Ask yourself: do you have root access to YOUR phone? No you don’t: Google does.

It’s the so-called “Android security model”, which posits that the users are too dumb to take care of themselves, so Google unilaterally decides to administer their phone on their behalf without asking permission.

Which of course has nothing to do with saving the users from their own supposed stupidity and everything to do with controlling other people’s private property to exfiltrate and monetize their data.

How this is even legal has been beyond me for 15 years.

Yeah the neons are missing. But I have the cybernetic implants and I’m far from the only one.
You can buy them here.

I’m aware of this. My own browser is setup to redirect Youtube links to FreeTube. But that doesn’t address the reasons why I would prefer not linking to Youtube:

• Reducing links that rely on Google services and loosening Google’s grip on everything ever so slightly
• Saving the video for posterity in case it gets pulled out, either by Youtube’s algorithm or by the person who posted it

you know they put shit like this in the agreements because they know nobody reads them

That’s only half of the problem: even if you carefully read what you agree to, if you refuse agreements that include a forced arbitration clause, you have no other choice because all companies foist it on you.

In other words, if you refuse forced arbitration, you essentially have to opt out of normal life, because there are no alternatives.

Forced arbitration is unjust and should be outlawed. It’s only legal in 7 other countries: UK, Canada, Australia, Ireland, Saudi Arabia, China and India.

That’s right: 4 countries that are essentially US lapdogs, two dictatorships and one that’s on the fast track towards becoming one.

Also, you can totally see how America is so much better and totally different than China. The more I look at both, the less I can tell the difference.

But at least in the United States, there is hope.

Will be good for the quality.

You speak as if there was quality left to lose.

Decades after the deed is done and left thousands of victims dealing with lifelong psychological consequences, everybody is perfectly aware of the scandals surrounding the Catholic church and - presumably - no priest today is stupid enough to fondle little boys anymore with all that publicity…

Talk about kicking down open doors… Would that he had said that 20, 30, 50 years ago when the sexual abuses were ongoing: then I would have been impressed by his courage. Today, this is just cheap ineffectual PR.

I’m not sure if this is a boring dystopia story. What I read is the story of a gullible man with no concept of saving for rainy days who struck it rich and lost it all. Sad, but hardly anybody’s fault but his.

See? Like all the others who posted the exact same comment before you, I managed to troll you.

Your statement is slightly disturbing because it implies buying a child is somehow normal.

Well, 14 states currently ban abortion. I am not a woman, but if I was and of child-bearing age, I would move out in a hurry.

I know it’s easier said than done for a lot of folks for a lot of reasons, but besides the risk of having to carry out a pregnancy I did not want for whatever reason, and having to go through that particular hell, I would be ashamed to live in a state that treats women like that.

The is the America trump wants you to have.

Surely you meant “This is the America you live in right now”.

There’s no wanting involved. The deed is done.

At least in this case, the baby boy now has a chance to have a normal life and is not in danger anymore. If there’s anything comforting to take away from that sad story.

that’s some top-notch contract writing.

You jest, but for all its faults, this “contract” is a lot clearer and to the point than most real contracts and EULAs I’ve ever had the misfortune to review.

Well if you say so, I defer to your higher authority on bullshit.