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I wouldn't be surprised if there was some weird telemetry tied to this too

It's still a non-zero chance it triggers a no-knock raid by the police that kills your family or pets.

it happens all the time

large corporations are the least american thing in american society

I'm really not convinced that what we're communicating on isn't already the metaverse

A smartphone is not a requirement for life.

I don't know if the 215 supports tethering, but there are feature phones that do paired with a laptop or even something like a steam deck (running linux) is the way to go if you really need mobile internet

you get privacy and freedom from the smartphone-service-based-everything-forever lifesytle, it's nice

well now they can argue everyone in the industry already scans locally on device for illegal content, not a huge step

a few years from now: "it's been such a success we're going to do it everywhere for everything now"

Apple's just really weird when it comes to the control they exert over devices.

they do it with 'privacy' in mind and what they come up with is usually better than the worst case but it can still be pretty iffy

eg. a few months back when their notarization/entitlement verification system was being discussed

it's all just their vision of computing (which has some merits), hyper-controlled, locked down and "safe" it's not going to change if you're not comfortable with it you really shouldn't be using their products

Well, do you only wear one while grocery shopping? how much time do you spent outside of your home?

It requires a 'collection' of images to trigger an alert to apple who then has someone manually reviewing the photos before taking further action

there's still our justice system/due-process as well