Posts by Phydeux 4 publicly visible posts • joined 4 Feb 2025
The big difference is who is doing the recording, the government or private businesses. In the US, at least, if a crime is caught on camera at a home or business the police can request a copy, and if you say no, they can subpoena it in court. And you can do the same.
If the government records it, you may or may not be able to subpoena it, depending on the law.
But the police don't have carte blanche access to anyone's recordings.
The question isn't why the people wouldn't want criminals picked up.
The question is why police are willing to happy to invade citizens' privacy rather than use proper, targeted police work. They just want to take the lazy way at the cost of civil liberties.
And how long before they're everywhere?
And recording everyone's comings and goings?
And how long before social credit restrictions like in China?
It's up to the British people to fight for their rights.
They have to pay all the engineers who add so many new features and fixes into every version of Windows you bought for the low, low price of $99.99. And if you've been upgrading for free since Windows 7, that means you got the next 4 versions for free.
But yeah, continue griping because you have to spend less than 10 minutes to turn off the ads. The world ain't free, and those engineers and programmers deserve to be paid.
These are the same complaints made when Windows Me came out requiring 3D acceleration, or when Mac left Motorola for Intel, and again when they went to ARM.
People treat a PC like an appliance they can keep on the kitchen counter until it quits, not a complex mix of hardware and software that eventually is surpassed and can no longer be used safely.
A lot of the improvements made to Win11 are security changes that are baked in, rather than simply tacked onto Win10. Which makes it much easier to "untack". This is very noticeable with regard to MS tightening driver compatibility to eliminate those that pose security risks, like old Logitech camera drivers. People complain their "perfectly functional" cameras no longer work but don't care that the old drivers left them vulnerable to side-channel memory attacks.
Eventually your jalopy can't keep up with traffic on the highway and becomes a hazard to everyone else on the road. And all those pre-Win10 machines are those jalopies.
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