I like David Cronenberg’s approach. Make it visually horrific, but so alien that you don’t know how to visually parse it and it just overloads your brain into ‘blech’ territory.

Loved The Thing and Videodrome for this style of horror.

Otherwise, give me omnipotent horror. Things like Oculus really get me.

The top answer provides this, which I just think is pretty wild that no one was injured: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cornfield_Bomber

You can take a look at Mero.chat. It’s a chat-with-strangers service. You earn more features the more you use it.

It’s a company of less than 10. I’d just be fired.

Like you would unfortunately expect. “I don’t care if they know that stuff.”

I’m a Tarantino fan. He doesn’t have a massive collection of movies, but you could teach an entire college course on just the few movies he’s put out with all the interesting things he does.

There’s something with his approach to directing that just makes me believe the story so well, even if it’s outrageous.

Kill Bill is my personal favorite.

This is missing the point that in this example, you have to choose who you’re targeting, find someone at the DMV to bribe, get away with the bribe, and even then, this is limited info.

The difference here is that people are willingly handing their data to the parties that want it, bypassing our DMV buddy entirely.

It’s a case of perfect being the enemy of good. I’m not saying this information isn’t available. I’m saying we shouldn’t be in the habit of handing it out.

These are all things that would need to be individually tracked down or requested and in government-controlled databases. It’s not just the government that has that data now. It’s the camera manufacturer and their 800 partners. And it’s all in one place.

It’s data that individually may not be important to you specifically, but combined, that’s enough information to easily start manipulating you, whether it’s directly or through advertising.

It’s not just about what data is collected, but also who has access.

I explained this to my boss the other day about the cameras he picked up for his house. He was like, “I don’t have anything that I care about them collecting.” To which I mentioned the fact that they now know:

• Where he lives
• What he looks like
• How many devices are on the network
• How many/how old his kids are
• What times they are home
• What types of food they have delivered and how often
• Who they have as guests and how often

The list goes on. There are so many things people can find out about you when you don’t make it easy. Putting a 3rd party camera in your house, though? Now you’re just handing it over.

Speak for yourself. I’m a huge fan of the first two.

I won’t be happy until a third of the traffic on the road is driverless zombies going to pick people up who are too lazy to drive themselves or ride a bike. And another third should be cars that are just picking up a box or two for delivery. The remaining third should be exclusively SUVs and pickups too tall to see any passengers, lest they slow down for measly walkers.

One can dream…

Nope. They’ve just implemented verification cans instead.

Key word legitimate. Without the community key files it doesn’t do anything on its own.

Nope. It will fail to read. You have to use community software along with definitely illegitimate key files to decode most any commercial release. On top of this, some predatory releases will scramble the chapters unless you know which playlist to select out of hundreds, which is information passed to PowerDVD and literally no one else (within the PC software space).

Literally the only legitimate way to watch encrypted Blu-rays on Windows is with CyberShot PowerDVD.

That is exactly what I use mine for and it does it pretty much silently.

I kind of wonder of there’s a good way to package something like this. Like a nice, compact collection of all the most popular open-source software with well-organized source code and readmes just to help you learn how they work.

Does something like this exist?

I agree with everything here, but this was at one point the case with pancake gaming. I’m not saying that we deserve it, but it’s always been the tradeoff with Linux. I’ve never gotten a Linux system running with the expectation that it will work 100%. I admittedly essentially dropped my use of VR when I switched, but it comes down to a cost benefit analysis.

I just made the choice that an OS that wasn’t fully functional was better than an OS that didn’t respect me as a user. I’d much rather things not work in good faith than to have a working product progressively made worse for financial gain.

Something something something dark side. Something something something complete.

I’ve have amazing luck with both Beelink and Minisforum computers. They’re relatively cheap and excellent quality.

I personally use the Beelink ME Mini and it’s been able to handle just fine about any server tasks I need it to, not to mention the wildly expandable storage.