After yesterday’s rant I wanted a happy post with cute critters. Just to show I’m not all negative and “light a fucking candle” exhortations. I really do the deed.
Alas, it didn’t quite come together. I tried to create a photo and post with an iPad and my word is that thing an abhorrent, privacy invading, snitch machine! I’m not sure if I just posted my DNA and last year’s tax return but it was a struggle trying to avoid it. The fucking iApple just plain won’t let me run my own world. I hate it when things I own do the bidding of a remote master!
I guess I’ll go back to the old ways; retake photos with my GoPro and transfer them to a real computer using a cable. Sometimes I wonder if younger generations have no sense of privacy because Apple, Facebook, Google, and others beat it out of them with extreme measures. The iPad’s camera is amazing but it’s uncontrollability is such a PITA.
Damn kids! Get off my lawn!
Bacon!! Ham!! Barbecue!!
Baby Bacon!
We had sheep, ducks, chickens, geese, even a cow or two but never raised hogs (we’d buy one already butchered from a “neighbor” every year), but I remember my grandmother raising them when I was young. She always said her favorite thing about raising hogs was that you can use everything but the oink.
My grandfather’s favorite treat was pickled pig’s feet. I never got into that but Grandma’s sausage gravy was to die for.
My grandmother’s fav was fried rattlesnake. Go figure.
Saw a t-shirt a couple of days ago, had a pig silhouette and said “I turn vegetables into BACON! “What’s your superpower?”
My wife is an Apple fan, I don’t do Apple & have not since I helped my kids with an iPod back in the last millennium.
Too much control by someone else over a machine that was bought and paid for…
All you need to do now is give those three piglets cute names I’d call them Spare Rations, Sunday Roast and Crispy Bacon. You know it makes sense … >};o)
I bought a 3rd Gen iPad from a co-worker knowing it was no longer supported for updates, the sole intent of using it with my chronograph, nothing else; just a display and data aggregation point. But I cannot get my data into my computer by cable. I can transfer pictures, but no file level access. The only way to get data out is through a series of export to iCloud taps, then sign into iCloud with my computer and download files individually. Every single step is controlled by Apple as my files travel across the interwebs and back. I just want to plug in a USB cable and open files without being connected to the internet. I don’t want to be part of an ‘ecosystem’.
Just remember that Billy Gates is working on a vaccine for the Kung Flu!!!
I take pictures with my phone and then Email them to myself. Works good.
Off the mobile ham sandwich subject; I have an android phone. My wife has an Iphone and Ipad and I don’t like either of them. I can connect a cable to my android phone and transfer photos (or any other file for that matter) directly to my computer quickly and easily.
Granted Google is even more prone to spying than Apple, but I try to stay as disconnected from them as possible. I use an otherwise unused gmail account for my profile, uninstall all the google spyware that can be uninstalled, disable most of the rest of it and only keep running the bare essentials to make the phone work. I don’t use google products for anything optional (there are always alternatives). I keep location services turned off. I use a third party secure texting app (Signal). I use a secure, third party email app (K-9 mail with pgp encryption), I use a third party, anonymous web browser. I turned off all the “phone home” functionality that was possible to turn off. I even put a blackout sticker over the front facing camera.
I miss out on all the “cool” coordinated functionality where every app talks to each other and targets information to you based on your habits, your location, and what color shoes you’re wearing today…but I remember when the only methods of wireless communication were CB and Ham radio and a computer filled an entire room. I think I can live with the inconvenience.
Heck, if it wasn’t for the fact my company bought me a smartphone so they could keep me on the e-mail leash 24/7 I’d likely still have a flip phone…that I’d forget to take with me half the time.
I have a love/hate with Google. I arrived at the conclusion that if it doesn’t cost me anything, then I must be the product. I use Signal for text and Protonmail for email and allow location access only when using apps that need location. I know it’s futile, but I delete all my Google data periodically. After all, they DO delete it like it never existed don’t they ?!?
After all, they DO delete it like it never existed don’t they ?!?
Sure, and the Government is here to help you!
Your iDevice struggles are a sign of the times. The more Bernie Sanders supporter types I encounter across the Twittersphere, the interwebs, print media, fluffing Rachel Maddox… the more I have come to believe that that class of humanoids are proto-Eloi for some future overlord class. Not a lick of Personal Responsibility and having the tech company, gov’t, their parents, others within their safe space bubble do/fix/prearrange things in life for them is their preferred state of existence. We are all now slaves to the market decisions of the emotional equivalent of a five year old only-child. God help us help ourselves.
Proto-Eloi is a great description.
BPC V2.0!
Ha ha ha.
I’d like to name those three cute dritters:
Sizzle Lean,
Bacon
and Pork Chop