Should that happen, I will move to a VoIP provider. Not perfect, but better than a smartphone.

My car is old, so no gps/trackers there, but this is troubling of course. I think that if/when I buy a new one, it has to be either some vintage car, or I have to find a workshop who can rip out all the tracking.

CC payments can be mitigated by paying cash, when available. But yes, CC and bank are a concern and so is CCTV.

I print my boarding cards and then I laugh at hysterical people who's smartphonse do not work.

When I walk around on town, I do not take my phone with me, so anyone looking for me has to leave a message on my answering machine or send me an email, and I'll get back to them when I feel like it.

Have I ever, for many decades, missed anything important because someone just had to get hold of me this second? Never. Magically, everything always sorted itself out.

The idea that we must be available 24/7 is a mind virus that needs to be eradicated.

Corporations work on markets, with customers, and need to dynamically adapt to the demands of the customers. Therefore the concept of planned economy goes out the window.

Leaders in a corporation are accountable to the share holders, so again, what you say makes no sense.

Morality relates to value carriers, in the form on conscious human beings, it has no relevance to "the corporation", so for ethical questions you ask the person.

I know you will never research this, but for others who are interested in the only ethical and realistic system to govern society, libertarianism, to great places to start is Johan Norbergs The capitalist manifesto, and Ludwig von Mises Liberalism.

I heard a rumour that this byte also exists in the Legend of Zelda! No go get em Mr Policeman!

Covers mechanisms of panic and how sudden cognitive or sensory interventions can interrupt ruminative or panic loops.

When I download a web browser, it is reasonable to assume a piece of software that allows me to view web pages. Not an AI model.

The correct way to handle this, is for the vendor to announce the feature, the size and capacity required, and offer an opt-in, and not an opt-out.

This is beyond dispute.

That being said however, yes, we do not have any good definition of consciousness that is universally accepted, which makes the whole discussion useless or at risk of people talking past each other.