but a lot of these folks are uploading everything to garmin connect and letting it have your data and do the work.

And of course, I'll bet all your data was mined before you turned things off.

does this seem user-friendly? seems deliberately hostile to me (though par for the course nowadays)

Honestly I've been wondering if in the near future I can basically have a big machine and some sort of "ingest" program.

Then keep connect my devices to it, where it will backup all the data, and mine the backups for information I want.

Mine my iphone backups for text messages or contacts

mine all my devices for photos or videos

mine my watch or bike computer or gps or whatever else for where I've been and how I've exercised.

instead, everyone wants your data and imposes themselves in the middle.

"Over here we have our random number generator."

https://web.archive.org/web/20230305130159im_/https://assets...

also, search for "improve" in settings. I'll bet you didn't find "Help Apple Improve Search" in the results. Ironic on many levels.

I think ads are projected to be $9b this year

I think other streaming apps definitely do.

Apple does too. I don't know about the TV, but a vanilla safari has a bunch of default favorites, and when you open a browser window it contacts each one of them and sets cookies. It also contacts google by default for searching, character by character quick search completion and on and on.

Wouldn't it be nice to be able to buy products without all this nonsense?

apple tv isn't private, apple does mine your viewing habits, read their eula.

You should also know that all non-apple apps like netflix have unrestricted network access and can/will do the same.

It is too bad that people accept apple's marketing about privacy, because they have dark patterns, they collect telemetry, they don't let you block it, and they help apps do the same things.

A privacy policy is not the same as being able to firewall your device, but apple doesn't allow firewalls.

When you reset the car you might also have to agree on the main nav.

but yeah, doesn't always cover every drive.

I remember on old nissan leaf, you had to agree to telematics every drive.

They never appreciate things. You can take the kids to paris on vacation, and the kids will like the hotel pool better than the louvre.

I think do self hosting for yourself.

then get together (or at least communicate) with others that do the same - like minded people who share your interests.

and if your family accidentally likes something you do, well then you're ahead.

maybe you'll get lucky... "When I was a boy of 14, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be 21, I was astonished at how much the old man had learned in seven years." - Mark Twain

Waymo autonomous vehicles are very very good, but residents of san francisco can tell you that they are not perfect. (honking, waymo traffic jams, etc)

I expect it will all be like guns vs the bow and arrow. terrible at the beginning, but steadily improving. and we know how it eventually turned out.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_archery#Decline_of_...

also: Helicopters usually have an altitude limit of 10k feet (maybe 13k). :)

I can't find the reference to it, but I remember them saying it in wired or similar.