• RogueBanana@piefed.zip
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      24 days ago

      It’s amazing how many people blindly put their faith in their tech stuff to never malfunction. It’s getting harder and harder to find single purpose things that isn’t stuffed with shitty smart features. Mf just let me buy a car that does not get bricked by a software update.

    • Kairos@lemmy.today
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      24 days ago

      The text is wrong this technology usually fails downwards to the opaque/blurred mode.

    • curbstickle@anarchist.nexus
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      24 days ago

      The article isnt accurate unless this is a rather unique privacy glass, they are opaque and require the driver to go on to go clear. So in a power outage these fail to opaque. They also are opaque when they fully fail.

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      hope nobody ever gets literally exposed by a false positive. would be very annoying to be sitting there taking a shit when suddenly you’re visible to everyone because some dust made a sensor freak out.

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      22 days ago

      Hold your urge to smoke if you do not want to become famous online.”

      So, they also pointed cameras at the occasionally transparent toilet stalls?