We get 3-5 people calling every week who don't have email or a computer.
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- Thread starter Floptical
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Over-arching point was doing stuff online and being data-mined is no longer a "convenience". It's a forced requirement.
Jehannum
Puts the "pro" in procrastination
Oh yes, if you don't consent to be the product, you'll have to bear the cost, whether that's being able to afford your insurance premiums or doing without for 6 months.
Who can afford realistic health insurance now? This increase was before they started data mining. I've got "silver" marketplace plan, it's expensive for a healthy person, and it is garbage coverage. Essentially catastrophic only. Sorry I don't consider that insurance.
Amstel
The Hoarse Whisperer
Thinking about this further, how effective is this if an ongoing usage environment = 450 degree oven?
Jehannum
Puts the "pro" in procrastination
That's certainly a pessimistic view.
"Everything's garbage, might as well give away whatever I've got left in the hopes that the powers that be might piss down my back and call it rain"
Amstel
The Hoarse Whisperer
Ok, now that might be a problem. But they could have at least covered it with the same shit they covered the wire with?
Great. My point still stands, you don't have to do any of it. People opt out of society all the time.
Jehannum
Puts the "pro" in procrastination
A fibbit scale is $125 at Amazon.
A run of the mill glass-top scale that you (gasp) have to calculate your BMI from is about $35.
So, unless you're REALLY bad at long division and don't have a calculator, it'll take 1800 separate weighings to make up the difference (assuming it takes 2s to punch the numbers into your calculator, and that your labor rate is somewhere around $90/hr, because that makes _my_ math easy).
If you really want to get into the weeds, you could add on the price of wifi and bluetooth, but an ESP8266 that offers both of those is < $10.
Amstel
The Hoarse Whisperer
Jehannum
Puts the "pro" in procrastination
I had burgers last night. I cooked them until juices started to bead on one side, flipped them to sear, and they were perfect medium rare.
IDK why y'all need so many gadgets to cook a fuckin' hamburger. Teenagers do that shit for minimum wage, you know.
Amstel
The Hoarse Whisperer
don't be difficult. It's perceived value. Not actual value.
The seller of the fibbit is counting on additional revenue because you won't care about sharing your data to get the 'and now your BMI is even in your phone!' cool factor.
In fact, if you email to complain they'll reply with something along the lines of: 'if we didn't datamine and share the fuck out of you we'd have to charge you a lot more than $125. So there. No need to thank me for all the value added convenience we've built into your fibbit purchase. Thanks.'
Jehannum
Puts the "pro" in procrastination
So you're paying them for the privilege of losing your privacy.
That's some great perceived value right there.
Amstel
The Hoarse Whisperer
I had made 4 in the oven. No time to grill outside. Place on nonstick pan, plug the probe in, put in oven, go on with life and wait for the alert. Pretty simple.