I'm so old I Remember when:

[RoyalChick]

So, we’ve gone from cash transactions, to store charge plates, to credit cards, to online payments, to online banking, to swipe and go purchasing,( let’s also remember that we chip animals to ID them), to some form of biometric ID’ing for various purposes. How much longer before we make the leap to a totally cashless society and being chipped ourselves. Makes the biblical prediction in Revelations pretty relevant to me. BUT, to also stay on topic, does anyone remember Pixie Stix? Are they still made?

Why bother when we have finger prints, facial recognition and retinas?
We are born ‘ready chipped’.
Just the technology to read our chips took a while catching up.

 

[Rick589]

Why bother when we have finger prints, facial recognition and retinas?
We are born ‘ready chipped’.
Just the technology to read our chips took a while catching up.

Good point

 

[Evadig]

I don't keep financial apps on my phone, nor social media, and the phone will never hold my fingerprints or other biometrics if I have a choice in the matter.

Until they force it, which I am sure they will eventually, my location will stay off.

Mine was literally forcing me to add my health information to get on the iPhone health app to turn the wake-up alarm off. That app has been deleted.

Also they remind me every six months to add my face and fingerprints so that I can pay by phone and log in without a password.

And just recently they have started demanding that I sync my phone with my car using CarPlay, and will not take no for an answer. I am about ready to sell both car and phone, only the phone was a gift from my parents and I need a car.

End of rant

 

[LaurenRitz]

Various countries have tried to go cashless. Except in the most draconian cultures, it has always been a total flop. I would say that it has been a flop in China as well, but many disagree.

The people still have a say. Many "advances" have been rejected, firmly. They tried to force us to go cashless during the plandemic, and people rejected it.

We are pack animals. A friend says "look at this cool new thing" and we turn up our noses at it. But let the media tell us that everyone is doing it (which is usually false) we change our minds.

We are also creatures of convenience. Once socially accepted, we have it pounded into our heads that New Thing (tm) is more convenient. Usually has lots of drawbacks, but those are never mentioned.

We are also an extremely wealthy society, nearly globally, and even the poorest can scrape up the money for New Thing. We end up paying for the privilege of being enslaved.

We choose how we spend our money, our power, our attention. If the people en mass refuse it, it's not going to happen. Whatever "it" might be. Pixie sticks?

 

[LaurenRitz]

Mine was literally forcing me to add my health information to get on the iPhone health app to turn the wake-up alarm off. That app has been deleted.

Also they remind me every six months to add my face and fingerprints so that I can pay by phone and log in without a password.

And just recently they have started demanding that I sync my phone with my car using CarPlay, and will not take no for an answer. I am about ready to sell both car and phone, only the phone was a gift from my parents and I need a car.

End of rant

I sort-of solved that car problem by buying cars that don't have onboard computers. My insurance may be slightly more expensive because Big Brother can't track my every move, but the "inconvenience" more than pays for itself. I never signed in to my phone's cloid app, although it keeps reminding me to log in and create an account. Nope. Not sorry.

Anyway, with the way AI is advancing your biometrics will soon be hackable, and then what?

Remember the days when you had to use this thing called a key, and could still get into your house if the power was out? Remember when someone with your key couldn't walk through a crowded parking lot waiting for a car to unlock itself as they approach?

 

[notabitail]

Mine was literally forcing me to add my health information to get on the iPhone health app to turn the wake-up alarm off. That app has been deleted.

Also they remind me every six months to add my face and fingerprints so that I can pay by phone and log in without a password.

And just recently they have started demanding that I sync my phone with my car using CarPlay, and will not take no for an answer. I am about ready to sell both car and phone, only the phone was a gift from my parents and I need a car.

End of rant

I'd say get a Pixel phone and install GrapheneOS (degoogled Android) but I think that might be a bit difficult to install if you aren't a techie.

 

[notabitail]

I have a cloud backup on my phone, but it uses a PC on my own network. No one else has access to it.

 

[sdm111]

So, we’ve gone from cash transactions, to store charge plates, to credit cards, to online payments, to online banking, to swipe and go purchasing,( let’s also remember that we chip animals to ID them), to some form of biometric ID’ing for various purposes. How much longer before we make the leap to a totally cashless society and being chipped ourselves. Makes the biblical prediction in Revelations pretty relevant to me. BUT, to also stay on topic, does anyone remember Pixie Stix? Are they still made?

Can't forget

The bitcoin ATM

 

[Rick589]

I sort-of solved that car problem by buying cars that don't have onboard computers. My insurance may be slightly more expensive because Big Brother can't track my every move, but the "inconvenience" more than pays for itself. I never signed in to my phone's cloid app, although it keeps reminding me to log in and create an account. Nope. Not sorry.

Anyway, with the way AI is advancing your biometrics will soon be hackable, and then what?

Remember the days when you had to use this thing called a key, and could still get into your house if the power was out? Remember when someone with your key couldn't walk through a crowded parking lot waiting for a car to unlock itself as they approach?

I have an old Jeep Wrangler, a '97, that I've had since 2000. I continue to keep it with the intention of it being my vehicle of choice during the Zombie Apocalypse.

 

[Rick589]

I'm.....not ....sure......BUT, it looks like we are going off the rails here. Didn't we start out by talking about old memories.