Not having a right to privacy doesn't mean we should record everyone's every move if they aren't locked in their windowless basement. Which they would have to be since its legally OK to have cameras pointing at your neighbors bedroom window or backyard, or to fly a recording drone over their house.
Additionally I think we should have a right to privacy in public. Why does your right to have your own surveillance fiefdom in your building extend to the street where I'm just trying to go for a jog? It interferes with my peace of mind, and it makes neighbors appear more like police than people I should be able to rely on.
I'm also exceptionally skeptical cameras have any impact on crime. I know police rarely investigate or solve property crime, and unless they prevent the crime from happening outright (doubt), or the camera owner has a full time live human monitoring to respond to an immediate action (businesses), it serves no purpose but to give the owner a false sense of security and to peep on your neighbors.
Getting broken into can be a very traumatic and violating experience, and in a better world we would try to help both the person who is driven to robbery and the person who's space was violated. In the one we live in, people slap cameras and floodlights everywhere, mental health care is nonexistent, and we punish such that the cycle of poverty and crime continues. Thus nothing is solved and the world gets worse.
Police cameras and municipal cameras are even worse in these ways, now it isn't the guy next door, its the state and all the money and power it holds doing a peep into your bedroom and a follow down the street. They don't trust you, they don't want you here, and you had better watch yourself. That message isn't for everyone of course, but if you're already marginalized in a community, it sure reads like the message is for you.
If we do install cameras, like red light cameras or speed cameras which have proven to do something, we need to be extraordinarily careful about where we place them and how we use them. And they should only be there until the underlying problem is solved, not placed as a solution themselves.
I'm not sure that's how that shakes out, you can't exactly extinguish open source projects, they may go dormant but they are still there, and there would be the last open source proton build to start from too.
It would also annoy the very people who are most likely to make their own compatibility tools and inconvenience themselves to spite bad business practice. Maybe in some future world where everyone is on Linux/proton, the people who just blindly use windows today because they always have would just keep using the now proprietary proton, but that's far from the way it is today.
Honestly I just use what is easiest to get working, used to do every game manually, then used Lutris, now I use Steam, probably will use something else that's easier in the future, especially if/when my library disappears. Til then I'll support the company that made it much easier to leave Microsoft behind. Nice bonus: valve is one of the least bad large companies in the US at time of writing, so it feels less awful to give them money.
Because shifting schedules by an hour randomly in the middle of the year twice is physically damaging and bad for your health, that impacts you. And maybe it's not so bad for you, you work shifting hours, no biggie. Try to imagine that you had that regular schedule and suddenly it changed, it did bother you, perhaps make decisions based on that.
If you can't imagine anyone else having thoughts, feelings, or emotions different from yours, consider that when you're crossing the street the day after daylight savings time, you're being passed by people who didn't get enough sleep and maybe they're like you, but they might not be, and that could directly impact you too.
It's such a simple small change to a weird tradition that has no more purpose in our modern world than the "moonlight lamps" of the US or the penny farthing. They may be historically important or interesting, but that doesn't mean you should be forced to use them. Change can be scary but it's gonna be ok, daylight savings time will inevitably end up the way of the funny big wheeled bike, it's just a matter of when and how. You can always choose to wake up early all year round.
Not having a right to privacy doesn't mean we should record everyone's every move if they aren't locked in their windowless basement. Which they would have to be since its legally OK to have cameras pointing at your neighbors bedroom window or backyard, or to fly a recording drone over their house.
Additionally I think we should have a right to privacy in public. Why does your right to have your own surveillance fiefdom in your building extend to the street where I'm just trying to go for a jog? It interferes with my peace of mind, and it makes neighbors appear more like police than people I should be able to rely on.
I'm also exceptionally skeptical cameras have any impact on crime. I know police rarely investigate or solve property crime, and unless they prevent the crime from happening outright (doubt), or the camera owner has a full time live human monitoring to respond to an immediate action (businesses), it serves no purpose but to give the owner a false sense of security and to peep on your neighbors.
Getting broken into can be a very traumatic and violating experience, and in a better world we would try to help both the person who is driven to robbery and the person who's space was violated. In the one we live in, people slap cameras and floodlights everywhere, mental health care is nonexistent, and we punish such that the cycle of poverty and crime continues. Thus nothing is solved and the world gets worse.
Police cameras and municipal cameras are even worse in these ways, now it isn't the guy next door, its the state and all the money and power it holds doing a peep into your bedroom and a follow down the street. They don't trust you, they don't want you here, and you had better watch yourself. That message isn't for everyone of course, but if you're already marginalized in a community, it sure reads like the message is for you.
If we do install cameras, like red light cameras or speed cameras which have proven to do something, we need to be extraordinarily careful about where we place them and how we use them. And they should only be there until the underlying problem is solved, not placed as a solution themselves.
I'm not sure that's how that shakes out, you can't exactly extinguish open source projects, they may go dormant but they are still there, and there would be the last open source proton build to start from too.
It would also annoy the very people who are most likely to make their own compatibility tools and inconvenience themselves to spite bad business practice. Maybe in some future world where everyone is on Linux/proton, the people who just blindly use windows today because they always have would just keep using the now proprietary proton, but that's far from the way it is today.
Honestly I just use what is easiest to get working, used to do every game manually, then used Lutris, now I use Steam, probably will use something else that's easier in the future, especially if/when my library disappears. Til then I'll support the company that made it much easier to leave Microsoft behind. Nice bonus: valve is one of the least bad large companies in the US at time of writing, so it feels less awful to give them money.
Because shifting schedules by an hour randomly in the middle of the year twice is physically damaging and bad for your health, that impacts you. And maybe it's not so bad for you, you work shifting hours, no biggie. Try to imagine that you had that regular schedule and suddenly it changed, it did bother you, perhaps make decisions based on that.
If you can't imagine anyone else having thoughts, feelings, or emotions different from yours, consider that when you're crossing the street the day after daylight savings time, you're being passed by people who didn't get enough sleep and maybe they're like you, but they might not be, and that could directly impact you too.
It's such a simple small change to a weird tradition that has no more purpose in our modern world than the "moonlight lamps" of the US or the penny farthing. They may be historically important or interesting, but that doesn't mean you should be forced to use them. Change can be scary but it's gonna be ok, daylight savings time will inevitably end up the way of the funny big wheeled bike, it's just a matter of when and how. You can always choose to wake up early all year round.