Conflicted.
On one hand, their playground, their rules.
On other, if you don't want to interact with half of community, why not just, dunno...limit visibility? Make it actual safe space?
I am good with anything and do respect their choice, just it's fun to think about.
Being tracked is control enough for me. But I do understand it in dangerous situations, returning through forest at night etc.
So we have two camps.
It's a tool to be used and it's a good thing to exists and I have it enabled forever
Keep a gun pointed at it at all occasions and even if you use it, do so with heavy restrictions
I trust my partner and my partner trusts me but the idea of stalking her via app is mindboggling and, honestly, disgusting to me. Like a dog on a leash, always observed, always controlled. That's some mind disease shit going on. Trust your partner dammit. Ya all have issues.
On the other hand though being violently agaisnt it cuz "oh my god privacy" is also funny. The recipent is your partner. Setting it up for some specific use case shouldn't be a bother. It can be extremely usefull for example for grabbing shit in a mall - if you are not interested in going to the same shop, enable it, split, get what you need, join back, disable it.
What I am getting at is - it's a tool, but an invasive and overly controlling one. Use it how you wish but do not perceive having it on constantly as normal. It literally sounds disgusting.
Edit: For people talking about privacy - we're on lemmy. We all know how tracking works. An even if you have localisation off, your device will connect to local wifi and smart appliances to log your location anyway. So I am not really invested into discusing overall practice of having location on - only on sharing saud location.
It seems to me most people simply upvote the post to reward OP for bringing things up, exposing etc. Comments serve opinions on the topic itself, but upvote/downvote is more for if it's good according to community rules and if the topic itself is interesting.
I understood that person as saying to lead by example rather by talking. And I, as a kid, didn't care for example, I needed to know why should I bother.
They don't. They get a kick outta this. Some people are just plain cruel and they perceive these situations as perfect for letting go a little.
B u l l.
Just explain why ffs. My parents never did so I never bothered. And learning cleaning habits as adult suuuuuucks.
Ugh, the second link. These goddamn windbreakers... T-T
Can you blame them? You are honest to god worker at one-person company hired by coroporation to cut down trees en masse and then you cut one of them and it goest bzzt and suddenly someone is speaking of illegal tree cutting and damaging state infrastructure...bollocks, I tell ya, trees are meant to be cut, if they didn't want their fancy-schmancy antennas cut they should't look like them trees!
Love it! Thought about it but felt that a random bit in a machine degraded beyond repair felt even more worthless, making the whole of witnessing human fall and dissapearance of last traces of culture even bleaker.
You "earned" the dollar and yet the only thing you're aware of is that the "boon" finally let go, because at this point even the concept of banking is long gone, yet alone the concept of digital currency.
But you, friend, are clearly superior in the art of poetic description ^^
And yet after five million years, long after humanity as a whole has fallen, you live. Standing in a grassy hill which once was New York City, you look upon the horizon.
Meanwhile somewhere within conrecete cave, deep under millions of years worth of dirt, some ancient server stirred to life, powered by some unknown magic. With it's last spark of energy it processed operation kept within buffer, reassigning value of one between two different datasets.
As soon as it happened, you felt relief and gave out last labored breath of life, letting it finally go...as you earned the dollar you wished for.
The update is downloaded in the background, and it asks you when to update, most folk just impulsively click later without thinking.
Hell, you can set preffered update hours!