I'm so old I Remember when:

[Alaskan]

I remember... back when I could fall asleep easily... and then sleep the sleep of the young, the innocent, and the pain-free!!!

Yeah... now, if I could just relive those days...

Nah... if I slept like that now... it would be because I was dead.

 

[RoyalChick]

I don't keep the location on on my phone until I need it for directions to somewhere. That didn't stop my phone the other day when I was looking up someplace on the north side of town from showing me a blue dot precisely where I was at. When I zoomed in on it a bit, it displayed a cone that faced the same direction as I was and rotated on my screen as I pointed the phone in different directions. Matrix indeed.

And still, with all that, FedEx can’t find my house for deliveries!

 

[Sally PB]

And still, with all that, FedEx can’t find my house for deliveries!

Yup, same here.

 

[Zenmonkey]

I don't keep the location on on my phone until I need it for directions to somewhere. .... Matrix indeed.

You can turn off location. You can turn off history. All that really means is they don't show *you* the information.

I know perfectly well that the cell phone is always listening. I've seen much evidence of it and Amazon just came out with a change to their TOS for their Echo/ Amazon devices. They're more open about the fact that they're recording 24/7.

I'm going to go sit and remember Rage Against the Machine, and contemplate the ghost in the machine. Sleep well!

 

[kikiruru]

Ice cream truck (van)

They are still in mobile
They have already started coming this year in my apartment complex

And several every Saturday weather permitting in some of our city parks

 

[kikiruru]

I remember... back when I could fall asleep easily... and then sleep the sleep of the young, the innocent, and the pain-free!!!

Yeah... now, if I could just relive those days...

Nah... if I slept like that now... it would be because I was dead.

Or sleep the night through within waking up more than once to go to the bathroom

 

[kikiruru]

Black and White TV's with lots of snow.

And the clicker knob to change channels

You actually had to get up and walk to the tv to change the channel
And stand their and click the channels we only had 2 channel 5 cbs and 10 nbc click to 5 click click click click click click 10 and abc sometimes 3 and even less 13

And our pbs channels were 21 and 42 and that was a lot of clicks you had to pull up a dining room chair to sit and click

 

[tripletfeb]

My quarters are designated for Aldi shopping carts. The rest of the change can be spent at will.

My quarters are saved for Aldi carts and spring water. We have a spring water company about 25 mins away that sells it for 25¢ a gallon. Much better than our crappy tap water, which has been testing high in all sorts of nasty things. The town has given us a notice once a month saying that the levels aren't dangerous in the short term but in the long term, could cause cancers

 

[notabitail]

I don't keep the location on on my phone until I need it for directions to somewhere. That didn't stop my phone the other day when I was looking up someplace on the north side of town from showing me a blue dot precisely where I was at. When I zoomed in on it a bit, it displayed a cone that faced the same direction as I was and rotated on my screen as I pointed the phone in different directions. Matrix indeed.

That's GPS for you. And a compass. Your phone has a internal magnetometer that can tell what direction you're facing.

I leave my location on because I use it quite frequently. Not to mention it's nice having a photo location tagged so I have a idea as the where I took it.

 

[notabitail]

You can turn off location. You can turn off history. All that really means is they don't show *you* the information.

I know perfectly well that the cell phone is always listening. I've seen much evidence of it and Amazon just came out with a change to their TOS for their Echo/ Amazon devices. They're more open about the fact that they're recording 24/7.

I'm going to go sit and remember Rage Against the Machine, and contemplate the ghost in the machine. Sleep well!

My Dad installed some privacy system sans Google on his phone and Mom's phone. As far as I'm concerned it does a good job blocking things like Google from the internet.