It’s not so much I won’t upgrade as that I’m selective about upgrading - I don’t want to do it unless it has some benefit for me, as opposed to benefiting someone else.
The problem is that more stuff means more stuff to go wrong.
Also, count me as another who thinks touchscreens in cars/trucks are stupid - with knobs and switches there’s tactile feedback that means you aren’t constantly taking your eyes off the road, touchscreens you HAVE TO look at, not a safe feature.
We’re starting to get there with Alexa and Hey Google.
And having privacy concerns with machines that listen to us all the time that can be compromised.
Almost exactly right.
4 GB of disk space and 4GB of RAM.
It is a little less buggy.
About ten years ago a friend of mine was editing a special on-line issue of a journal I’m involved with. The theme was security. He asked me to write one of my columns for it, and I wrote what I though was a joke column about how having internet enabled picture frames with voice commands be vulnerable to hacking, thus making “the walls have ears” literally correct. He said it could be a serious problem. Someone in England getting a recording that Alexa made of what someone else had said shows I was prophetic. I’m not buying anything that listens to me for me house.
I never say anything interesting in the car, so the safety improvement from voice activated message reading seems worth it.
My google-fu is failing me but a couple of years ago an Australian (I believe) politician was quoted as saying that it remains a problem that people still feel like they can say what they want within the privacy of their own homes. With a suitably authoritarian government and these ‘walls have ears’ devices that last bastion of privacy could be removed.
I also thought that technology also facilitates that scenario in another way, a suitably advanced AI could be programmed to listen to any trigger words or phrases spoken and report the offender to the appropriate authorities.
Kind of like what is already done with telephone lines but taken up to 11.
Big Brother is listening to you…in the matrix!
Wasn’t there a hullabaloo about Google doing that just “recently”?
Being unlikely to ever own alexa/siri type devices, I remember something like that happening, but not any details.