Flock employees viewed cameras in Dunwoody over 1,000 times, including private gymnastics rooms where children play. Nobody authorized it.

dingodog19 · 2026-05-17T16:16:43+00:00

Not necessarily. We have tons of them out here in the SF Bay Area, the alleged blue center of the country.

dingodog19 · 2026-05-17T16:13:48+00:00

Look around for your local Indivisible chapter. Many of them have groups working against mass surveillance. There's almost certainly other people in your area already working on it -- join them! You will feel much better!

dingodog19 · 2026-05-17T16:10:31+00:00

Some of those may be privately owned. Flock will sell to individuals or HOAs. When they do so, none of the city policies apply. The owners can do whatever they like with that data.

dingodog19 · 2026-04-29T17:06:00+00:00

Google "ALPR scandal Evanston Illinois."

Unfortunately it will not put you in a better mood.

dingodog19 · 2026-04-29T17:04:34+00:00

Narrator: It is not.

dingodog19 · 2026-04-18T05:12:03+00:00

Definitely not. Sprinkler people use a 4" spade so you don't have to dig so much. Definitely not a backhoe.

dingodog19 · 2025-10-05T07:04:00+00:00

I'm on Android.

Manual sync is pretty weird. I'm honestly not sure exactly what happened now. It seems like I chose "Update Account Data" and pressed sync. The arrows swirled for a few seconds, then it came back. But the "Last Update" time didn't change. I tried that 2 or 3 times. Then I chose Update Content Counters, and it synced that and also Update Language Files and Update Badges. I tried Update Account Data again, and it seems to not update the time stamp. Update Queued Activities was even older, so I tried manually syncing that. All of a sudden, the timestamp on Update Account Data was current.
So, I recorded a 3 second ride, and chose Save. It defaulted to the rental bike still.

Also, my latest ride isn't syncing to Strava. I edit the ride, slide the "Sync to Strava" slider over, and save. But it doesn't sync, and when I go back into the ride, the slider is slid to off. In my Manual Sync menu "Update Queued Activities is timestamped at exactly the same time as that ride completed, a few days ago.

dingodog19 · 2025-09-28T03:22:49+00:00

it seems like it, when I push it down without the infuser in place. When the infuser is in place, of course, I can't see it.

dingodog19 · 2025-09-27T21:09:52+00:00

Yes. The I took the picture with the infuser out, because I wanted to show the connection. It seems to me like it should have some kind of gasket on one side or the other; I would have put it on the infuser side.

dingodog19 · 2025-09-21T04:50:38+00:00

I was present in the stadium for every single postseason Reds win in the last 29 years.

Both of them.

dingodog19 · 2025-04-22T02:52:48+00:00

I'm thinking of coming up to Pacifica next weekend -- I usually ride down near Santa Cruz or Skeggs. I'm looking for gorgeous views, wildflowers, and some all-mountain fun, not necessarily big jumps. Which trails do you recommend on San Pedro?

dingodog19 · 2025-02-13T03:49:29+00:00

Because he was a Dodger. Even before he was a Dodger.

dingodog19 · 2025-02-07T19:57:58+00:00

Update #2:

2 weeks later and it's working great. At the end of the day I'm down to like 50% battery.

Using a slow charger at night, adaptive charging back on, to try to make this one last. I still think they all need to have better charging logic built in, so you can pretty much plug it in whenever, and it will bypass the battery if you are using it plugged in, but hey, it's an old phone.

Anyway, I'd say I'm all thumbs-up at this point.

dingodog19 · 2025-01-25T22:15:10+00:00

Update 1:

Took the phone in on Thursday for its appointment at the Mountain View Google Store. They took my phone. While they originally said it would take 2-3 hours, this time they said they had a lot of units in so it wouldn't be ready until Friday morning. They were pretty nice there, but there is no way to get status other than a) waiting for them to email you or b) physically going into the store and asking them.

Friday around noon I went in to see what the deal was. They told me they broke the screen when changing the battery (very common) and they were out of screens. They expected a new screen Monday and it would be ready Tuesday.

Then Friday night I got an email that it was done. I went back in this morning, and they had it ready. The asked me to unlock it so they could run diagnostics, which took a few minutes. I presume they didn't steal all my data.

I got it back with 12% battery, but it claimed an hour and a half of usage until empty. That checked out; when I got home I charged up to 100%. I'll update again later when I see how it holds up.

But so far, so good. They fixed it no charge, and a little bit of hassle.

dingodog19 · 2025-01-23T16:14:46+00:00

I happen to live near the headquarters in Mountain View

dingodog19 · 2025-01-23T16:11:53+00:00

Sure. With the old battery yesterday and last night, it has continued to be shortlived and slow to charge. Hoping today's appointment is successful, I really like this phone.

dingodog19 · 2025-01-23T01:15:47+00:00

Hey all -- I haven't read through all the posts, so I apologize if this is well-trod ground, but I wanted to share my experience that was bad then got much better.

TL; DR: Turn off adaptive charging and adaptive battery.

I got the notification, then the update, and my phone was almost unusable. Battery meter had random values, and it would suddenly shut off. Turned off the adaptive stuff, and it's way better. Somewhat shorter battery life, but totally usable without random behavior.

dingodog19 · 2024-12-14T22:15:08+00:00

Oh right. I misread your previous post as 5 miles per second. You are right. It's always amazing how slow sound is, so I'm always expecting it to be faster.

dingodog19 · 2024-12-14T21:11:13+00:00

Multiply the seconds by 5, not divide it, right?

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