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• @wreckedcarzz@lemmy.world 2026-09-14 06:51

  … what makes you think I’m for constant surveillance? I’m wanting it at home for ‘where did I put my keys’ and ‘I don’t know if I’ve taken my medicine and forgot to note it down (overdose danger!), or forgotten it entirely’ at home; and in public for notes about family and friends (‘how is little [I forgot his name, but I have it under Bob’s notes] Joey?’, or ‘it’s your birthday next week, isn’t it? [holy crap, I completely forgot]’), or for things like if I trip and fall, smack into a wall (yay blindness), perhaps the route back from the doctors office, or showing me reminders to pick up medication on the way home, stuff like that. At home, it would act as another memory and eyes, and away it’s just another knowledge base. Since I don’t consider my home space as being surveilled - since it would be a device that has no persistent outside connection, only to pull data on/off like notes and med history - so because I’m already there in my home, I don’t see the issue. To me, what I have explained and want in this thread is just a helper to keep myself in check (appointments, reminders, birthdays, names, pill dose tracking, physical safety, easy medical log extraction…). And I already have to wear glasses, so… why not? There just needs to be a device that fits my requirements. I should note that before my stroke, the Google Glass had just hit the market, and I was intrigued but nothing more. After it happened and I came to the realization that I suffer a bit of cognitive… loss? Degradation? The idea of using wearable tech to save me from myself became pretty desirable. That may be why I’m basically the only one here who has even remotely positive about this; I will never be 100% that I once was, physically or cognitively. But if I were to brush away possible systems to help me, and possibly hurt myself because of it, I would be an obvious idiot.

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