I wonder if there's a legal loophole here? Specifically this works by transcribing "important conversations" into text, it's not actually storing .mp3 recordings. Obviously still disgusting and I hate it.

Are we discriminating against instances now? Is this a thing?

Yeah especially if you have a titchy laptop with 256GB SSD and 32GB RAM... that's a huge relative percentage of storage wasted on a hiberfil.

I use Linux now, but when I did use Windows, I always turned off hibernate. It had it's time in WinXP or 95 era, when hard drives took so long to spin up that you could leave and make a whole coffee and it would almost be done by the time you get back. We don't need it anymore!

Always give your computer 8 hours sleep per night to keep it healthy

They tried to upsell me with my new car a few years ago. $1200 for one of these dashcams, Jesus. I said no and bought a $80 one at Officeworks.

But they said that basically the idea is if your SD card is destroyed or lost you have no evidence. This device always streams to the cloud, so theoretically it's more robust. If the police takes your SD card at a crash (common in Australia), and then it's lost or "lost", your SOL. But of course you get privacy problems with any cloud...