Otherwise, if you need smaller, worth looking at enamel wire. You can get it in lots of sizes, including very fine. Its covered in enamel, so safeish (https://www.aliexpress.com/item/4000580738993.html)
The biggest drawback is that its fiddly and not colour coded, you'll want tweezers to help hold while soldering.
I think thats in the trailer, so no spoiler. Its not exactly OPs premise, but its close, its still a normie being helped by a larger organisation. Did you like it?
I think I have seen something like this. Can't recall the name, but it was more like taken, with some agency funding some rando to collect their family.
If I am understanding right, when you say "can't be bothered", you mean "can't be compelled/forced"?
Seems pretty reasonable, albeit slightly reliant on honesty. At least for scammers, they aren't likely to want it back, as that would deanonymise them, so if its definitely a scam, your pretty safe to keep it.
That makes even more sense, they probably dont stand out in the crowded market place, but for a few dollars in shipping and lost product, they can get a glowing review to push them up.
Its important to realise that while the item might list for $$$$$, it probably only costs $ to manufacture.
It may be a fake item, but also remember that the cost to make jewelry is usually far less than what they are sold for, so it probably wasn't hundreds of dollars.
I'll update when I find the video, but there was a woman who gave a blackhat defcon talk about it, and she got a coffee machine, so its not without precedence to spend hundreds.
Alphonso is listening for TV sound signatures, which while definitely intrusive and privacy invading, is not the same as 24/7 listening for voice-to-text-to-ad purposes.
They would only need to listen for a second or so to determine what channel you are on, instead of all the time, so there is a massive difference in scope.
They are effectively shazaming your TV.
Still creepy and invasive, but not 24/7 recording invasive.
The myaddress+shop@gmail.com should be trivial to defeat by a spammer. Its a very simple string remove/replace to get back to a stock email address, or change it to impersonate another service, eg. myaddress+netflix@gmail.com.
It's only useful for the actual service, after that, you can't rely on it.
I already mod the advent of code community, and given its workload is basically zero, happy to do more of that if its helpful.