Technology

Yeah it sucks. The more people that educate and switch others to open source community-run stuff the better. There is also https://alternativeto.net/, and https://european-alternatives.org/ for helping people find open source projects just have to search online if it is corpo or community-run

people are experiencing innovation fatigue

What innovation? The user experience hasn't undergone significant innovation (improvement) in the last decade

I installed Lubuntu on my Microsoft Surface 2 and my custom PC from 2014 that couldn’t get upgraded to windows 11 due to lack of a tpm chip. We don’t need better hardware, we need better operating systems. We need more Linux.

I have a computer capable of outputting video like 5 different ways: over the internet, near-field EM, HDMI, yadda

I just want a fucking standards compatible dumb screen

This is where the Linux and self hosting people chime in.

The poor user experience is intentional. Compare FireTV to AppleTV. Everything about FireTV is carefully designed to coerce you into spending money. Easy access to the content you already have doesn’t make money, so the UX serves Amazon, not you. Apple does it, too, but with a more subtlety.

Laughs in every computer I own is Linux and my mobile is GrapheneOS

Cries a little for everyone else

Sure, I might own the hardware

Not for long. The goal seems to be to make RAM, flash memory, and GPU's so expensive that most consumers will need to purchase low-powered client devices and subscribe to cloud computing business models. It's a handful of companies who are cornering the markets, controlling the supply, and seeking rents.

It is not user experience, it is user manipulation. We are so so far beyond Stallman's warnings about enslavement through corporate software design.

The more Windows tries to manage my files for me the less I’m able to find where anything is.

I wish Windows 2000 still ran modern games.

I've been considering using my phone only for tethering, and doing anything on the go on a ultraportable Linux laptop. If anyone is doing this already, I'd love to hear about your experience.

I think that's the reason why I always change the operating systems of my devices – Fedora Linux for my PCs and custom ROMs for my phone. The stock ones don't feel "personal enough" to me anymore.

You don't even hold the hardware if it's not user repairable, customizable or upgradable

I watched something on Netflix the other day.

It immediately then showed an ad for that same movie I'd just watched, telling me the last day to watch is in a few days.

Big Tech keeps building smarter devices

Smarter or just louder?

Our devices are no longer fully under our control, it's not a "feeling".

Repost: The power and influence of billionaire tech companies over the government is enormous. Ofcourse workers/users don't get any (privacy) rights in america, none is lobbying for them lol, nobody in Washington is fighting for us

• A measure you would normally impose on convicted criminals or terrorist leaders is now being used by the U.S. against these three people:
  • former EU Commissioner Thierry Breton, who was responsible for European legislation including on social media;
  • Imran Ahmed, chief executive of the Centre for Countering Digital Hate, who researches online hate, A US judge has temporarily blocked the detention of this British social media campaigner Imran Ahmed, who took legal action against the US government over having his visa removed. Mr Ahmed, a US permanent resident, had warned that being detained and possibly deported would tear him away from his American wife and child. 😳;
  • and Clare Melford, who maps disinformation with her organization.

All three are now banned from entering the United States because they criticize and restrict American social media platforms such as X and Facebook.

• Trumps inauguration lmao
  

They aren't building things for our benefit, they're building things for their benefit. All the idiots who gleefully bought devices with surveillance and tracking and data collection, normalized it. Now everyone has to use some of this shit or their life suffers. The masses showed them they can take from our private lives whatever they want and the masses of fucking morons will happily pay them to do it. Why the hell would they stop taking when the consumer market has lost any sense of caution?

The more this shit goes on, the more I find myself aligning with the villains in James Bond films. Burn this whole system to the fucking ground!

Have the day you paid for.

The supreme irony of that message coming from Windows Central...

It's no coincidence that when I let the screen of my windos box turn off, it sounds like it's mining Bitcoin!

Because soulless ghouls can only pretend to be human.