I gotta admit you had me in the first half . . .
MHSJenkins
joined 1 year ago
I've been using Thunderbird for years and it's great as an Outlook substitute.
And it's only gonna get worse from here.
I sincerely hope you're right. Please stay in touch.
Now's a great time for us all to switch to an open source solution. I suggest Linux Mint or Ubuntu.
Genx here, and many of us are one or two serious mishaps away from homelessness.
I'm not sure if this is just a sign of the times for Meta or a comment on Big Tech as a whole.
Given how FB's algorithm stacks their feed and hides real information, that's not surprising.
The world is genuinely unprepared for a situation that can't be resolved by throwing money at it. You're doing the right/smart thing in doing the part you can do. Thank you for that food for thought.
You're absolutely correct in everything you're saying.
However, we've been giving out that exact advice since at least the 1980s and thus far it's gotten us nowhere significant. There are too many subsidies for plastics manufacturers/petrochemical companies, too many industry lobbies for various forms of manufacturing, and too many lobbyists for it to make a difference.
I absolutely think that folks should buy used, grow their own, reduce/reuse/recycle, and repair. However we're swimming against a cultural and political tide that turned long ago and while we can take our names off the problem I'm not sure that we can reverse it.
Enshittification comes for all things eventually. "You'll own nothing and like it."