aproposnix

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[–] aproposnix@scribe.disroot.org 31 points 1 month ago (3 children)

I would liken them to the automotive industry. Both have deeply harmed society by isolating people from each other (it sounds counterintuitive, I know). Both have created infrastructure that prioritizes individual consumption over collective well being, restructured daily life around corporate products, and normalized a form of privatized existence that erodes public space, shared culture, and relational life. Just as cars gutted walkable communities and made human scale living subordinate to machines, Big Tech has gutted organic social interaction, subordinating communication and attention to platforms designed for extraction and control. #fuckcars #fuckbigtech

[–] aproposnix@scribe.disroot.org 46 points 1 month ago

Lol. Dear consumers, please switch over to Linux :)

[–] aproposnix@scribe.disroot.org 2 points 3 months ago (2 children)

I still use it to make international calls to family (it's my only use case for it). Does anyone know of a good replacement (preferably FOSS) that allows calling on landlines (yup, old people still use them)?

[–] aproposnix@scribe.disroot.org 16 points 3 months ago (1 children)

We definitely need more competition in the browser space, I just wish it wasn't using such a permissive license as the BSD.

[–] aproposnix@scribe.disroot.org 2 points 3 months ago

A Very Simple one- I'm constantly interrupting people during conversations. I do it because I want to get out a thought before I get distracted. I've improved over the years, but I still do it, often.