Thats a bad way of describing enshitification. Yeah people are not interested in buying stuff they already had but for a monthly subscription. That’s literally the only idea anyone in tech has had this decade. Do the same thing for a subscription and slap AI all over it. Get series A funding and sell the company.
In my mind it is not the age of the technology, but its owner or lack thereof.
The only technology developed after 2021 was LLM’s and Stable Diffusion
This is the understanding of a “tech enthusiast”, not someone who’s actually interested in how computers work.
Are we? I wasn’t aware
I was just thinking about how this is likely my life going forward. The last tech I bought was a first round preorder steamdeck which was a lot longer ago than I want to think about. If I need a phone I buy 5 year old refurb flagships instead of the overpriced disposable “budget” slop they make these days. New hardware is now a luxury item for the petite bourgeois so they can make slop to satiate the poor. AI has sucked up both more money and physical resources than it would have taken to globally eliminate poverty.
No thank you. I’d rather live off grid in the woods with some solar panels so I can emulate every game from the last 40 years. More than a lifetime of games. I don’t need anything new.
Recently I’ve taken to modding consoles. Turns out a 360 can play every game made for the entire original Xbox line as well as its own and that’s not mentioning emulating older things like the n64 and it’s predecessors. Between that and a modded ps4, you’ll never run out of games to play.
After that, it’s 3d printing every board game.
I really wish to get to that level. I already avoid a lot of corporate internet sites, but I still have to deal with whatsapp and, to a lesser extent, discord. My car is is an old piece of junk because that’s what my salary can sustain, if/when i get a new one, I’ll want the same amount of “smart” features as everything else in my home: zero. Computers (also phones and tablets) only connect to the internet via firewall.
I refuse to buy a car made after 2013, so I believe it.
`09 shitbox FTW
'07 shitbox checking in. Was at the scrap yard last week getting replacement parts.
You can go a little newer without the bullshit. Mines a 2016. Same make/model is good til about 2019
I’m actually happier rolling back to older tech options and sticking with open source apps and OS’s.
My car has no computer, I go talk to humans at banks, I avoid large companies. No AI, I vet everything I utilize for privacy, My brain is at peace.
My current phone is an iPhone 12 mini. Am happy multiple companies, commodore, clicks etc are working on more limited phones. It all takes too much out of a day.
Also, I want my electronics to have buttons. Not screens.
Buttons and the aux hole.
I don’t know why everyone just accepted that we don’t get those things anymore.
I hate cordless earphones, I doesn’t make any sense at all.
I want my electronics to have buttons. Not screens.
Could you elaborate? Do you miss tackle controls so much you’d rather have that vs screen space, or you genuinely don’t want a bigger screen?
Cooking plates come with (janky) touch panels instead of physical buttons, my laundry machine too.
Also actual feel of good buttons on for example amplifiers etc actually is a nice feel. Also buttons are replaceable if broken.
Generally if no screen is needed (fridge) it can just go.
Also a screen should be if it’s there dumb. Eg a TV should not come with an OS that will serve me shitty apps and advertisements.
It all takes too much out of a day.
What does this even mean
Lemmy
- Developer: LemmyNet
- Initial release: May 5, 2019
Whew, we’re safe guys
Some people also refuse to interact with venomous snakes, for the same reason.
I’m not going totally “Amish”, but I’ve become a cranky bitch about technology nowadays. I was very passionate about tech throughout my teens and early twenties. Since then, I’ve watched every major tech company go to shit. Services I used forever go to shit or die. Companies harvest more and more of our data in creepier and more invasive ways. They went from “don’t be evil” and creating interesting new tech or shaking up an industry (Google fiber, for instance) to doing anything as long as it saves a dollar.
The only thing giving me any hope or interest in this space is FOSS and hosting things myself. It was confusing to me at first and still is in some ways, but not only can I solve my own issues, I can offer a lot of it to my friends and family. Having 10 different streaming services and finding where a show is within them is expensive and annoying, but I’m enjoying managing a library and hosting it on jellyfin. Then I can tell a few people, hey get jellyfin and type in this url, I’ll find whatever you want. I recently setup seerr so now they don’t have to feel like they’re bothering me when they want something, they can just request it (and see what’s new, upcoming, where something already is streaming if they already have that service, ratings, etc). Yeah it doesn’t support the show or movie but it’s a much more enjoyable experience. I stopped paying for Google drive and have all my pictures and videos (which is what used up all that space) syncing right to my PC, which then backs up to jotta cloud (not foss). I got off windows entirely (except at work) and use Linux now. I’m probably going to setup nextcloud and get a few people on there soon, since i have the space and it’ll save them a subscription.
I used to really push FOSS. I’ve run Linux since the late 90s. But I don’t know that I really believe it’s that much better anymore. I guess I kinda feel about the same as I do “organic” farming… It’s just not worth the price, effort, etc
I like that DDG lets you put date perameters on searches. Usually when looking for reciepies, I seach only from 1998-2016.
lemme get some of that sweet old internet
Fr?! Cheat code!
What is annoying is that it doesn’t accept it inline unlike StartPage and Google:
hazelnut pancake before:2017. This means I have to click on the selector and write 02-01-1970 (01-01 breaks it) > 01-01-2017 each time.yeah, I get that. Its better than nothing though. Minor annoyances like that, are just that, minor. Of course I dont know the coding, or how simple the fix might be, like you do
I… usually do 01-01-1998 and 01-01-2016 (the dates ive chosen have no real meaning). What do you mean 01-01 breaks it? Seems to work for me on ddg. I do get results thst were initially published in say, 2009, but the last update will be marked 2025 or somthing, which is fine, and not what I think you mean by breaks it.
Ill try 02-01, and see if I notice a difference in results
They’re Luddites 2.0.
Daily reminder of Luddites demands and the realization they were not against technology, just being exploited by it.
Wage cuts- Employees were fighting for their (economic) survival as wages sank while food prices were skyrocketing. They used collective bargaining to demand higher wages.
Price cuts - Textile goods were becoming cheaper, reducing the value created by highly-skilled textile workers. They asked local magistrates to enforce price limits.
Deskilling - As their work was being replaced by low-skill labour they asked employers to protect their jobs during trade depressions.
Quality standards - They opposed the production of cheap, shoddy goods that undercut the market for quality textiles and degraded their trade. They asked the government to enforce quality standards in textile production.
Breaking traditional labour practices - Employers were abandoning apprenticeship systems and customary agreements about wages and working conditions. They advocated for the prosecution of employers who violated these norms.
https://www.historic-uk.com/HistoryUK/HistoryofBritain/The-Luddites/
Some of them. The rest just hated the textile machinery, and thought it was plagiarizing their week.
This is not true, they did not hate the machines. Please stop spreading misinformation about their movement. They negotiated because they had a place at the table. It was only after they had exhausted every avenue that they turned to destruction.
They can call themselves luddites when they start blowing up data centers.
Ned Ludd didn’t fuck around and neither should we.
Hasan Minhaj had an interview with the “Gen Z Luddite” movement
https://player.fm/series/hasan-minhaj-doesnt-know/the-gen-z-luddites-rebelling-against-big-tech
Idk framework 16 seems pretty nice
