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For me it's not about the space, but this kind of thing infuriates me too. I'm struggling to articulate a concise way to describe why practices like this upset
by MrLeap 8y ago
For me it's not about the space, but this kind of thing infuriates me too.
I'm struggling to articulate a concise way to describe why practices like this upsets me so much. When I fall victim to things like this, I feel like companies are forcing my head into a pile of shit.
With android, The only time it ever happened to me was when I got an HTC evo. I spent half a months rent on that thing and Sprint decided to bundle it with a ton of applications I absolutely did not want. Finding out I couldn't uninstall their ringtone store, whatever app blockbuster paid to have shit into my phone and all the other nonsense admittedly raised my blood pressure.
I did a lot of googling and was made even angrier to learn that the only way around it was to re-flash the firmware. At the time, the outcomes I was reading about seemed pretty mixed so this seemed awfully risky to do to my new phone.
Since then, I only buy unlocked phones so I can get at that /system folder if I need to.
Unfortunately, anything that has a socket back to the mothership eventually seems to decay into shit. My ps4 has been moving the streaming apps I use further and further down the UI so I have to go back to scroll past whatever company de jure they've sold me out to this week.
Their file system has tons of options to customize sorting / positioning / visibility of everything except their streaming section, because "fuck you, you're still revenue" despite having spent 400$ on the box. I hate how often I get reminded that Stallman was right.
What if every time you went to your closet to find a shirt, the company that built your house had hung a new multi million dollar company's representative on one of your hangers that screams "HEY GIVE ME MONEY, I'LL GIVE YOU SOMETHING THAT WILL FINALLY MAKE YOU HAPPY" as bright lights flash in your face and sirens spin. Every time one of your neighbors gives them a dollar you can hear the celebratory gong from your breakfast table. It's corporate panhandling, and once you make the mistake of buying a device their dicks are still inside you're now forced to suck it down.
Maybe it shouldn't make me so angry, but it does.
- davegauer 8y agoAbsolutely right on the emotional mark! I have intentionally entered into plenty of relationships with companies to have cheap(er) product subsidized by advertising. It's a choice and I know what I'm getting. But I feel like we're getting to the point where no amount of money is enough to opt out of ads in certain types of products: * Physical copies of movies * Non-libre operating systems [1] * Gaming consoles * Phones * Most websites * Most print media (excepting books) * All television In many of these cases, I've chosen to not participate at all, rather than enter into such an agreement. But that's kind of sad. [1] I'm really just generalizing about consumer Windows here. Sweet monkey lord, when I open the "Start" menu on a nearby Windows 10 laptop, it's visually like walking into a Las Vegas casino! I assume the enterprise Windows situation is not like that? Also, I don't know if it's better or worse on Macs?
- MrLeap 8y agoAt the moment, it is better on Mac, but who the hell knows how long until the touch bar is repurposed as a billboard to sell you a subscription to WWE's streaming service or whatever the fuck. Sweet monkey lord indeed. I used to be one of those rare Windows evangelists who said C# was the best thing since sliced bread, Windows 7 was the best thing since Windows 2000, WPF was my favorite way to make apps, and the microsoft surface (the table sized one) was going to change computing forever. I even nearly bought a zune. Now I turn my PC on in disgust just so my daughter can play Job Simulator. After my macbook dies, maybe I'll wind down the consulting business, move to South Dakota and start selling plasma.
- tjalfi 8y agoEnterprise Windows is much the same. It comes with Candy Crush and other crapware preinstalled.