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DRM, proprietary components, "signed hardware" (ala Apple), app bullshit - is all forms of enshittification. And damn near every silly-con valley company engag
by pierat 3y ago
DRM, proprietary components, "signed hardware" (ala Apple), app bullshit - is all forms of enshittification.
And damn near every silly-con valley company engages in one or more of those. And I hope they die eating their own crap they put out.
I support the 4, not 3 R's: Reduce, Reuse, REPAIR, Recycle. And enshittification is completely opposite of reversing pollution and climate devastation, by forced generation of more enshittified trash :(
- FirmwareBurner 3y ago[flagged]
- cwillu 3y agoFWIW, a /s buried in between two sentences and surrounded on both sides by punctuation is remarkably easy to miss.
- voakbasda 3y agoA perfect example of Poe’s law. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poe's_law https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poe's_law I completely missed the /s and thought it was a serious comment, since there are plenty of people that actually believe that line of reasoning.
- networkchad 3y ago[dead]
- rchaud 3y agoThis is the long shadow of the Mac v PC ads of the mid 2000s, plus Jobs' own diminishing of the open web as a hotbed of viruses and spam. Anyway, here's 1000 Bible apps that need access to your contacts.
- lm28469 3y ago"b-bu-but it's the green economy, the only way to continue our infinite growth and save the planet !"
- nameless912 3y ago>continue our infinite growth >save the planet Choose one. Or choose neither if you don't choose.
- Etrnl_President 3y ago> The planet is fine, it's humans that are fucked! —George Carlin
- BizarroLand 3y ago"You can choose a ready guide In some celestial voice If you choose not to decide You still have made a choice" Of course, logically speaking, if you don't have a planet any more then your growth would stop or possibly even reverse, but that's just me thinking out loud, what do I know?