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My very cynical hypothesis: the time for mainstream or mainstream-adjacent tech doing anything actually useful for us is ending or over (if such a time ever exi
by ratmeadow 1y ago
My very cynical hypothesis: the time for mainstream or mainstream-adjacent tech doing anything actually useful for us is ending or over (if such a time ever existed). It's mostly rent seeking garbage now as tech matures and companies get greedy. Too much software is utter trash and is shoved in our face to display ads, collect data, or sell something. Hardware is increasingly locked down into crap-ridden environments. I mean you can barely even buy a device and boot the OS without some corporation like Microsoft trying to shoehorn you into 20 useless features to suck the joy from your life while their wallet gets fat. Features for the sake of features, churn the sake of churn - it's an increasingly sickening rot all the way down. Just give us a simple computer that does what we need. Not everything needs to be an infinite revenue source.
- cherrycherry98 1y agoI recently built a new PC and faced the dilemma of paying Microsoft for their experience or rolling the dice with Linux (nothing to lose). I've been running Kubuntu and while not perfect it certainly works well enough. The sad part is that I'd gladly pay Microsoft double what they currently charge for something that basically works like Windows 7 did. It's like a theme park where I pay admission for the privilege to be upsold various add-ons. So now I just don't pay them anything.