I'm tired of pretending tech makes things better.  I'm tired of kidding myself that all these apps, these chatbots, these "tools" are doing anything but dragging us into the mud and the shit and calling it progress.  I sat down at a cafe a few days ago, hungry and ready
  • venotic@kbin.melroy.org
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    22 hours ago

    I’m tired of the people who are the ones that have taken tech to the direction it has gone in for a long while now. Making up problems that weren’t ever there before that suddenly now need a stupid app or a feature to fix but adds in its own problems.

    I’m tired of big tech deciding when we should upgrade because they deliberately create things that break, degrade and becomes obsolete far shorter than whatever should have.

    I’m tired of unnecessary things like added fees for ‘convenience’. I’m tired of things like fucking google flipping back accounts on me when I need to see a number to another account.

    So much shit is that I’m tired about with tech. Tech is supposed to be exciting, easier, friendlier. Now it’s just manipulated into a problem of its own, simply because of those who are behind it.

    • Darren@sopuli.xyzEnglish
      31·
      9 hours ago

      I’m tired of big tech deciding when we should upgrade because they deliberately create things that break, degrade and becomes obsolete far shorter than whatever should have.

      I think about Apple quite a lot in this regard. Not because of planned obsolescence or anything so nefarious, but because they genuinely make some of the best consumer hardware you can buy, and because it’s so good it costs a decent wedge. Then, five years later, when that good hardware is still as good as the day you bought it, they quietly drop OS support for it because they need you to buy another one.

      And most people will smile and thank them for the trade-in discount they’ll get to help them spend more money, while that older, still perfectly usable hardware is shipped off to a massive shredder to take it off the used market.

      I use Macs, I understand this process very well. But I’ve also done my fair share of putting OCLP on older hardware in order to wring a few more years out of it, and of putting Linux on even older Macs because they still work perfectly well. I mean, I have a 2011 MacBook Pro that’s running Linux Mint so well that you wouldn’t have any idea that it’s a 14 year old laptop.

      The second best thing Apple are good at is convincing their customers that the equipment they own is old and knackered. And that’s kinda sad.