• dejected_warp_core@lemmy.world
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    7 months ago

    Buying technology used to be like plucking a ripe apple from a tree. You see, you take, you enjoy.

    Lately, I liken the process to gutting a fish. You now have to skillfully dispose of the unwanted bits, and it always comes with unwanted bits.

    Edit: okay, you have to pay extra for the “professional” version to go back to a less encumbered experience. It’s still bad though.

    • MonkeMischief@lemmy.today
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      7 months ago

      And that’s just computers. Cars and phones, man, holy crap.

      To take your fish analogy, it’s like “Well maybe 5% of your catch is NOT laden with innumerable parasites, but they’re the only thing that lives here and we gotta eat so…”

      Edit: “But I heard there’s a new breed that not full of parasites!”

      “Yeah but those don’t seem to migrate here and if they do they either don’t thrive or get eaten by these bloated monstrosities.”

    • mindbleach@sh.itjust.works
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      7 months ago

      Or choose open-source, which is either plucking the apple, or planting the whole orchard from seeds and tending it for years. Coin toss.

    • alcoholicorn@lemmy.ml
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      7 months ago

      The pro version is still pretty encumbered, pirate the LTSC version if you want unencumbered.