All those products have one thing in common. It’s what we call gourmetization in my country, which is a concept I believe the people should be aware of globally. It’s basically the process of making you believe that the simple, cheap, realiable and lasting stuff you already have lacks something, and then marketing an “improved”, refined and more expensive version to you. This process goes hand-to-hand to what you call enshittification, often being a catalyst for it.
Exactly! People like to hate ai without looking at the changes already happening in the market ad in people’s life. All the time and energy we once took into doing a lot of demanding things like coding and writing will now be used for fixing the mistakes done by ai intead.
FInally a good use for ai!
Therefore, blocking ads is better for the environment.
And all that while we get more and more dependent on technology…
As someone from the third world, I’m really scared
Wait, selling user data? What did I miss?
They’re unicorns, therefore magical creatures, making anything possible
I see some recent updates in their github
I migrated long ago. When I first knew about foss software, I started experimenting with some stuff like gimp and inkscape, and noticed that I could do the same things I did, but with a substancially lower hardware demand. Everything was lighter and smoother on my low-end stuff (I’m poor and always used old or cheap devices).
After migrating almost everything to foss, I learned about linux, and switched right away. The change was easy, because I already had a foss workflow, so it was so smooth and nice.
It was one of the best things I did. Since then, all my devices worked smoother and lasted longer. The environmentalist movements should promote foss, because the long-term difference is HUGE.
Cloud storage? Oh, that’s the wrong mindset. With the “agi”, you won’t ever need to store data, because everything you need can be generated on-demand /j
I used to think it wasn’t viable to poison llms, but are you saying there’s a chance? [a meme comes to mind]
Are you sure that drug you call hope isn’t consumerism?
Now it’s even easier to understand why the push for iot and everything connected, despite the people hating it.
Now I will be careful if someone wants to show me their personal cloud
But in that case, it’s not a migration to cloud, but just an addition of the cloud as a resource
With the small exception of independent communities here and there
Friendly advice: never put your entire life in the hands of a corporation!
Also, the migration from local storage to the “cloud” was never a good thing for us, and the small gain in convenience wasn’t worth it, but most people don’t seem to realize that.
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