Good for you. I got rid of Microsoft back in 2018. No more Office on Mac. I just use TextEdit or vi in a terminal. For formatted docs, Libre.
But you’re right about Linux. Linux is Nirvana for tinkerers. I spend enough time tinkering with audio plugins and DAWs and that’s plenty. I will keep sticking with MacOS until Apple succumbs to #AI #enshittification as well—and unfortunately it’s inevitable, sigh.
Même @lemonde se fend aujourd'hui d'un article sur le concept de @pluralistic : signe supplémentaire qu'il est vraiment devenu difficile d'écarter le concept de #merdification de toute pensée actuelle sur le numérique.
This is really interesting. Yeah, it’s #reddit, but this is good:
“Big tech had captured, neutered, and leeched from journalism and pulled off one of the greatest strategic coups of all time. They married us to both their ad businesses and to their algorithmic platforms, enshittified our journalism to make their platforms useable (consider the fact that social and search platforms can only exist if people other than the companies running them provide content for those platforms), and then they trained their AI on our work and told us to fuck off. In the span of maybe 10-15 years these companies first changed the objectives of journalism and then just kind of killed it altogether.”
This is what I was ranting about yesterday with that find a grave website refusing to ban my schizophrenic cousin even though he violated their terms and conditions everywhere. He made 64 memorials on the site so he IS findagrave.com.
Information overconsumption and the enshittification of journalism : r/#Anticonsumption https://www.reddit.com/r/Anticonsumption/comments/1k5oiva/information_overconsumption_and_the/
Maybe there isn't A Tipping Point, but several. Like milestones on the long road to freedom. I've just reached one.
I happened to taste a #KinderEgg this past Easter weekend. OMG, this brand is utter garbage now. It tasted like vegetable shortening mixed with Tim Horton's hot chocolate powder. #Enshittification marches on ...
I think there's a combination of the fact that all the low hanging fruit (ie. technologies we use every day like cell phones and microwaves) are already "done"
And not only that but "past done", as in well into #enshittification which is an important trend because it makes the future look *worse* to the average consumer.
And I think this feeds largely into the anti-science sentiment that's overtaken large segments of the population in the recent past...
@krystyna yes small purchases is fine. A cart full of self-scan shebang is super #enshittification.
What I notice is that people are waiting in long scan queue when it is busy, while the one slightly hidden cashier-operated check-out is idle. People seem to enjoy the chore and the #individualism.
And then you have the scanbro's who smoothly surf through the production line. Ultra-fast suave scan motions in a blur. 20 seconds.. "ah, I did it again". To the jealousy of the common scan folks. 
Synology Lost the Plot with Hard Drive Locking Move - ServeTheHome
Summary: Synology wants to force users to buy Synology-branded HDs in even their consumer NASes. If they do this, I’ll never buy another NAS from them, ever.
Imagine Toyota requiring you to use Toyota gasoline. No way, no how. https://www.servethehome.com/synology-lost-the-plot-with-hard-drive-locking-move/
When you hear the phrase "seat at the table" what does that mean to you?
Or: Enfranchised and disenfranchised communication.
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So what am I talking about here and why?
A metaphor I'll use in this post and often overall: let's say that you're at a concert or a bar and you're talking to your friends. When you leave, you may find that your voice is hoarse, from shouting, even though you didn't feel like you were shouting at the time. You were just trying to be heard. Let's call this "shouting at the concert".
Shouting At The Concert has a lot of implications in hierarchical systems. A common one is from the Twitter-that-was, or on Yelp and review platforms: people are so used to phone calls and emails that are routed like 30 times that they don't even pick up the phone any more. Why bother? Instead, they try to create noise and hope that the noise and pressure that it results in will get them what they want or need. (This is, in part, #enshittification but also deeper than only that.)
To put it another way, they've been at the concert so long, that they don't realize they are shouting. It is just their new baseline, their new speaking volume. Other people hear them as shouting, but they're Just Talking.
Increasing scope further: these two modes of conversation could also be referred to as Enfranchised and Disenfranchised. When you're Enfranchised, you use your Seat At The Table (see, there's the prompt 
). This may be your voice in a meeting or a vote, but when you are enfranchised you know that 1 ) your voice matters and 2 ) how to use it.
Disenfranchised communication is different. When disenfranchised, # 1 is not true: your voice "doesn't matter" so # 2 doesn't exist. There is no way to use your voice in the system "appropriately" or "in the right way" or even at all. Disenfranchised communication results in a lot of Shouting At The Concert, because that is the volume you need to use to get The Enfranchised, notably not you in this example, to use *their* voice on your behalf.
(Was really hoping this would be a single post, but alas...)
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@dave
They really chose the wrong person to try out their slop on 
#aisucks #enshittification
@mttaggart Bluesky is fake-federated, and their only claim to fame is being not-twitter. Twitter fooled them once, shame on twitter, bluesky fooled them with the exact same trick again, shame on them. I'm done with corporate owned social media.
Here’s Eric saying the quiet parts out loud.
https://redirect.invidious.io/watch?v=AtgJhZOhFsQ
https://youtu.be/AtgJhZOhFsQ
#latestagecapitalism #ericschmidt #oligopolycapitalism #eattherich #guillotine #enshittification #cronycapitalism #taxtherich #fascism #corporatism #wokewashing #DNCpuppet #corruption
Bonus: He worked DIRECTLY for Hillary’s ‘16 campaign, removing inconvenient TRUTHS from Google search results and sidestepping fair election laws to #astroturf and cheat her into office.
Meine Datenschutz und Privatsphäre Übersicht 2025, für Jedermann 
Teilen erbeten 
als PDF:
https://cryptpad.digitalcourage.de/file/#/2/file/iLDoTt03wkGUL3dA39ScX6hV/
#DSGVO #TDDDG ( #unplugtrump )
#Datenschutz #Privatsphäre #sicherheit #Verschlüsselung
#encryption #WEtell #SoloKey #NitroKey #Email #Cybersecurity #Pixelfed #Massenűberwachung
#Google #Metadaten #WhatsApp #Threema #Cryptpad #Signal
#Hateaid #Cyberstalking #Messenger #Browser #Youtube #NewPipe #Chatkontrolle #nichtszuverbergen #ÜberwachungsKapitalismus #Microsoft #Apple #Windows #Linux #Matrix #Mastodon #Friendica #Fediverse #Mastodir #Loops #2FA #Ransomware #Foss #VeraCrypt #HateAid #Coreboot #Volksverpetzer #Netzpolitik #Digitalisierung #FragdenStaat #Shiftphone #OpenSource #GrapheneOS #CCC #Mail #Mullvad #PGP #GnuPG #DNS #Gaming #linuxgaming #Lutris #Protondb #eOS #Enshittification
#Bloatware #TPM #Murena #LiberaPay #GnuTaler #Taler #PreppingforFuture
#FediLZ #BlueLZ #InstaLZ #ThreatModel
#FLOSS #UEFI #Medienkompetenz
Neu! Fossiler #Kapitalismus mit #enshittification und geplanter Obsoleszenz jetzt auch bei #Fahrrädern!
Der Kopf von der Sicherungsschraube an meiner #Tektro Auriga HD-M290 #Scheibenbremse ist aus minderwertigem Stahl und deshalb beim aufschrauben völlig abgenudelt/kaputt gegangen. Ich kann also die Bremsscheiben nicht mehr ohne weiteres austauschen. 
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Good thread about #Komoot alternatives: https://gruene.social/@jon/114371313122141030
Because impending #enshittification impending
@selzero I mean, if you’re actively gatekeeping, can you blame them?
I spent DECADES not getting shit done because of all of the edgelords on #stackoverflow, literally *punishing me* for asking a question.
AI is almost always wrong… but at least I don’t have to deal with insecure #edgelords making it impossible to ask to a question without removing it as a “dupe”.
I’m well aware of the repercussions to AI. Software engineering will suffer badly. #Enshittification will run rampant.
Which stage of #enshittification is this?
#Telegram #JesusComplex
The FT piece ends up saying: “The internet makes us seem mad, always connected, always performing, always consuming – like streetcorner eccentrics amplified to global scale.” And yeah, it does feel like that. From unstoppable slop, to #enshittification the #FT on the internet is adding to the mess https://hamishcampbell.com/from-unstoppable-slop-to-enshittification-the-ft-on-the-internet-mess/
Jetpack: "Dear David for some obscure, arbitrary and unspecified reason, we decided that your blog is not eligible for the free version of our service anymore and now you'll have to pay." Me: "Dear Jetpack, how about I uninstall you, instead? Also, fuck you." #Wordpress #Enshittification
