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Enshittification

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What is enshittification?

The phenomenon of online platforms gradually degrading the quality of their services, often by promoting advertisements and sponsored content, in order to increase profits. (Cory Doctorow, 2022, extracted from Wikitionary) source

The lifecycle of Big Internet

We discuss how predatory big tech platforms live and die by luring people in and then decaying for profit.

Embrace, extend and extinguish

We also discuss how naturally open technologies like the Fediverse can be susceptible to corporate takeovers, rugpulls and subsequent enshittification.

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A PR disaster: Microsoft has lost trust with its users, and Windows Recall is the straw that broke the camel's back (www.windowscentral.com)
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[–] [email protected] 17 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Why don't they just make it an app? The only problem with recall is that is us forced upon you through their operating system. There is obviously alot of data that Ms can mine from you by forcing this app through their OS, it is so blatantly obvious. The "we only store data locally" bullshit I don't believe for a second because then it would just be an app and they would probably not have bothered at all to make it.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 5 months ago

Yeah, exactly they created it for the purpose of data mining, any possible benefit to the user is purely incidental

[–] [email protected] 11 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Satya Nadella is totally out of touch with the reality that is their userbase. I'm guessing things would be quite a bit better if Bill Gates had remained CEO, but obviously that ship done sailed long ago.

LINUX!!!

[–] [email protected] 8 points 5 months ago (3 children)

I’ll go first:

Which Linux?

I’m familiar enough with Linux from a server and shell standpoint, Debian, Rasbian, Ubuntu et al…I have a Steam Deck, so there’s some locked down Arch experience too.

Of the bunch, the Deck and Flatpak frustrate me the most, always having to “hack” apps with Flatseal and try to break the sandbox to get full functionality sometimes. Yet on the server side I love docker/podman and the ability to bundle apps and dependencies etc.

Since I know it makes a difference, my latest build went full AMD, so I don’t need Nvidia support.

Other than that I think I’m just a good NVMe sale away from trying to dual boot myself into transitioning to a Linux primary desktop, though I know I’ll need to keep a stripped down Windows dual boot for those games that just won’t work on Linux.

Oh, but I’ll miss my peripherals the most I think. Not everything has Linux support, least of all my Elgato Stream Deck, which I’ve become accustomed to as a superior macro board(with other useful applets that will certainly not work without Elgato support).

[–] [email protected] 8 points 5 months ago

I'm mostly a Debian-based distro sort of guy, currently running Linux Mint MATE, but I have tried other distros before too.

Hell, at the rate Microsoft is going, I'd rather run TempleOS, if Linux wasn't a thing. Any flavor of Linux is better than Windows these days.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago (1 children)

You might check out Project Bluefin if you haven't already. I'm only a few days in but I'm really enjoying it. Having Docker and Podman baked in is really nice.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago

Or if you game, Bazzite. I adore the uBlue images. Atomic is the way forward for desktops in my opinion.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I saw that. A good start, will keep it from becoming totally useless but not all the way there. It’s just hot keys and command launches, no tight-knit integrations with other apps and services or interactive widgets.

But maybe someone with the skills will get inspired for a solution as more go *nix…🤞

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

I’m in the exact same boat as you. I’ve been dual booting Mint Cinnamon for a couple weeks now, and my Stream Deck sits on the desk being completely useless…

I also have a virtual audio console set up so I can use the stream deck to play audio through my virtual microphone input so I can use it as a soundboard in voice calls, and I can’t imagine a way to make that function on Linux without doing my own software development work. I know PulseAudio is powerful and I could probably get an equivalent setup by making the right API calls and hooks, but it just works in Windows.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 5 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago

Likewise, I first switched to windows 10 LTSC, which was great. Then it still downloaded the fucking search bar, and then my Xbox games would no longer run. I switched to Arch with the new NVIDIA 555 drivers and now I can play all the games. 🙆‍♂️

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

Microsoft gonna Microsoft.

They have a good run, and then just when you most expect it, they do something so tone deaf that you remember who they are.