Consoles: Hives of vendor lock-in and proprietary nonsense

Smartphones: Hives of vendor lock-in, proprietary nonsense and a powerful tool for social engineers

Laptops: Strong tendency toward proprietary design, eh they’re not that terrible, I guess…

All in all, making these things harder to obtain would be a net positive for society.

One-time purchases.

Actually, your kids will be taught dependency on proprietary corporate software that spies on them and conditions them into corporate vendors walled gardens in order to a create lifelong customers (+ data mining sources) in order to enrich giant tech corporations.

Ideally, your kids would be taught genuine computer literacy so that they can be digitally self sufficient but that is never going to happen in a school setting.

Here’s an unrelated picture of a North American wood ape:

Many experts in the past have noted that most such infected devices can’t survive a reboot because the malware can’t write to their storage. That means periodically rebooting can disinfect the device, although there’s likely nothing stopping reinfection at a later point.

Relevant line for my lazy chadbros who know that reading articles is for sissies.

People apparently use installment plans for phone purchases these days, along with a downstream used market, so it’s actually a really apt analogy.

Years ago I might have agreed, but with digital technology having become so central to one’s daily life I find it hard to excuse those who fail to educate themselves about the very basics.

I’d make a really awesome candy store clerk too, btw, because I love eating sugary snacks.

I2P eepsite

Same for cars.

Why do we need a new model every year?

Automotive design has been functionally complete since decades ago.

Based Germans know the inherent dangers posed by Intel Management Engine.

Apparently I would make a really awesome moderator because seeing gore and shit doesn’t “scar me for life”. In fact, I seek it out out of morbid curiosity. Too bad I don’t have the requisite lust for power needed to be a moderator.

Wake me up when they start producing chips without Management Engine

The schoolyard bullies are fighting each other again.

FWIW you’re talking to someone who doesn’t even have a credit score. You might see such things as a self-handicap, but I consider it an accomplishment that I’m very proud of.

This is because conservatives are technologically impaired.

To be fair, I don’t go around in public telling everyone “I don’t have a cell phone btw”. So I suppose we are easy to miss.

You and I must live in two different societies then. I work with at least two other individuals who also don’t have a cell phone (not just smart phone, but any cellular device), one of whom is also a millennial. My SIP number has never had any issues with online service auth.

If I were stuck in that position, then I would not hesitate to choose the postage method. That being an option does not comport with the assertion “if a person didn’t have a smart phone they literally can’t use it”.

I’m surprised to find somebody with some sense around here.

I have never used a block or mute feature on any site or any service in all my life. It is wild to me that people today actually use those features, let alone to constrict the ideas that they allow themselves to be exposed to.

I conducted a fun little experiment over at /c/asklemmy@lemmy.world in which I posited the question: “If it were possible, how would you deprogram an extreme conservative?”. I then waited twenty hours before posting “If it were possible, how would you deprogram an extreme progressive?”. The difference in reception between the questions exposed the intense lib-left bias that is pervasive on Lemmy, a byproduct of people constantly walling themselves into self-made echochambers.

Laughs in no phone