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Re: Autoenshittification

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Post by aleph_minus_one »

m463 wrote: post #2

I wonder how hard it is to fight these trends. I see large-screen televisions for so little money - because you can't turn off the data collection. People don't want to pay more, let alone 3x for something with privacy. And the people who sell system with privacy, they can take it all away with an update. silently. For example, https://puri.sm sells phones that are linux-based, but they have to charge a lot and the e…

> I see large-screen televisions for so little money - because you can't turn off the data collection.

Simply don't connect them to the internet.

Re: Autoenshittification

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Post by vjk800 »

Gigachad wrote: post #11
metadat wrote: post #3

The author nails so many points, it's a bit overwhelming. The war on general computing seems to be the common underlying culprit, but how can this exploit ever be mitigated? The average person just wants "iPhone", and the subject of purchased hardware not serving them is even something they are interested in discussing or bothering trying to understand. Computers are sneaky because what a computer is really up to can…

The average person wants a secure device that just works. It’s very easy to maintain an iPhone that doesn’t have malware that can steal your banking auth token. It’s borderline impossible to do this on Windows. Since basically anything you run has full permission to read anything. You can run a game on iOS and know for sure your other apps are safe. Do the same on windows and it installs a kernel module to monitor ev…

> The average person wants a secure device that just works.

I mean, I consider myself a tech person and I also want this for my everyday stuff. I love playing with gadgets and operating systems whenever I have extra time, but I do not want to troubleshoot wifi driver issues or reboot a crashed/bugging window manager when I'm in a rush to check the bus schedule on my phone.

I've been using various Linux operating systems on all my computers for almost two decades, but lately I've been thinking more and more if my next laptop should be a Mac just because I have less and less time to maintain and fix the machines. I want something that just works and I would pay good money to get a fully open and not enshittified phone or laptop, but they don't seem to exist.

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