Make sure to remember to update your comments too, otherwise it causes even more confusion when something works differently than it says it does.

Many Americans are exactly as the stereotypes about them say they are, loud and stupid.

I don’t disagree, but I love their hardware and games. It’s why I feel so conflicted, and I hate them, but I love the stuff they have made even though they basically hate their fans.

Oh I’m used to it, I know I have some controversial opinions.

Hot take incoming: New 3DS XL is the best handheld Nintendo has ever made. Not only can it play every generation of Nintendo games prior, it’s the latest clamshell they made, and it even has super cool exclusives for it like the awesome GTA 3 and GTA VC (admittedly the VC one is a bit rough) ports.

Now hold on, are you talking about Windows 7 and 10, or 11? These are very different things!

Yes, I know a guy like this. I’m not aware of his considerations of how he is able to separate science from religion.

For what it’s worth, they have experimental Wayland support. It’s an important distinction. For example, Cinnamon has experimental Wayland support IIRC and last time I tried setting up a lock screen on my ThinkPad (you know, for security purposes, since it’s a laptop and all) I wasn’t able to get one working.

Exactly. It took me 4 hours a couple months ago to get a scanner to work on our Windows 11 PC. It turns out there was some Windows Image Acquisition service built in that had to be disabled because it was conflicting with the driver of the scanner. Absolute insanity lmao

I told one of my friends about this since my friends sometimes tease me about using Linux, their response was get a better scanner.

lol

most people are stuck with the couple choices they have in town and when tech comes in and forces the enshitificstion of services in order to pump stock price you’re stuck just eating this shit forever.

Is that the fault of the technology, though, or is that the fault of the companies?

Companies can have stupid, arbitrary rules and requirements and policies and do stupid or harmful actions regardless of technology or not.

I don’t think it’s fair to blame tech for company policies.

if I went to a restaurant and was told that I had to install and use their app to order their food, I would fucking leave. If it was the only restaurant left in town then I’d have much less choice in the matter. The insidious nature of technology is that it changes “can” with “must”.

That’s not really the fault of technology though, that’s the fault of how companies are implementing technology through their policies and procedures.

Companies can have stupid, arbitrary rules and requirements and policies and do stupid or harmful actions regardless of technology or not.

I don’t think it’s fair to blame tech for company policies.

Somehow it doesn’t surprise me at all that they’ve banned porn. Not only that, but it sounds like they’ve banned John Wick movies too.

This is the future. The Internet is no longer open.

Wow, that is some nightmare fuel type shit. That’s actually crazy.

I’ve been pretty lucky that I’ve been able to use Linux on my work laptop the past 3 jobs in a row. It really helps that we use Linux production in and when I tell them that I haven’t used Windows in nearly a decade, they’re usually willing to let me work with Linux.

Well, I’d say it’s because they don’t even hide it anymore. They know they can do whatever they want, and get away with it.

Enshitification is a real thing, and companies and evil people are being blatant about it, because they know they don’t have to hide it because they know they can’t be stopped.

It sucks. I hate it. I wish we could do something about it.

I was subconciously always thinking “man, imagine if Proton screws up some day and all the people who switched to it have to switch away, that would suck” but didn’t think it would actually happen, but man, with enshitification, it’s actually possible lmao

“Put that Furby away! We have to go play Neopets.”