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We own the hardware, but not the experience anymore — Big Tech keeps building smarter, more connected devices, but the user experience feels more intrusive, more confusing, and less human (www.windowscentral.com)
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The line between helpful tech and quiet surveillance is blurring — and our devices no longer feel fully under our control.

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[–] 14th_cylon@lemmy.zip 3 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (2 children)

Always be ready to migrate.

or be ready to contribute to the project you use, so they don't have to sell out to google.

[–] demonsword@lemmy.world 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

or be ready to contribute to the project you use, so they don’t have to sell out to google.

that may happen despite your contributing or not

[–] 14th_cylon@lemmy.zip 0 points 2 months ago (1 children)

you can also have car accident with or without alcohol, but that doesn't mean that dui is good idea.

[–] demonsword@lemmy.world 0 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Yes, of course you shouldn't drive under influence. Still, what a bad analogy. Two completely unrelated scenarios.

[–] 14th_cylon@lemmy.zip 0 points 2 months ago (1 children)

your inability to understand it doesn't make it bad analogy. in both cases, one of the outcomes is far more likely. and your argument is as stupid as drunk driver explaining "i can crash sober, so why try"

[–] demonsword@lemmy.world 0 points 2 months ago (1 children)

your inability to understand it doesn’t make it bad analogy

Wow how condescending we are today. I'm sorry I failed to appreciate the analogy that your big, beautiful smooth brain produced.

Prick.

[–] 14th_cylon@lemmy.zip 0 points 2 months ago

now you showed me! how was kindergarten today?

[–] TeamAssimilation@infosec.pub 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Ive contributed to several projects, code and translation, but you can really expect every user to be a programmer, or every programmer to contribute to every piece of software they use.

Besides, contribution is not a protection from capture, just look at MySQL.

[–] 14th_cylon@lemmy.zip 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Ive contributed to several projects, code and translation, but you can really expect every user to be a programmer,

i meant contributing with money. contributing code is nice, but that doesn't help them to pay for electricity.

[–] TeamAssimilation@infosec.pub 1 points 2 months ago

That’s donations, and I’ve donated to less projects that I’d like, because it would become costly very fast. Mainly things like Wikipedia or Jellyfin.