i hate the tech industry so much. FUCK apple. i hate minimalism and sleekness. oooohhh we made this computer the thickness and weight of a piece of construction paper. you cant plug anything into it and it has 2 gb of storage space. ooooh it has no power button isnt that conceptual? look at how sleek it is. its battery lasts 5 minutes and if you touch it with any more force than the gentlest whisper of a rose petal it will shatter and we intentionally designed it to be impossible to repair on your own. it will break on its own in a year tops. ooh its so sleek and efficient
it seems like technology wise companies wanted to make flatter and flatter products to the point where some of their functioning is limited and I have to say, does anyone even WANT a tablet as thin as a piece of paper or did it just become a trend because it looks modern? tech nerds help
reminds me of this lol
like, do we really need these ultra-simplistic products just because they look cool?
what smart appliances could have been: here is the exact part that is not functioning, here are 5 vendors selling that part for between $30-$70, here are 3 repair specialists in your area
what smart appliances actually are: you can’t operate this appliance because uhhhh *checks notes* your water filter is pirated 😦
I hate all this wireless shit I don’t want to charge anything ever and I fucking love wires
Several months ago I was in a meeting with our Apple account rep talking about various things and one of the questions we asked him was about whether we were able to order wired keyboards & mice (specifically for large orders like entire computer labs) because wireless is a logistical nightmare for shared computing resources that get used by hundreds of people a day. And he was genuinely baffled why we would ask about this.
For those unfamiliar with the Apple Magic Mouse, this is how it charges:
Please please please if you must buy a new electronic, buy a plug in version if possible. Not only are they more powerful when you can plug them in, they are usually more dependable and last longer, since there’s no battery to overcharge and fry.
Like, it’s 100% true that Kids These Days tend to be less computer literate than my generation was at that age, but that isn’t because they’re lazy.
It’s because consumer software has been growing steadily more user-hostile for the last twenty solid years, and this is a deliberate tactic on the part of major software vendors in order to manipulate people into paying money and/or installing adware in order to access functionality that their systems were already perfectly capable of.
Basically, big software vendors have realised that you can charge people for access to things they already have if you can prevent them from realising that they have it; this is now a major plank of their business model.
This is why the Right to Repair movement is incomplete without taking software into consideration: having direct, unencumbered, and unobfuscated access to the guts of your software is just as essential to sustainable computing as not having to piss around with eight different sizes of screws with four different proprietary screw-head designs in order to crack open your smartphone.
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