Comment on 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

scripthook@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

• grue@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  We need more real Linux – GNU/Linux, with compliant copyleft licensing – not Tivoized crap like they put on TVs.

  Roku OS, Amazon Fire OS, Tizen (Samsung TV OS), etc. – all technically Linux, but you wouldn’t know it because they’ve systematically butchered them to destroy everything that made Linux good (the users’ freedom).

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  • Sightline@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    What’s the point of being so pedantic?, they were obviously not advocating for more Roku installs.

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    • grue@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Because the distinction matters. The corporate raping of Linux has to stop being tolerated or else nothing is solved. The technical details of the kernel don’t actually matter; the licensing and openness is what matters. Hell, if the Windows NT kernel got magically relicensed to AGPLv3 tomorrow it would instantly become the superior option just because of that.

      Linux doesn’t fucking matter. Copyleft matters.

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      • Rothe@piefed.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Sigh. This kind of nonsense is why so many people get scared away from even trying linux. Who cares which distro you use, as long as it is linux it is a step in the right direction, and a whole lot of people (including myself) have taken that step very recently, despite some arrogant linux bros doing their best to gatekeep us away from even trying.

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  • scripthook@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    We also need megadesk. More megadesk

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    • grue@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      That’s great for the folks who have access to decades-old pre-enshittification technology and the means to maintain it, but what about everybody else?

      “Just go live in the fucking woods like the Unabomber, eschewing modern technology” is not a valid solution for normal people! The law must be changed to protect them from predatory abusive corporations.

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      • deleted@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        A modern tv without internet connection is a dump tv.

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      • Rothe@piefed.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Continuing my smart TV OS analogy, your answer is like saying just to use a dumb TV instead. There aren’t any dumb TVs anymore! The TV manufacturer cartel colluded to quit making them!

        Yes there are, every smart tv becomes dumb as soon as you disconnect it from the internet. Just use it the same way you would use a monitor for your computer.

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      • 14th_cylon@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        i use my tv as secondary display on my desktop and run anything i want to watch from it.

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      • Pat_Riot@lemmy.today ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        You aren’t wrong but you sound unhinged. That’s coming from someone who lives in the woods and runs Mint.

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    • unphazed@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Eh, the printers should be swapped for laserjet to save money and ears. I don’t even know where one could buy paper for dot matrix printers either.

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    • Pat_Riot@lemmy.today ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      The CNC machines I run at work run from windows xp. IT disconnected them from the network, so I have to get.dxf files from my engineer on a thumb drive to program machining paths from. Ain’t that progress? No it’s lazy.

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  • Johnmannesca@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Tizen is actually pretty fun to hack tbh

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    • grue@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Can you actually install your hacked version on your TV, or is it DRM’d to prevent it? That’s the only thing that matters.

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