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

• grue@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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 ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    A modern tv without internet connection is a dump tv.

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    • grue@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      It really isn’t, though. It will still have a shitty UI that tries to shove the “smart” features in your face, it’ll probably shove some bullshit EULA in your face on first startup, and engage in other dark patterns.

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  • Rothe@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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 ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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 ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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 ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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 ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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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