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

• demonsword@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  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

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  • 14th_cylon@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

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

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    • demonsword@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

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

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      • 14th_cylon@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        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”

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• TeamAssimilation@infosec.pub ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  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.

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  • 14th_cylon@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    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.

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    • TeamAssimilation@infosec.pub ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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.

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