Democratisation of powerful tools won’t work because it’s easier to use for destruction than for the opposite. Every psychopath designing superbugs and inventing future weapons.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=86k8N4YsA7c

More like; it’s cheap when you have no tolerance and no daily habit. You start paying if you let your consumption grow 50-fold.

https://www.quora.com/Will-there-ever-be-an-ergonomic-laptop/answer/Harri-K-Hiltunen

My new phone charges at 5W from my old phone’s 20W charger without the suddenly required “PD”.

Because things too, on average, lose value over time when materials degrade and better models come out. Inflation saves the trouble of reducing the old price.

I just wish the new models were better than the old ones.

But they do: https://murena.com/america

How about Murena Fairphone/Shiftphone with non-rooted /e/OS and locked bootloader?

Let’s not confuse rooted with bootloader unlocked. My /e/OS is not rooted and four bank apps work, including Curve Pay for leaving the wallet at home. Probably thanks to microG contacting Google when needed.

This might break if the comment over there is right: https://lemmy.world/post/36621884/19652276

The hypersane smart get called crazy by conformists.

It may be U.S. plutocrat strategy to weaken political enemies by killing their companies.

Consider Microsoft destroying Nokia and their Linux phones to benefit fellow American companies Apple and Google.

Consider the Destruction of OkCupid as an attack against its liberal-skewed user base.

I believe capitalism is the problem, and should be replaced by a retroactively-estimating value-production reward-system. Only the economy is overhauled, not society.

Capitalism bastardised the internet to be like this. There was a communal web in the making.

https://www.quora.com/Who-invented-the-modern-computer-look-and-feel/answer/Harri-K-Hiltunen

Consider the destruction of OkCupid as an attack against its liberal-skewed user base.
https://lemmy.world/post/24108120

Quora’s enshittification has that vibe too.

Twitter.

But now the brain damaged lead generation has the power.

I fixed mine too. Copy-pasting from email broke it.

https://lemmy.world/post/27344091

Hardware-level components like Titan M can execute processes that users cannot audit or disable, raising concerns about opaque data collection.

https://www.oxfam.org/en/press-releases/worlds-top-1-own-more-wealth-95-humanity-shadow-global-oligarchy-hangs-over-un

For the minority of situations he thinks the blinker is actually needed.