yup. one of the things i’d love to host!

i’m actually planning on getting some big hard drives soon when i can afford it.

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best i can do for you is getting baked then getting informed.

not much has changed since then

talk about a sad way to live, how cold can one be.

the big thing stopping that is the deliberate effort the companies put into making the process as painful as possible.

we do try to make it as easy as we can despite how a vocal minority of toxic users act, but i don’t really see a way around their roadblocks. they make all of the hardware after all and they dictate how some of this stuff works.

here’s a good real world scenario you might already know:

phones with the oem operating system spy on you, and the ultimate way to get rid of it is changing the os. how do we make it accessible if the manufacturers are making the process intentionally obtuse and difficult, and more than that, different for every device out there? how do we make sure every model (and counting) is supported when they make every phone a little different requiring many specialized volunteer work hours on each?

I’m ahead of the curve in this sense, and I will figure it out one day

you just hit my main point here. if people in general understood why this is a problem as much as you do, they would care enough to look for the stuff we already managed to put out there and act on it, just like you are.

it’s not that simple though is it? people seem to think there are more pros than cons for buying into their shtick and that privacy is meaningless. they are the ones to ultimately hand over their data to apps they know are spying on them because they do so openly at this point.

this can be changed, because it was changed into this in the first place by the powers that be, question is how.

i agree with awareness helping and i agree with the value of letting enshitification frustrate people out of big tech, but the state of technology right now is such that sometimes these solutions are impractical to make so easy for non-tech inclined people to effortlessly do.

you are taking offense for something i didn’t say.

what i mean is in a world with tech controlled by oligarchs who actively make it as hard as possible to get rid of them, you will have to somewhat know what you are doing. i see no way around this, but hope one exists.

furthermore, i can’t guess the unique way a given individual uses computers or their needs, and few people will ever tell me when they hit a snag. you are even one step further than most people who choose not to care.

as for me, keeping tech “private” is a chore and i do know it’s even worse for newbies but we also have a life and a demanding job.

because you are leftist too. right wingers will attack every leftist, and tankie is just a strawman for that purpose.

the internet is full of them already though. lemmy frontpage is sometimes full of them.

wow i can’t wait for the new videogame. #hyped

more evidence that we really should be finding more effective ways to fight back. nazis like karp and thiel are already openly saying they want to enforce control and fascism globally. this is only going to get worse.

what would get people en masse into open alternatives? massive smear campaigns? massive ddos campaigns? is their own enshitification and endless profit seeking the key to bring people over?

we need our heads together, this is gonna be another front in the class war and we cannot let them build 1984 unchallenged in front of our eyes.

always has been

doesn’t matter, still tankies. libs declare anyone who is too left leaning as scary murderous tankies.

tankie is not about what they believe in but how can we destroy their reputation so nobody listens to their actually effective anti-estabilishment rhetoric.

basically a meaningless term used by right wingers for demonization, not a real descriptor of political leaning.

corpo non-talk intensifies

congrats to the new dbzero tankies btw

feds 🌈

heroic is a good foss launcher for gog games. epic too.