Having asleep zombie family can be the worst.
Will Satan himself be attending?
The primary goal is to simply get the information inside your mind. Whether you like or dislike it doesn’t really matter. That preexisting brand/product familiarity is often all that is needed to tip the scales months or years down the road, once you’ve “forgotten” all about the annoying ad, while you find yourself deciding between competing products on a shelf or on a store page.
The fabled HTPC is a fix that few people know exists for a problem that few people know they can do anything about.
While Ubuntu only ever metes out the occasional beating with things like spy lens, Windows has really been hitting it out of the park consistently. It is rivaled only maybe by Mac & iOS when it comes to punishing users for making stupid decisions. Their silently replacing local files with fronted copies served from MS’s own “cloud” was a real banger. I can’t wait to see what creative new ways they’ll come up with next to make normies suffer.
Ah, the downstream effects of compliance teams.
“Hurry we gotta check off all the boxes!!! What do these measures actually address? Don’t know, don’t care! Comply!”
Industry wants to place computer “solutions” between you and the world around you to the maximum extent possible. Data is money.
Just part of a larger trend of trying to digitize things that should never be digital.
But the claim that the “Biden administration” has “abused these powers in the past” to “censor conservatives” is a myth. It’s a myth made up by the MAGA world.
Well, not wrong technically. It is entities like Google abusing their position as arbiters of truth (for normies) to censor on behalf of their current favorite political party.
Those harms include higher costs of goods, less privacy, and increasingly lower-quality ads that frequently bombard their screens with products nobody wants.
Pretending that somehow, if only the ads were “moar relevant!”, that they would be any less of an assault.
I’ll just continue blocking as I always do.
Google’s antitrust drama is just a popcorn side show to me.
I’m ashamed to say I used to work for one. How do you like having licenses to use your printer? I might have enjoyed it even if only I were a sadistic personality type.
The decline is all around us.
Apparently, now wifi is synonymous with internet service.
Part of the problem is that people who grew up on phones and tablets are now old enough to start entering the tech industry as UI developers.
Not aggregating adolescents and children all into one place every day would be a good place to start.
Let me guess, $CURRENT_YEAR Tomogatchi release is going to involve
If you think I’m being hyperbolic, just look at what they did to the revived Sony Aibo dog.
Why are we pretending that public schools are the only possible source of information about safe sex? Anyone making such a big decision will have hopefully done their research beforehand. And if not, I can hardly feel sorry for them.
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Had to draft that one a few times?
It’s really difficult. You have to draft legislation, deliberate over it with room full of bureaucrats, hope and wait for it to pass sigh good session, guys, now where to for lunch?!
Meanwhile, the decentralized solution is to refrain from recreational sex. It’s super easy to do! I use Arch btw.
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