trust me, people are not pissed enough. noone cares about these topics around me.
It keeps coming up in my circle once in a while. Usually people complaining about subscriptions. That’s your in.
Yup. Doesn’t feel widely popular yet but I think it will increase especially thanks to Sony discontinuing physical releases. My family luckily is getting there too.
Yeah, it’s the small groups on the edges of these techs that can see it for what it is. Most people are too far removed and refuse to see what world these technologies are creating around us, the prison walls being built.
I think that most people don’t want to tinker. They also hate choice paralysis. Buying the subscription or leasing the car is an easier decision than committing the money to own the thing.
They definitely take the easier paths.
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Nice! I’ll just stop buying this enshittified product/service and switch to—
…oh, wait. They’re all enshittified.
your first statement still applied… stop buying.
That’s great in theory, but there are tons of essentials that people have to buy to remain employed and/or alive.
My seedbox is not enshittified. heh
I hear you but honestly when I have time to game I just want to sit down and game. I used to have time to do that. Go find the pirated versions, or the cracks, fiddle with it for hours and then finally play. Not to mention the time and money to buy, build, and configure a decent gaming system. I don’t really care for the massively online versions because in my opinion online gaming is just so competitive and toxic so that’s not really an issue for me. All of this combined is why I typically had veered toward consoles. It was just easier. But since I gave up on Xbox and now Sony is pulling this shit, I’m seriously concerned about what options are even available at all, let alone unenshittified versions.
I’m too lazy to pirate games, but also, I rarely get a new game. I have my stuff on Steam, or like in the case of Simutrans, I just download it directly (although we’re on Steam these days lol - for free). For me, it’s about the media I watch. Which… is still not all that much. heh.
When I have downloaded a cracked game, most of the time these days it’s pretty easy. At worst, install, run crack, bam. But it might depend on the game.
if you do something people don’t like they are free to choose a product where they get what they want
That’s ideal capitalism. I find ideal capitalism to be about as real as the concept of “fair” is in adult life.
I just started my physical media collection but it’ll take a while
Sealed media is like the new collectible. Prices are crazy.
Started this year with CDs, games, vinyl, books and DVDs. Buying second-hand is great too; sure, streaming looks “cheaper” at first glance but I can do with my property what I want and don’t lose it if I can’t afford a subscription, the service goes down or they lose licenses. It’s preservation, too, and if need be can be lent out to others.
Plus, I’m just discovering the joys of making my own mixtapes and burning CDs. Spotify playlists are… good, of course, but it feels like an actual thing now.
No they are not the average person doesn’t care one bit. Most don’t even know about all this stuff happening which is why companies do it. Online there is a stink but in the real world nobody cares. Look at Netflix and password sharing it did not have the drop.off of subscribers that online would have you believe.
that Framework laptop is on my shopping list… WHEN ram prices go down
or when LPCAMM2 RAM is easy to find.
Suggestion: you can buy it now with less ram than you need and add a stick later when prices are more reasonable.
The hard truth is that ram prices are not going to go down, but inflation will eventually make the price of all other components catch up.
yeh good idea. With this AI shit going on, maybe next year we’ll have 1 ram stick = 3 laptops…
Irony that this is on a paywall website?
I had to downvote due to the paywall. Sorry.
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I hope Louis is being careful. There’s not as much protection in being public as there used to be. The billionaires know they’re essentially immune. I don’t think it’s too much to imagine anymore that he might end up deported, or disappeared in some other way.
The billionaires know they’re essentially immune.
Immune from what exactly? Their biology isn’t unique. They live in information bubbles surrounded by sycophants.
Billionaires with their estates and servants (cooks, nannies, security, lawyers, brokers, PR staff, butlers, etc.) represent a huge attack surface and a very soft belly of capitalism.
Billionaires are not like Trump who can lean on the USA’s first-tier state actor security, the US Secret Service (which isn’t even all that great as we have seen for ourselves, only human).
Why are the billionaires building themselves doomsday bunkers? Because they feel scared or because they feel secure?
To take the title literally: people have stopped wanting to own their shit since the advent of the flush toilet. In the days of the privee, you’d own your shit, you’d muck it out and maybe do something of value with it. But with the flush toilet, your shit belongs to someone else, they deal with it.
In the digital services economy ‘your shit’ could be considered to include your profile information, what do you use, where do you go, when do you do it, how often, how much do you pay? That ‘digital shit’ has about as much value as what you flush down the toilet, individually, but combined into representative market statistics it’s digital gold - predictive information about what will sell, how much of it will sell at what prices, where and when.
Personally, I’d trade my ‘digital shit’ for advertising. Yes, you can track me, if I don’t have to listen to, see, read or receive ANY marketing materials that I do not specifically actively seek for myself. Unfortunately, that’s not the way the current models work and there’s about zero incentive for the advertising world to change.
As for “streaming” vs “owning” digital content, streaming is the ultimate form of tracking - besides the hook of making you pay per view or listen or read - a huge value (to the sellers) in streaming is that tracking is built-in 100% effective.
Then we can devolve into the world of “durable consumer goods” being led by fast-fashion straight down the toilet. Own a car? Actually maintain it and keep it running for 30, 50 or 100 years? Inconceivable in the world of corporate profit maximization. That’s as backwards as clothing that you buy once and wear for decades, mending and tailoring as needed.
That ‘digital shit’ has about as much value as what you flush down the toilet, individually, but combined into representative market statistics it’s digital gold - predictive information about what will sell, how much of it will sell at what prices, where and when.
the advertising industry has left that behind many years ago. the question now is not what will sell, but how will they sell literally any garbage, how do they get you to buy that any garbage, and how do they make you actually want that any garbage above anything else. its mass manipulation from start to end, with the knowledge about everyone how to press their buttons.
how will they sell literally any garbage, how do they get you to buy that any garbage, and how do they make you actually want that any garbage above anything else. its mass manipulation from start to end,
“We could sell horse piss if we put it in an aerosol can!”
Johnathan Lute played by Orson Welles in the 1967 feature film: I’ll Never Forget What’s’isname
