They also have a petition if interested: https://action.aclu.org/petition/get-the-flock-out

I wish you were exaggerating but my workplace has been sending multiple bricked laptops a week in for warranty. All windows update.

Maybe if you're worried about decreasing traffic don't require an account just to read something on the internet.

It’s a for profit company in a for profit society

True, but IMO their entire business model was to not be assholes, and businesses like that tend to hang on at least a bit better than this. I'm not saying I'm completely surprised though.

I wonder if this will be the last reddit exodus, I don't know how they can enshittify further so I imagine those that remain are pretty complacent.

I already think proton mail is pretty slow to render/load, they don't have much room to make it worse before it's too much-in other words they better be real careful with that vibe coding.

In general these events have me thinking of switching providers (and I have a paid tier).

It's somewhat comforting knowing we're all equals in terms of our mortality, for now.

A phone that would fit in my cup holder, and I could reach the other corner of the screen with my thumb-without moving the phone around was so much more usable.

I feel like the average person is too obsessed with convenience and/or not smart enough to draw certain technologies to their logical conclusions. At least you'll be able to say "yeah I warned you about that 10 years ago".

I can't wait for a base linux install to be 60 GB of slop, like windows.

Healthequity tried forcing this passkey garbage on me, and they wouldn't allow me to manage investments over the phone, so I ended up transferring everything to a different HSA provider. Not giving in. I love TOTP though.

Yep, I'd hope for good new projects where their founding principles are about being against these things. Some people say if you dont like feature X then compile your own distro, which I dont think is a realistic solution for everyone.

Ive always kept an offline copy of anything I cared about, if anything asks for my ID in the future I am definitely doing without or finding an alternative, mass noncompliance is important.

In this scenario I would hope the community takes development and distribution "underground", but even if such a solution existed it would probably no longer be interoperable with the rest of the worlds locked down garbage.

I agree with that and care very much about privacy, but for me there's a big difference between privacy and security-it's why I'd take an out of date linux install over freshly patched windows 11-I think that in the right use case one could argue CVEs aren't relevant so long as they're not being exploited. Obviously though an up to date linux/graphene/whatever install is the best of both worlds.

I think a lot of these views for me were born from an anticonsumption standpoint. Some corporation decides to stop releasing software updates for a device, on their terms, and now I'm supposed to open my wallet? Nah. I used an out of date phone for 6 years and nothing bad came of it, but again it's down to who you are and how you use it.

I haven't heard his name in a while, loved his ted talk. What a good dude. But yeah, excellent points. Too many people seem to think ostracizing others is going to solve things, I think it has only made things worse.

Well said. A lot of the freedoms we enjoy are a use it or lose it scenario. For example a business is more likely to stop accepting cash if only 1% of their customers use it, so I still use it even though I would often prefer my card.

I feel like if you ever replace that water heater you'll never find one again that lasts that long.

Vintage audio equipment. It's purpose built without gimmicky features, high quality, high performance, and built to last with discrete components and service manuals. Really it doesn't have to be vintage, but it's usually the old stuff that prioritizes these traits. I usually play local files (mp3/flac) over a bluetooth DAC but vinyl is fun once in a while. The same living room system gets used for movies and whatever else too.

Great ones, respect.