"Just make something, even if it’s laughably bad. Make it yours."
Great piece by @j
My favorite laundromat just got drastically demoted. DexterPay no longer works on their machines. The biggest ones will take a credit card at a steep surcharge, but it's buggy as hell and doesn't work properly on the dryers. #enshittification #fail
Last year until December Google Maps was very useful for moving around São Paulo by public transportation.
It barely works now, 3 months later. Stops, crashes, loses info, reloads slowly all the time. #Enshittification #Embostificação
#AI is the new tobacco: that industry invented scientific controversy around the unquestionable harm of tobacco and lobbied aggressively against any regulation of its sales, just as corporations now peddle tall tales about utility of AI and lobby for its use everywhere, supercharging #enshittification by normalising #slop.
It took more than half a century to reverse what tobacco industry has done to public opinion on tobacco, and the damage to public health was irreversible.
Funny and sad: I am doing a quick desk research on the uses of AI in tourism, and I struggle with a lot of content coming up on web search being AI slop of super low quality.
Eh.
Written by a university teacher; They're Illiterate with 8th grade writing skills. I dropped out of NYC public school in the 9th grade. My Iowa test scores in an 8th grade, middle of curve class level, was 12th grade vocabulary and 10th grade grammar
At a local community college decades later their 'assesment' person wanted to put me in intermediate algebra. I never had an algebra class. Says something.
"The average college student today"
https://hilariusbookbinder.substack.com/p/the-average-college-student-today #education #enshittification
@voxel @thenewoil personally, I refuse to buy any #phone that doesn't have #toolfree swappable & removeable batteries as a matter of principle.
I just don't accept #Enshittification!
And now my browser (Duck Duck Go) is opening half-screen.
I didn't ask for this. I don't want this. And I can't find out how to fix this.
Half of the online solutions say "Go to the Settings by clicking on the three dots on the top right of your screen..."
It won't display the top right of the screen and the three little dots.
Pluralistic:
Big Tech and “captive audience venues
“Enshittification is what you get when tech companies, run by the common-or-garden mediocre sociopaths who end up at the top of most businesses, are unshackled from any consequence for indulging their worst, greediest impulses”
#Enshittification #Pluralistic #sociopaths #billionaires #facebook #x #twitter
@pluralistic
https://pluralistic.net/2025/03/28/street-pricing/#sportball-analogies
I can't believe I have to ask this, but: is there a decent app for iOS that plays music I own without requiring an internet connection? #enshittification
Microsoft wants Windows 11 installs to use a Microsoft Account — confirms removal of popular setup bypass
The popular "bypassnro" command, which let users to skip connecting to the Internet and signing into a Microsoft Account, is being removed.
I've reached this point where I know Big Tech is useless unless I can free it from corporate greed with Linux and GrapheneOS.
Big Tech is like digital colonialism, siphoning creativity and exploiting consumers for profit while deepening inequality. These corporations treat individuals as mere resources in their relentless pursuit of profit.
Platforms like TikTok, Facebook, Instagram, and all those other platforms are just tools for Big Tech to exploit us. They're trash.
When will you stand up against their exploitation? Look at the harm they cause!
@sharan yeah. I made the switch to cronos - yes, PRC, but so far slower trajectory towards #enshittification
#Microsoft is removing the possibility to use a local account with #Windows.
https://blogs.windows.com/windows-insider/2025/03/28/announcing-windows-11-insider-preview-build-26200-5516-dev-channel/
"We’re removing the bypassnro.cmd script from the build to enhance security and user experience of Windows 11."
Oh, okay, but how does it improve security or user experience?
"This change ensures that all users exit setup with internet connectivity and a Microsoft Account."
Ah, so it does not improve security or user experience. It in fact is making the user experience worse, as you no longer can set up Windows offline easily.
The only reason is to force more users to sign up to Microsoft account.
Garmin announced Connect+, paid tier of their app.
Please, no.
Auf weia, gestern schon auf ein Forum gestoßen, wo ich mich über die wiederholend dusseligen Antworten im Thread gewundert habe, bis ich merkte, dass das nen Bot war. Jetzt wieder so ein Forum, wo die erste Antwort kompletter Müll ist.
Wer fragt in nem Forum, wenn Bot-Qualität gewollt wäre...
Why is it that every iteration of basically every app becomes worse and worse? Sigh.
It used to be that if I found something in an app annoying, I could search online and somewhere someone would have the right setting to tweak to improve things.
More recently, I seem to only find lots of people complaining about how the thing sucks and there's no way to do anything about it.
Has anyone else noticed this trend? Another symptom of #enshittification?
I was just texting with someone on my Motorola Android phone, and my text prediction started going absolutely wild: mostly with curse words, obscure emojis, and porn terms which have never been typed into this thing at all. I opened up a new message to test it again and it seemed to have reverted back to normal. What the fuck was that!? Has anyone else seen something like this? #enshittification
