Better Offline: explains a lot of things that are wrong with today’s tech. Mostly Ed ranting about enshittification/AI in everything

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Thanks, but no thanks, Clippy

You seem to have a lot more faith in microsoft than I do.

My concern is the likelyhood that companies using MS products will cut corners by using deprecated/unsupported OSs for years after the last security patch, which will lead to security breaches for many consumers.

Not on Linux yet, but I really need to make the switch soon. Will be nice to actually have some semblance of control over my own personal devices.

Only feasible if on an air-gapped network with no access to the internet

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/He_Gets_Us

Still selling as much of your data as they can though, regardless of how many He Get Us ads you see

Who could have seen this coming? Definitely not the critics of LLM hyperscalers.

Consumers don’t like subscriptions to operate heated seats that are already integrated into the car, for example.

I’ll eventually have to buy a new car, yes. But I’ll also be looking into replacing the car’s cellular antenna with a dummy load if possible. A good car shouldn’t depend on cellular networks to be able to function.

Great. Do away with the unnecessary telemetry next.

It’s techbro brainrot lol