...with my luck I'll go through all the brain damage of switching back to Garmin, since there is no decent FOSS fitness tracking hardware, get everything wired up in a de-Googled Android OS (assuming Health services work at all there), and a week later Garmin will get bought by Apple or Google and I'll be equally fucked with all my data going to the same goddamn place. #rant#BigTechShouldNotExist#foss
If Apple starts sending all my fucking search, messages, photos, files, etc. data to Google or OpenAI I'm done with them. They are my compromise platform because I hate adding to the Google/Facebook style data reseller big tech data lakes. I honestly don't know what the alternative will be at that point besides having to hobble my experience with /e/os, LineageOS, whatever, self hosting services, etc. and try to figure out a work around for banking apps. Motherfuckers! This is so enraging. I have a feeling I better start getting my ducks in a row to depart their ecosystem sooner rather than later. #rant#apple#ai#enshitification#BigTechShouldNotExistmacrumors.com/2024/04/26/apple…
Tech press giving Bluesky the same treatment they gave Mastodon/fediverse after covering it in a positive light for ten minutes back in 2022. So fucking predictable. I'm not pleased with Bluesky sucking up all the decentralized social media oxygen these past several months. I mean AP fediverse didn't even get a mention in this article at all. But the "oh well I guess we just have to keep kissing Musk's ass and use Twitter" coverage is bullshit too. Ironically one of their complaints was a same one they had about Mastodon: not enough virality of shitposting content and doomscrolling. Yes, that's what the world needs :eyeroll:. Ironically they also complained that Bluesky is too much like the UX people are used to on Twitter so too boring. Meanwhile that's the opposite of their complaint about Mastodon which was just way too confusing to figure out...or something. I guess their Goldilocks zone for social media is Twitter, Tik-Tok, and Facebook/Instagram. How original Wired magazine. How very fucking original. #rant#fediverse#BigTechShouldNotExist Bluesky’s Future Is Social Media’s Past
You know who doesn’t milk everyone dry and then try to put everyone over a barrel to let them keep doing that to the detriment of everyone else? The fediverse and non-big tech/SV VC companies. May these sorts of things help build inertia against these motherfuckers. #BigTechShouldNotExist#DeleteBigTech#DeleteFacebook#fediverse Trudeau denounces Meta
You know who doesn’t milk everyone dry and then try to put everyone over a barrel to let them keep doing that to the detriment of everyone else? The fediverse and non-big tech/SV VC companies. May these sorts of things help build inertia against these motherfuckers. #BigTechShouldNotExist#DeleteBigTech#DeleteFacebook#fediverse Trudeau denounces Meta
You know who doesn’t milk everyone dry and then try to put everyone over a barrel to let them keep doing that to the detriment of everyone else? The fediverse and non-big tech/SV VC companies. May these sorts of things help build inertia against these motherfuckers. #BigTechShouldNotExist#DeleteBigTech#DeleteFacebook#fediverse Trudeau denounces Meta
You know who doesn’t milk everyone dry and then try to put everyone over a barrel to let them keep doing that to the detriment of everyone else? The fediverse and non-big tech/SV VC companies. May these sorts of things help build inertia against these motherfuckers. #BigTechShouldNotExist#DeleteBigTech#DeleteFacebook Trudeau denounces Meta