You seem to be taking about something other than enshittification, which has a specific meaning and isn’t just places not respecting privacy or whatever. Per Cory Doctorow (who invented the term) via Wikipedia:
Here is how platforms die: first, they are good to their users; then they abuse their users to make things better for their business customers; finally, they abuse those business customers to claw back all the value for themselves. Then, they die. I call this enshittification, and it is a seemingly inevitable consequence arising from the combination of the ease of changing how a platform allocates value, combined with the nature of a “two sided market”, where a platform sits between buyers and sellers, hold each hostage to the other, raking off an ever-larger share of the value that passes between them.
If enshittification is what you’re assist interested in reducing, check out Cory’s book, The Internet Con: How to Seize the Means of Computation.
What about just giving transparency to what the ranking is and letting people control it? Analogous to “sort by new/best/top” bit ideally with more knobs to tweak and a bunch of preset options?
Me too! So far, the Azeron is looking most appealing, though I’m concerned about Linux support. It sounds like some people have got it working though, so maybe it’ll pan out. The ideal would still be something that supports QMK, so I’m still interested to hear if anyone’s come up with anything that does that.
That’s actually really neat, and could be worth experimenting with. It’s a shame the two halves seem to be hardwired together; I’d only want the left half. Might be a good place to start though, thanks!
I did find it amusing how much the site talks about using a smartphone with your thumbs though; that seems like an alien idea to me: I just a swipe keyboard on my phone with my index finger.
Interesting, hadn’t seen that before. Their site doesn’t really show how they get their 29 button presses–is is multiple switches for each finger? How’s the software for it and, most importantly: does it run on Linux?
I’m sure it does for its purpose, but the D pad is something I use frequently to control movement in a specific direction, so I wantt to be able to, for example, strafe right for a second or two; track ball seems like not a great solution for repeated consistent input like that. Track ball seems like a better solution for doing things like moving a cursor to a particular location.
Yeah, the Belkin is just solid; it’s definitely my longest-lived peripheral. I’ve never used anything by Razer; their stuff seems style over substance.
The DIY community here creates so much really cool stuff; I’m hoping someone else has already tackled this problem.