The only movie that literally stuck in my brain these past weeks is idiocracy. I never thought that 500 yrs would go by so quickly.

Man, that was a wild ride. Thanks for the link.

Yes, that’s lemmy for you. You happened to point out something in a way that showed some frustration and people started attacking you for it.

They are either 12 or 42 and live in their mothers basement with linux as their whole identity. They don’t read thoroughly nor do they accept criticism.

I‘ve encountered them before. Don’t worry. If this makes you feel bad, consider wording your comments differently.

Maybe expand a bit on why and don’t answer to obvious troll questions, at least not honestly, like the implication that you‘re using pirated windows.

A complete moron could have seen that you were just frustrated with seeing no way out of windows and getting it blindly suggested still. That is not your fault.

May I ask what sw is on that list?

This actually applies to everything that has long lasting consequences. Pumping poison in our lakes, rivers and air, making to be trashed devices…

Oof. Seeing this must frustrate you. It bothers me too seeing sleazebags getting their way while honest people get fucked.

A sane person? What are you doing on social media? :)

Exactly. Most importantly, „it is unclear if the autopilot was active“ is an admission of guilt in my book. A system that is highly critical (impacting steering, accelerating and decelerating a 2+ ton vehicle with multiple people on board) is unclear if active means they are completely clueless of their own products status and should be fully liable. You can not sell something like this at all. I feel like they (people in charge) should go to jail for negligent manslaughter.

I‘m really sorry but I don’t have the time to sift through walls of text all the time. I appreciate your effort though.

Have a good one.

I have to disagree here.

You‘re making a lot of assumptions here that are not easily connected imo.

Stress being a good motivator is correct but on relative terms. Too much stress destroys you and people have been a lot more productive back then comparing labor that they are today. Most people move away from grueling manual labor which you can see in the ongoing shortages in labor intensive jobs such as carpentry (which I have worked in in the past btw). There is no evidence that reducing stress would be a bad thing.

Also, it feels to me as if you‘re trying to apply the things I‘ve said to your model of thinking instead of trying to understand my way of thinking, experience and therefore why I come to the conclusions I do. A typical problem of our stressed times.

What I‘m trying to say is that the stress level has been a lot lower in all past times and you can see psychiatric medication and stress diseases skyrocketing for a couple years if not decades.

We are playing a dangerous shell game of distracting each other and ourselves from the facts that we can’t become more productive without sacrificing our freedom and our sanity.

And stuff has not become cheaper and we are not earning more. That is complete and utter bs. Buying a cell phone (which you now need for work whatsapp groups) is becoming more and more expensive, tvs tripled in price. There even are lists you can look at. The average inflation has been nearly 2 digits for the past couple of years.

There are interesting charts showing the comparison of wages to inflation and they‘re shocking.

So frankly, I find it a little upsetting that you would say the extreme opposite. I would call this disinformation.

Source for european real wages falling: https://www.ft.com/content/ed477fe9-46fa-43d0-b315-4170763261c2

Source for us real wages stagnating for 50 yrs: https://www.aei.org/articles/have-wages-stagnated-for-decades-in-the-us/

We have a sane person in this comment section! I love it. Can you please run for some public office?

We absolutely can. Break up every company at 999 mil and we‘re golden. It’s the lack of competition that makes enshittification possible.

I‘m a little surprised by the sheer size of your comment. Thank you for your effort.

I agree that there are many good ideas and nuances to use in this situation. I really like how much thought you‘ve put into it.

Where I don’t agree is the 100 yrs ago theme. You‘re taking what I said and interpret it in a way I didn’t intend. I meant we as people should become less productive and neither we as a population nor living like 100 yrs ago.

Example: being less productive as in not being on the phone with a customer while driving to work alone in your own car so as to be there early, able to pick something up your boss demands and making sales for the company but instead waiting for the bus, not being on the phone and not slaving for your boss while on unpaid time.

Does this example make more sense?

And being less productive does not mean we have no modern medicine, cutting edge computers but less luxury. The vast majority of our surplus productivity goes into the 1% and luxury items. Yachts, Jewelry, etc. part of this surplus happens because both people in a 2 person household work and still get along the same or less than 1 earner households did back in the 70s.

Okay. I agree that i was a bit far with my phrasing. I should have said „in city centers“. I live in a city and I don’t see a reason to use or even own a car 9/10 times (if the transit is good, which it isnt in my city).

But I‘d like to address something else here. If we had no cars, we would take a lot longer to do things and become much less productive and less stressed, which is becoming a big problem rn.

So, maybe a conpromise between both our ideas would be good. I‘d like to achive throwing a wrench in our capitalist steam machine turning our planet to a pile of shit.

Ban all cars. bus, tram and trains need to be so great that you can actually stand driving in them. But they’re only important for winter or when it rains mostly anyway. Otherwise you take the bike, ebike or scooter. We would need to find a solution for carrying lots of groceries obviously. Remember when people hat little trollies behind them when grocery shopping?

(Obviously in summer a disabled person would still ride them. Not trying to be ableist here)

Whoops. In this case I don’t understand the question.

Probably home assistant? Thats what I use.

I think ask lemmy would work better for this question. Just an idea.

I was looking to buy a samsung ssd. Looks like i will shop elsewhere then.

Not that voting with your wallet does anything. The action samsung is taking here should be illegal.

I‘d very much appreciate if you didn’t assume what I wanted to achieve with my post.

To clarify it for you:

• I think this unity thing is horrendous
• It obviously is part of the enshittification pattern we see everywhere
• I feel like this goes far beyond tech
• I never wanted to „come across“ a certain way. I‘m autistic have a very different perception of things. My goal in a post is to inform or get informed.

Maybe this helps to clear things up. Feel free to correct things you think are inaccurate.

Thanks for mentioning it. Good to know.