- Recently? Play Store android phones started allowing apps to run ads with your typical virus style "Hey I see you CPU is "Lagging" click to fix Pop-downs.
- My new Samsung phone was an expensive pocket watch / alarm clock. Now it wants me to be a puppet.
Like everyone else I thought paying lots of money for something meant it had positive value.
- I get it, I fell for it. Jokes on me - I'm an idiot - something to do with my identity and consumerism.
- I see people online do silly things like port Windows onto their Chromebook (Shed tear). "Look at all these new features!" they proclaim in joy. They don't seem to realize they were allowed that freedom through free software / hardware. It's always something. Video games, convenience, simplicity.
- I'm not ignorant of why these things appear appealing - I wasted much of my life over what I thought was time saving.
- It's like getting granted political asylum and running into the first jail just to be extra sure you're safe.
TL:DR
I tried getting a newer laptop to run Windows a year or so ago believing that like my desktop I could choose to uninstall the Windows and replace it. It was a 64 bit processor running 32 bit windows. 32 bit bootloader. Christ. Then reinstalling Windows to sell it. Oh now the mouse and keyboard doesn't work because the drivers were packaged separately and the repair partition (10gb of the 32gb emmc) is only accessible by a repair specialist.
So when these corps come along with "look at what we've "philanthropically" contributed to your cheap raspberry pi I'm gonna go ahead and steer towards a future without all the B.S.
I'd love to hear more about how these corps are symbiotic for a better technical future (partial sarcasm).
- Recently? Play Store android phones started allowing apps to run ads with your typical virus style "Hey I see you CPU is "Lagging" click to fix Pop-downs.
- My new Samsung phone was an expensive pocket watch / alarm clock. Now it wants me to be a puppet. Like everyone else I thought paying lots of money for something meant it had positive value.
- I get it, I fell for it. Jokes on me - I'm an idiot - something to do with my identity and consumerism.
- I see people online do silly things like port Windows onto their Chromebook (Shed tear). "Look at all these new features!" they proclaim in joy. They don't seem to realize they were allowed that freedom through free software / hardware. It's always something. Video games, convenience, simplicity.
- I'm not ignorant of why these things appear appealing - I wasted much of my life over what I thought was time saving.
- It's like getting granted political asylum and running into the first jail just to be extra sure you're safe.
TL:DR
I tried getting a newer laptop to run Windows a year or so ago believing that like my desktop I could choose to uninstall the Windows and replace it. It was a 64 bit processor running 32 bit windows. 32 bit bootloader. Christ. Then reinstalling Windows to sell it. Oh now the mouse and keyboard doesn't work because the drivers were packaged separately and the repair partition (10gb of the 32gb emmc) is only accessible by a repair specialist.
So when these corps come along with "look at what we've "philanthropically" contributed to your cheap raspberry pi I'm gonna go ahead and steer towards a future without all the B.S.
I'd love to hear more about how these corps are symbiotic for a better technical future (partial sarcasm).