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[–] lemonySplit@lemmy.ca 4 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Too bad they crushed all the old cars

[–] sundray@lemmus.org 1 points 6 days ago

I mean, they were worthless.

[–] eskimofry@lemmy.world 2 points 6 days ago

This post and several comments agreeing with this I feel are made with some level of ignorance on "Civil Disobedience".

Minimizing participation in the orphan-crushing machine but also debating politics on available platforms are not antithetical. Debating online is as important as doing the rest of the things that are perceived as "real" worthwhile pursuits. For instance: How can we pursue a cure for cancer if the political climate ensures scientists are scorned and distrusted? If evangelising about the "real" problems you care about is labelled as politics then can you really make progress without "political" action such as boycotting, protests and civil disobedience?

In the same vein, doing the small things in protest is the stepping stones to doing bigger things. It works the same way for any pursuit. Why shouldn't I practice discipline with my disdain for all the evil in small ways while also pushing for more?

Jeff Bezos makes billions of dollars, But He didn't get the $100 from me this year. Sure that sounds like a waste of time and energy for not much impact. But It didn't cause me any hardship. But believe me that $100 had either a compounding effect on my own wealth this year or to some people i gifted essential food to. That impact was felt a lot more by me or one of the people i gifted food or essentials to.

[–] bridgeenjoyer@sh.itjust.works 2 points 6 days ago

Basically how i try to live my life! Buy physical media, setup a nas, unplug from the internet on most weekends (or limit it).

[–] Rentlar@lemmy.ca 114 points 1 week ago (20 children)

We're techy enough nerds to know there's another way to be free of billionaire influence while still keeping some resemblance of modern communication: self-hosting.

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[–] qaz@lemmy.world 82 points 1 week ago (18 children)

We don't need to go back to handwritten mail, FOSS is the way to go.

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[–] MudMan@fedia.io 63 points 1 week ago (27 children)

That last panel hit me like a truck because... yeah, that's what people think happens when they do their little personal choice things to pretend they matter.

They really buy like a paper book once and go "ah, yes, Bezos is fuming right now" while he makes another billion.

We have lost all sense of how to influence society and all ability to gauge scale. For all the folksy traditionalism in this (which includes driving a gas guzzler from the 70s, apparently?) the Internet has created this entirely disproportionate sense of our footprint on the world and this strip is as much a result of the hyperconnected dystopia as everything it's complaining about.

In my experience this is extra bad for Americans who, frankly, didn't need that much of a push to go from their individualist, self-centered perception of society to this vision of sitting on a couch listening to a walkman as activism.

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[–] Zink@programming.dev 55 points 1 week ago (1 children)

That’s exactly what is so nice about FOSS based systems. You can use technology but without the tech bros and the corporate enshittification.

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[–] serenissi@lemmy.world 44 points 1 week ago (2 children)

or, you know, you can have best of both worlds with open technologies. tech that you own and control.

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[–] A_Very_Big_Fan@lemmy.world 35 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (5 children)

I am and probably always will be a tech enthusiast, but as time goes on I find myself more and more looking for old technology to avoid planned obsolescence, anti-repair bs, telemetry & tracking, lack of consideration for quality of life....

This is not how things were supposed to be. But this is how things will be if we don't do something about oligarchs and certain CEOs.

[–] bridgeenjoyer@sh.itjust.works 1 points 6 days ago

I always say, it peaked about 2010, maybe earlier. Then innovation stopped, and surveillance REALLY took off. All they have left now is your data, and ads, because the iPhone was the last actually innovative useful device.

Its not worth innovating in late stage capitalism when you can make everything a subscription and gouge your customers for life while making your product worse and worse.

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[–] Tattorack@lemmy.world 31 points 1 week ago (14 children)

Cutting out the middle man does not involve technologically regressing.

Cutting out the middle man means stepping up and learning how the tech you use in your daily lives actually works. The only reason some tech bro can step in and ruin your life is if you let them keep you ignorant through convenience.

You want to cut out the middle man? Use, and support, open source. Fight to make everything that requires a server, be a server that you own in your own home (or is federated and in your local community). Use, and support, repairable technology... And actually repair your technology!

[–] ameancow@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Cutting out the middle man does not involve technologically regressing.

But then how can you performatively sit in Starbucks with a mechanical typewriter and then post it on social media so everyone knows how progressive and anti-establishment you are???

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[–] psx_crab@lemmy.zip 29 points 1 week ago (6 children)

pre-computerised car

No one want to fiddle with carburetor anymore thank you very much.

And tbh, 2010-2015 is comfortable enough and less bullshit.

[–] bridgeenjoyer@sh.itjust.works 1 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (1 children)

I wouldn't say no one. Carbs are just fine, and were insanely good before they were killed off. With our research now, We could have AMAZING carbs. And guess what, you can fix them yourself!

Myself and many others need nothing more than roll down windows, am radio, and a seat belt. Too many lazy people today want to drive a damn land yacht with 56 screens in it. yells at cloud

[–] psx_crab@lemmy.zip 2 points 6 days ago (1 children)

I get that, but honestly i'm getting tired of having to adjust the distributor timing and fiddle with the air-fuel ratio to get it just "right", else the car would either underpowered, use a lot more fuel, or emission is gonna be off the chart. If you work on your own car then it would be all right, it's a nightmare for people who fix it for a living. But i do get that, when it works, it works really nice.

[–] bridgeenjoyer@sh.itjust.works 1 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Yeah I prefer basic efi except when the factory in Taiwan stops making the plastic sensor you need, youre screwed. Thats pretty much all car parts now

[–] psx_crab@lemmy.zip 2 points 6 days ago

I think my current issue with carburetor is exactly that, i can't take it apart because everything seized, i can't get a used one because it's rare, and i can't get a new one because all on the market is kinda crap. I guess that's basically how most reliable thing get phased out.

[–] venusaur@lemmy.world 28 points 1 week ago (7 children)

Pretty sure they mean computerized interiors like infotainment systems. Probably not talking about ECU and internal computerized parts.

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