it made me think: how do i get this level of control over other technologies on a day to day basis.
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it made me think: how do i get this level of control over other technologies on a day to day basis.
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Nora Reed
In response to this posthow do we make a world where people have agency over the machines we own and depend on?
people talk about "enshittification" as everything getting worse, which it is. but the really damaging part of it is that we are forced to cede control over our tech and hand it to people who see consumers as exploitable resources without much power to switch to something else
by Nora Reed ;
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Well for computer/desktop/server, buy the parts and build your own: motherboard, cpu, memory, disks, etc it's not that hard, the have standard connectors ... if you haven't done it before you might want to get someone to walk through it with you though.
Then install a free OS like Linux or BSD. You're then off to the races. If you were careful with purchases you would have avoided having to pay for a MacOS or Windows license, that's a great start.
by bjb :devuannew: :emacs: ;
@nora Free Software, and then some. RMS has been right about everything (software related anyway), which sucks.
by Larry Garfield ;
@nora read this
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/942560.Free_Software_Free_Society
by Tim Abell ;
@nora Go off grid. Granted, it's not the whole world, but it's yours.
The problem is, in part, support. It's MUCH more expensive to sit on the phone and coach someone through a repair, as it is to stock complex spare parts and design products that part out.
The more complex things get, the harder it is to bring people into those processes, to get them up-to-speed on the mechanics of all of it, when what they need to be doing is what they already know how to do.
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