You mean like Musk’s “Boring company”?

Too late, they’re already on it.

It would awesome if he has incriminating emails, especially if they involve his current job.

GenX entered the chat.

Sufficient enshitification results in us simply reverting to how we did it in 1990. I am using actually useful software, but when that becomes unavailable, I will walk away like I already did with so much.

I’ve been using Linux since 1995, for this very reason.

Increasingly, when I find services don’t work any more, support says, “we don’t support linux”. I stop using that service and find an alternative. Never been on Facebook, and it’s stopped me from spending money at several retailers. Oh, well. Their loss, not mine.

It’s happening, but do you really believe a bunch of nonprofit low income “woke” “DEI” loving hippies are going to lobby more effectively than billion dollar corporations - er, sorry, PEOPLE - will lobby? These people literally bankroll candidates for office to the tune of hundreds of millions of dollars and have hundreds of lawyers to pick apart any resistance.

Sure, lobby. Just understand we are just continuing the fight on principle, not because it will have any impact.

We can’t give up, but we aren’t going to win, short of a literal uprising and even then it’s probably just going to remove the lipstick from this political pig, and the pretense of “for the people” will fall away.

We were hyped over the tech and the “punk” aspect. That’s the rebellion against the dystopia, not embrace of it.

I think I’m past the principle. I’ve been fighting for my privacycfor decades. I think we are beyond any hope now. Not only is it relentless, but it is happening on every front imaginable. I think I’ve checked out. Nothing short of total collapse or ground up revolution will change anything.

As “the kids” say, we’re cooked.

For sociopaths like Musk, yes. The rest of us, not so much.

I actually commented on that somewhere. Cyberpunk is a good example of authors warning us of dystopian possibilities, not glorifying them.

Oh, yes they are…

You’re implying there is an option other than not owning a TV. Please send us specifics so we can join you.

Yep. My LG is not configured for internet. I updated it once with a USB stick. There is no reason to connect tv or speaker to internet. A good antenna gets me critical stuff.

We are already there, but with cars.

They do not exist. I looked.

This is the way. Bonus with HDR, Dolby vision, Atmos.

Steam Deck looks and sounds awesome with this setup.

I still remember adjusting the wrabbit ears on our black and white tv to get one of 4 tv stations.

I am perfectly happy with walking away from video entertainment once my work-arounds fail.

The world will continue spinning when the media manipulators go broke because nobody watches their tripe any more.

I hear these things called books are pretty entertaining.

What mean “we” round-eye?

I built my life around tech, but I never believed it was anything this article claims “we” believed.

Tech is a tool, not a panacea. Apparently “we” never grew up watching Star Trek, or reading the many authors’ works that fully explored the folly “we” are building (Fahrenheit 451, I, Robot, Ender’s Game, any number of cyberpunk books, et. al.)

Holy Fuck. A child could see this coming. I know because I saw it coming. Decades ago.

Well there’s a difference between the rendering engine and what’s included with it. Take a look at Cromite. They do quite a bit of work hardening Chrome. I think avoiding chrome-based browsers on principle is self-limiting. Evaluate the product before discarding it. I’m a Firefox guy, but I know it has its problems.

They’re just trolling now. Nobody is that tone deaf.

Firefox and hardened forks, possibly Cromite. All you can do is harden your defenses as much as possible and try not to go “oooooo shiny” when looking at extensions.

Unfortunately, they’ve been so successful, we won’t be able to get our kids to read this report.