Replying to Avatar Ari/Calico Mew

nostr:npub1xp9u5xtw5sx7s8z7jnjc3m44268vxm6254xdquaaup0cjwwmqezs8qamfw Our parents have very strong denial to almost all this stuff and act like it doesn't exist or that it doesn't affect them. For example, last week we tried to explain to our dad how windows 10 and 11 force updates on the user and how that bricked our BIOS (fuck you Dell and M$) but he kept trying to fight back and when we SHOWED him the auto update, he just said "nah you're just wrong"

These are the people who are trying to hold this discussion on tech with us and it ticks us off.

-Astrid

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:blobcatverified2: 2y ago

nostr:npub1htx6kzanfmx9xlqrhm6t9mw90zdpd6a0s6vs85en9459hnj9t74swqqrjq nostr:npub175dnsl36ehsku4af6l9afvvunf7fye6uvt7zhyquphct6w06eppsa84a9p Very sad story. Imho a talk with technical arguments unfortunately leads to nothing there, even if you are 100% correct. This is due to several aspects such as, one does not know it differently, lack of expertise, lack of interest in the technology itself, influence by advertising and much more.

In such cases, it can be advantageous to refer away from tech and towards to a more political view: For example Planned obsolescence.

Every person should be aware by now that certain things that are often used are built in such a way that they quickly break or became unusable after the warranty expires. For example, there are coffee machines, smartphones, laptops or many other things that are daily used.

What would happen if those things are Open Source? One could repair them easily, install a android custom rom which still gets updates, install linux on a older laptop which then still can perform most of everyday tasks fast without the need for a new device.

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Ari/Calico Mew 2y ago

nostr:npub1xp9u5xtw5sx7s8z7jnjc3m44268vxm6254xdquaaup0cjwwmqezs8qamfw We tried going the political route but considering they're very scattershot on politics in general it didn't go very well.

They rant about planned obsolescence but in the same breath say "oh it doesn't affect me, I'll use $DEVICE until it dies and then get a new one maybe. It doesn't affect me what the corpos do"

He thinks we "overthink it all" and tries to push us back to blissful ignorance in windows on a daily basis and gah it is annoying af. To him 99.9999% of the world doesn't matter. All that matters is that he can do his job and make money and that "wokeism" doesn't get him and that people "go back to being centrist" whatever the hell that means...

We literally see him out of his home office for maybe 1hr a day...

They (mum and dad both) are in-fucking-furiating

-Astrid