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Henky!! 1mo ago 💬 16

Tech is getting increasingly depressing for me.

Windows is being AI slopped to shir.

Linux intentionally infects everything with ideology and incompatibilities.

Android wants to become more like iPhone.

Apple is consistent in being a tyrant that wants to dictate what you can do.

Governments are removing our digital liberties at record pace.

I used to be excited about tech, but this year its very little excitement and a lot of seeing my passion go to shit.

I need some hype in my life again. Maybe the steam frame will not get ruined and cheer me up a bit. At least the open source AI space keeps giving some fun toys to play with.

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ynniv 1mo ago

what if anyone with a web browser could give anyone else with a web browser money in seconds without channels *and it just worked*

jb55 1mo ago

What does “Linux intentionally infects everything with ideology and incompatibilities.” mean? Linux doesn’t break userspace.

Henky!! 1mo ago

The userspace breaks userspace. The kernel is nice and not what I was on about. The forced migration to wayland is an issue. Userspace libraries having vast incompatibilities between versions is an issue. Pipewire not being a perfect pulseaudio replacement is an issue as its needed to make wayland more sensible. Gnomes removal of window decorations is an issue as it forces every app to build those themselves. Ubuntu replacing the core utils with rust versions that aren't remotely finished yet is an issue but thankfully isolated to them.

It just makes it a really frustrating platform to use when things keep requiring more effort to do. And the software quality will just go down when gnome and wayland deliberately force people to conform to their decisions.

Its mainly the forced part I am so upset by. If desktops didn't pull X support and wayland was optional people would have choices. Right now as a software developer its much harder to deal with than before. And every dev who doesn't bother especially for multiplatform software by smaller teams will then mean their app that used to work great is now a mess. All because essential elements got removed.

Tyler 1mo ago

The masses ruin everything. When things are new and exciting because only a small amount of people are using it, that’s when you feel wild and free.

Then comes politics, greed, and terrible people that want to change what made it special. You then spend more time fighting to preserve what was once standard, and move on to different things.

I feel your pain.

HoloKat 1mo ago

Enshitification cycle

Jerome Powell 21iQ 40TPW 1mo ago

While I agree with the sentiment..

I'm not sure what you're on about regarding Linux.

Governments don't actually remove liberties, unless you're imprisoned. 0/10 do not recommend.

Maybe checkout MeshCore and Reticulum if you haven't already.

Henky!! 1mo ago

Linux I was on about the forced changes to wayland / pipewire, etc. Gnome is the biggest example of that but KDE is now doing it to.

Wayland is not aiming to be compatible with X11 and it breaks a ton of stuff. For example its messing with the tk scaling in our python app with no obvious way to signal it not to do that as its doing it wrong making the text to big.

But theres also a ton of things like screen recorders that cant handle wayland. To fix the ones that do support wayland you need stuff like pipewire. Pipewire also isn't perfectly compatible and breaks audio codecs in xfreerdp and isn't compatible with my pulseaudio config file. I haven't found an obvious way to port it yet.

For gnome users its especially bad because they simply refuse sensible requests like implementing serverside decorations for their wayland version. By dropping X11 every app is now forced to program window borders to have them on gnome which will force everything to switch to client side decorations so none of the border consistency will work anymore if apps bother to begin with.

Then there are the endless library incompatibilities. The fact ubuntu is replacing core utils with an incomplete rust version, etc.

The developers behind a lot of it love promoting their political ideologies and love to shut genuine concern down. They want to force their ideas down the entire ecosystem and it shows. And because people who aren't in favor are villified or leave out of frustration they rule the ecosystem now.

Henky!! 1mo ago

As for the liberties. How about my freedom to speak privately online? Thats under threat. Maybe my freedom to use websites anonymously. Thats under threat. Maybe my freedom to buy and play the games I like? Probably indirectly but thats under threat to from the payment processors and I assume its some governments in the world pushing them to do that.

And its not like we have extreme examples of liberty removal with the lockdowns, countries where police shows up at your door for tweets, etc.

whit 1mo ago

As much as ima against #AI on the macro it sure does make tracking things easier

Oh and #Love #Winxzie

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xplbzx 1mo ago

I think this all stems from the fact that we are nearing being assigned a jurisdictionally sanctioned hand device from birth. If humans were able to build with redundancy into social systems, we'd have a lot less authoritarian wet dreaming. Payments and travel with privacy when you are outside would be a cool *option* but life was way more fulfilling when you left your screen behind when you went outside.

Josua Schmid 1mo ago

And all the abos… not owning files nor config, all in the abo clouds.

Is there a thing like “license dependency churn”? A legal downstream mayhem? A case where I could loose my Spotify playlist because a Spotify supplier licence increases in price because their supplier changed pricing because their supplier was sold to a supplier which has higher software license costs… or so

Henky!! 1mo ago

Yup the transition from owning things to rental is another annoying one where you need online connectivity for stuff just to work.

dazzling 1mo ago

I agree on all points except Linux. The Linux ecosystem is very diverse and decentralized, once you leave the fold of Ubuntu &co. Nixos is weird and wonderful. Arch and Gentoo can get you to someplace very different. But it is decentralized, meaning you have to do the work to get the benefit. And Free Software projects by nature have all their arguments out in the open. So it can seem "infested by ideology", where in reality it is just (a bit too?) transparent.

Henky!! 1mo ago

The problem is that the bad decisions are centralized in a way I can't escape them anymore. For me most linux DE's are lacking and I don't think they are giving me a better exprience. Thats fine they are just not for me. kDE I do really like and them dropping X11 support means that unless its forked and the fork is well distributed I am forced to migrate to wayland or I am forced to migrate to a different desktop both of which degrade my experience.

You could think stick to an old distro for a while but that only works so long and I need to be very up to date on my graphics drivers and other apps. So thats a tempoary at best non ideal solution.

The decentralized nature also makes it very hard for developers. NixOS for example is a particularly incompatible one. We support that one though so at least nix is managable. What doesnt work well is wayland because wayland makes the app scale incorrectly with no obvious way to get it not to do that. I thought I had a workaround but because wayland is also heavily decentralized it only seems to work on KDE. It would be great if we can just tell tk to not have scaling but it doesn't work that way. The scaliny also works great on every other platform. Windows, Mac, X11 are all fine.

Gnome takes this next level where wayland native apps must implement their own window decorations. Like consistent borders and theming? To bad. Apps either no longer to your consistent borders or they break on gnome.

Its that kinda stuff I am on about. You can be decentralized all you want but when key parts of the ecosystem become deliberately incompatible and expect everything else to adapt to them your going to get software devs who then simply no longer want to support it at all.

dazzling 1mo ago

Ok, I get it. I understand some of the frustration. For me Wayland has never been an issue, but I don't do much GUI development.