In the last year, I’ve spent about 200,000 words on a kind of personal journey where I’ve tried again and again to work out why everything digital feels so broken, and why it seems to keep getting worse, despite what tech’s “brightest” minds might promise. More

  • Settoletto 🍤OPM
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    71 month ago

    Very well summed up imho! Thanks for taking the time to do this, kind stranger!

    • @[email protected]
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      101 month ago

      Thanks. While I was hooked, I had a feeling most people wouldn’t commit to such a long article

      My favourite quote:

      Aside: I swear to god, if your answer here is “get a MacBook Air, they’re only $600,” I beg you — I plead with you — to speak with people outside of your income bracket at a time when an entire election was decided in part because everything’s more expensive.

      • @AnUnusualRelic
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        71 month ago

        As if Apple wasn’t just as much a part of the problem as the rest of them.

      • @QuarterSwede
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        11 month ago

        Responding to the quote (not you), I have zero sympathy for this thought. I grew up with computers and they’ve literally never been cheaper. Ever. Hell $699 back in the day would’ve been cheap and this is now, with inflation!