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I just watched this yesterday!
Drew made some very good points while still being understandable enough to those that aren’t as up to par with what is going wrong in the world. Really well done video, and so was his gambling dilemma video!
Thanks for sharing!
Well some of it is really fun- the problem is all the mainstream shit coin micro transaction nft ai bullshit. Just stop supporting those things
Linux is fun as hell.
True, my steam deck and Miyoo mini are great devices.
coincidentally its an ever rarer piece of tech not consumed by capitalism yet.
Counterpoint: corporate organizations provide the bulk of the funding for open source and corporate organizations make a lot of profit from using open source projects. Arguably individual users are reaping far fewer benefits of open source other than not being unwitting data-donors to corporations.
I honestly am really worried about what will happen to Linux when Linus Torvalds passes on. The flat Bazaar of the Linux Kernel Mailing list is at risk of being rife with power struggles for control once Torvalds is no longer in control.
in a capitalist system, we are mostly going to do things the capitalist way even though most of the desktop ecosystem we actually use is made by volunteers and smaller companies. explains a lot of the funding issues we have getting it off the ground for general desktop use, while servers corporations use are well funded and developed.
your worry about linus’ death comes directly from capitalism, you just know investors will pick it apart and destroy it for money if they somehow get their grubby hands on it.
Precisely, capitalism is always the problem.
Right! I’m having a blast with my server.
Yes! And Windows is anything but.
You can order a Linux handheld n100 touchscreen for under $300. Technology is absolutely fun today.
The point is the vast majority of mainstream technology is increasingly being targeted at exploiting users for profit, rather than just providing a product or service in exchange for money.
Ok, but the solution is super easy, low cost, and right in front of you. Pick up a Raspberry Pi if you want to go even cheaper. If you are uncomfortable with electronics, you can still piece together a bunch of cool stuff just using USB as your interface of choice.
Also, 10" mini racks are cool.
Lots of cool stuff happening in tech if you look outside of the big corporations.
A RPi simply does not solve society’s technological problems.
Maybe we disagree on the kinds of technological problems society needs to solve. 🤷♂️
Okay, picture this:
You have an employer. Like a wild number of employers they require you to sign up and use an account with the largest and most exploitative corporate surveillance system in existence. Not only that, but to ensure that you’re able to use their products and services the employer requires you to install and use a browser from said corporate surveillance system because other browsers don’t implement non-standard features and functions they made up?
How’s your RPi going to fix that?
Or maybe a billionaire buys up one of the largest media platform in existence and uses it to manipulate an entire country into letting a convicted felon become President, along with further enriching himself to the tune of 100 billions dollars.
How’s your RPi going to fix that?
By helping eject from those systems. There’s lots of cool open source projects based on all sorts of different hardware. And you can self-host some bits and pieces of your digital life if you really feel motivated to.
I don’t know if it’s much help but I never said it would solve all the things you seem to want it to. There are some alternatives out there for people feeling trapped by big tech, I’m just trying to share a small piece of that.
Running vanilla linux on that kind of device is silly, kernel-wise android has very sensible features and ui-wise it’s not even a competition.
Now, getting lineage (or similar) on a phone that doesn’t cost an arm and a leg for comparatively potato hardware, like the Fairphone, that’s another issue.
Or how about a steam deck with an m.2 slot for a cellular modem. Also, headset, because I’m not going to hold that thing to my ear. But still, android compatibility is an issue: The reason I even have a shoddy smartphone is to use things like public transit and package delivery apps.
Can you share a link? I haven’t come across an n100 handheld yet, or maybe I’m looking in the wrong places.
Man I remember one of my friends got a flat panel about a decade ago and he is a huge movie buff, tons of old horror and sci fi VHS and DVDs. He would invite me to watch movies and it just always boggled my mind how fucking shitty and unwatchable the movies were.
It was years later when I realized it was that smooth motion garbage. I really do not understand how people can put up with how trash that feature is
Consisting your friend is a huge movie buff I’m surprised it didn’t bother the heck out of him, film fans usually turn that crap off as soon as they turn on the TV. Supposedly it’s because sports, soap operas and a lot of low budget TV are shot & broadcast at higher frame rate than film - so when you watch a film with the frame rate artificially increased your brain goes ‘I am watching low budget soap trash’ subconsciously. I think people are just used to film looking a certain way and anything that makes it appear quite different is too distracting for them to relax into the fantasy.
The biggest problem for me is the absolute crap interfaces for most tech. No logic in the design.no ability to look at an interface and be able to just understand what you need to do. Now it’s spend an hour doing Google searches and trying to figure it out.
There is a logic to the design: most apps are designed to be used for as long as possible instead of getting what you want done.
It totally is.
I have fun with technology every single day.
Yesterday I spent a good part of the evening scrapping a site to serve myself an API of it’s contents and dockerizing the app.
BTW if you try to put a service under docker with exposed ports remember to change localhost to 0.0.0.0
