Imagine if didn’t make things that sucked.
Where I live we had little cheapass gas station cake company called Vachon
Say what you will, they were a staple and “our beloved trash cakes”
Some company came in, bought it, and made them suck hard.
Replaced animal fat and sugar with seed oil and HFCS.
Nearly all the better cakes are getting cancelled and the company is probably on the verge of bankruptcy.
I haven’t bought those shitty cakes in years.

Imagine if we had a trend of doing not-that.

It should display what is inside the fridge, without the energy loss of a window.
It should have a bar code scanner and a complete food inventory system.
It should be the “kitchen’s tablet” able to show recipes, watch cooking instruction videos, have a high quality curated knowledge compedium in a convenient and easy to access way.
It should be able to stream outside cameras and answer door bells.
It should be able to take video calls from Mom on XMPP.
It should have high precision control and diagnostic systems.
It should run ENTIRELY on open source software, not damn blob drivers, the display panel should connect internally with an HDMI cable.
Run Proxmox and all my menagerie of LXC containers, don’t cheap out LG!! I want 64 GB RAM and 2tb ssd and a slot to add an HDD.
It should auto-doomscroll for me while I peel potatoes.
It should be able to run a smart voice assistance running Mistral 8x70B medium, locally and OFFLINE but networked and answer my agentic commands with a posh british accent.

ok, good enough, send it

OBLIGATORY !! Hey TOASTER ! “I’ll PUT YOU ON ICE” OUFFFFF

Think of all the animals being eaten alive, of all the animals not quite dead yet in mad terrible pain

mother nature is a sick monster

kWh/kg female dogs !

We’d have to agree on the cause of the problem and what those problems are but on of the problem is the people who like things the way they are, the people who benefit the most from the status quo, are sowing confusion about those things are.

You can see it when opposite participant in the leftright framework agree on what the problem is be have nearly completely opposed causal explanation and solutions to that problem.

We can tell the billionaire and the mainstream establishment are ducking us, manipulating us, constantly brainhacking us with advertising and addiction grooming us, that they’re buying the politics and the politicians are and aspire to be billionaires as well and have aligned their interested with the rich and powerful against us.

The problem I think IS concentration of information and social power in all its forms, whoever gets the upperhand over all of us should be getting the most scrutiny and not given the space to hide and manipulate us. Power should come with a dispelling of privacy maybe ?

That’s still not even close …

Abandonware must be open sourced, publishing a new version doesn’t count as a exception.

But not gambling, cigarettes, day trading, doom scrolling, sub minimum wage gig work right ?

I would also like to see most moderation actions, be a filter applied client side and under full control of the user. Moderation becomes a “default view” of the consensus, that users are not forced to abide.

After that, we can have client side ability to ignore certain user’s moderation action based on their account history and history of reliable judgment and the user could decide how much weight to give to various actors in the ecosystem

/u/dessalines I would suggest that community consensus should be able to apply the NSFW tag without poster or moderator intervention.

I think some “moderation actions” should be better crowdsourced beyond simple upvote/downvote system, to offload the burden on moderators who can then, only review community consensus actions, rather than perform all actions themselves and have to view and decide everything. One example of this is the “community notes” of Xitter. I think there is a lot of opportunity for improvement compared with the shadowy and unaccountable ways that moderation is usually performed on social media.

Microsoft is fine if you don’t buy computers anymore
It won’t miss you in particular

This is what’s going to happen with PCs
https://lemmy.ml/post/33992840/20208076

Here is a taste of the future

You CAN’T Jailbreak Your PC

The days of “it’s my hardware, I’ll run what I want” are over.
TPM 2.0, Secure Boot, and Microsoft Pluton are forming a closed execution environment.

You can’t replace the bootloader.  
You can’t flash unsigned firmware.  
You can’t disable the vendor-approved certificate store.

Try to run an unsigned OS, and it will simply refuse to boot.
Your motherboard no longer listens to you.
It listens to Microsoft and OEMs.

You Will Own Nothing, and Even That Nothing Is Tied to Your Old PC

TPM stores your encryption keys in a non-exportable way.
Your files, apps, and even your OS activation are now bound to your specific machine.

Want to move them to another system?
Too bad. The TPM won’t let you.
Even if you own both devices.

The machine is yours. The data, software, and identity within it are not.

Installing Linux Will Be Illegal (Functionally, If Not Yet Legally)

Secure Boot + Remote Attestation is the death knell for freedom-focused OSes.

Your distro doesn’t carry the "right" signature?
Blocked.

You modify the kernel for performance or privacy?
No longer attested.

You write your own OS?
You don’t get to boot.

It’s not banned in law.
It’s banned by cryptographic gatekeeping.

Digital preservation will be technically impossible.

Encrypted execution + hardware-tied software =
No way to archive.
No way to emulate.
No way to restore.

Games, apps, creative tools, all gone when the keys expire or the vendor shuts down.

We won’t just lose software.
We’ll lose entire cultural eras.

It’s like that Apple ad crushing musical instruments but for your entire digital life

https://adage.com/video/crush-ipad-pro-apple/ (I couldn’t find it unedited on youtube sorry)

You Have No Mouth and Can’t Say NO

Vendor lock-in is no longer a commercial strategy.
It’s cryptographic reality.

You can’t deny updates.
You can’t run unsigned code.
You can’t refuse attestation.

Because your software won’t run without it.

The PC has become a compliance terminal.
Saying "no" is no longer supported behavior.

A hardware-enforced, cryptographically sealed cage.

Your freedom to compute is being revoked—quietly, efficiently, irreversibly.
The illusion of ownership is maintained only until enforcement becomes total.
This isn’t theory. It’s shipping now.

If we don’t fight back, there will be no root access left to reclaim.

PC Computers are next
This is why the big deal with TPM
Why TPM is never a removable security device
Why you can’t save your old PC with a usb TPM device,
even though they are low power serial text devices

And TPM itself is just the thin side of the wedge.
It will grow more and more capable as an encrypted instructions processor
Eventually applications will run enough of their code
as encrypted instructions that they will become impossible to pirate.

This means application on your offline computer will be just as revocable as cloud application
and they will no longer be transferable, cryptographically tied to the processor core