It’s not that “excellent.” It’s just ‘for the evulz’ mustache-twirling comical villainy, which ends up downplaying what’s actually important to know about enshittification, which is how self-serving and abusive it is. When companies enshittify products and services, they’re not just making them worse; they’re specifically making them more exploitative.

A lot of the examples shown in the video – cutting holes in socks, sawing off a chair leg so it wobbles, drying out a marker, etc. – are not enshittification. Enshittification is stuff like putting spyware in devices so that you double-dip on the purchase price and the value of the data, or turning products (as opposed to services) into a subscription. Stuff that extracts unearned value from the customer.

It touches on it in the latter part of the video, but for the most part misses the mark.

That’s already in progress.

30-year-old veteran, eh? The real “leopards ate my face” is gonna be when he gets called back up and shipped out.

That’s not enough. Just like with systemd, you will be made to care about what the corporatist Microsoft-garglers at Red Hat do, whether you use it or not.

However, Reddit didn’t really have a solution to that. Lemmy kind of does: you can make any community you want, and communities that pull crap like this might be avoided by users who don’t tolerate that kind of thing. Or they might not, but the users have more power here.

You say that, but I’m banned from !lemmyshitpost@lemmy.world because of a mod’s hissy fit, yet it remains the biggest community on Lemmy.

Soft launch is when you make it available to the public for a while before advertising it.

It’s infuriating to me as a mod as well, because things getting removed without me being able to understand why makes it harder to do my “job.” I can’t even go ask the admin for their reasoning, because I have no idea who it was!

That goes double for the fact that when somebody checks the “remove content” option when banning, the removed content doesn’t show up in the modlog.

Then use Keepass, which is literally just a local app.

That wouldn’t be a suicide vest, though; it’d be a suicide fat suit.

That’s like being in a bar fight with an MMA fighter and being worried that their 90 lb weakling friend might join in.

Edit: to be clear, though, the main intent of my previous comment wasn’t about the US’ military might. I was really just trying to allude to why, from a realpolitik perspective, it was fucking stupid of the US to attack in the first place.

So what? With the US already attacking them anyway, they have nothing to lose.

Somehow, we manage to have the problem of assholes like this racking up dozens upon dozens of priors with (obviously) ineffective punishment and would-be productive citizens languishing with long prison sentences for trivial offenses at the same time.

I have a whole schpiel I could get into about it, but I’m busy so the TL;DR is that the whole point of a computer is its programmability – its ability to solve novel, bespoke problems that are unique to a single user’s needs. That means you’re not actually “computer literate” unless you can program, or at least pipe together some console commands or figure out a novel workflow in a collection of GUI apps or whatever. It’s not about touch-typing or rote memorization of specific functions in common apps; it’s about developing general-purpose problem-solving skills. Those are valuable for everyone, not just professional software engineers.

Plus, knowing at least a little bit about how computers work is increasingly crucial in terms of understanding things like, say, the limitations of LLMs. That, I hope you can agree, is important for much the same reasons media literacy is.

The sorts of computers kids should be using are things like Raspberry Pis, and they should be using them to learn about computing itself, not just using a word processor for their homework or whatever.

The US under Trump:

I thought about writing something like “it’s ironic that Trump might inadvertently save the world by forcing everyone else to react to his attempts to destroy it,” but I don’t want to give him even that much credit.

Welp, so much for OpenWRT on cheap devices designed for routing (even though flashing the firmware to install it probably got rid of any backdoors anyway); now we’ll have to resort to OPNSense on overkill PC hardware.

Admittedly I haven’t used Omada even though my gear supported it (before I flashed OpenWRT on it), but I don’t think it bears any resemblance to Ansible except in the most basic sense of being able to accomplish administrative tasks somehow.

What I was expecting was something that would provide a web dashboard showing all of my OpenWRT (and ideally, misc. other devices) at once, maybe with a nice diagram of the network topology and stuff like that.

Does there exist something more appropriate?

EDIT: I talked with a guy and totally forgot an important point, does reflashing the hardware prevent me from using features with the vendors i listed? I know companies can suck

If they’re software features and OpenWRT doesn’t implement them, yes. That’s not really the fault of the hardware manufacturer, though; that’s just a tradeoff you’ve chosen to make.

For example, I’m pretty sure you won’t be able to use Ubiquiti’s UniFi or TP-Link’s Omada software-defined networking to manage your OpenWRT-flashed device, but that’s just because OpenWRT hasn’t implemented it, not because installing it trips some kind of DRM fuse or whatever.

(I think OpenWISP might be the OpenWRT-compatible Free Software equivalent for that sort of thing, but I have yet to look into it myself so I’m not sure.)

Otherwise, I haven’t personally heard of any vendors intentionally sabotaging their hardware such that it disables itself when flashed with OpenWRT, but that’s not the same as an affirmative statement that it can’t ever happen.

Everything’s an outdoor activity if you’re exhibitionist enough! ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)

Edit: oh wait, you meant genealogy research.