You don’t need to become convinced. This is the plan - full stop.

Raspberry Pi foundation looks wistful

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So it creates a world where normal people no longer use tech, and the vast majority of tech is used by businesses for productivity purposes in the office while everyone else makes due with real life?

Like in the 90s?

Sounds like paradise to me. Starve out these cash-grab. psychologically manipulative disposable code subscription services.

If tech is going to be usurped entirely, then reject it. I’ve started doing everything I can by mail and physical presence. Don’t buy the hype that you NEED tech. If your friends won’t let you change how you get in touch with them, then they’re not that good of friends and you don’t really need them.

If all of my stacked 15 year old computers here stop being able to access Lemmy? Oh well. It’s been fun.

This is a war. They are winning because we are willing to have a point where we say, “Well, this is the limit… I have to capitulate now.” They rub their hands together gleefully waiting for you to cave.

Don’t. Be stubborn. Because if we don’t it’s already over. Legislators and underfunded foundations are not going to save us.

STOP BUYING TECH. FOR THE LOVE OF GOD, STOP. THE ONLY REASON PRICES KEEP GOING UP LIKE THIS IS BECAUSE PEOPLE AREN’T WILLING TO SACRIFICE COMFORT TO MAKE A POINT.

Buy used. Use hand me downs. Learn a new operating system to get new life out of stuff you already HAVE.

If people can’t give up access to shitty software to save tech, there’s no hope for the species. Period.

Why stop there? Go in a variety of disguises including fake facial hair.

It’s unnecessary now anyway… In 2026, it seems math education is having a Renaissance, but meanwhile kids can barely read.

I think you are DRASTICALLY underestimating how durable fascist regimes are. Without external intervention they can continue for DECADES. Societies don’t just collapse when people get fed up.

This is your reminder that in 2026 absolutely ZERO court rulings matter long term except the Supreme Court, which is captured for life by conservatives.

No matter who wins the midterms or even the next election, that is with us for the rest of most of our lives.

What a time to be alive.

They have the exact same potential as the generations around them - they didn’t get blasted with mutagen. The environment that contributed to allowing people to maximize their potential has been scuppered, tainted, and monetized, and particularly for the young, their own mental proclivities, which by the way, they have no ability to understand or override on their recognizance at early ages, are being weaponized against them by an army cognitive behaviorists and a mountain of psychological research.

We absolutely do not use the same internet. The internet millennials grew up with in their developmental period no longer exists.

The idea that there’s no reason, and they’re less intelligent inherently with no causes is an entirely new kind of magical thinking.

The “enlightened” will tell you to use whatever you’re productive with…

…but the real answer is “anything that isn’t written in Electron and has no telemetry”.

I’m right there with you. Not a single one of my daily use PCs is younger than 2013.

Congrats, buddy - that’s the worst anyone’s ever done it.

Because what used to be a native application that used 200 mb of RAM now needs to be a web application built on top of a browser using 4 gb of RAM to do the exact same task.

I will honest to God pick fucking Eclipse over VS Code every single day, because at least it runs natively.

It’s hard for the younger generation to understand, but 4 Gb of RAM is MORE than enough for 99% of tasks if your software isn’t written by lazy idiots.