Who needs an iPod clone when you can literally buy an iPod, drop 1Tb of storage in it, and sync it to your library like you always could.

It's stupidly easy to do, and those things are still rock solid. And you can put Rockbox on too, if you don't want iTunes anywhere near your computer. Or you use Linux and can't have iTunes.

Oh well.

Yes, if you leverage the powers of root and you know what you are doing, you can endlessly modify MacOS to your heart's delight.

I find most people don't have that ability. They stick to the Apple app store and color inside of the lines that Apple has put down.

It's no small feat to overcome some of the "safeguards" they have put in your way with modifying the device.

If you use an iPhone and you don't like the Apple way of doing everything, your options are basically: 1. Tough shit, deal with it, or 2. Don't use an iPhone.

Android has a lot of the same protections, but you can still, from the user interface, bypass a lot of it, by design. It's "not recommended", but you can do it.

Microsoft is trying to move towards what Apple is doing. The TPM requirement allows Microsoft to basically hold the keys to the kingdom, so to speak. What they're aiming for is a root of trust (which is naturally, Microsoft), that allows all other things on your PC to run without warnings or dialogs, if they have been blessed by Microsoft's certificate authority for code signing (which is a requirement for drivers, but not nearly as strict of a requirement for applications).

This is the foundation of the "trusted computing" thing that they're pushing forward. The problem I have with "trusted computing" is who is issuing the trust? So far it seems like Microsoft is.... Which is not great IMO.

However, since Windows is only requiring that level of trusted signature on code for drivers, we're not to the same dystopia that MacOS has been "enjoying" for years.

Oh, is that how we beat the Nazis? With half-assed reforms and vote organizing?

Again. It’s not saying there’s nobody else involved in the chain. It’s saying tech bro enshitification doesn’t have a way in. That’s the only problem it’s claiming to solve.

For instance, you don’t open up a paper book and have an AI window pop up on the page and offer to generate a summary of the book. You don’t take an ordinary pen to a sheet of paper and after two paragraphs have the pen say, “Subscribe to ink services to continue writing, start your free trial today?”

Basically how i try to live my life! Buy physical media, setup a nas, unplug from the internet on most weekends (or limit it).

I connected win 98 to the internet yesterday. It was fine, and probably safer than win 11 is now. No built in Spyware either ha!

(Don't use win 98 as your main os. I am partially joking and I only use it for running old programs and games.)

I always say, it peaked about 2010, maybe earlier. Then innovation stopped, and surveillance REALLY took off. All they have left now is your data, and ads, because the iPhone was the last actually innovative useful device.

Its not worth innovating in late stage capitalism when you can make everything a subscription and gouge your customers for life while making your product worse and worse.

Cars with just efi and abs are avilable up to like 2019 before the gov made them put black boxes in.

No they didn't bud. Regular (working class, non tech) people in the 90s had never heard of GPS, had hardly heard of a computer. Outside of super niche luxury brands of cars, it wasn't a thing at all.

Yes but im willing to bet they dont all phone home like cars of today, government has full control of all new vehicles due to regulations. Black boxes, brake control, cameras, your new car is a rolling surveillance tool.

You're doing a lot more to save the planet by driving an old car and fixing it than buying a new one that gets 5 mpg more. People are dumb about this. Reuse is the most important thing. Buying a new prius is FAR worse than keeping on driving a 99 grand prix.

Unfortunately my government is also stupid about this and they’re going to raise my registration costs every year to get me to replace the car I drive under 5,000km annually with an electric car.

It would take driving my little car another 60 years at this rate to produce as much pollution as building a new electric car that won’t last 10.

I wouldn't say no one. Carbs are just fine, and were insanely good before they were killed off. With our research now, We could have AMAZING carbs. And guess what, you can fix them yourself!

Myself and many others need nothing more than roll down windows, am radio, and a seat belt. Too many lazy people today want to drive a damn land yacht with 56 screens in it. yells at cloud

That is a stupid rule! At least us government let's cars go until theyre dead lol.

No, but keep enjoying feeling superior for knowing we need to do more while not doing more.

I get that, but honestly i'm getting tired of having to adjust the distributor timing and fiddle with the air-fuel ratio to get it just "right", else the car would either underpowered, use a lot more fuel, or emission is gonna be off the chart. If you work on your own car then it would be all right, it's a nightmare for people who fix it for a living. But i do get that, when it works, it works really nice.

Too bad they crushed all the old cars

I mean, they were worthless.

Exactly. So arguing that "you shouldn't technologically regress" is meaningless.

Did you lose track of your own argument?

You assumed that I meant technological progress is inherently good. I said technological progress isn't good or bad, just inevitable. That does not mean that technological regression isn't inherently bad.

And yes, the CD player did implode, figuratively, because Spotify exists.