Post AyPf9Qi09Cc76Wr7VA by jezebelkat@famichiki.jp
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(DIR) Post #AyPf9Ls68Eie6OXc2q by jezebelkat@famichiki.jp
2025-09-20T13:25:17Z
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My reaction to so much consumer tech these days is: I do not need this.I do not want this.Who needs this? Who wants this?I feel differently about plenty of large industrial tech or like renewables (solar panels, batteries, anything heat pump related, etc). Personal computing though? It's peaked. Everything new feels exploitive or just worse.
(DIR) Post #AyPf9N1LrJiPfNsW6i by tomjennings@tldr.nettime.org
2025-09-20T23:37:40Z
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@jezebelkat Yup. Computationally speaking, very few of us need what was a well equipped 2020 machine. Fedi nerd crowd are the last people to ask, lol. I'm buying 2020 machines and making sure they're full of ram, and a terabyte. I don't want multiple and giant screens. Audio quality peaked 20 years ago (noise and power). We only buy new TVs because the old ones fail. We don't want bigger them 42 inches; we didn't want even that but that's the smallest. We have gigabit fiber. I stopped caring. Most of the tech industry seems obsessed with only data collection and ads; there's not really anything new. But we don't need new! We only want it! Without their own busywork we could get down to living.
(DIR) Post #AyPf9Qi09Cc76Wr7VA by jezebelkat@famichiki.jp
2025-09-20T13:33:03Z
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Windows 11 and macOS in the Big Sur era don't fundamentally alter the desktop paradigm and neither do most desktop environments on *nix, and those that do are used by a minority of a minority. Mobile paradigm is pretty set now too, going all the way back to the original iPhone in 2007. Social media is largely derivative of that same time period. Basically being microblogging.
(DIR) Post #AyPf9VnrCrGiu8dMp7 by jezebelkat@famichiki.jp
2025-09-20T13:36:41Z
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We've reached the point where we should be focusing on making what we have more sustainable and efficient. Passing on a standard of living and access to information that would have made kings 300 years ago jealous. We're basically just making nonsense because stonks go up. It's pretty ridiculous.
(DIR) Post #AyPf9azNvQSczL48zA by jezebelkat@famichiki.jp
2025-09-20T13:42:13Z
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Like, we actually have it really, really good. And our purpose at this point should be making sure people who actually don't have it really, really good, despite there being plenty of resources to allow for that... get to have it really, really good.Instead we're spending resources on whatever the fuck this shit is:
(DIR) Post #AyPf9fTJG6m4tJ66BU by jezebelkat@famichiki.jp
2025-09-20T13:47:40Z
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Why... this... instead of... I don't know... more efficient food production? Denser photovoltaics? Or, like, if this can be used specifically as accessibility aids, then market it like that, get it approved as a medical device, work with governments and insurance companies to get it to those people, so they can have a better quality life?Instead this feels like it's just... a fashion statement that actually sucks at what it purports to do.
(DIR) Post #AyPf9kd45GY4t0hSaG by jezebelkat@famichiki.jp
2025-09-20T13:53:41Z
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We have so much. We throw away so much. And it feels like we just keep churning through resources unnecessarily. I am increasingly sick, not a metaphor I mean physically ill, at how much waste we produce as a global civilisation despite fully understanding the finite nature of resources and the effect it has on the biosphere. And in so many cases, it seems we literally produce new e-waste. It's garbage at the time of production.It's insane.
(DIR) Post #AyPfctgPV5udMfA9Am by tomjennings@tldr.nettime.org
2025-09-20T23:43:02Z
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@jezebelkat Completely insane and thoroughly normal. The dissonance is maddening. No one (wants to) see it.