#tech rant

[33333s-tech-blog-of-hell]

rant

i think everyone should start making cyberdecks as fast and simple as possible because im sick and tired of mass produced laptops throwing tantrums and the average consumer not having a choice to fix it because of how theyre designed

you know literally everything about it so if something goes wrong you know how to fix it and what to fix and where to get the parts

instead of these fucking mass produced ones that have all different parts because the company hates everyone who isnt a shareholder and also money which makes them impossible to take apart most of the time without five different screwdrivers, and theyre soldered together so you cant even take the pieces apart if you need to fix something and god forbid you wanna UPGRADE something.

and the parts themselves are fucking insane because theyre all made either for the specific laptop so you have to buy them from god knows there or theyre a super common part that you still cant get cause theyre all sold out, or its just fucking impossible cause they dont make the part publically available, and youre totally fucked if you have an older laptop cause then you either have to run the risk of scavenging off of other old laptops or try to find a slightly smaller needle in a needle stack because they stopped making the slightly smaller needle 5 years ago due to planned obsolescence but its the only needle thatll fucking work

and they do all this just so you make more and more ewaste or give them more and more money which'll happen either way

everyone build a cyberdeck please im so tired i need companies to tank and keep tanking until they learn they cant keep getting away with screwing over tech consumers like this repeatedly I WANT THEM TO LEARNNNN I WANT THEM TO SUFFER AND LEARN!!!!!!

[your-average-antho-cat]

Okay my urge to by a cheap ass T480 and make it into a sleeper build is growing. I want to drop in more modern parts and make the fucker run games at least slightly better than my current laptop. The problem is that the things I'd need to upgrade (In theory it'd be the CPU, motherboard, and cooling) are expensive as shit. At least I would have to buy RAM or and SSD since I can rip that out of my current laptop. We need more upgrade-able tech. I hate that the only options are framework (Which is a fine company just limiting on options) or buying a good thinkpad. Or the case for phones of having to build one yourself and even then good luck finding a sim card anymore. Really shitty that if a piece of tech you own breaks you have to throw the fucking thing out. Most people don't even take the usable parts out of their old shit it's fucking sad.

[lizzyfleckenstein]

the tech industry has completely shifted away from solving real problems that people have and towards creating demand for useless and actively harmful pieces of wasteful garbage that are only designed to give tech corporations more control over our lives. no one needs their fridge to be connected to wifi and overheat if it can't download an update. no one needs their car to remotely deactivate if some corporation decides it doesn't like them. no one needs video games that can't even run on any hardware affordable to mortals without hallucinating 90% of the frames using AI. no one needs tractors that can't be fixed without going to a manufacturer sanctioned mechanic due to software locks. no one needs subscription models that completely take away the ability to preserve the media you paid for or access it offline. no one needs phones that are intentionally designed to break after the warranty runs out. no one needs all of their files to be automatically copied into the cloud without consent. no one needs social media algorithms that actively try to ragebait you and make you feel bad. no one needs advertisements implanted into every aspect of their digital life. no one needs a ruling class of sociopathic tech billionaires. no one needs the AI crap they're forcing everywhere. it ruins the environment and entire neighborhoods with its data centers, it plagiarizes everyone's creative work, it displaces jobs, it makes us more stupid, lonely and complacent, it makes us distrust each other, it has flooded every corner of the internet with soulless slop, it has ruined institutional education, it has turned the economy into a bubble that's about to burst any second with poor people having to bail out rich stock market gamblers again AND it doesn't even fucking work.

call me a boomer but I am just not buying the ideology of technological "progress". i want a world, and an internet, in which human connection and creativity matters. in which technology is a means to an end. i want public transit, walkable cities, fast trains, sustainable farming, affordable and pragmatic housing, a society that is accessible to people with mental and physical disabilities, modern healthcare that is free and designed to help people in need rather than profit off of them, software and appliances that solve problems and are designed as tools rather than self-serving purposes, tightly-knit local communities AND friendships that transcend continents, access to information and education for everyone, entertainment and art both digital and analog that is created by humans with a soul and a passion. THAT is what technology should enable.

[thelyesmith]

I am neck deep in device manager and console's guts trying to unbork my bluetooth after the latest windows update and it's like the 89th time I've said "if I can't get this fixed soon I'm just going to take this same amount of effort and switch to Linux."

And then I realized it's like my 89th time saying that.

And now I'm sitting back in my chair and honestly debating nuking this whole beast of metal and turning it into a penguin.

Like, if I can turn a kindle into a gameboy and a windows computer into a machine that can use bluetooth (lol) then surely I can figure out how to make a gaming-friendly linux machine....

...Surely.

Like... yeah, okay, I know those are 100% "famous last words" status.

But also...

(I want to be clear that I don't actually expect linux to have fewer issues or to be a smoother experience. But if I have to to live with jank either way, then I'm at least not going to continue lining the pockets of mega corporations for the privilege.)

[dartboardferret]

Many [people who had to troubleshoot GPUs] were increasingly of the opinion that they’d made a big mistake moving off the cpu in the first place, and some said that even the cpu had been a bad move an no-one should ever have left the FPGA.

[x-leather-murder-bear-x]

I personally don’t give a fuck about all of this red note/tik tok bullshit. It just shows how dependent on technology and lonely some of y’all motherfuckers are.

[alynnl]

Well. My desktop just about self-terminated when I was trying to catch up on asks. And I honestly can’t afford a brand new replacement. I’m unsure about what I should look for in a refurbished one as far as specs for regular browsing, video watching, chatting and music listening. It looks like I might have to get used to permanently being stuck with mobile browsing.

Happy freakin holidays to me.

[adrekiy0]

lukewarm take: if microsoft hates third-party emulation and piracy so much, they should push for disc drives to come back and make their own emulator that works with xbox discs (totally not just me being salty about games i physically own being impossible to find anywhere)