i’m aware of it and havent yet jumped the wagon because of my experience in the past w other firefox clones like iceweasel.

librewolf is my most likely bet; i want to stay away from anything chromium based.

lemmyverse

i think that the first sign of enshitification is its leaders and it seems like it’s already here.

i’m wondering what browser to switch to next.

pizza hut in the small town i grew up in stayed like that until the 2018 when the sole owner died and his inheritors outsourced its management rather than returning to bfe to run it (i don’t blame them) and i feel like that’s how most older establishments enshittify.

there was no way he was making money, but he CLEARLY loved pizza & people and was happy doing it.

mine only had 4 pepperoni slices and never enough cheese so i had to spread it around more evenly to enjoy it and it was still 99% bread. lol

they’ll not only shoot you; but each other as well. lol

They want a device that “just works” and has their ecosystem.

i have friends that struggle to pay rent and they’re forced to pay apple’s extortion-esque prices when something goes wrong or when purchasing their phones and equipment.

witnessing them suffer like this hits close to home for me because i grew up poor enough to ration out the government cheese & powdered milk along with asking extended family and begging neighbors for food so that we could stay alive until next payday and also because i’m tech savvy enough to understand how unscrupulously apple has behaved at creating this well designed trap of an ecosystem that’s actively easy to fall into and passively difficult to leave; locking my friends into a seeming perpetually repeating cycle of new iphones and government cheese.

i think that the icing on this shit-cake is that they’re all atleast vaguely aware that apple is screwing them over; but they still accept it because it either “just works” or it’s “all they know” and that blows my mind because 5-year-old-me HATED government powdered milk in my cereal enough to switch to oatmeal for breakfast if it were an option.

if you’re referring to climate change and i would expect that it would cause the 4th near human extinction event at a minimum; so there’s a chance humanity will survive and there will be some sort of a society if it does.

perhaps since we’ve exhausted most of the easily accessible sources of energy; maybe the next society won’t be able to advance past the next stone age on-wards to develop the industrial or technological capabilities that enable such absurd disparities in wealth they can afford to bend the entire world to their will for a genocide; rending 99% of the world helpless as they can do nothing but witness palestinians culled into numbers small enough that isreal no longer considers them a threat.

Harris is Palestines best bet at continued existence. Sorry if that hurts your feelings or something…

continued existence is going to happen one way or the other. isreal is going for an american style genocide which means kill enough of the natives so that they’re a small, manageable enough number and then your country can spend the rest of its existence throwing enough $$$ at their reservations to ostensibly show you’re “super sorry” that you genocided so many of them; but not enough to for them to ever escape this newly imposed generational poverty and also without any promise that your country won’t ever fuck them over again in the future when another pipeline needs to be built.

It’s a matter of time.

i wish that timescale wasn’t in the centuries.

You’re getting down voted but this is what it feels like watching our gargantuan government help eradicate an entire people…

– again.

sometimes the sense of helplessness that comes from watching us repeat the history that everyone abhors and ignores makes me wish that i was a moderate so that i can fool myself into believing that voting for one genocider was better than voter for another genocider.

i also wonder if my existence at the intersection of several vulnerable communities would eventually dispel that world view anyways if i were a moderate since there are so many brown, immigrant, gay, autistic conservatives.

i intentionally do middling-at-best work on projects that i don’t like so that i’m never asked to perform them again nor join meetings about it; and i think my mostly empty calendar reflects the effectiveness of my strategy.

it was in their initial filing when they started the lawsuit to defend themselves.

i’ve been sealioned too much on the lemmyverse so you’re going to have to do your own googling.

you should let that strawman get out of your head; he’s living rent-free there.

bytedance offered the government unfettered access and moved their entire infrastructure to the united states; it was more transparent than anything else out there.

are there any examples you can share?

what did they do?

same here and it feels like most of the instances of the lemmyverse are rubbing it in my face with face pics of people i’ve never heard of. lol

the 90’s is when it started to go bad; i’ll take 70’s or 80’s please.