RE: https://layer8.space/@killyourfm/115998594458318932

I switched over to Linux about 25 years ago, and have been that irritating person in your life extolling the virtues of making the switch.

With the growing #eshittification of #Microsoft #Windows over the last couple of years, perhaps 2026 is the year to switch?

Wonder if consumers are going to get more uncomfortable with sharing personal details/info to apps and services now that we see how the government is USING information like that to track people down and/or squeeze folks via organizations like ICE?

If they didn't feel it already, the surveillance state and surveillance capitalism is real.

#eshittification #surveillancecapitalism #surveillance #surveillancestate

Bought my wife a smart scale from Wyze (based on Wirecutter recommendations). The pain in the ass it was to set up in their app and the amount of information needed to was uncomfortable and frustrating — and I was the one doing it.

Not to mention their app is more of a "hub" app for all kinds of "smart" devices of theirs you could connect to. Not what I expected, nor needed. Grumble, grumble.

#eshittification #smartscales #wirecutter

Zillow caves to #eshittification. They had been rating climate risk factors facing individual properties. The real estate industry hated it, so they've stopped.

#climatechange #realestate

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/30/climate/zillow-climate-risk-scores-homes.html?unlocked_article_code=1.5E8.pnKU.tdqxwARPeVCp&smid=bs-share

Oh FFS.

#eshittification #automobiles #volkswagon
https://flipboard.com/@bbcnews/technology-9cjonitvz/-/a-rov2tG9yRL-4ZK3x388PBg%3Aa%3A3199692-%2F0

Made the mistake of following the #eshittification hashtag, and now I have to resist correcting everyone who is using the word outside of the context of a company purposefully making their product worse to extract profits at the expense of their users.

Things that are not enshittification:
- products starting off bad.
- products getting worse due to neglect or ineptitude.
- products becoming bad because of government regulations.

Fucking hell. To get their products and services into AI chatbot responses, companies are auto-generating slop and posting to the known SOURCES of chatbot data — Reddit, etc. — to try and game the system.

Need to come up with a better term for how people are trying to "game" this new age of LLM/chat/voice-based interfaces, where the traditional web is acting less as a direct interface and more as a secondary data store.

https://9to5mac.com/2025/06/26/reddit-is-being-spammed-by-ai-bots-and-its-all-reddits-fault/

#aislop #eshittification #ai