The only digital subscription service I want is a subscription to a real-life IT person in my real-life local community who will go into my phone and computer once a month to remove all the new AI features and other enshittifying features that companies have sneaked onto my devices against my will since the last time.
Seriously. If AI is so fanbloodytastic, why do they have to sneak it in and hide any off-switches?
Aside from cost to the planet’s energy, the amount of individual human energy that is wasted on AI is shocking, enraging, aghasting. So much of our leisure and work time is spent trying, often failing, to find the source of unwanted features that have been dumped into our digital tools. Features that often disrupt what we're trying use the tools for. Features that make everything worse, but are deliberately buried so we can’t turn them off, so we spend time every day trying to work around them.
@CiaraNi Somebody just asked me how to keep their laptop off the internet because of AI in Word. I recommended they just switch to LibreOffice and they will give that a try 😈
Ciara
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