Mastodawn

The slow death of the power user.

"This isn’t an accident. This is the result of two decades of deliberate, calculated effort by the largest technology companies on earth to turn users into consumers, instruments into appliances, and technical literacy into a niche hobby for weirdos. They succeeded beyond their wildest expectations"

https://fireborn.mataroa.blog/blog/the-slow-death-of-the-power-user/

#technology #tech #sustainability

The Slow Death of the Power User — fireborn

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Richard W. Woodley 🇨🇦🌹🚴‍♂️

@koen_hufkens

"They know files exist somewhere, in the cloud maybe, or possibly inside the app itself — the distinction isn’t clear to them and they’ve never needed it to be."

I hate software that stores the product of your work in some "library" somewhere that only it can retrieve and you are lucky if you can figure out where on the hard drive it actually is stored.