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Also, fuck xfinity and their BS. Can't even change wifi password without downloading an app.

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[โ€“] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Not just the internet, consumer computing as a whole became a shitshow. You need accounts for everything, Microsoft pushes you hard to use their online service, the default becoming that you to log onto your own computer you need to go through their online Microsoft account, which is terribly unsafe (if your ms account gets hacked, the hacker had access to you system). After "software as a service" more or less has been normalised, I'm just waiting for hardware going down that path, too. I'd say it begins already that I had to create a NVIDIA account to actually update drivers. Soon, this account may not be free anymore.

To most issues like this there are workarounds, but sometimes you have to dig deep. So it's either you need to spend time to make things work like you want, or accept all this crap. For me, this is fine, because I like the tinkering. But I am also *administrating" most of my elder family members' computers, which is a nightmare because of that. "So I saved the document, where is it on my computer,?" - "If you used the default OneDrive crap, it just is not on your computer..."

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

This is the power of FOSS. By default it treats the end user with dignity because you aren't a tool to extract value from anymore.