what’s the word for a thing that worms its way into your life, makes you depend on it, then uses that to exploit and damage you?

there’s a word for that.

it WAS dealt with pretty quick, but yeah I bet it’s still pretty absurd, even if they at least ask… some questions?

basic state logic.

they’re incapable of sucking less. their whole episteme is about centralizing, about reducing thought the farther it gets from the central authority (whether that’s one guy, a class, or a building like the pentagon), but you CAN increase violence, threaten, flatten, disable, basically wherever.

for several years in the early 00’s, the process for getting security clearance involved no background check, just knowing who to ask. they literally rubber stamped it.

getting a fed job or something still did, but just security clearance, on its own, for anyone? just ask. not even nicely.

of course.

they outnumber the ‘tech crowd’ because we use technology to infantilize outselves, of which this is a prime example.

tl;dr: copyright law has always been nonsense designed to protect corporations and fuck over artists+consumers

but now corpo daddy and corpo mommy are fighting, and we need to take sides.

and it’s revealing that copyright law never existed to protect artists, and will continue to not do that, but MUCH more obviously, and all the cucks who whined about free culture violating laws are reaping what they fucking sowed.

agreed, but its an interesting contradiction revealed in the legal frameworks.

turns out, copyright laws have literally never been used to protect artists!

okay but that’s all back-end. I actually have an example like this!

okay, so, if im playing an old DRM’d game I have on my desktop, and want to switch to my steam deck, I can do that.

but the interface that works on my steam deck (controller with touch pad, but no keyboard) is maddening to use on my desktop. I know, because I tried it once-steam calls it ‘big picture mode’ and it feels like being crippled when I use it on a computer with a full keyboard and mouse.

but I pick up the deck, and it’s nice. it functions, its interface is pretty close to perfect. and if I tried to use either of those on my phone, i would take a train up to washington and fucking beat a valve employee to death with it.

what you’re talking about is back end interoperability. totally unrelated, and I agree it’s good! also, doesn’t really exist anywhere near as much as it should, but that’s sort of a different problem. see, each of those platforms has different affordances and design conventions. now, you can run compatibility and seamless use, so the video just appears where you want it. I actually have a slightly janky (but best I’ve found) version of that set up on my LAN.

but I would like to be able to click around and take a broader view of the incoming shit on my desktop with multiple 4k monitors. i absolutely need gesture support on my tablet, and on my phone I need gesture support, plus ABSOLUTELY DO NOT have space to display multiple things at once.

I don’t need hamburger menus on my fucking desktop. I got space, and my cursor is precise enough the 90s/00’s are the best we’ve done with UX in that space (because we stopped trying as soon as the iphone dropped). having ONLY ONE THING displayed at once on my desktop is fucking annoying. I have 7680 horizontal pixels over a few feet of space on my desktop, no one thing takes up that much fucking space, nor should it, and I like the ability to click and drag shit from different apps and move shit around and do all that good crap. it’s great! and on my phone or tablet, that doesn’t really work. I should be able to click and drag to my tablet, if I want to set that up (my tablet is air gapped because that’s easier than degoogling and I mostly read+music on it) but my tablet needs a totally different interface, and anything that DOES work for my tablet, where im only ever really doing one thing I need to look at at once, is going to be frustrating as hell on my desktop.

or the oil infrastructure?

but why not use an iterface optimized for each device?

I mean, I know the answers, but I find all of them deeply insulting.

and why do they keep making it as actively shitty as they possibly can?

like, I get it, there was room for improvement back when it was just ‘good’. they filled all that room with crap.

the good things about crap, though? nitrogen, phosphorous.

the changes in windows since 7 are a master class in UX design, as long as you remember it’s a negative.

they certainly don’t run windows.

if its not open source; it doesn’t exist.

yeah there are apps I want on my phone, but if anything says ‘there is an app’ I’m instantly averse.

even the things I do want phone apps for, I have to browse on fdroid because default options are all terrible. basic shit like file browsers and media players in commercial OS’s are just, like, vile and do not function. even if I didn’t care about the endoscopes they try to snake up every orifice, they are deliberately nonfunctional.

also, they don’t want care.

see, if it had an API, I could integrate it into an open smart home app, and it would be cool as FUCK.

you never know for sure until you try though, so if it requires an app, it’s dead to me and I don’t trust anything else the company makes.

if it has an API i get very wet very fast.