The Return of Your Apps, Please
This posts continues from my previous one. I highlight another egregious exampls of how we're being coerced into using approved smartphones.
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Your Apps, Please
In the past, anybody could buy concert tickets and have them mailed to their home. Then the Internet allowed people to buy tickets and print them at home. Those days are gone. Now you need an app on your venue approved smartphone.
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The Endless Cycle of Enshitification
The world is caught in a seemingly endless cycle of enshitification. This is my rant.
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Why I Don't Have A Smart Home
Temperature controlled by presence detection. Lighting with color and brightness automatically adjusted based on the time of day. Electrical plugs that automatically turn on or off depending on programmed criteria. The smart home promises much, but I keep my home dumb. I explain why in this post.
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This Blog Is Now Available via IPv6
My old ISP didn't support IPv6 in any capacity. My new ISP does so I can now make my self-hosted services, including this blog, available via IPv6. I'm going to use this occasion to rant about lazy network administrators who don't utilize IPv6 even when they have the opportunity to do so.
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Upgrades
Since buying my house, my Internet has evolved from terrible to decent to now great.
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The ThinkPad T16 Gen 4 AMD Accepts 96 GB of RAM
I bought a new laptop, a ThinkPad T16 Gen 4 AMD (that's a mouthful). Lenovo only allows you to configure it with 32 GB of RAM. The spec sheet indicates that it can accept 64 GB of RAM. It actually accepts 96 GB.
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20 Minutes into The Future
Max Headroom first aired in 1987. This shows, which took place '20 minutes into the future,' ended up being surprisingly prescient. One episode dealt with the idea of creating AI versions of dead relatives. Today we're living that episode.
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Another Smart Device Manufacturer Is Altering The Deal
Here's yet another example of how you don't own your smart devices. Echelon, a manufacturer of smart exercise equipment, has removed third-party application access via a firmware update.
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I Will Not Install Your App
Everywhere you turn companies are turning the straight forward into the convoluted by unnecessarily inserting apps in the middle. There's no reason anybody needs to pull out their smartphone to order lunch, pump gas, or check into a hotel.
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I Love AI
AI, the marketing name used by companies to sell large language models, is a total privacy nightmare that fails to work far too often to be trustworthy. I absolutely love it.
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Our Stupid Smart Future
The proliferation of smart everything is making our future stupid.
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