I’ve definitely turned into the paranoid nutcase within my friend group in recent years, I hate that everything is “smart” nowadays requiring an app/internet connection & account, just to do basic things that didn’t require any of that before.

What’s some things currently making you ramble like an old man?

  • d3Xt3r@lemmy.nz
    31·
    1 year ago

    Manufacturers and vendors in general increasingly removing choice from both hardware and software.

    Examples:

    • Manufacturers removing the headphone jack
    • Laptop manufacturers removing options from the BIOS (Surface laptops)
    • Laptop manufacturers getting rid of extra ports
    • Microsoft getting rid of many customisation options from Windows (such as missing taskbar options in Win 11, or the window color options that was dropped a few years ago, or the old Mail app)
    • Apple removing more and more features, from macOS such as the ability to quickly switch between different sets of Wi-Fi, Ethernet and other network settings depending on the location
    • Google removing features from Android and locking down the OS with each new release (such as removing the ability to use custom CA certificates, which impacts ad blockers and network monitoring tools; moving more features from AOSP into proprietary Goole Play Services, thereby impacting de-Googled ROM users)
    • Google progressively locking down the web by introducing unwanted features in Chrome, such as Manifest V3 and Web Environment Integrity.