@juc 1) perché "riparare" qualcosa non è mai tempo buttato, ma un investimento, sempre. Per riparare qualcosa si deve capire come funziona, e si è meno proni a #lockin futuri. Cercare di arraggiarsi da soli è un bene per tutti, meno che per il #consumismo che ci hanno impresso negli ultimi 50 anni.
2) la cultura e l'arte nascono PROPRIO dal riparare "qualcosa". Perché è da questa incertezza (#unbalance), da questo tentativo di comprensione delle cose, che nascono le cose belle. [1/2][END]

The Advantages of #Text-Based Information Versus Videos, #Audio or #Images
https://karl-voit.at/2022/01/08/text-vs-video-audio-images/

Many people dislike to watch #YouTube #videos and prefer a text-based tutorial for topics.

#publicvoit #PIM #lockin

@jwildeboer Personally, I think it's kinda bad that #RedHat was kinda becoming the de-facto monopolist.

Tho it's not as if @SUSE and @ubuntu could've made better offerings before, and I still think that unless one has a harsh #Vendor #LockIn #Ubuntu and @opensuse are the better options.

I just wished #SUSE and espechally #Canonical were more commited of building good distros than weird shite like this...

Not that I excuse RedHat from doing an #Oracle #OpenSolaris with #RHEL! @SolarisDiaspora

@JessTheUnstill this is why all #Centralized #SingleVendor / #SingleProvider solutions are inherently bad:

Users get the unreliability of poorly managed #SelfHosting with the price tag of #ManagedHosting and a #toxic #LockIn on top!

@mattias yeah, and I sincerely hope it'll actually mean "toolfree-replaceable & standardized cells" and not some shitty #LockIn with #Firmware...

Something ALL Manufacturers (AFAIK) do (maybe not @frameworkcomputer but I've no info to confirm nor deny that in their case!)

https://mstdn.social/@kkarhan/110801872240618740

@mobilsicher Es gibt keinen Grund warum diese so einen harten #LockIn haben, denn am ende sind das nichts anderes als Mobil-#Webseiten und könnten daher auch als soche benutz- und verfügbar sein!

Someone should address this on a video. I think it will be very enjoyable!

https://github.com/RupertBenWiser/Web-Environment-Integrity/issues?page=2&q=is%3Aopen+is%3Aissue

#lockin #nofreeinternet

Articolo interessante che spiega con chiarezza a chi non è esattamente del mestiere, la risposta (quasi sprezzante) di #Oracle e poi anche di #SUSE contro la mossa recente di #RedHat / #IBM di limitare molto l'accesso al codice sorgente #RHEL

Quello che ha fatto RedHat con la #GPL sarà pure legale (molti sostengono di no, e qui partiranno altre sterili dispute) ma è un fatto che la paura di finire in un #lockin tecnologico, nel mondo opensource non è mai stata così alta

https://www.impresacity.it/news/29058/che-sta-succedendo-nel-mondo-rhel.html

If you bought a #VanMoof #bicycle that has an issue when the vendor is not available, YOU did the mistake with your choice for this product.

If you bought a lawnmower robot that doesn't work when its vendor is out of business, you did the mistake.

If you bought a computer whose vendor collects your data in his cloud ➡️ your mistake.

I can go on like that forever.

YOU need to accept the obvious downsides when you once took the very clear risk.

Next time:
https://karl-voit.at/2021/01/18/tool-choices/ 😉 #lockin

This article is just one of many examples of how large tech companies want to be more in control of their relationship with you. You owning and/or controlling a device is a liability for their growth, since you could choose a different choice of products and services unless it's so integrated you can't leave.
#lockin #walledgarden
https://www.theverge.com/2023/6/27/23775117/microsoft-windows-11-cloud-consumer-strategy

#Apple is stopping 3rd-party graphic cards.

Apple is stopping plug-ins for Apple Mail (#MailExtensions aren't a decent replacement).

Apple thinks that encrypting traffic to their cloud is "end-to-end #encryption". (That's a lie.)

Your #cloud data belongs to Apple.

The golden cage is getting smaller and smaller.

Just sayin' in case you'll wonder that you can't escape any more some day.

Don't invest in ecosystems like that!

https://karl-voit.at/2021/01/18/tool-choices/ #lockin #privacy #freedom #platform

I updated my "How to Choose a Tool" article to emphasize aspects for #privacy, #dataprotection and #lockin: https://karl-voit.at/2021/01/18/tool-choices/

My process works for all sorts of tools: #software, #hardware, #services, ...

#publicvoit #PIM

@DimitriFayolle J'ai jamais aimé le principe du matériel apple, mais j'ai quand même acheté un brompton en 2013.
À Paris, pour aller en Angleterre avec.

#LockIn.

@VoronoV

E niente, sentire @quinta dal vivo qui a #wnf23 che racconta la storia di Internet parlando di #effettorete e #regolamentazione e #antitrust e #lockin, mi fa venire un sacco di nostalgia. Ma sono temi da recuperare, mai stato così importante.
Serve consapevolezza sul mondo che è stato creato, proprio per continuare a ripensarlo.

#Amazon #BigTech #LockIn #Monopolies #Antitrust: "Uber is a pure enshittification play. For more than a decade, the company lost more than 40 cents on every dollar, using predatory pricing to destroy the yellow cab business and public transit. Now it employs ex-cab drivers at half their old wages to drive passengers at twice the old fares. It incinerated the forest and took root in the ashes.

Amazon's version of this arson relies on the same scorched-earth lock-in that Uber and other enshittifying eucalypts deploy. Amazon used investor subsidies to switch customers onto its platform, then locked them in by subsidizing the pre-purchase of a year's worth of shipping (AKA Prime). Once you've pre-paid for a year's worth of shipping, you don't shop anywhere else.

Prepayment is a huge part of Amazon's lock-in: that's the real strategy behind its subscriptions services for ebooks and audiobooks. If you've already paid for a book this month – a payment you owe whether or not you actually choose a book – then any time you come across an interesting book, you get it on Kindle or Audible, because you've already paid for it."

https://pluralistic.net/2023/04/25/greedflation/#commissar-bezos

Recall that the key to enshittification is #LockIn. Platforms subsidize the arrangement between workers and customers at the start, and then they make it back by squeezing both. The easier it is for either to leave, the less it can squeeze. The more it hurts workers or customers to leave, the more pain the platform can inflict on both without losing their business.

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How pathetic is trying to stop your own paying customer from copying the contents of their playlist they built themselves?

Wanted to cross reference with my offline music collection to see what I was missing on disk.

In the end I had to resort to the javascript console and some editing foo to get it all out.

#spotify #lockin

An #FAQ collection re: #Matter, a standard for controlling #smarthome products that is supported by quite an amount of vendors. If you're fed up with such products not being compatible, and with yourself facing a #vendor #lockin, familiarize yourself with what is to come.

https://matter-smarthome.de/en/matter-faq-en/

#mattersmarthome //@mattersmarthome@mastodon.social

Ganz genau so sieht's nämlich aus:

"Hinzu kommt das Faszinosum des Wahnsinns selbst, der sich auf Twitter tagtäglich ereignet. Lange schaute ich wie viele gebannt auf die nächsten erratischen Entscheidungen von #Musk und #Twitter eignete sich nicht nur perfekt dafür sie zu verfolgen, sondern auch meinen sarkastischen Senf dazuzugeben. Doch damit spielt man nur mit im zynischen Spiel und reinforced genau die #LockIn Effekte, die Twitter und damit Musk seine Macht geben. Man schafft dadurch nur wieder neue Relevanz, die andere Leute auf der #Plattform hält."

aus "Danke für den Fisch!" von @mspro

#TwitterTakeover #SocialMedia #Mastodon

https://www.ctrl-verlust.net/danke-fuer-den-fisch/

#LockIn and the #Cloud
https://karl-voit.at/2022/02/03/cloud-lock-in/

#publicvoit