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didn't find the post link again, so here is the account https://infosec.exchange/@Em0nM4stodon

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i'll paste my reply from mastodon:

gotta follow FOSS tech, endless wonder

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I've been having the same thought lately. I feel like consumer tech has stagnated since the early 2010s. I miss watching announcements each summer as companies announced their new products and new features, and introducing literal new ways of life.

These days, there's nothing new anymore. This year's phone is the same as last year's and the year before that, except now it has more AI. This year's game console is the same as the last one, but now it has even more restrictions on game ownership. This year's car is the same as last year, but now it has a monthly subscription for power steering.

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I was gonna say the same

I am actually excited for tech from the world of foss

I love simply reading patch notes and going like

"Ahhh yeah that annoyed me but I did not realize"

Thanks to all the hard working devs keeping things interesting and competitive with big tech

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The Steamdeck got me pretty excited to be honest. But uhm, that's about it.

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On the upside, won't spend as much.

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Well just point me towards a FOSS laptop then. Or a FOSS TV? Why not a FOSS toothbrush?

Tech is not just software .

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Endless wonder if you enjoy reading patch notes like:

Fixed a bug that allowed the end user to select a drop-down menu when they selected a variable date.

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Any laptop can be a FOSS laptop.

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If you dont restrict yourself to only hardware then there is plenty of cool stuff. Im using git repo RSS feeds to inject changelogs directly into my veins and its great tbh. There are cool new open source TTS and STT models releasing, single camera motion tracking is getting really good, etc. You just shouldnt look towards commercial products for this excitement, because those are always just enshittified lock in traps. The real juice is in hardware independent open source software that wont fuck you without consent.

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Because the last S in FOSS stands for software?

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FOSS just stands for "free and open source software". While repairability fits in with the ethos, it's a separate issue.

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for real, on windows getting an update meant "ugh what thing do i need to disable now"

now on Linux, it’s "whoa, that’s a cool feature!" and "OMG THEY FINALLY FIXED THAT FINALLY"

the most negative thing is when they change something and you gotta get used to the new way. im not the biggest fan of the recent changes to Dolphin (the file manager, not the emulator), but it’s fine and I’ll get used to it. it’s not worse now, just different

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Aurora Store (Play Store) apps' updates? No fun. Not even good changelogs, just generic, unchanging (or slow / rare changing) ones.

F-droid and FOSS in general, on the other hand? Lemme see what's new. For each and every app.

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firmware is software, which often powers hardware

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That's cool buddy, next time someone talks about Tech in general (the post you clearly didn't read from OP), you can spew your strawman bullshit about how FOSS solves enshittification. And be wrong as all fuck.

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Who sharted in your coffee this morning?

Beeing excited about parts of tech does not warrant you to be a grumpy old man.

Also RISC-V exists and there are laptops, there you go

They are not amazing in performance but it is pretty amazing that they exist at all.

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Me too. It revived the feeling I had when I was teen when a new console was released. Never purchased a device so quickly since valves released the trailer

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Yeah, thats the last time I was genuinely excited for something new. Before that it was usually gaming consoles, and the ps4 just wasn't the excitement factor that ps3 was.

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