I'm Tired of Pretending Tech is Making the World Better
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Technology absolutely helps advance science and helps the disabled, It’s greedy fucks that destroyed good tech
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Some parts of life have gotten massively easier. The other day I called my pharmacy to delay my next prescription refill because I still have pills. I was able to do this entirely through voice interaction with an automated system. Huzzah. I get texts when my scrips are about to be filled or ready, and reminders if I don’t pick them up for a while. I can also see this info on demand in an app if I want. What’s not to like?
My entire medical group runs on an app now. I can make appointments with my doctor, see the documentation from prior visits, pay bills, see test results…
Oh but boo hoo this author had to download an app to order a drink. First world problems…
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I think you hit the head on the nail.
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On my small fleet of Logi M570 trackball mice, I occasionally have to crack them open and tweezer out the wreath of hair that has built up in the mouse wheel which obscures the sensor. It'll be a mix of mine and my cats hair.
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Mate, it's a cheese quesadilla. It's two tortillas, cheese, and heat...
Joking aside, there are a few out there. A lot of people are surprisingly into figuring out copycatting popular fast food.
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I had an Amazon bot lie to me. I told it some item didn't show up and I wanted a replacement. It said it would send one and it would show up in my orders. It never did. So I requested a refund later. So tedious.
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Yep, I want to be a contrarian, that why I brought politics in a discussion about tech. Oh, wait...
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That sounds super uncomfortable, the emergency braking is quite brutal...
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We don't blame the whip, we blame the slaver
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This is weird take on an op-ed. OP didn't alter the title. The onl ways I can conceive of a headline being "misleading" is when it declares a falsity (this doesn't; it's an opinion) or doesn't match the content of the titled text (this doesn't; it matches the text).
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Open-source technology absolutely is making the world better.
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Yeah I think blanket statements either way are misguided. Some tech does help the disabled, other tech makes their lives much more difficult. It's like any other tool, when it's used at scale by something aiming for optimizing profit it will have terrible side effects
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Wait. Is this satire? Like these suggested versions have been generated by running through a LLM AI?
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People forget that technology is agnostic to morals and ideals. Which is a big part of why I support FOSS. It is tech with goals that do aim for accessibility and making the world better. I am not a huge donator as I don't make much money, nor can I code well, but I donate and contribute where I can.
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Yeah my neighbors suck
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technology has the potential to make life so much better, there are two problems.
Tech that makes life better, usually doesn't create much value. Because it's either, already been created, and if it has, it's probably enshittified by now.
Go use open source FOSS tech, it's great. Contribute to the improvement of society by not using terrible technology and begin using good technology, it's free!
