AVeryCleverName

Vscodium is a fork of VSC with the telemetry removed

Peace

I think we're just as bored. We may in fact be worse off for having increased our "interest threshold" such that we must seek more and more stimuli in order to stave off boredom.

Doomscrolling is the new boredom.

I'm 34 and this is deep

I'm just beginning my de-googling journey. However when I think about the potential loss of convenience this is what I tell myself: in exchange for convenience, particularly since the dawn of the smartphone era, we have lost a deeper understanding of how things work under the hood. And how much convenience have we really gained? I think it is more likely we have been led to believe our convenience has been increased when really the only convenience that matters is how convenient it is to advertise to us.

Who has read The Master Switch by Tim Wu? It's a great book and that essentially argues every mass communication medium started off as a decentralized playground for hobbyists before consolidating into a centralized profit seeking (or profit-seeking-enabling) entity. It the ends with the question of whether the same destiny awaits the internet.

I remember hoping it didn't, and that hope grows harder to maintain by the day. It's so fucking sad.

I just hope that even if this standard is implemented, the protocol maintains enough of it's flexibility for small enclaves of people who still believe in the technology's original vision to "opt out" of it.

My first thought as well. It may seem like a pedantic "well akshually" thing, but the world wide web and the internet are not the same thing.

Boo. This seems like the first step toward eventually locking down "side loading" like iOS does.

I sort by new. It seems to work. There's a severe lack of comments, which I am trying to do my part to rectify.

Nice! I'm still rocking a 970. Definitely due for a rebuild.

All that is solid melts into air

Please share your ad blocking strategy when you do!