Enshitification
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How Stellantis destroyed Jeep
Short documentary on the greed and enshitification that’s destroyed Jeep car brand
- www.thenation.com One Weird Trick for Destroying the Digital Economy
Tim Hwang thinks we should burst the bubble of the ad-supported internet before it’s too late.
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Good News Monday: Hyundai Going Back To Physical Buttons Because American Buyers Don’t Like Touchscreens | Carscoops
www.carscoops.com Hyundai Going Back To Physical Buttons Because American Buyers Don’t Like Touchscreens | CarscoopsKorean firm admitted it had been sucked in by the glitz of touchscreen tech, but customers found it annoying
- www.theguardian.com ‘What many of us feel’: why ‘enshittification’ is Macquarie Dictionary’s word of the year
The committee’s honourable mentions went to ‘right to disconnect’ and ‘rawdogging’
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A reminder that you don't own your phone
To use Google messages you must sign in to one of your google accounts, even though that was not a requirement until today that I know of or was aware of.
- aftermath.site Nvidia Joins The Ranks Of Companies Making Their Products Worse - Aftermath
The company will cap hours players can use its GeForce Now cloud gaming service
Nvidia, the company that makes graphics cards you can't afford anymore and keeps vying for status as the world's most valuable company, is taking a page from Xbox's book and announcing a confusing change to its GeForce Now cloud gaming service that includes a monthly cap on the hours you can play games. As many people are saying in the comments to the announcement, maybe it's time to build a PC.
I will be honest that after writing the lede above I had to look up exactly what GeForce Now is, and reaffirm that it is not one of the many Nvidia things my graphics card installed on my computer. Like Stadia (RIP) and Microsoft's xCloud, GeForce Now can let you stream games your hardware might not be able to support. It has a bunch of tiers, some of which now have new names and new limits.
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Cannon App going shitty
So now, if you want to get the app you gotta give up your email or whatever sign up information they want.
How about a nice Nikon?
Or maybe just take photos? The WiFi speed on my camera is shit anyway.
I would rather like a direct WiFi powered upload system for my photoprism server.
- www.404media.co Leaked Training Shows How Doctors in New York’s Biggest Hospital System Are Using AI
At Northwell Health, executives are encouraging clinicians and all 85,000 employees to use a tool called AI Hub, according to a presentation obtained by 404 Media.
A leaked training presentation from a NY's largest hospital system shows how doctors are being encouraged to use AI for everything from writing emails to summarizing clinical evaluations to "diagnosing pancreatic cancer" and "parse" health records
- gizmodo.com Steam Finally Makes It Clear You Don’t Own Your Games
Valve updated Steam’s shopping carts to notify users that they’re only buying a “license” for the game, not the game itself.
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Good News Monday: Volvo Kills Its Vehicle Subscription Service | Carscoops
www.carscoops.com Volvo Kills Its Vehicle Subscription Service | CarscoopsThe Swedish carmaker has joined Audi, BMW, Cadillac, and Mercedes in abandoning this lease alternative
- www.engadget.com Anova will charge customers to use its sous vide app, because everything must be a subscription
Anova will soon charge customers to use its sous vide app, because everything must be a subscription. The company’s also removing Wi-Fi and Bluetooth functionality from its first-generation cookers.
- www.theatlantic.com My Printer Is Extorting Me
Subscriptions such as HP’s Instant Ink challenge what it means to own our devices.
Subscriptions such as HP’s Instant Ink challenge what it means to own our devices
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- podtail.com Cory Doctorow: Platform capitalism and the curse of "enshittification" – Future Tense – Podcast
Amazon now feels more like a racket than an open shopping platform; you can't find posts from your friends on Facebook because it's clogged with unsolicited advertising; and Uber no longer seems like... – Listen to Cory Doctorow: Platform capitalism and the curse of "enshittification" by Future Tens...
- spectrum.ieee.org Their Bionic Eyes Are Now Obsolete and Unsupported
These early adopters found out what happened when a cutting-edge marvel became an obsolete gadget... inside their bodies.
Barbara Campbell was walking through a New York City subway station during rush hour when her world abruptly went dark. For four years, Campbell had been using a high-tech implant in her left eye that gave her a crude kind of bionic vision, partially compensating for the genetic disease that had rendered her completely blind in her 30s. “I remember exactly where I was: I was switching from the 6 train to the F train,” Campbell tells IEEE Spectrum. “I was about to go down the stairs, and all of a sudden I heard a little ‘beep, beep, beep’ sound.”
It wasn’t her phone battery running out. It was her Argus II retinal implant system powering down. The patches of light and dark that she’d been able to see with the implant’s help vanished...
