2026-03-17 16:20 UTC
Computers didn't use to suck.
Now, everything is DRM and secured and simple things (like printing out a form!) take hours of trying things to convince the printer that it still has ink and to convince Adobe PDF that I have the right to print it (it's "secured") and then when things don't print, it's a f***ing nightmare to ensure that you haven't left an important document on some server's random f***ing hard drive. Ordering things now requires an app that wants your entire browsing history. Even getting to a website requires giving cloudflare access to your personal life.
I hate the f***ing modern computer ecosystem.
It didn't have to be this way.
Replies (2)
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@neuralreckoning@neuromatch.social 2026-03-17 18:02
@adredish I am totally on board with this "old man yells at cloud" moment. 😉
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@albertcardona@mathstodon.xyz 2026-03-17 18:14
@adredish I don't experience any of this, but I've been living in my open source bubble for decades. Don't know about DRM, or Adobe, or any Microsoft and Apple nonsense ... and most annoyances are circumscribed within soulless corporate web pages of my employers.