Mobile phones are so locked down from regular users that those usually just physically break before the operating system becomes unusably slow.
Laptops can be destroyed by software. Give a regular user permission to install programs, and suddenly there are a random purple monkey sitting on the desktop telling jokes and multiple crypto miners.
I’m going to steal some of these words and use them in my future projects, and no one can stop me from doing that
It’s the same old reason as always. Most users value their convenience more than anything.
I just hope there won’t be any enshittification phases, just abandon it or remove it from play store if open sourcing it as-is is not possible.
Yes they do. And it works for regular user. You just aren’t a regular user.
I don’t understand why ppl do this. Is this malicious? Do they think they are somehow helping?
That app sounds horrible
Just buy few cereal boxes and you’ll have new guns and maybe some bullets if you’re lucky
I would allow it, it’s brilliant. The main learning benefit of cheat sheets comes from writing them, not from using them.
This is not enshittification, this is just a corporation trying to protect itself against anything that could cause negative publicity, like all corporations do. I can even see emojis and positive tone to even be wanted features for some. The real problem here is lack of transparency.
I’m still waiting for ChatGPT etc. to start injecting (more or less hidden) ads to chat and product placement to generated images. That is just unavoidable when bean counters realize that servers and training actually costs money.
It never ceases to amaze me how most users just ignore all settings and go with default values for everything.
App started showing lengthy and disrupting ads? I guess I’ll just have to watch those. App now sends hurtful old memories? I guess I’ll just suffer.
Seems perfect for my next vibe coding project
Damn greedy corporations and their shrinkflation
How there’s never enough data from Greenland? Are they afraid of surveys? Do they even exist?
I understand that developers don’t always have time or interest to fix my problems (specially with FOSS projects), but this just feels like rubbing it in my face. Just close the issue after initial assessment if it looks like a non-fixable and low priority.
“See this is how much we care, we even have a bot to remind you that we are still ignoring you”
Well that looks cool. I just hope I would have use for such device.
I wonder how they plan to keep updating this Mechanix OS after initial sales slow down
Have you tried firefox containers? It’s a bit clunky but it should do just that
I actually was going to write something related to this but decided against it in fear of being downvoted and reported to hell. I already blocked all political subreddits and groups but still my feed is full of this american bloodthirst. I just hope I could block all non-european internet for few months.
Came here to say this. No one deserves this, not even new programmers who try to learn things.
Some programming tools are really powerful compared to what new users are used to. If you come from the world of Microsoft Office and Apple whatever it’s called, everything is saved automatically to cloud and there is some local backup file somewhere which you can just restore. Modern programs are designed to protect users against their own mistakes, and when suddenly that is taken away, it can be a jarring experience.
Well, at least some part of the users are frustrated with ads. What bothers me more is that the majority certainly couldn’t care less whether there are ads on their device or not. If they did, Amazon would be forced to do something about it.