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I've definitely turned into the paranoid nutcase within my friend group in recent years, I hate that everything is "smart" nowadays requiring an app/internet connection & account, just to do basic things that didn't require any of that before.

What's some things currently making you ramble like an old man?

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[โ€“] AceQuorthon@lemmy.dbzer0.com 28 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Ditto. I hate feeling like a luddite just because I don't want anything to do with modern spyware.

I've given up. The war for privacy is lost. The only thing we can fight for now is having the same open insight into companies that they have on us. And try to push the companies out of governments.

(please don't listen to my defeatism, keep fighting as long as you got the energy)