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by noisy_boy 81 days ago
I mean I kinda agree on what you are saying but then it logically follows that if you don't want to try out alternatives, don't want to push your government to enact better laws, don't want to spend time taking them to small claims court - basically don't want to do anything but suffer - then just suffer.
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butlike 81 days ago
I don't know how to better explain this, but as I get older I find I just have less energy to address all the things. My worldview gets larger and my energy levels become less and eventually I need to just 'stop' progressing in a certain activity. It could be re-learning the TV's remote control like my grandparents, or it could be re-learning how to drive with an EV touchscreen on modern cars, or it could be re-learning an operating system that just presents a mountain where you just say: "I can't do it this time."
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Dylan16807 81 days ago
Sure, if you ignore all the time you're wasting on the status quo. You are still using energy on all the problems of the existing system.

For a remote or a car there is no benefit to changing. For Windows there is.

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butlike 79 days ago
I feel like that sentiment is really in the eyes of the beholder. You could argue as long as Windows still accepts and runs .exes, I'm good to go with gaming. But, that excludes all of the benefits of changing.

Idk, it's more of a philosophical perspective at this point. I see where you're coming from.

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pc86 81 days ago
The vast majority of people do not test out alternatives to things they just need to use for work, they don't lobby their government even informally for different laws, have never gone to small claims court (or even been in a court room when it's in session). These are all minority "activist" activities for lack of a better word.

The tin foil hat interpretation of this is that it is all by design, by whatever cabal runs everything, to subjugate the masses and control them directly or indirectly. The generous interpretation is closer to an extreme version of Sturgeon's Law[0] where this is just a natural, even inevitable, byproduct of most things being garbage. Like most things the truth is almost certainly somewhere in the middle.

[0] "90% of everything is [crud/crap/shit]" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sturgeon's_law

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