But I deeply dislike that solution. Personal responsibility beats authoritarive control in almost all cases.
The point may end up being moot, however, since the dark patterns feeding the social media-data harvesting pipeline are driven by keeping most people hooked on algorithmic infinitely scrolling feeds, and that attention-selling system will fight any attempt to rein it in, whether cultural or governmental.
The value of bandwidth is negligible until you start to work with 100s of TBs. Bandwidth is basically free on a consumer scale. It's the infrastructure you're paying for, but once purchased, it has minimal upkeep compared to how much use you get out of it. It'd be one thing if bandwidth were subsidised; then we could raise pricing up to where you're actually paying for what you use. We're already at that point though. Raising pricing further, either directly or through rationing, is just rent-seeking.
Responsibility is not inherently good. Imposed responsibility for no good reason is in fact bad.
I get why devs do it. It's very convenient to make your app in Electron because then it can also work on the web, and you get free cross-platform compatibility. But for something like the software for your mouse or keyboard (looking at you Logitech!), it really shouldn't be necessary to pull in a whole browser just to tune some settings.
coldtea•1mo ago
coldtea•1mo ago
https://x.com/rywalker/status/2003525268821188746