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Pre-enshittification tech. [discussion/fun] (sh.itjust.works)

submitted 3 days ago by FineCoatMummy@sh.itjust.works to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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What kind of pre-enshittification tech do you all use? Stuff where ppl look at you like you're an alien b/c nobody does it that any more.

Me ->

Oldschool offline mp3 player rather than Spottify or other streaming or phone app, to use when running.

Paper books rather than e-books.

DRM free games I buy on GOG to avoid rootkitting my own comp.

Wired speakers rather than smart speakers.

Old ass pre-connected car.

Prob more but I can't think of it all rn.

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[–] klymilark@herbicide.fallcounty.omg.lol 5 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Admittedly a lot of my audio stuff is either wireless or built-in now. Either laptop speakers, or bone conduction headphones since I want to hear what's happening around me when I'm walking on the roadside. Not clear on what you mean by pre-enshittification tech, but here's the stuff people either need explained, or look at me weird for:

Gentoo linux
FreeBSD
Thinkpad T430
GrapheneOS (this one's weird to me because it feels almost exactly like stock android?)
A lot of my games are from itch.io for the same reason you listed for GOG, though I do use steam a lot too.
My files are synced through syncthing between 4 locations, depending on what's getting synced
The fediverse in general
Having my own website? This one confuses me because you'd think that'd be a bit more normal because of the SquareSpace ads, but nope. The idea of just... having your own website is weird to people
The Linux terminal. I occasionally go to the library and write books in a TTY, it's a little funny seeing people react.
Emacs
Pick any terminal application. Ranger, w3m, cmus, cava, etc etc.
I occasionally play MUDs/MUSHes
Browser games that are text/image based. The ones I'm playing now are all 20+ years old, so well pre-enshittification.
Honestly I've had people think it's weird that I download my music to play locally, even though it's through a phone app with a relatively modern interface.

We'll be moving into an owned home soon, and I have some plans for tech, and non-tech stuff. Can't wait to see how many comments we get about having awnings in 2026.

[–] JamesBoeing737MAX@sopuli.xyz 2 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

I wish I had time to use Gentoo, but I barely have time to upgrade my Suse TW and Artix systems (to be fair, suse's packaging system is shit compared to arch/artix, but it is more stable if upgraded after a long time).

How do you manage to upgrade it regularly? Do you have an extremely powerful PC or just the T430?

[–] klymilark@herbicide.fallcounty.omg.lol 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Gentoo is on the Latitude; it's slightly more powerful, but it's still an eight year old laptop. The big thing that's cut down on compile time is using binary packages by default, only compiling when I either need to because my USE flags are different, or because there's no binary package available. I don't have that many packages installed that take hours/days (and I do mean days, I gave up on the source package for qtwebengine after 3 days of compiling) anymore. Average update takes maybe 30 minutes now, updating weekly.

For a more direct comparison: Same PC, installed Gentoo twice (I managed to bork my install), the source install took 3 days to actually get a GUI, binary install took 3 hours, and there is essentially no difference

I will also say: You can absolutely use your computer while the upgrades are going. Gaming won't be great, but doing office/coding stuff, and watching videos is usually fine

[–] JamesBoeing737MAX@sopuli.xyz 1 points 19 hours ago

Eh, on my Latitude(5290) - 2018, i7-8350u and my shitty home network (still better than my grandma's ADSL but not by much), zypper dup (with some unnecesarry shit) takes an hour. I assume emerging the upgrade would be at least 10 times longer.

I assume I'd be forced to use Gentoo if I eventually switch to a snapdragon laptop, so fuck me then.