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What's a current or growing trend only you seem to have concerns about? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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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[–] starman2112 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I can imagine a timeline in which TVs start requiring "updates" out of the box, refusing to display what's on the HDMI input without a constant network connection for "security" or "quality of service" or some horseshit

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Oh I'm sure that'd be tried, given the appitites of the major media orgs any way to move towards a payperview-per-viewer model would be fair game. My doubt for it's viability woud be more that human resistance to it would end up the same way it always has for the media firms, trying to defy the will of a determined population of internet dwellers and fighting against reality. Someone would end up creating a widgit/app/script or hell even manufacturing an offline model to market to the glampers and cabin dwellers to circumvent the efforts. Cats and mice will forever keep at their games.