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ghostofasapphic · 3 years

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I mean… who could resist…?

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the kids are alright.

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ghostofasapphic · 4 years

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Like, it’s 100% true that Kids These Days tend to be less computer literate than my generation was at that age, but that isn’t because they’re lazy.

It’s because consumer software has been growing steadily more user-hostile for the last twenty solid years, and this is a deliberate tactic on the part of major software vendors in order to manipulate people into paying money and/or installing adware in order to access functionality that their systems were already perfectly capable of.

Basically, big software vendors have realised that you can charge people for access to things they already have if you can prevent them from realising that they have it; this is now a major plank of their business model.

This is why the Right to Repair movement is incomplete without taking software into consideration: having direct, unencumbered, and unobfuscated access to the guts of your software is just as essential to sustainable computing as not having to piss around with eight different sizes of screws with four different proprietary screw-head designs in order to crack open your smartphone.

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ghostofasapphic · 4 years

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ghostofasapphic · 4 years

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Elizabeth Olsen behind the scenes of “WandaVision” 1.01 (2021)

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ghostofasapphic · 4 years

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You know what really pisses me off about that “it’s all in how you raise them” mindset though? It makes good owners feel like fucking shit.

I’ve owned Diego since he was four months. I did everything with him, socialized the hell out of him, he loved other dogs when he was young. We went to training classes, etc.

And then one day when he was about eight months old he jumped a dog. He no longer tolerated strange dogs.

And I felt like fucking hell. I believed that “it’s all how you raise them” shit. Here I am doing my best with this dog, and he turns out like this! I seriously considered rehoming him.

It took a lot for me to get out of that stupid mindset. I took him to behaviorists and trainers who all pretty much said the same thing - that’s his personality.

I don’t know where I’m going with this post. It just ticks me off.

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ghostofasapphic · 4 years

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