Enshittification

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What is enshittification?

The phenomenon of online platforms gradually degrading the quality of their services, often by promoting advertisements and sponsored content, in order to increase profits. (Cory Doctorow, 2022, extracted from Wikitionary) source

The lifecycle of Big Internet

We discuss how predatory big tech platforms live and die by luring people in and then decaying for profit.

Embrace, extend and extinguish

We also discuss how naturally open technologies like the Fediverse can be susceptible to corporate takeovers, rugpulls and subsequent enshittification.

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After 40 years of being free Microsoft has added a paywall to Notepad (www.tweaktown.com)

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[–] JustZ@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Can I build any custom PC and I have it run Linux ?

What if I need to have Adobe Pro and MS Word full versions for work ?

[–] cactopuses@lemm.ee 1 points 2 months ago

In regard to any custom PC, absolutely Linux runs on most hardware.

Adobe, and word aren’t written native to Linux, there are solutions such as wine that can help, or you can dual boot or use a virtual machine

[–] ProgrammingSocks@pawb.social 0 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

I would build it with AMD or Intel components only personally, because Nvidia still relies on a closed-source driver.

Adobe and Word will not work on Linux.