In my case I’ve hated Harry Potter, skinny jeans and Tesla long before that became popular to do.
I spent years trying to convince my friends and family that Elon musk sucks, and then he just went off the deepend. Im glad it’s widely known how much he sucks now, but damn i wish it didnt take so long.
Now if only people knew who Peter Thiel was
I disliked him back when he was that dick from PayPal cosplaying as an automotive engineer and pretending he knew more than actual experts.
I started to loathe him after the pedo guy stunt where he slandered a caving expert for pointing out Musk’s submarine was a death trap publicity stunt.
Yeah, that was the “oh, shit” moment for me too. I bought into the bullshit until that point.
Google. Been trying to de-google for over a decade. Many of my random asks for alternatives have been answered with “just use google, it’s free”.
Biggest problem is phones because I hate Apple more than Google. Every 6 months or so I look into linux phones, but walk away unimpressed.
I think the best you can do for phones is get one with good hardware and put a degoogled ROM on it
Yea, I’ve checked LineageOS and a few others out, but my phone isn’t supported.
That’s what I get for also hating selfie camera notches/cutouts. Most of the phones I get aren’t popular models. If you know of one for the Nubia Z60 Ultra, point it out.
GrapheneOS on a Pixel phone. Immich self host as a replacent for facial recognition and albums on google photos
You’re trolling me aren’t you?
No, its a decent phone and GrapheneOS has degoogled everything and sandboxed play store if you use it. Storage spaces are sandboxed, camera and mic off switches. Lots of other security and privacy options, and 5 years of support
Still, it would be giving money to google, which I don’t want to do. Also it has a camera cutout which is annoying, ALSO in my original post I claimed whenever I talk about degoogling, someone ALWAYS suggests a google product.
No, I will NOT buy a pixel phone.
Buy used.
Its actually a loss for Google, they are selling a good set of secure hardware for a cheap price in hopes of gleaning your data. But yeah the notch is stupid, especially when icons fall under it.
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https://xdaforums.com/t/lineage-os-first-build.4725645/
There is lineage support now although it is still a bit wonky
Thank you for this! Most of those bugs wouldn’t bother me except for the no bluetooth audio. I’m going to keep tabs on this now that I know it’s almost ready.
I actually just yesterday pulled the trigger on deleting all my contacts and calendar info out of google and now they’re backed up to my webdav server.
Social media. Started strong in the mid 2000’s, peaked in features and quality and social usefulness in the early 2010’s and around 2014 they started removing features and enshittify because they got their core userbase and, once locked in, they could milk them.
Remeber when facebook was about “connecting with old friends” and you could search by city, age range and a whole lot of filters? Or when YouTube was “broadcast yourself” and could fully customize your channel page? Then they reduced it to a stupid banner that got smaller and smaller.
Bonus: everything that relies on infinite growth to keep cost down. I was skeptical of streaming services and guess what, they suck because they operated at loss for years, because “more future customers pay for the present ones”
The stock market. Only when society collapses due to climate change and whatnot the Western hoi polloi will realize it had become a cancerous pyramid scheme that eventually runs out of tissue to metastasize in.
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✍︎ arscyni.cc: modernity ∝ nature.Russell brand, back when he was just a homeopathic, somewhat progressive pseudo-intellectual moron. I remember specifically avoiding Get Him to the Greek bc I thought he was a creep, didn’t think he’d actually be charged with SA though. His pivot to manosphere right wing bullshit doesn’t get enough attention, bc of worse people like Rogan.
Plastic, the patriot act, the Iraq war, AI, the internet, social media, I managed to avoid all platforms except Facebook which my spouse talked me into after months of trying to get me to join and finally deleted it recently, I kind of just hate tech in general, the never ending cycle of “upgrades” that actually make your life significantly shittier, competition, gender roles, giant SUVs, porn, extremely exotic pets, Tesla (test drove a high end model when it first came out and said it was like eating cafeteria food off a really nice tray and didn’t buy it) I’m sure plenty more… as an elder millennial the rise of the 21st century has just been so incredibly disappointing and shallow.
Many of these things and one aspect in common, they rely on either appearances or “trust me bro” level of empty promises. I was always told I was too skeptical and untrustful, but maybe it’s people that trust too much what a salesman is selling you. I’m of the idea that the good things are the one you discover snd enjoy, not the ones that announce to the whole world how awesome they are.
Facebook, Twitter, “influencers”, most social media in general.
Lemmy (and Reddit) are social media, but my brain keys them more as forums rather than lumping them in with other social media.
I already had a strong reaction when the term ‘Influencer’ popped up. At first it sounded like a marketing term that felt more like an insult to label someone as.
Then people started proudly proclaiming themselves Influencers and it’s only gotten worse since…
felt more like an insult
I certainly use the term as a pejorative, hence the quotes in my original comment.
Mr. Beast
Tesla/Musk.
Back in 2014 Tesla and Ecotricity had an agreement to upgrade Ecotricity’s charging network to be compatible with Tesla’s superchargers. Tesla whined that it wasn’t being rolled out fast enough. Ecotricity wasn’t a very big company and was basically working for free, so asked Tesla to actually support the roll out if they needed it faster. Musk went mental has been trying to destroy the company ever since. The 2014 Tesla patent release was never about collaboration or saving the planet, he just hoped somebody, somewhere would use it to undermine Ecotricity.
I liked the OG Tesla Model S (I know there was a roadster before it). But the other models just didn’t do it for me. The X, 3, and Y are all oddly proportioned. And the interiors on the 3 and Y are just not good. I know Tesla fans will excuse the lack of instrument cluster and other missing features that are standard on other vehicles, but no thanks.
And the Cybertruck is just straight-up bizarre.
I moved to the bay area in 2012, absolutely hated Musk back then and thought all of his success was hanging onto other’s coattails and good timing (which fair enough, is a skill + huge privilege in and of itself, but isn’t the same as inventing/engineering) but he was really popular here. He continued to reveal himself to be more and more of a shitheel over the years and I got to slowly see everybody I knew and worked with eventually come around to the same opinion I had held for more than a decade.
Apparently, the large gaps in stall doors. 22ish years later, a number of places around my region are finally installing stalls and floor to ceiling walls without gaps. Making eye contact while taking a shit was always awkward AF.
- reddit (I joined Lemmy years before most people reading this, and was already only lurking a couple of selected subreddits through an alternative frontend for years before that)
- Bill Gates (FOSS have hated that prick since 1976, but even I was hating their reputation laundering long before right-wing conspiracy nuts decided Gates was a communist vaccine microchip liberal or whatever)
- Musk, I guess. I was years ahead of the mainstream, but again, not ahead of socialist communities and environmentalists.
- and twitter, and BlueSky
Im not very familiar with bluesky and whats going on there (I know the basis of what it is but thats all). Why the hate with bluesky?
On the hate of Bluesky here from what I understand: it’s just another twitter masquerading being open with almost impossible to run federation backenf if you’re not some big rich organization that will enshittify and it’s not mastodon
Yep, like @JayGray91@piefed.social said. BlueSky is beholden to the same problems that ruined Twitter. It exists as a business, not a community, and at some point it will try to cash in. It’s repeating history
The word ‘enshittification’ is thrown around a lot, but its original meaning is talking about a process that affects venture capital funded tech, and BlueSky is pressured to follow that process, unlike Mastodon, Pleroma and other alternatives.
Skinny jeans are hated by most people? Where? Like all fashion, it always has haters, of course. But I wasn’t aware of a peak wave of haters for skinny jeans
Car ownership, I guess.
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I hated Elon Musk from pretty much the moment he showed up as the “darling awkward little geek bro”.
When they hyped him up in the first Iron Man movie as some super-intelligent philanthropist I really started to hate that guy.
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The phrase “based off of.” It’s always been stupid. I’m still ahead of the curve because many people still think it’s OK. It’s not.
