Exactly. It took me 4 hours a couple months ago to get a scanner to work on our Windows 11 PC. It turns out there was some Windows Image Acquisition service built in that had to be disabled because it was conflicting with the driver of the scanner. Absolute insanity lmao

I told one of my friends about this since my friends sometimes tease me about using Linux, their response was get a better scanner.

lol

most people are stuck with the couple choices they have in town and when tech comes in and forces the enshitificstion of services in order to pump stock price you’re stuck just eating this shit forever.

Is that the fault of the technology, though, or is that the fault of the companies?

Companies can have stupid, arbitrary rules and requirements and policies and do stupid or harmful actions regardless of technology or not.

I don’t think it’s fair to blame tech for company policies.

if I went to a restaurant and was told that I had to install and use their app to order their food, I would fucking leave. If it was the only restaurant left in town then I’d have much less choice in the matter. The insidious nature of technology is that it changes “can” with “must”.

That’s not really the fault of technology though, that’s the fault of how companies are implementing technology through their policies and procedures.

Companies can have stupid, arbitrary rules and requirements and policies and do stupid or harmful actions regardless of technology or not.

I don’t think it’s fair to blame tech for company policies.