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Re:The Rise of User-Hostile Software [2021] by kazinator on Friday December 23, 2022 @02:23PM (#34109646)
Most software written will not be used. Nobody will buy it, or even download it if it is free. (Or even FOSS free.)

The stuff people complain about is all the rest.

But maybe the reason they are complaining about it has to do with how the purveyors figured out how to get it into people's hands. Enough hands to sustain the product.

We can almost entirely blame this on the end users. Users vote for software and hardware with their purchase and use decisions.

Whenever you have a problem with anything, you're a victim of the poor decision making of a million unsophisticated consumers who voted for that piece of crap to have the revenue stream and funding so that it garnered your attention too.

Consumer behavior itself basically creates a barrier of entry to the existence of viable alternatives.

Re:The Rise of User-Hostile Software [2021] by trinsic2 on Friday December 23, 2022 @03:11PM (#34110094)
It seems like a vicious circle to me. End-users are effected by the technology in society. TV, Facebook and TikTok plays a part in dumbing down people. Where does it start and where does it end?

It seems like we need to create enclaves of positive potential to reboot humanity.