I'm tired of pretending tech makes things better.  I'm tired of kidding myself that all these apps, these chatbots, these "tools" are doing anything but dragging us into the mud and the shit and calling it progress.  I sat down at a cafe a few days ago, hungry and ready
  • monolalia@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    6 days ago

    I had to give up using the lockers at the post office when they started requiring an app that my phone at the time was too old for. (I don’t really care about phones; I use other people’s hand-me-downs.) Too much of all this cleverness is just making the world more complicated, complex, and expensive. Meh. I can use my tablet now but still resent these swipey-wipey ad delivery devices.