Notices by Joe Morse (ildiavolorosso@sfba.social)

@pluralistic @cryptadamist @oof Herbalife and other corporate MLMs had an actual term for this: being “garage-qualified” meaning that you spent part of your life savings buying the minimum stock to attain a certain level, and it sat unsold in your garage.

@johnefrancis @arstechnica The key thing about #Enshittification is that it happens, in part, because of the lack of discipline imposed by competition. So end consumers like us are often trapped with no alternative.

@johnefrancis @arstechnica Mine are both a bit older too. One is connected but the other is not, because it becomes almost non-functional when it is disconnected. I'm replacing my home routing setup with something a bit more sophisticated, and I'm going to see how well the router's ad-blocking DNS works on the TV.

It's such a shame that the Digital Milenium Copyright Act makes it nearly impossible for anyone to create an open-source TV OS to replace the bloatware TV manufacturers ship.

@Csik @thefathippy @dblume @pluralistic @freequaybuoy

@pluralistic Maybe the collective action problem gets easier in small increments. Like intermittent fasting, but for toxic and #enshittified social media platforms.

I'm deleting all Meta platforms for at least a week. And I'm looking forward to the attention span I get back from just focusing on the Fediverse and real life.

Sage advice from @pluralistic as usual. Reminds me of an old song Jello Biafra wrote about puritans in the punk scene… https://pluralistic.net/2025/01/14/contesting-popularity/#everybody-samba

I recently started using @npr 's mobile app again, and man...has it gone downhill. We've lost the straight local station streams, and instead we have to put up with a "local" stream with NPR-inserted targeted ads every few minutes. It's worse than commercial radio. Truly a case of @pluralistic's #enshittification in action.

NPR is a vital resource...it's tough to watch something this bad come out of the organization I rely on for so much. I'll stick to the regular airwaves for now.

@mcv @pluralistic @CptSuperlative Funny, I had the same thought when I saw @pluralistic’s post. Smith is selectively quoted for ideological purposes. I was lucky to read this book in college that helped me build a more nuanced view of his views: https://www.ebay.com/itm/305979074258?_skw=the+worldly+philosophers&epid=20038567854&itmmeta=01JFFKG5NRSZ5F0GG8KG7FRKAC&hash=item473dc626d2:g:5PwAAOSwkSdnYKB2&itmprp=enc%3AAQAJAAAA8HoV3kP08IDx%2BKZ9MfhVJKkv8oAff4UVvh6kOv9b5dNEhzgUPFkDvTxUMfCF29E78MXvT32anEKW9gtTbXYJgPT8txw87D9DDTtDDXQkcK99wU%2BHK6iODEd%2BCxlpDUO%2FbVR6v8RRMzNZl25qJIcjMb6ziXcfq9PMnDsXfEwrvvsaSmWj%2BEEnau0LaW35ukL%2FCQqjEIksmRolWf9dDvMWpWVaSrWfKuHNN7D94NyB3rvznw0ZkylW13AjAsiFlaXn2Szr7jYDELHJdSl6u5SAS%2Bem2Pcd6z06bo2%2F6rNdNujaywMkkcnO4g0i07cBzFPCiQ%3D%3D%7Ctkp%3ABFBM-NrA8_tk