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So near, yet so far. They had an enshittification sandwich and instead of swearing off it, they are wondering if they just need less nuts and more sweetcorn.
Politicians need to cater to normies.
Everyone (including my wife) think of me as awkwardly difficult and deviant for not being on the "normal convenient" platforms like everyone else.
This
Divorce her.
Kidding of course. My partner has the same atritude.
But I have gotten her to use linux. Mainly by building her a PC and telling her if she wants windows she can sort it herself.
Mean but works.
Home life is hard for tech enthusiasts. I'm tech support for the extended family and they're pretty intolerant of my tinkering with things. Normies actually get quite upset really quickly if tech doesn't immediately work the way they want. My router started having some problems that it took me a while to get to the bottom of, this messed with my Plex server availability. My wife got so frustrated with her TV shows not working when she wanted that she's pretty much sworn off Plex and wants streaming subscriptions restarted.
This is where the huge popularity of Apple and their walled garden comes from. When I got married I made clear that I'm not doing tech support for any Apple products, so she switched to Android.
I'm not brave enough to push my wife to Linux (I've only found it to be acceptable for daily use very recently myself; and even then it was painful), when the things she uses the most are MS Office and Teams. She gets triggered if she ever needs to use my Linux computer.
Personally, Threads is the only social media platform where the content on it generally improves my mood by showing me lots of funny, cute or interesting content. It's the only one where I don't feel frustrated or angry or outraged by the content the algorithm surfaces or baited. It feels like the feed wants me to smile and cheer up or learn something new, rather than baiting me into getting angry and shouting at people. That counts for a lot, to me.