Enshitification
Welcome to Enshitification
A community for everyone who didn't realise it was spelled 'enshittification'.
This is your space to document the decay, demise, and destruction of the tech world as we know it. Share stories, articles, and firsthand experiences that capture the ongoing decline of once-celebrated platforms, services, and companies in the late stage capitalist landscape.
From monopolistic corporate shifts to anti-user updates and the relentless pursuit of profit over quality—if it’s broken, bloated, or just plain bad, it belongs here. We’re here to spotlight the moves that make the tech world worse, one piece of enshittification at a time.
Guidelines
🔹 Stay on Topic: Only post content about the decline of tech products, platforms, or companies.
🔹 Quality Content: Give some context when posting links or articles to drive quality discussions.
🔹 Respectful Discussion: Critique companies, crappy tech, and capital, not community members.
🔹 Positive Monday: The first Monday of every month is reserved for positive content only that shows enshittification isn't inevitable.
Join us to expose the changes that ruin the things we once loved and to discuss what comes next in a tech world gone wrong.
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HP is clearly bullshitting, but let us pretend for a moment that it wasn't.
Why do those cartridges have a chip on first place, instead of being simple mechanical devices?
And, if there's any remotely good reason to include a chip in a cartridge (pffft), why is the printer executing code from it, instead of reading its contents as raw data?
That stinks incompetence and disregard towards customers from a distance dammit.
Are you getting what I mean? If HP is bullshitting (yes, it is), you shouldn't touch its trashy printers with a 3m pole; and if it wasn't bullshitting, you should still not touch its trashy printers with a 3m pole!