Angry Hippy

1. a notebook and pencil in my shirt pocket are faster to open than a phone app

2. handwriting is faster than thumb typing

3. I can sketch an electrical diagram on paper way faster than anyone can with a stylus on some janky phone screen.

3.1) Even if there was a stylus/screen combination with the same haptics, fidelity, and input recognition speed as pencil on paper, it wouldn’t be 0.78€

4. I can toss the notebook and diagrams to anyone working on a project with me with zero worry that they’ll drop it, forget it, or look around in the rest of it

5. I can tear out a page and hand it to anyone instantly, instead of finding out what messaging app we have in common, copying (or screenshotting) the note and pasting it in an app

6. I can insert a note into a physical book, stick it to the inside of a toolbox lid, a wall next to an electrical junction, inside a breaker box, or any other surface, and always have location-aware reminders waiting for me when I need them.

7. With minimal environmental control, my notes are effectively immortal. I have notebooks of measurements and diagrams of most rooms, wall cavities, pipe runs, electrical runs, cable pulls, and dimensions of various equipment that have outlasted hard drives, backup tapes, and a few cloud storage companies.

Any time you struggle with a bad habit, addiction, or compulsion you don’t have under control.

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Photography software in general.

Photo Mechanic, On1 plugins, and Capture One - there isn’t a single piece of FOSS photography software that is remotely useful for my use cases.

High volume tethered shooting with automatic application of edits and adjustments in separate layers is basically impossible.

Fast culling of hundreds or thousands of images along with applying metadata with templates is also not really possible.

Darktable and Digikam are okay Lightroom replacements, but they don’t come close to touching what is available in the proprietary world. Rawtherapee doesn’t do tethering at all, and isn’t very good at what it does do compared to On1 Photo Raw or Capture One.

Same for non fiction writing. If people can see how you might make a living from what you make, they love to downvote it to oblivion. Guess we’re all suppposed to have office wage jobs all day and write fanfic for free at night. It definitely keeps me from ever posting about my writing.

It’s the way they’re doing it that is the problem. There are already existing anonymous contactless payment systems that could be doing this in stores (from a consumer pov). The difference is that they don’t track you so they’re of limited interest to surveillance capitalism corps.

I just left a music festival where literally everything was controlled via RFID wallet chips on a bracelet. It’s fast and excellent. Festival entrance, area access (lounges, vip, backstage, etc…), food and beverage purchases, shuttle bus access, vendor purchases, even some taxis in the area, all paid from a virtual wallet I loaded with currency and not linked to my bank accounts or social media, or store profiles. Presumably they made a profile of my purchase and travel patterns during the week to optimize their routes and services in future, but since they have no way to tie that to ME, they can’t really sell off my data.

Rambling yes, but the point is whether or not the new low-friction payment systems operate as a cash analog (quick, anonymous, portable, loosely coupled to financial networks) or as a credit analog (non-anonymous, tightly coupled to financial systems, non-portable, etc)

These products (have been determined to) have environmental, economical, and health risks.

There isn’t really a word in common usage in English that means “with respect to the matter of ones health” that can be used in that construction,so you end up with passive voice statements.

I sort of got the feeling that self-promotion was generally discouraged on Lemmy.

Not disagreeing with you, just pointing out that the frictionless payment system doesn’t have to be a privacy invasion in order to exist.

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