Which is worse: locking down my tech (no further updates) and living with existing security holes yet to be discovered; or updating apps to get security patches and sufferring the constant enshitification of those apps

[semifor@ack.nerdfight.online]

Which is worse: locking down my tech (no further updates) and living with existing security holes yet to be discovered; or updating apps to get security patches and sufferring the constant enshitification of those apps?

Anecdotal, but seems to me every app/os update in the past year has made my experience worse.

[kkarhan@jorts.horse]

@semifor #KISSprinciple: You can have your cake and eat it too, by choosing to change over to something that isn't enshittifying…

• It's software,bso it can be changed!

[semifor@ack.nerdfight.online]

@kkarhan In theory. In practice that's been hellish difficult in my experience. You have some app that's worked great for years and suddenly they…enshittify. Then you're faced with findind a replacement, avoiding updates, or living with the enshittification. And you probably didn't notice the enshittification in time to avoid it. You've updated and can't revert. Any solution is a lot of work.

[kkarhan@jorts.horse]

@semifor nodds in agreement I mean @mrmasterkeyboard would've prefered not having to do a fork of #vim called #EVi but the #AIslop being accepted into vim forced their hands...