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Comrade drunkcheesesandwich on slash r slash TrueAnon summarised the past year's situation (and foreseeable future's) succinctly. I previously saw it enunciated, during the Obama era mainly, that an observable effect of capitalism/neoliberalism on the human condition has resulted in essentials like housing and university tuition and medical care skyrocketing in cost while "nice to have" and luxury shit like ~~telescreens~~ televisions and ~~NATOpedia terminals~~ smartphones plummeting in price.

Now, they've come for even those meager scraps.

Now, a handful inhuman demons controlling more wealth than any single real person could spend in 100,000 lifetimes has decided they need every final grain of sand on earth refactored into silicon compute slaves for some deranged vision of an artificial false deity has deprived the proletarians of even the comforts of doomscrolling an autodimming IPS Organic-OLED HD10+++ UHXFS3D screen in the palm of their hand whilst they cry themselves to sleep on a handful of over-the-counter-tranquilisers to make the wake-up alarm for their M-F widget job at 7am tomorrow.

Was planning to get a Pixel 10a with my limited funds to put GrapheneOS on it and be "safe" for security updates for a few years. It fucking spiked $100 like 3 weeks ago, the 'sale' now is fucking higher price than what is was base cost like a month ago (it's personal but no, it's not the sole specific reason for this ragepost).

I'm so fucking sick of Google and other sites ratcheting up ""security"" and bullshit steps to """"""""""protect"""""""" me when they don't give half a rat's ass about any individual welfare or security. like they literally don't give a shit about any of us but this stupid fucking forced 2FA crap and mobile-tied-to-all-account-actions-on-desktop Google got aggressive on is pissing me off beyond anything else. this shit is forced on us only to remove themselves from any claims of liability.

I use a password manager for years (keepassdx & keepassxc) to generate absurdly long random passwords and change them at least yearly. no shady downloads on my PC, no pirated stuffs of any kind, I'm computer savvy in general and run a tight ship. recently trying to clean up (log out) some old mobile sessions on my Google account, and change my main account password, things I've done quickly and without hassle in the past. suddenly being asked for password AND forced to tap the stupid fucking number sent to my Android phone, which of course I don't receive because it's sending to some stagnant Android session that was overwritten by my various Android and GrapheneOS installs (tinkerer).

completely stonewalled on my own account now. can't change password any more because the shitty little kindergarten secret passcode doesn't send to my current accessible Android install, can't log out old devices to keep it from being sent to those. tangential note, last year the rent payment portal for my shithole apartment added forced 2FA to all accounts too, never had it before and shit was just fine, but now an extra step and waste of my fucking time just to pay the do-nothing landleech who lives in a different fucking state.

so fucking pissed I could break someone's face rn. fuck everything. fuck capitalist-infected software. fuck techbros. fuck Google. fuck AI. fuck Flock. so tired of this endless fucking bullshit that keeps getting worse. thanks for hearing my TED talk.