No. Just no.

And get off my lawn, ya whippersnapper.

Sounds like something a bigot would say.

A fish rots from the head. Corporate culture all flows from the CEO and board. If a bigoted piece of shit is in charge, this is what you get. Because the top of the company sets and enforces policy. So if they don’t care about bigotry or if they are bigoted themselves, they won’t set or enforce policies to stop it. They will hire bigoted management. Those bigots won’t stop it and probably encourage it. They hire bigoted workers who will persecute others and face no consequences. Those who anti-bigots can report but will be ignored or face retaliation.

"Might as well use curl | sudo bash" omg I’m ded 💀

Just the first paragraph or two are laughably slanted.

For example, Amazon’s business model isn’t “making users happy” ffs. It’s about having everything for sale available quick. If they wanted us happy they would fix their fucking horrible UI, they would sell quality stuff instead of so much crap, they would do more about fake reviews, counterfeits, etc.

Didn’t ZZ Top do a song about that?

Me irl spending an hour trying to figure out why vscode reformats pasted code by 2 spaces when I’ve set 4 spaces for indent as the default… so I could write ten lines of code (as a hobbyist)…

More reading social media posts than reading books, probably. If one doesn’t make the connection between the sounds and the proper written word, then you might be more likely to make mistakes like “would of” instead of “would’ve” (which is my pet peeve, incidentally)

Multiple times since 2016 it has hit home like never before: anything related to freedom and democracy has to be continually fought for. When we stop being vigilant (say from 1974-2015) those that seek money and power above all else chip away at everything until they get it.

Interesting MIT Article on gangstalking internet forums that reinforce this concept and the potential damage they can do to those with mental health issues.

https://www.technologyreview.com/2020/08/07/1006109/inside-gangstalking-disturbing-online-world/

That’s not enshittification it is a normal progression of tech to make it useful for a wider audience. Otherwise we would be typing a byte at a time with front panel toggle switches like on a PDP-8.

I think that’s true of any technology that goes mainstream. New tech is evolved to where the end user doesn’t need to know how it works to use it.

Oof. Brings back the memories.

Though it was expensive, my Time Life 80s Music series (CD) was worth it and I still have em all. Thankfully, it wasn’t hard to cancel once I realized I was getting redundant stuff and they would never stop sending CDs as long as I kept paying.

Fellow Gen-X. I’m assuming they’re an ass and that’s about all I need to know.

True but the Mac G4, especially, was an absolute dream to work on. So I don’t agree they remained this way.

Am or pm?

“Yes”

logception

They’ve done it before and by God they’ll do it again if we let them have their way.

It works a lot better when there are many choices, fair competition in the market, and the traits being voted on are painfully obvious.

Well… I bought an AMD card, I have been using Firefox for a few years now, and I’m not buying anything from Blizzard. There are literally dozens like me… Unfortunately, only a small number of people know these things and have these views and care enough to boycott. These companies will continue to do what they do until there is sufficient pushback (if ever) to make it less profitable than alternatives.