YouTube can die in a fire and take its fucking premium with it.

The worst was Tony Stark pulling up like the movie was a car commercial in Endgame. That was pathetic.

I cannot stress enough that I would download a car.

See I bet you think that would make things better, don’t you?

It won’t. It will make them so much worse.

Unless the EU (government) runs it, you’re going to get the world’s shadiest App Store or Sores possible.

“Just don’t use the shady ones then.”

That’s great until:

1. It’s your SO or kid accessing it and they don’t know any better.
2. You just bought something (an appliance, a vehicle, an FPV drone, whatever) and it requires you to use an app, and that app is an exclusive on the shadiest App Store possible.

“That doesn’t happen on android!”

It will absolutely happen with Apple, because there’s so much money that will be up for grabs.

I hope you like signing up with all your personal data and credit card information on app stores that make Apple look like saints, because that’s where this is headed, and sadly you’ll drag me with you.

Because again this hypothetical thing you bought might be a family member buying it, so it won’t even be up to you at that point.

This is what I see happening in the future.

The way to avoid it is to get rid of app stores completely, and have users download and install apps one by one. Like that’s going to happen.

My self hosted projects have someone to appreciate them - me.

Marketing means bothering people. Two of the raspberry pi’s I own are dedicated to fighting unsolicited marketing. Marketing is anathema to me.

I have a 20TB seagate exos drive in my main pc and I hate it. Partly due to my case, but it’s noisy and does an obnoxious head reset (or whatever) every 7 minutes or so. It’s so loud.

ROFL no. I once knew someone who got offered an upgrade from whatever to Windows 10, only for it to fail half way through because their CPU was some weird corner case that the OS thought it supported but when it was time to boot… didn’t.

Also if you want to talk e-waste, look no further than Chromebooks.

Windows 11 has problems, this is hardly one of them.

If you still use twitter (no, asshole, you don’t get to own a letter of the alphabet - fuck off) then you are part of the problem.

Ok that app is deleted.

All the soulless companies that employ temporary tech workers in the US for the mega corporations here just collectively got erections. This is their goal.

Unlike social media?

The fucking healthcare conglomerate (owned by UnitedHealth, yes that one) that bought up the majority of medical practices in my region just sent me a completely unsolicited debit or credit card.

They don’t provide my health insurance. They’re just who owns most of the doctors offices around here.

The early adopters certainly are. You still see plenty of them including cybertrucks, unfortunately.

One of my friends is considering replacing his with Lucid cars.

They’ve had Teslas since well before Elon was problematic publicly.

Hey remember when Google used to have a motto, “Don’t be evil”?

Used to.

Yup it’s mostly bullshit. Someone, somewhere might benefit, but certainly not any of the people within two thousands miles of where the rich guy lived. Which is still better than nothing, but Bill Gates could end homelessness in America immediately if he chose to do so. (I’m not saying it would be easy or fast, just that he has the money to make it happen.) He could make ALL COLLEGE FREE for students. Musk could have too, likely for less than he spent on Twitter.

It sounds like Klarna is a nightmare that should be avoided as much as possible.

Me too. You mean out of a giant cannon to the sun, right? And it’s still Ajit Pai, right? This guy here can make the top ten though.

The next time this happens look at task manager and see what % memory you have available.

Also as others have said consider replacing your HDD with an SSD, that’s the single biggest upgrade you can make to see a massive difference in quality of life with your PC.

Some of us are face blind and this could be helpful.

No fucking way I’d trust meta not to exploit it though, so this is a hard pass.

Because after twenty years of it your body will be wrecked.

I work in IT and have multiple coworkers who actually work physically harder than I do (in their roles vs. mine) in their 60s. One is 65.

Got lots of 65 year old factory or construction workers, do ya? And I’m talking about laborers, not supervisors etc.