HP used to make a lot of great stuff. Their spectrum analyzers were the best in the business. At some point they flipped a switch and went into full enshittification mode. They burned all their bridges with their most loyal and informed customers.
It’s easy to get mad at people for not knowing the things we know. It’s incredibly frustrating. But then they know things we don’t. Turns out there’s way too much stuff to know and we can’t all know everything.
Modern life is unbelievably complicated and everyone is failing to manage that complexity to a level that would satisfy all the idealists. In light of all that, I find it hard to blame them for it.
Oil is the thing you want to carry when you’re though-hiking and you want max calories/lb of weight carried. Obviously you can’t eat only oil but you can use it to make oil-heavy dishes such as spaghetti aglio e olio.
Funny thing is, memory compression is now built into the Mac’s OS.
This is a UI problem, not a you or I problem. Browser makers never figured out how to do bookmarks properly, so tabs became a bad reinvention of bookmarks.
Look at how some students work with their textbooks: they fill the book with tons of little sticky bookmarks, colour coded and everything. You can write on them too!
So why are these better than tabs or bookmarks on web browsers? Because they’re organized per-book! Put one book aside and grab another and it becomes a whole new space to put your stickies! Browser tabs do let you do that with multiple windows or tab groups, but it’s too clunky and not spatial/tactile the way books are, so people don’t remember what’s in those other tabs.
They’re quite common if you use iOS. The autocorrect changes 2 regular -‘s into one — em dash.
You know that white stuff that the seeds attach to in chilis? That’s the placenta! It’s the spiciest part of the whole pepper!
Carney is pretty much a carbon copy of Mulroney and Chrétien era politicians. He is not at all a surprise for Canadians. He got the job for one reason alone: he projects an aura of competence. Canadians are addicted to leaders like this. We’ll take them every single time over the “moral option.”
In fact, I’d argue that politicians trying to sell themselves as being the “moral option” are a red flag and never get elected prime minister.
Yes I know exactly what you mean. The mechanics have a very visceral feel to them, like a living machine. Solid state machines feel much more smooth, refined, and high tech, albeit somewhat sterile.
I think this difference is also why people get nostalgia for classic cars over EVs.
Oooh! Really nice! I want to get an EM pinball machine at some point. Sounds like a really fun project!
Hope Tubby calms down enough that you can befriend her!
I think it’s a personality based thing. The clock interacts with a person’s natural tendencies in a way that causes constant pressure and stress. These folks need to be away from clocks in order to relax. They see SDV’s rather rapid daily clock as a fatal flaw in a game that should otherwise be quite relaxing.
The blushing cheeks on the t-shirt skull make my day!
We’re missing a key component of the discussion: dose. Therapeutic doses and recreational doses are vastly different things. A drug that’s addictive at recreational doses isn’t necessarily an issue at therapeutic doses.
Therapeutic Adderall doses typically start at 5mg whereas recreational users may be using 30-60mg or more. That’s an order of magnitude difference! Now, a long term patient taking prescription Adderall may eventually have their dose up to 40mg but they will have developed significant tolerance to the drug so that it doesn’t affect them nearly as strongly as a recreational user would experience popping 40mg out of the blue at some club.
It doesn’t spell it out, it leaves it as an exercise for the reader. But it does tee it up for us!
I saw it as a swipe at centrism. The green-orange clown being the centrist under review.
And it is a paradox of tolerance issue: trying to tolerate both a friendly ideology and a murderous one merely leaves space for the murderers to murder.
Care to explain why you think that?
I would say that, but… there are a lot of, for example, Japanese companies that have been around for decades or centuries making great stuff the way they always had. Unless you’re saying Japan isn’t a capitalist country (I’d love to see how that argument plays out), I’d say there’s some difference in company culture that leads to enshittification.
I’ve heard in some cases it happens when a new CEO takes over and they have no respect for the existing culture, and just want to “make their mark” by chasing short term profits.