I’m with you. I used to love being in on the bleeding edge of technology. Now it just disappoints me. Enshittifcation is the norm. Instead of “how can we make this game more fun,” it’s all about “how can we wring more profit out of this,” and gathering personal data for marketing is a favorite method. I never thought I’d become a Luddite, but here I am.

Thanks for the insightful comment!

Jesus, I thought for sure this one was fake. Nope.

Expect a lot more things like this to come out in all industries as the economy worsens. A thriving economy can hide a lot of financially problematic issues, in the same way a high tide can hide the rocks. As the economic tide recedes, all the ugly things below are revealed. This specific example involves the collapse of Prospect Medical, a for-profit hospital chain plundered by private equity. This is just the tip of the iceberg.

“We are all domestic terrorists.”

-Official CPAC slogan

Okay, I’m going to have to actually stop in and eat there one of these days.

I used to have a kindle and it would periodically lock up and I’d have to do a hard reset and then re-download all my books. It was extremely frustrating. I finally got tired of it and ditched ti for a Kobo Clara. Whats nice about the Kobo is that it doesn’t have all the janky DRM bullshit, and it just works. You can load up books or pdfs from any source. So much happier now!

Just for the night.

This is the point I was looking for. I’d happily pay a reasonable price for Netflix, and I did for years. However, I was rewarded for my patronage by massive price hikes combined with a consistently worsening product. The end came when I realized that I didn’t even use it anymore because it sucked so much. If I wanted to pay exorbitant prices to watch ads, I’d go back to cable.

GraphenOS may protect from this attack.

Joke’s on her, I’m into it.

Trump said future operations will be nationwide “but primarily in those Blue States where CROOKED DEMOCRAT POLITICIANS” are in charge, Trump said, namechecking California, Illinois, Minnesota, Maine, and New York.

The fact that this dipshit is announcing that he’s specifically targeting democratic states gives anyone targeted in those states a reasonable argument the prosecutions are politically motivated and in violation of the equal protection clause of the Constitution. Now, that doesn’t mean that the targeted harassment won’t be a nightmare for those targeted, but if he kept his stupid mouth shut he’d be more effective with his illegal prosecutions.

Well, they are Trump supporters…

I’m with you. I ran Qubes for a while for security reasons, and it was just too much of a pain in the ass. Ubuntu is easy.

You should be nervous. He has the keys and he’s itching to use them to show the world how powerful he is.

Tragedy of the commons.

To paraphrase George Bernard Shaw, the fact that a MAGA racist is happier than a woke person is no more to the point than the fact that a drunken man is happier than a sober one. The happiness of credulity is a cheap and dangerous quality of happiness, and by no means a necessity of life.

I can’t see this move by Google as anything but a power grab to reduce competition. If someone wants to bear the “risk” of installing software that hasn’t been vetted by Google, why does Google insist on being a nanny that makes it more difficult? Money, that’s why. Google is acting to try to enforce its monopoly over android apps. GrapheneOS, which is more secure than android, doesn’t make a fuss over this issue. No, this is only an issue with the company that hoovers up all your data in breach of your privacy.

THC has very low toxicity, so the lethal dose is ridiculously high, on the order of 1000mg/kg of body weight, so Spongebob should survive his ordeal, but it isn’t going to be fun. I had a “friend” drug me with an edible he made with a ridiculous amount of THC, and when it kicked in I slipped in and out consciousness, and came to vomiting. The room was spinning so hard I could barely walk and needed assistance. It was a bad day.