That’s like a cigarette brand marketing themselves as the most cancer-causing.

This is my kind of monetization.

Feels way better than getting features pulled and put behind an increasingly higher paywall.

Yeah I seem to remember quite a few “oh so that’s what that wire does” situations that unfolded already.

DOGE Plan […] is Wildly Dangerous

FTFY

Warms my heart to see all the ‘new account’ badges in this thread.

Catch me firing up Mumble again

I’m all for lawyers using AI, but that’s because I’m also all for them getting punished for every single incorrect thing they bring forward if they do not verify.

YouTube 10 years ago: we’re becoming as straight-edged as possible to keep advertisers around

Twitter now: Fuck you (wait we needed you)

Every Google Drive action I do now is shifted over 20% for ✨

One of those games I intended to check out for a couple hours, but have spent way longer than I’m willing to admit chilling and chatting while in between things.

I know a shocking amount of people who will buy the new iPhone every single year, so from Apple’s POV why would they ever not release a ‘new’ phone.

Guess the Magic Mouse design team was getting bored

I feel like they don’t even need to be crypto schemes affiliated with Musk for that Venn diagram to work

This all feels very Streisand Effect. I don’t care about these accounts, but the more attempts there are to suppress them… the more they feel important.

…in the update that came out after this article was posted and the discussion took place.

EDIT: The article has been updated and it was described as a “packaging bug” and not an intended change.

How many times do I need to pack up and move to the next “best option”

That’s the most dangerous part of it for sure. Inherently, the more a company has a monopoly over an industry, the less incentive they have to actually do a good job with anything.

Every time I go to play an old Ubisoft game I get to some stage in launching where I remember “oh right this is why I stopped bothering to play”

Keeping repairs locked into your system of parts/techs can at least feign “safety” or “quality”.

But essentially just refusing to repair is an absolute fuck you.

I’ve started choosing the companies I use based much more on the experience offered when their product/service DOESN’T work, rather than when it does.

I feel like they’re a couple years late to the boat on that (already sunken) fad