They may not have a siberian orchestra, by they do have a teen chapel.

All of them. I dislike every marketing tactic ever invented.

Easy solution. "The Internet Archive" should rebrand itself to "Archiving the Internet" to confuse everyone who talks about how "AI" should be able to steal books.

Agreed about changing the copyright law.

Until that happens though, they must not be allowed to have it both ways - call us "pirates" when we copy their shit without paying for it, and tell us that paying for shit they copy is "impossible".

"AI is nowhere near to being ready to replace you at your job. It is, however, ready enough to convince your boss that it's ready to replace you at your job."

As much as I hate awfully broad patents, if the shoe was on the other foot, Apple would unleash its army of lawyers to block the other company's sales.

I don't think it's a conspiracy. "Don't attribute to malice what could be explained by incompetence."

You mean Cortana which was a rebrand of Clippy.

Firefox on Android works great too. I'm slowly degoogling my life, and this was by far the easiest step.

Treats servers badly. Both in restaurants and in IT infrastructure.

Nothing and I mean nothing will kill this faster than some leaked chats, emails, and browsing history of a few politicians.

People are anti-capitalist because capitalist is anti-people.

He originally wanted "Model 3" to be called "Model E" so that the three (at the time) Tesla models could spell out "SEX". Fortunately that name was already taken. He's a petulant child.

My first week on a new job I ran a DELETE query without (accidentally) selecting the WHERE clause. In Prod. I thought I was going to get fired on the spot, but my boss was a complete bro about it, and helped with data restore personally.

Everyone at that company was great both professionally and personally. It's the highlight of my 30+ year career.

Ethereum mining.

I finally got a decent GPU in the beginning of 2022 and set up a basic rig. In September of that year Ethereum switched to the "proof of stake" model, rendering mining useless. I managed to maybe get a total of $200 worth of Eth in that time, and that was that. Taking into account the cost of electricity, my profit was around $100.

I've learned the hard way to never use a new Google product, no matter how good they make it look.

When they killed Google Reader it was rough, and I only recently started getting back into rss feeds after setting up a self-hosted FreshRSS instance. After spending over a year convincing most of my extended family members to switch to Allo from their default SMS app for texting, it was a real gut punch when Google rugpulled it within several months of them really getting into it. They tried really hard to get me off Hangouts into Duo for calling, but I resisted all the way until they killed Hangouts too. Play Music was an excellent streaming service with a good library and I was happy subscriber. They also spoiled me with the "Free Song of the Day/Week" promos. The YouTube Music app to this day doesn't have half the features Play Music app used to have. The Stadia fiasco wasn't too bad because I got full refunds for all the controllers and games I bought on it.

It's no longer a mystery which services they want to ditch. Basically anything that doesn't make them a ton of money directly with paid subscriptions will be on the chopping block sooner or later. Even the ad-supported stuff is there only to annoy us into the paid tiers. I weep for the time they will eventually kill off Google Voice for good, or enshittify the free tiers of things like Photos, Gmail, Android, Classroom, Calendar, etc.

For me personally though, the biggest punch in the gut was when they killed Cloud Print in the middle of the fucking pandemic lockdowns, when my kids who were both doing school remotely needed to print a metric shit-ton of stuff. Worst of all, there was no warning about this, just a blurb on the cloud print site that nobody ever visited after the initial printer setup.

This latest "fuck you" was the last straw for me to begin degoogling my life. They made the web hosting decision easy for me when they sold Google Domains to Squarespace. My photos are now backed up to a self-hosted Synology Moments instead of Google Photos. I threw away the OnHub and replaced it with TP-Link Omada access points with a self-hosted Omada Software Controller. When they killed both Duo and Hangouts, I finally set up a self-hosted Jitsi server for video calling. I'm slowly replacing the digital content that I've bought over the years on their various services (e.g. Play Books, Play Music) with "archived" (wink-wink) DRM-free versions that I self-host (Readarr/AudioAnchor, Navidrome/DSub). The only three of their services that I can't seem to kick are Gmail, YouTube, and Android. Email will happen eventually, for my phone GrapheneOS sounds better and better every day, but nothing can beat the content library they've built up on YT.

The party of "Just Fucking Die Already" has your best interests in mind.

Itanium jokes are never going to be not funny!

I'm a software developer. All my relatives assume that I know how to troubleshoot every computer problem they have. From cleaning up crapware-ridden ancient Windows XP laptops to replacing failed hard drives, they call me for help.

I mean I do, but that's not the point!

I'm with Norm on this: "ID" is stupid. "I" stands for "i" and "D" stands for "dentification".

Can't tell if you're being sarcastic, but the postal thing has already happened during the USA 2020 election.

Gods have mercy on your soul if the selected text handle appeared near the screen edge and you need to adjust the selection. If you're using gesture navigation, 4 out of 5 times it will think you're trying to navigate away. Goodbye all the text!

"Idiocracy" was not supposed to be a manual!

I paid for this 4k TV, so damn it I want all the pixels!

Seriously though, resolution is only half the equation. Bitrate, HDR, and compression methods are very important as well.

Why do you think they created 8chan?

You're doing sql injection wrong. It should be

because ' OR 1=1; DROP TABLE Employees; --

Racism. The answer is racism. Saved you a click.

You can ...

For now. Until everyone gets used to it and suddenly the option to opt out disappears.

There go half the United States.

NIMBYs were out in force over there.

Kind of the point. A lot of financial "success" is nothing but dumb luck.

This is gonna happen again, to right-wing jan 6 insurrectionist Jessica Watkins. A trans woman who is likely to be put into a male prison for 8 years.

That's exactly what she voted and insurrected for, right? A trans republican getting the taste of their anti-trans party's own medicine.

It's a glorified autocomplete.

He grew up and goes by Robert D. Tables nowadays.

Streaming video is NOT trivial.

Video files are big. There's so much costs involved in hosting, compression, transcoding, distributing across CDNs, and serving, that "free" tiers on those services are just not feasible long-term. Even a multi-billion corporation like Google/Alphabet was only willing to burn cash on that for so long.

"Sorry, but we are monetizing our your content now"

Fixed that for you.

Nazis. They are Nazis.

A big middle-aged dude, beard and all, dressed as a bumblebee. Not the Transformers character, the actual bee.

I know if I was the seller I would appreciate the gesture, even if I didn't need the data.

Glorified autocomplete. That, and Clippy.