This is the closest thing I’ve ever seen to suing someone for sucking. Which, for whatever reason, was a childhood trope in my family. I love the idea of that being an actual thing. Many companies would be open to lawsuits if you could sue them for sucking.

Oh no, not virtue signaling! There truly is no greater crime! Specifically, it isn’t worse to be an overly-built, soulless chia pet if that’s what you’re thinking. Definitely not.

Nah I didn’t have a lot of time to mess around with that stuff I just wanted my system to work. It’s much easier to find answers when things go wrong on Ubuntu too because it’s more popular.

One immediate thing that irritated me was the process for pairing a Bluetooth keyboard was completely bugged out and it took me a while to even see where and how to enter the code. It looked like it just didn’t work for no reason at first and it took a lot of hunting to figure out that I had to enter a code.

There were other things too. Cinnamon crashed. Qt applications didn’t work in ways that were difficult to troubleshoot. Sleep seemed non-functional. There aren’t any power modes which I used to use heavily on that laptop and on and on.

I tried mint; it was worse. I was like oh well, guess I’ll deal with the snaps.

I just put in the web address into my reader (Feeder).

Some articles are only for subscribers, but a lot of them are the whole thing.

It’s a little difficult to separate the politics off and put it into a different category altogether. He supports having the government be shitty to people he doesn’t like. I have no doubt he could be nice in the pejorative sense – like in the difference between nice people and kind people or in the “nice guy” meme sense – but many doubts that he’s actually a really nice guy in any sincere way.

It’s easier to say you just don’t really know him. I think it’s similar to the neighbors saying how the serial killer really seemed like a great guy when the reporters interview them. He wasn’t a great guy, you just didn’t know who he really was.

What community? This is social media we’re talking about. Have people really convinced themselves that these things are communities?

All of a sudden their test scores start going through the roof.

How about “billionaires are edible” or “Tech bros are welfare queens” or “Watch out for a-luigi”?

Demographics aren’t destiny either. The whole electorate moved red last cycle. It really isn’t enough to “these people have stereotypical liberal attributes, they’ll flip this state blue!”. They won’t.

He’s otherwise a really nice guy

Doubt

I agree, but we should at least have them fork over the cash to buy a new dumpster to enshittify every few years. There’s Twitter that people still cling to despite it being a superfund site since at least when Leon bought it.

Make Facebook the next MySpace, make Reddit the next Digg. Make social media sites starve to death from lack of engagement again.

I don’t think 404 uses a password-based login if that makes a difference.

I personally just consume their crap via RSS like most other things I read.

Now we’re doing headlines like this with tech companies in addition to politicians? These fuckers act with impunity because they can.

For some reason, it appears the unbreakable barrier for humanity is switching the fucking social media site you go to.

What would it take for people to consider not looking at Instagram and Facebook? A feed full of snuff videos?

There’s usually a way to get it to jump to the last input.

This news is reminding me that I need to unplug my TV from the Internet.

Bonus points if it involves an “app”.

This is why I just bought two framework laptops. They’re doing the exact opposite.

No, it wouldn’t be different. Though it’d definitely be better to have a discernable algorithm / explicable set of rules for things like health care. Them shrugging their shoulders and saying they don’t understand the “AI” should be completely unacceptable.

I wasn’t saying AI = LLM either. Whatever drives Teslas is almost certainly not an LLM.

My point is half-baked software is already killing people daily, but because it’s more dramatic to pontificate about the coming of skynet the “AI” people waste time on sci-fi nonsense scenarios instead of drawing any attention to that.

Fighting the ills bad software are already causing today would also do a lot to advance the cause of preventing bad software from reaching the imagined apocalyptic point in the future.

An “AI” operated machine gun turret doesn’t have to be sentient in order to kill people.

I agree that people are the ones allowing these things to happen, but software doesn’t have to have agency to appear that way to laypeople and when people are placed in a “managerial” or “overseer” role they behave as if the software knows more than they do even when they’re subject matter experts.