I’m not convinced that power corrupts, I believe it reveals.

Haha, no worries, it just seemed like a who’s who of retired enterprise machines!

Or the diabeetus

That’s a fair comparison.

Old.af

Right, but the original person who wrote the code everyone uses still had to program it in.

It’s a genetic superiority I’ll have you know, +30 resistance to anaesthetic.

Oh no, you’re definitely right on both counts, just raising the point that sometimes words kind of become meaningless sometimes.

Most of the examples given aren’t enshitification though.

Out of curiosity, what are your views on flutter?

Have you ever tried speaking to a hardcore Radiohead fan about music? They’re great and all, but I swear if Thom York recorded himself taking a shit and released it they’d be telling you how it was the most revolutionary shit ever taken.

Ooh gnu/Hurd, I heard that was coming out soon.

Playing devil’s advocate here - we know voice information is being sent back to both Google and Apple, if the analysis were done server side dissembling apps isn’t going to show us anything we don’t already know.

While I do suspect they listen, I have pretty solid (anecdotal) evidence they scan text messages. When I bought my house I had no solicitor, I text my buddy to see who he used and he texted me a response.

Started to type into Google to get a number and it was the top suggested search after 2 chars. Nowhere else did I mention this solicitor, hadn’t heard of them before this, have no other searches for this solicitor. It’s not a big firm, it’s not even in my city - only explanation I have is they scanned the messages.

Very memorable performance, lead deserved an Oscar nom at the very least.

Presumably the demand isn’t there, £1200 is a lot for a consumer drive and spinning rust is 1/3 the price.

Sounds more like a tooling issue. The tech exists, the hardware can run it but the tools don’t exist to make it feasible in a reasonable timeframe/with a reasonably sized dev team. Corners are being cut on optimization or relying on hardware brute forcing it.

Amen to that!

You said you want to be confident in your decision to marry before you do (paraphrasing a bit) - the other poster is saying that after a couple of decades it’s possible for you to change your mind about any decision no matter how confident you were at the time you made it.

Honestly I’d take the utilitarian approach to that, if it’s a net good, then I’m probably for it - but that’s a big if.