Its so funny to see us Americans run around on the 1st. On one hand liberals hate hate speech and love to censor leftists and dislike all non-state violence. On the other hand, unlimited freedom of speech is the only thing protecting us from the dang Cheeto.
Meanwhile I'm over here thinking we should be shooting anyone heiling hitler. And I'm the bad guy??
Tech really is going down hill exponentially fast. It took all of 1 android update for my phone to decide that it should "serve" me random news articles, and download a jpg from the article. And put said jpg at the top of my download folder. And I'd need to root the fucker/usb debug to uninstall the shit. I'm getting to the borderline support the death penalty to the devs that decided you shouldn't own everything on your device. Creeps just want to install spyware and enforce "intellectual property". If you obfuscate runtime or uninstallation more then 2 clicks (or worse, not remove everything besides things like saves, settings, and you better let me know if that was left), you deserve to be dunked like the poor witches were.
Maps wouldn't let me use voice without enabling their shit bot (I don't usually use it but someone suggested it for notekeeping and I considered it). I just want a device that has a brick of battery, can play yt videos, has usb c, and can make calls. Oh and won't break if it gets dropped more then 3 inches. Maybe a 3.5 jack (lol remember those?), a decent camera, and ~maybe~ a thermal camera. My requirements are nothing, but if you actually want that, you're looking at 5 year old phones or 1 of like 3 new ones that cost 3x for nearly the same specs. I'd be fine with the old ones, if I knew its going to get newer updates (I don't care about """features""" but really don't want to be carrying around a security hazard).
Its incredible that usability of tech peaked in like 2017. Opening a server nowadays (that isn't tied up in some service) to the web sounds like an actual timebomb before someone ruins it for you, and javascript is unworkable for my brain/style. Google/amazon/whatever has to "abstract" data/algorithm you could have just downloaded and ran but nope, pay us a penny per call. I've literally used godot to bundle boilerplate I/O for a basic app because I was sick of figuring out the magic words to make some simple program in C/Python, and am too ADHD to maintain a proper personal toolbox.
I checked my resume because I'm having a certified moment at my job. I wrote it in Latex because everyone was doing it back in ~2019-2020. Now, the fucking editor I used wants to have its fucking "ai" editor "help" me and put the error somewhere I didn't see. I had to manually review the code and I was missing a single fucking }. Yeah guys, totally going to pay for your bot to tell me nonsense, instead of the thing that has been doable since before I was born. The thing they're steadily degrading in VS. The shit we discussed in undergrad, and professors said, yeah its solved and boring so let's just cover it in theory and not in practice (IE, make a abstract machine and not write actual code for it). The amazing tech of bracket matching.
I feel like its a matter of time at this point until something fundementally breaks and computers just stop being tractable objects for a decade or two while those of us in CS not chatgpt-brained and not brain dead from exhaustion figure out how to make printers work again.
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