most people are stuck with the couple choices they have in town and when tech comes in and forces the enshitificstion of services in order to pump stock price you’re stuck just eating this shit forever.

Is that the fault of the technology, though, or is that the fault of the companies?

Companies can have stupid, arbitrary rules and requirements and policies and do stupid or harmful actions regardless of technology or not.

I don’t think it’s fair to blame tech for company policies.

if I went to a restaurant and was told that I had to install and use their app to order their food, I would fucking leave. If it was the only restaurant left in town then I’d have much less choice in the matter. The insidious nature of technology is that it changes “can” with “must”.

That’s not really the fault of technology though, that’s the fault of how companies are implementing technology through their policies and procedures.

Companies can have stupid, arbitrary rules and requirements and policies and do stupid or harmful actions regardless of technology or not.

I don’t think it’s fair to blame tech for company policies.

Well, I’d say it’s because they don’t even hide it anymore. They know they can do whatever they want, and get away with it.

Enshitification is a real thing, and companies and evil people are being blatant about it, because they know they don’t have to hide it because they know they can’t be stopped.

It sucks. I hate it. I wish we could do something about it.

I was subconciously always thinking “man, imagine if Proton screws up some day and all the people who switched to it have to switch away, that would suck” but didn’t think it would actually happen, but man, with enshitification, it’s actually possible lmao

I would guess no, just so Elon can feel like he’s right. lol

As expected lol

One of my neighbors has a model 3 and I don’t think he knew.

That said, I’ll take what you said on faith, because I think you’re spot on with everything else.

I mean, it’s not a secret that governments everywhere run really outdated software (think things like Windows 7 and older) because “it works”, so it really shouldn’t be too surprising.

Active user numbers is probably less than 1 million, but still, 30 million accounts created is quite likely pretty good even if most of them aren’t active.

I feel like the reason the reason why it’s taking off so much is because it’s not federated.

It’s like people hear the term federation and they get afraid. I know it’s not that simple but still.

In other words, people don’t know what they actually need.

I would. I gave llamafile a try, and while it’s good, they have an issue with parsing responses that have {{ and }} in them, so it’s kind of useless for Laravel development unfortunately lol

Is America great yet? Did he do it, did he make it great again?

I had that happen at a Taco Bell once.

I really wanted Taco Bell, so I waited 40 minutes in line while the person in front of me was arguing with the employees at the window. I’m not sure if it was someone arguing over expired coupons for 40 minutes, or if it was some annoying shithead trying to do a viral stunt or what the problem was, but I really wanted Taco Bell and I was going to get it.

Wow, that’s a really complete list. Thanks for sharing! I might check out Dokploy some time, it sounds interesting.

I mean it has JS, I’d call it a web app lol

I didn’t even notice you typed hell, I read it as how. lol

No but I think it’s me.

Except there are people who buy something AND want to have offline backup copies of it.

Implying that the Republicans now “stand for the little guys” is dumb but also arguably true

How is it true exactly? Republicans do not care about the little guys in any way lol

The weird thing is like, this whole situation could have been avoided if he just played the game normally rather than pretending to be some god gamer at it.