Great, I hope Dune puts The Avengers to shame.

For me it’s mostly small but annoying issues.

Wifi refusing to connect to some access points with no indication of why. Keyboard shortcut to change desktop spaces stops working when USB monitor is connnected. That sort of annoyance that never used to happen.

And then just the general direction of travel. More AI. Getting increasingly difficult to install unverified apps. User consent still seems to be there and things are usually opt in and not out (which is great) but the nudge towards cloud is just that bit stronger all the time, and every update I’m watching for shenanigans.

If you’re new to macOS and coming from Windows then everything probably seems pretty awesome in comparison - and it is - but I don’t have the same trust as I used to.

Yet over here as someone who has used macOS professionally for over a decade, I feel like I’m watching the slow deterioration of the operating system as they ignore the wants and wishes of professional users and make the whole thing more and more like a mobile OS with every update.

And at the same time it feels like the number of bugs and broken features which Apple were historically careful to control are getting worse as they prioritise moving fast over being robust.

They are still outperforming Microsoft in every user-centric metric IMO (and by a long way) but the current trajectory absolutely feels like things are getting worse, not better.

You’re right, they don’t care.

The very fact they no longer care about enforcing licensing anymore is itself the strongest evidence that selling Windows as a product is not where the money is.

They want you on their operating system for any price - including zero -because once you are there that’s when the advertising, cloud service upsell and data monetisisation can begin.

Meanwhile the cat:

“My side-human down the road at number 6 (who thinks she’s my main human by the way) kissed me with lipstick on, and now my main humans at number 12 are going to figure out I’ve been eating six meals a day”

anti anime meat

Literally just “Take whatever we have, and call it a doctor playset” lol

100%! Why have just salt when you can have salt and umami!

I also put a little soy sauce in the beaten egg mixture for omelette or scrambled eggs :)

Possibly controversial take: I get super turned-off by any content creator who seems to be in it mainly for money.

There are lots of people out there who decided they want to be a youtuber as their profession - and best of luck to them! - but I feel quite safe in saying that almost every youtuber I truly love began their channel not because they wanted to make money, but because they had something to share. They had a passion, or burning thoughts, or knowledge that was too good to keep to themselves, and youtube was a way to voice it.

And they might be profitable now, but that’s not why they started.

So yeah. As soon as I get a smell that the content someone makes or the way they act or the things they say are dictated primarily by dollar signs, rather than by being the thing they truly want to do, I very quickly lose interest.

“I will be buying 5090s for my family” 😂

I stopped reading the manga after L died, and decided to never even start watching the anime. Death Note without L was just worthless to me.

A work that is more than a oneshot; the story has continuations or spans multiple chapters or volumes

Cyberpunk was supposed to be a dystopia, not a fucking instruction manual!

But seriously, I’ve lost about all enjoyment in cyber-dystopian stories because these days they cut depressingly close to home.

All you need is kill

Didn’t see them either because I don’t keep my brightness setting on “thermonuclear explosion”

Things that can only happen in commercial buildings, because if it happened in your house you wouldn’t tolerate it.

Small businesses do this because it’s free, quick to set up, and easy to maintain with no technical knowledge required.

Facebook obviously made it easy on purpose, hoping to create exactly this scenario - where half of all small-business presence is only on Facebook and if you want to see that content you need a Facebook account to do it.

I hate it passionately, but I absolutely understand how it came to be this way.

Small business owners aren’t thinking about the ideological consequences of forcing people to engage with big tech to see their site, or that they should take a stand in promoting an open and decentralised Internet. They’re just thinking “I need a web presence” and I guess I can’t blame them for that as much as I dislike it.

Lots of people care a great deal about themselves while caring not at all about others.

Whoops. I commented, decided to rephrase and edited. But it didn’t result in an edit and I didn’t notice as that’s when I went to bed.