We’ve all been conditioned.

I’ve just been buying direct from smaller shops, and local where I can. It’s an adjustment but doable.

Good work! I cancelled my prime subscription and have not ordered anything from Amazon 2 months ago. When my current sub time ends in October I plan to also delete my account.

Why the fuck would you use windows in mission critical spaces.

Is it not everywhere on mobile already? I’ve been playing on iPhone?

I understand what you’re saying and feeling, but don’t think direct action is feasible without a large coordinated group of people working together.

There may come a day that a mobs that size are needed to exert physical force. I see these massive protests as exercising the core orchestration and massing that we’ll need some day. That day isn’t today, but the better we get the better we’ll be on that day. I see this as exercise.

Please be true

What insider, any way to track those trades publicly?

I wonder if it’s a “reader” thing. I can see that the url more accurately aligns with your title. In reader view it’s a story about Pakistan, but in web view it’s a paywall.

What is up with the post title being unrelated to the linked article?

No clue

The streaming service pays them out of a pool proportionally. So he basically diluted the distribution from that pool, resulting in lower payments to everyone else.

That first Bo Burnham video in his room with a keyboard

The point is that they have no financial incentive to clean up or prevent bloat, so they don’t.

Linux doesn’t either, but the Linux community operates on principles and passion instead of financial incentives, and so thusly is not similarly bloated.

The goal of msft isn’t to be an efficient steward of your resources, or better enable the user, or to create a platform for game/app developers in hopes of creating a more attractive ecosystem for you.

It’s nothing like any of those things.

The goal of Microsoft is to maximize shareholder returns, and the best way to do that is to abuse their dominant market position while monetizing every aspect of their platform that most people will buy anyway.

I can still never unsee the dog.

The transparency is still painful for me. And I used to be able to two finger click on my apps app to see a list of all apps that I could quickly scroll to and get. Instead of that quick and easy interaction now I get a window that pops up and forces me to type search Params, and it always has the last thing I searched in there so I can’t just scroll. It turned a “two finger click, scroll, one finger click” activity I could do with a single hand into “click, click, hold backspace, type Params, click” activity that is way less convenient and requires both hands.

As an avid Apple user the most recent ui changes are unfathomably bad. The os has become notably less useful to me in som frustrating ways. I can solve some but not all of it through settings.

War of the Worlds really was that bad.

Fine with me if they’re using it responsibly and it sounds like they are. Maybe let’s not dogpile on these incredibly generous maintainers we benefit from and expect them to pass stupid purity tests.