Yes agree, i have quit MSFT fully (switched to Ubuntu), Amazon prime is gone and no longer buying from them. Cancelled my Claude subscription, my gmail now auto forwards to my local server, switched my web hosting from AWS to Hetzner, Cancelled my netflix, back to library and jellyfin local server. Same with Spotify. No more Safeway or QFC - Costco is good enough and has the lowest prices locally, or occasionally Trader Joes. Its saving me a whole shit ton of money.

Nearly two years for me, life is better 💪

Switch about 6 months ago, so happy to read these articles and shrug at them now. I gotta say it’s weird there’s only like 2.5% of us

I have, and it doesn’t at least not on the dev-ops stuff I work on.

Well I mean also that they kinda suck, I feel like I spend more time debugging AI code than I get working code.

How so?

Gotta say as someone who experienced traumatic brain injury I also feel like I’m a different person, and not as bright as I used to be. The doctors estimate I lost somewhere on the order of 15-20% of whatever that was.

Its happening already, people are poisoning images, video and music. Not so much text yet bargle warg snuffle pustules

I have three downstairs in the garage, now the real question is… Where in the garage tho.

agreed, super rude also ill finish it as soon as i finish this series.

Finally some gen X representation!

I have an 'intern` I’m working with on a project, kid doesn’t know how to read docs. Maybe doesn’t know how to read? 🤷 Thing is we are doing devOps and using powershell or terminal or whatever. So it’s literally all reading, all day long every single day. I don’t know what to do honestly.

I’d be fine with meta having to pay that 👍

Nah, Facebook and Instagram are the worst. Facebook is some ad riddled, AI slop, filled late stage capitalism hellscape. Worth not using just for mental health.

Honestly I have stopped using the play store for my pixel. But it’s also a bigger trend of no longer allowing apps on my phone other than essentials. Fuck these leaches.

God PayPal has always been the scum of the earth and only gotten worse over time. 😡

Really hated when they started adding auto play of another unrelated podcast when my current podcast ends, like I don’t want your shitty podcast selection Spotify. The enshitification of the web continues.

I’m gen X and I feel like it’s rude to talk to someone with earbuds in so I always take them out, I have noticed a lot of the younger generations don’t view it as rude.

I guess I mean the old version prior to the GME and AMC fiasco.

Thanks just what bug water wants you to think man!