My default is Duckduckgo but in the recent weeks they have massively upped how abrasive their ads are. Nothing wrong with there being search related ads but the sheer volume is getting out of control.
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I think they knew that without developers, Windows would be nowhere. Apple sort of gets it with the App store but not as deeply.
Those expansion slots allowed Apple 2 to become what it was and practically made the foundation of Apple.
Jobs ended up tolerating expansion slots but tried to minimize their availability where ever possible.
The last really big advance in apps? Big new social media as you said? New communication paradigm.
Heck Smart watches where the real last big technology device and. Their sales while yes in the hundreds of millions are a shadow compared with things like smart phones.
I think we are seeing the entire industry calcifying around us. And a lot of folks know this. Thus the rush from a subset of folks that are trying to get in on the ground floor of anything tech like that they can possible pump and dump their way to riches. Crypto, NFS, AI over hype, VR, AR, Web 3 etc.
Soon we may have to accept that we are going form the fun fresh upstart stage to mature stable and boring faze. The entire tech industry will be IBM.
Steve Jobs was barely out the door before Cook ran to allow PRISM access, something Job's had fought against for years.
Turns out that the curated experience of iPhone combined with a lot of fumbles from various android vendors has kept iPhone image of being the best and most desirable phone.
It is very vaguely feeling like if another big player was to come in they could actually make some waves that causes everyone else to jump. To the benefit of the users. But I doubt that will happen.
I have been tracking my data use and last year it was only 70GB. And I have trimmed a bit more out of that since, especially on the podcast side which was the bulk of the data. It is getting to the point where I might just use my photo data plan which now has 120GB a year as it is more than enough.
I always found it funny when you would leave the store it would have this fade out/shrink animation. It is the same transition I have on my desktop windows and for a moment I kept thinking it was about to crash. ;)
That a very similar spec ARM processor would become the brain of the Gameboy advance many years later.
I also don't drive (never have) or have any loyalty programs. Only pay in cash unless forced otherwise. That said here is Australia some stores just use facial recognition - so that sort of defeats that a little. They paused it for a little while a few years back but I believe it is back in action now.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-06-15/choice-investigation-...
I'm not saying everyone can do this, far from it, but I choose to live by example. Maybe show others that you can at least shift your wants slightly. You move towards the ideal of utopia but do not expect to arrive there.
I think it was Steve Gibson who said that the Windows code base had some very questionable things in it. For instance they had work experience high school students working on code that made it into the final build that was less than spectacular. Like how Windows used to stall when you put a CD in and wouldn't proceed until the disc spun up and started reading data.
Windows 11 probably would still do that but I don't know because I don't have a disc drive any more.
Doesn't help with SMS though which is still 2-10 messages a day for all kind of junk.
While not confirmation, I wouldn't be surprised if there is a few nuggets of Q3 in that code base still doing some of the basics. That would be really cool if it is true.
It seems like unless you are someone like John Carmack or most of Nintendo, game dev tools are about what can get the best results quickest rather than any sort of technical specifics. It is a business after all.
I run Triquel one of the few FSF approved linux distro's and it still has that kind of vibe but its hardware limitations basically eliminate most people from using a system like that. But that is another side of the same issue of monetisation.
I'm not worried about that at the moment but I have said, once the US dollar is no longer accepted at a random Thai street market that is when the US dollar is done.
Whataboutism - 'The technique or practice of responding to an accusation or difficult question by making a counter-accusation or raising a different issue.'
The issue is that if 95% of folks decide against building these systems of oppression, that 5% remaining will still build it. And then the other 95% will justify it as "If I don't, they will". The sign of moral corruption at work. And those that do it will always have a 'claim to virtue'. They are innovating this that and the other under the disguise of progress. The real question is, was it worth it?
The weirdest part is that Richard Stallman essentially spelled it out in full back in the late 1980's and almost nobody listened.