America's entire Capitalist model is based on 3-month cycles of amnesia. It is designed to forget. Business could be run successful, profitable, and non-asshole, but the hunt for the next quarterly positive shareholder report by design blinds them permanently from comprehending history.
skuzz
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It started with requiring larger antennas, then larger batteries. LTE was super inefficient, and low frequency bands need large antennas.
Then the industry tried to push tablets and smartphones to sell more devices. Most people settled on a single device, the large smartphone that already exists and forego the tablet. In a lot of cases forego the computer as well.
Somewhere in the middle, the industry self-proclaimed that people obviously prefer large smartphones, when there were no small ones available anymore.
...and here we are.
Narrator: it is not.
Embrace their parents' generation while they are still alive. They are still chock full of wisdom.
Wouldn't that be nifty. So many less things would have to exist as well.
Huh, tell that to all the laid off engineers that corpo thinks will be replaced with AI. There have been constant layoffs over the last couple of years in all sorts of industries.
Reducing the seats at the table to then claim the table is full, and thusly successful, is not honest, nor accurate.
That's great until you get hit by a car and can't remember shit, or your family has to deal with handling your end of life and the only password record was in a blob of tissue in your skull.
Passwords in general are dumb and should cease to exist, though.
Sometimes the future is really, really, really really...dumb.
Depredation is bad.
All four of us!
Most of the software updates you see are a result of CI/CD processes. The industry claims it makes good design patterns to get features our faster and more reliably. In reality it is just a rushed shitstorm that results in half-assed Friday releases that aren't fixed until the following week.
I've long turned off auto update of my apps. Too many times I'm on a trip or other scenario where my tool is meant to be a tool and not some tech bro's rented wet dream, and the tool is broken.
But here's the kicker. CI/CD exists for another reasons or so:
- Frequent updates tend to reset review rankings in app stores. Not only does it offer plausible deniability to the app company, but it also screws with the review scores in their favor, as well as other rankings.
- Great way to help nudge along planned obsolescence. All that pointless rewriting of flash storage on a daily basis.
- Psychological manipulation, it gets notifications in your face to try and increase app engagement, which ensures it is fresh and running gathering user telemetry to sell as a side-hustle, as well as direct-interaction telemetry and getting more ads in your face.
It'd be better if we all just went back to landline phones some days. Modern tech is too noisy, abusive, and intrusive.
All that money will keep them safe from the mad max, of course. /s
These hedge fund types are near-sighted idiots with horse blinders that can't see beyond the next quarter.