The company that manages our building EV infrastructure went bust. The new one turned everyone's internet off to install their new hardware today.
Just now the building manager proudly let me know the new system is up and that I can get a charger installed. But I caught the electrician as he was packing up and he was like there's NO way you'll be able to run a cable that long, our system can't handle it.
The new iPads are once again mind-blowingly amazing hardware showcases, hamstrung by software and an extractive App Store gatekeeper that limits what users can effectively do.
There is now such a large overlap of prices between iPad and MacBooks that we’ll probably never see a touchscreen Mac, because it would be a superior choice over iPad in most cases.
What I want, really, is macOS running on desktop, laptop, and tablet form factors, with a relatively open software environment not solely owned by the App Store.
I think Microsoft actually got it right with Windows 11 (minus the #enshittification ads). If only they pushed more strongly on the Surface lineup…
I just heard an advertisement for the Monopoly app that encouraged users to “begin their billionaire journey" and I could literally feel Elizabeth Magie rolling furiously in her grave. I can't imagine a greater betrayal of the intent of her invention. #enshittification
After sacking the charging team at Tesla, the "free speech absolutist" has found a new way to save some a few dollars: Cancelling Summer internships he's already promised to students.
The Helldivers 2 furore is bonkers. If you missed it, Sony, seemingly against wishes of the dev studio, pushed to add a mandatory PSN Network sign-in months after launch on one of their biggest, most popular games on PC, and not only did the community revolt (dropping review score into the teens), but the game is now pulled from 177 storefronts and Steam are issuing refunds (as PSN only works in certain countries). The studio has told players to make their voices heard
@stroughtonsmith I would like to congratulate this weeks MVP for team #enshittification , Sony Interactive Entertainment, for their successful enshittification of one of the most well launched and highly praised gaming IPs released in the last decade. Well earned boys, well earned! 👏👏👏🚽🏅🏆💩. Way to be a beacon for enshittification everywhere Sony, we can smell your efforts from miles away!
Things used to be so much simpler when savegames were just a file, and not some hideously overcomplicated 47 layer cloud thing that doesn't have any options for managing it.
Just try to get Steam to show the conflict resolution dialog so you can tell it to overwrite the cloud saves with your local one.
I got it to show -once-, it still failed, and now I can't get it to show again or do anything but fail with no options presented.
Again this is caused by people trying to be too clever by half.
"Ecologists have reoriented their field as a 'crisis discipline,' a field of study that’s not just about learning things but about saving them. We technologists need to do the same. Rewilding the internet connects and grows what people are doing across regulation, standards-setting and new ways of organizing and building infrastructure, to tell a shared story of where we want to go."
Basically, Synergy (cross-platform keyboard and mouse sharing software) once was a one-time purchase, then moved to a subscription model. They took great pains to specify the new maintenance license did not apply to existing early adopters - see email below.
And then today I get this message saying my license is about to expire !
Is it even legal to pull something like this? In any case it's not a great way to treat early adopters !
@jake4480@julienbarnoin It's a classic bitchmove / #enshittification tactic by companies. Just rename the next update to make it a new product and abandon the old (proprietary) one to effectively get rid of all "lifetime" licensees and force them to buy anew.
Remember when you used to be able to go from the main google search page straight to google maps?
Who thought it would be a good idea to remove that option? #enshittification