Populists are a menace to civilization. For every problem, they have a proposed 'solution' that is simple, sounds attractive and does not actually solve the problem.
Invite the populists in, and you end up with an authoritarian, undemocratic state that goes to hell in a handbasket.

381 x 381 km should be enough for anyone!

Achtung! Alles lookenspeepers!

Which bolt did you forget this time? (shakes fist)

List of instructions left by pilots on maintenance forms

After every flight, pilots fill out a form, called a 'gripe sheet' which tells mechanics about problems with the aircraft. The mechanics correct the problems; document their repairs on the form, and then pilots review the gripe sheets before the next flight.

Never let it be said that ground crews lack a sense of humor. Here are some actual maintenance complaints submitted by pilots (marked with a P) and the solutions recorded (marked with an S) by maintenance engineers.

P: Something loose in cockpit.
S: Something tightened in cockpit.

Yep, you're pretty close. The problem he had was with the clutch. Ferrari told him, basically "you're holding it wrong".

That Harbor Freight tool would have left metal shavings among the sample, contaminating it.

AIUI Sinclair did ship and iterate. The Spectrum had 4 logic board revisions, the first of which could only run 16 KB of RAM. The first QLs were shipped with horrible kludges that were later rectified.

Many years I had a conversation about why Chinese restaurants all look the same. The answer was obvious: they all order their stuff from the same Chinese Restaurant Paraphernalia Emporium mail-order catalog. Coffee shops will have their own equivalent.

All your site are belong to us!

I have the opposite problem. Incessant notifications of everything under the sun have forced me to switch off more and more notifications because all the blinking and flashing in the periphery of my vision drove me absolutely mad.

Notifications have been subject to enshittification, with the current low point being MS Remote Desktop posting a notification that it has opened a RDP session, as if the giant window in the middle of the screen showing that desktop was not enough.

Colossus is not a general-purpose computer. It had no program storage, it could only run the data stream to a fixed set of algorithms - the programmer would choose one from the available set.
(from Colossus - the secrets of Bletchley Park's codebreaking machines, by Copeland)

In recent years they've massively expanded the BP museum. And the National Museum of Computing (which has working replica Colossus and Heath Robinson machines) on the same site is even better. If you want to see everything, plan a two-day visit.

My supermarket implemented not just self-checkout, but in-store scanning, so I can scan stuff as I grab it from the shelves instead of having to check everything at the exit.
This reduces the checkout procedure to present card, pay, go. This is a big improvement over self-checkout.

Apple has been doing this for decades. I have an Apple style guide from 1998 that has 100 pages of preferred nomenclature. The big advantage of this is uniformity: just like every Mac OS program uses the same menu labels, the manual for every Mac OS program uses the same terms.