I lost how many times Google has changed their chat..

  I just get the occasional message "We are removing chat XX and switching to chat YY" never paid much attention to those so..

Maybe you asked a younger demographic?

As it died a while back with the porn ban and now is just doing the death flopping of a fish pulled out of water..

So younger people have likely never stumbled to any content on it.

Also remember how "successful" windows 10s was..

So yes, not going to go well if they try that again..

Unfortunately yes. And even more unfortunately search engines still offer results from there.

>The main issue is the cost of bandwidth seems to have shot up massively over the last several years

That is weird.

As a small provider of VPS:es, remote backup and related services we have found the prices we pay stay similar until the high inflation in the last two years, and even then the rises have been less than inflation.

It is true that the prices have not kept going down since 2020 like they went down in the 2010s, but in real inflation adjusted terms we are way below 2010 prices and a bit below 2020 prices.

So my experience is very different from what you describe.

Most of the people are not full time on creating.

There are a lot of people who work a "normal job" and create content for extra income or for fun.

Of course many of them would want to go full time, but going full time can also cause problems, as then you can focus too much of your life on just one thing...

I could perhaps see myself creating something based on my hobbies as a side gig for fun(and some money), but would personally at least not want to have it as a full time job.

Well, you have to understand three things about the UK to understand this:

1) They have a first past the post system and such mostly leads to more extreme opinions winning in candidate selection "as you are preaching to the choir". In the case of UK this is made worse by the fact that the selection process is done by party members that are a very small % of the total population.

2) The brainwashing power of the press is higher in UK than in many other places due to education and cultural factors. A lot of people actually still buy newspapers there as example. Combine that with the fact that almost all news papers and other media in UK is very partisan and you get populations that do not vote on issues or record, but instead based on the outrage stroked by the press.

3) The richer parts of the society are like a closed club, with donations going to parties and individual MPs and returned directly in public contracts, legislation to benefit the donor and such. This one is mostly the Tories, Labor has their problems due to unions having too high say and such, but overall not so bad and the other parties in general suffer a lot less of this as they have a lot less power to sell..

This basically leads to psychopaths raising to the top in Conservatives (and impractical ideologues in Labor). The other parties need to usually actually try to elect someone smart to lead and as candidates, just to survive in a first past the post.

Of course he will likely fail if he did, like any such attempt regardless of staff numbers.

But the point he made is valid. You can run a 20k people website without a huge staff.

You definitely do not need a million $ for such today.

That is the sad truth.

Of course not all the changes are to the worse, but such a large % of them are that it is just silly.

>High miles per vehicle improves EV economics.

Specially for things like those garbage trucks, that still travel a limited number of miles in a day each thus do not need such a huge battery compared to their size.

Low mile, but in use frequently is the best use case for an electric vehicle specially built for such use.

>In Finland all plans are unlimited, and they are not expensive.

They all used to be outright cheap at way less than 20 eur/month, but now mostly 25-50 eur/month, with 18 eur/month the lowest I could find. So definitely going up faster than most inflation.

(I do not count the 2-5 mbit/s and similar plans in that as that is good for only messaging/text only emails. Those can be had for around 16 eur)

The problem is really the incentive structures of managers in such, as the incentives should favor the long term benefit of the company..

But instead they tend to be based on stock value quarter to quarter.

I am wondering when I can switch to win11, as waiting for ability to put the taskbar to the right side where it belongs.

The sad part is that it way too often work in the short run for those local business magnates who get governments do stuff like this.

In the longer run it is of course goes as you say, but so many people are shortsighted, specially in the business world.

Well, given than India has signed the WTO "Information Technology Agreement", definitely.

Specially given the previous findings by WTO where India went "We did not understand what we have signed" having ruled on similar things, so India cannot even use that excuse this time..