I don't seek this trash out and I find it a very damning commentary on the vapid shallowness of society in general that this is one of, if not the most celebrated "art" event of the year every year.

"Get your shit today if you get $25 in the cart!". Get more than $25 in the cart. Go to check out. Get your shit tomorrow!

That's to say nothing of the shift sanding of promised delivery dates. I've seen them fluctuate by literally MONTHS.

Not likely.

William Gibson before that.

Is the water getting warmer in that pot? You know as soon as they think they've hit critical mass they will start spamming you with ads and sneaking shit in as much as people will tolerate and you're back to basic cable.

Netflix and Amazon are doing it too.

bro. Uhm, no. Fuck. Your. Ads. I don't owe you attention, nor bandwidth, nor time; at all. They will try to redirect to 45 minute ads on 2 minute videos, no joke.

Instead, how about Firestick w/ 3rd party sources enabled for slide loading + JSDownloader -> SmartTube

No Ads, Sponsor Block on by default (auto-skip intros and in video ads flagged by other viewers), lots of shit you get from premium including all the technical details of the video, thumbs up/down, comments etc. It's far superior to the official 'app'.

How is DoNotCall.gov working out?

never changes. Comcast gets away with shit like this thanks to gov't sponsored local monpolies. Execs should be in jail, I'm not "reluctant" to see them there.

Maybe from the business side, but I've used them for decades without issue as a consumer. I'd rather have a proxy for my debit card that I can actually appeal to with most services. Them not having my actual #'s and just an email address is a much smaller attack surface.

Same, except I didn't have a PCP give me jack shit. I never returned my 13 year old original one either. I still have class action shit sitting on my desk I haven't opened.

They did eventually send a new machine but I had to use the recalled one for years past their notice because they never sent shit. By the time the 'new' one got here I was able to get a different one from a sleep doctor.

My doctors keep quitting and moving so getting a replacement was basically impossible for a very long time.

more spying on you for attempts at monetizing your every breath/thought/second of life. There are a number of "services" I will not even entertain because they do not have a website at all. Fuck "apps".

Which are getting huge inflows. The companies selling them are most, but not all, of the ones controlling vast swaths of retirement funds. I'm sure this will end well.

my gaming laptop is Windows 11 Home. Every time I re-open Edge it tries to set itself as the default browser. It does not do this on my work issued Windows 11 Enterprise laptop.

Mickeysoft recently overtook Apple as the most valuable company on earth. All both of them do is rent seek and try to lock you in to their ecosystems. Anti-trust is dead.

about it. Now there are likely millions of people trying to game responses the same as SEO. It will feed on itself as well, since it scrapes from the internet and will likely find its own responses.

There are already very controversial answers to very straightforward questions. I played with ChatGPT very briefly, it could be somewhat useful for certain limited uses, but I think the utility is dropping fast.

Ask it a question about, say, authoritarian dictatorships such as China and it will give you pro-CCP defense talking points. It's already being fucked with.

I still take handwritten notes when it's something important I need to remember. It's been known for a long time that the tactile interaction means better recall and anecdotally I find this accurate.

I greatly prefer paper books to ebooks too, notes or not, but I can't say the same thing for that - just reading something doesn't seem to put it in long term, sometimes even after serious repetition. Use or it or lose it comes to mind.