Not every event can be the biggest wealth transfer in history.
Was this as big as the Dot Com crash? The Great Recession? COVID?

NO.

The Zip Drive was really great in moving large files around.
I had a Parallel port ZIP drive and I remember it being quite slow.
It was alro really annoying if you daisy-chained your printer on to it.

The ZIP drive needed to be the first device in the chain, so it had the highest priority for data (as it was closer to the CPU).
This kind of hindered the portability of the drive, since then you had to unplug your printer, and you had to unplug the drive from the PC.

The Jaz drive was the real workhorse. I got exposure to that through my Dad's work, where it was possible to loan it for a day or so.

A few years later in 1998 I got an LS-120 "Super floppy" drive, that would read regular floppies, and the LS-120 disks that held the equivalent of 120 floppies. That drive was pretty good, but then USB sticks were just around the corner, followed by consumer grade CD Writer drives.

People can use the system to their advantage and still not be 100% sucked in.

Best place to be drunk is at home, either with or without friends. Paying retail price for drinks is insane.

Apple devices do command a premium price, but it's a misnomer to say Best Selling devices are in the premium category of devices.
They definitely have more polish than some devices, and not all iPhones are in the premium category of devices, regardless of their polish.

Why is that? It seems that you're paying at least 25% more on those tires, for what? The free rotations?
I can replace my set of of 4 tires, buying online, shipped to home and installed at Discount Tire for for about $700-800 and I'm buying ultra high performance tires which are typically $300 a piece.

Enshitifcation certainly has happened, though it is less visible. Also I don't have any examples of how it has affected employees, but it does affect customers.
It might be considered inconsequential to some as only the price matters.

Two that I can think of, off hand:
- Rewards checks cannot be redeemed for cash at customer service. They also cannot be used at the self-checkout. There's absolutely no reason for this - you do need some assistance from an employee though, it takes probably an extra 30 seconds, while otherwise you need to go through regular checkout, where you spend more time in store, and the employee spends more time processing your check(s).
- They removed the Polish hot dog meat.

Japan still has a lot of stores with offline content. This means a person can watch whatever they want without having to give up their privacy on the Internet.

Pure ICE vehicles used to get close to 50mpg decades before the Prius was invented... but safety features creeped in and ruined it!

The difference is that you can drive the vehicle after the remote driver "drops off" the vehicle.

The problem isn't the initial installation any more. For Ubuntu and Linux Mint the install process is fairly smooth and the UI is nice during install, and as a daily driver.
The problem now is maintenance, and when things fail...
Yes, I know there's automatic updates, but I ran into an issue with /boot not being large enough to hold kernel images, because after many of those automatic updates, it ran out of space in /boot.

I'm not "technical" enough to know whether I can resize /boot, or if it is feasible - especially with an already partitioned disk. Windows users switching over won't know where to start.

I did find some script that someone wrote to delete old compiled kernels and sources, and keep the last 5 around or something, and now I have to run this periodically, because also, I'm not "technical" enough to know how to configure cron or the permissions necessary to run the script via cron.

I probably could figure it out with 2-4hrs of google and research to get it right for my system, and where I have placed the script based on one of the 20 examples I see on the web, and then cross my fingers to hope it works, but I don't really want to do that at all.

When things fail, sure, maybe they can query AI, but that's probably more dangerous than letting Kevin Mitnick into your home.

It's basically penny stock plays but with a lot more money at stake.

We loved the smoke in the cabin, and we loved watching a singular movie, if it was offered at all.
I would say that it was more "magical" but definitely not "better"

Google doesn't think so :)
https://killedbygoogle.com/

It's more of a personal preference. I would like to use app features without installing the app permanently and/or creating an account.
I haven't seen many instant Apps, but I encountered one with with the Yahoo news site.
The site isn't worth it enough for me to install the app, but as an instant App, alright, go ahead.