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
I'm not "technical" enough to know whether I can resize
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.
You could piece together what they're talking about if you know the company "Mattel" and also when they reference "Draw 2" cards.
You could have also clicked either link.
I'm pretty sure this is all for datacenters.
The use case for individuals is going to be very low.
Datacenters have multiple levels of disk / storage "caching."
Though these drives are slow, they enable larger and larger libraries of data to be online.
Caching solutions can make the intelligent decisions on what data needs to be fetched, based on heuristics.
The orgs would band together and buy a single super ticket and split the cost.
The contract better be ironclad, because I figure you're going to need much more legalese than a casual lottery pool.
I've always wanted to do C or ASM coding, but never have been good enough to pass an interview, so instead I moved into QA debugging C and ASM code.
These days I've moved into system integration roles.
C/ASM roles were not abundant in the mid-2000s either, and they're even more scarce now. Now my skills are even more rusty, but I did like playing around with the Zachtronics games like TIS-100
If I can't go 120 on the freeway, how about I just go 70 in a 55, or how about 60 in a 25, or 50 in a 10-15mph zone...
I guess the data for the oppressive tech is readily available in map products like Google / Apple / TomTom maps etc. All they have to do is have some hooks into the rev limiter and speed limiters.
My example is hyperbole, and there's probably more severe penalties for not sticking to the speed limit, but you think the lawmakers thought about this?
What about the true need for speed in an emergency?
Take everything in stride. Trample anyone who gets in your way.
