Make it reliable, functional, easily maintained, etc, and I don't think we'd have people sticking to old tech. New tech has way too many issues and companies need to do better

Okay, but that shit is still loaded into the program. Notepad used to be a native, lightweight shitty editor, that's what I liked about it. Now it uses more memory than Notepad++, which is ridiculous.

I have hope that they will turn it around, much like they turned around the atrocious VS developer experience back in 2010 or so (maybe not completely turned around, but it is a lot better than it used to be).

But anyway... it feels filthy that this desire to improve the OS has to be driven by the abused and pissed off customer base. Why does it have to get to the point of everyone losing faith in the product before it gets better?

If we have calculators, then why do people still learn basic arithmetic? Calculators are a LOT more reliable than AI.

What we're going to end up with is a generation of people who can't think at all. His line of thinking is so stupid. And if he isn't an idiot, he's a malicious human being deliberately crippling whoever he influences.

Isn't ChatGPT's 2.7% bump actually bigger considering it has like 10x more users?

I like to support the industry, but it does sting to pay $5 to rent old 90s movies.

My dad bought a new Windows laptop recently and I figured I could talk him through the setup. There was so much counter-intuitive shit that I had to resort to telling him to install Zoom so I could do it myself remotely.

I hardly ever say the word "google," but I still always get ads about whatever I talk about. This rhetoric of blaming incidental activations (and then selling whatever you say to third parties under such incidental activations) is pretty dumb. Just say it like it is: it turns on whenever to listen to what you say and uses that for targeted advertising. The only thing I actually don't like is google saying they aren't listening on purpose.

They'll apologize and give you 5 dollars for your trouble

You still need hardware to access cloud resources. May as well make that hardware capable in its own right--it's not expensive, especially if you don't care about gaming.

We can't use our phone keyboard to browse the menus yet

Those servers are so overloaded that I remember having over 60 seconds of clock skew on my servers at some point (detected on my customer's machines due to 2fa codes failing).

Can't imagine the debt will be easy to solve when we have multiple competing companies.

I think they stopped listening to themselves long ago at this point.

The Pixel 8 I bought 1.5 years ago is not supported anymore?