No it's not. Multifunction devices existed long before enshitification. The two concepts are not remotely related.

Your phone's main purpose is to make phone calls. If you own a smartphone I'm going to call you either a hypocrite or an idiot, but I'll give you the curtesy of choosing which label.

Obviously you meant fridge, but then given this is an optional extra that costs money it is clear that someone deemed it a benefit. The fact you don't understand it is not withstanding. Now if you'll excuse me I'm going to grab my tablet and take it down into the kitchen and start cooking dinner. Man if only there was an internet connected screen in the kitchen from which to pull up my recipe...

False equivalence. A leatherman directly trades off primary function against additional functionality. Having a screen on a fridge doesn't affect the fridge in any way what so ever. The compressor is likely the completely identical model to the fridge without a screen.

You don't understand this ads competition. Can you imagine what it would be like if Ford set the price of the cars themselves? /s

Maybe that's because there's so much slop being generated, and because you surround yourself with questionable people (or maybe you're the questionable one which is why you hear the word so often?)

I can tell you were desperate to comment without actually looking at the video. There are no rails. This is the exact opposite of the automotive industry where the part being worked on goes to the robot, not the other way around.

Please do everyone a favour and every so often educate yourself before posting.

This has literally been the case now for 40 years, and yet the open source movement is stronger than ever. So why now? Also charging for access? Stallman will rip your balls off.

It's mandatory for them because there is so much AI slop now it's starting to infect their data sets. Facebook doesn't give a shit about the quality of their advertising because no matter how many bots there are people keep buying the ads. But the advertising is only about 1/3 of their revenue 2/3 of it is selling data to brokers and law enforcement.

There is so much AI slop and it is so sophisticated it's becoming difficult to keep it out of their data sets and that's gradually making the data sets useless.

So they are going to force complete tracking under the guise of think of the children so that they and they alone know who is a bot and who isn't. As an added bonus is also means that they can effectively and easily figure out who is a person and use their data to train llms.

AI slop is basically an existential threat to these companies because at the end of the day they do need to know who is and isn't a real user and they need to be able to do that quickly and effectively. So mandatory age verification is the way to go.

Your privacy is completely irrelevant. And frankly I think it's irrelevant to most people here. Everyone will talk about how important privacy and internet and anonymity is but when it comes time to vote a dozen other issues come first often pretty stupid ones.

So Mark Zuckerberg can go around buying up laws and there really isn't anything we can do about it because voters prioritize other things.

Taxes made them successful. We used to have super high taxes for the wealthy and corporations. This created a use it or lose it mentality among businesses because they couldn't just pocket all the money themselves because it would be taxed up the wazoo at a certain point. There were ways around taxes even back then but they weren't nearly as effective as they are now where you have billionaires paying an effective tax rate of 0%

Also stock BuyBacks used to be illegal. Stock BuyBacks mean that companies don't invest anymore they hold on to their cash so that they can do BuyBacks and pump the stock during downturn. This is exactly why stock BuyBacks were illegal for so long.

I don't think folks realize how much of a role public policy plays in their daily lives or the myriad of knock-on effects from those kind of policies. There's an idea of a chesterton's fence, which is a fence that you don't pull down unless you know damn well why it was put up. High taxes and Wall Street regulation were a classic chesterton's fence.

Can you tell me where Linux does that? I've been using Linux constantly since around 2007, and that has not happened once. And not certain where you get the idea that changing a "bistro" changes everything on the computer.

Did you get your Linux knowledge from the local Windows OS club?

My son who is a gamer, and I built a top end gaming system, and I concur. Reminded me of the "good old days", where just getting the damn computer to work was something to celebrate, and never turn the thing off once you do, at least until the next BSOD. It's a pretty thing, but a definite learning experience

Which mini? I picked up a Mini M4 when I traded in my last generation Intel iMac. Pretty nice little computer, and the Adobe Suite flies on it be comparison. I'd probably have a NUC if the use cases I have for my Windows laptop didn't have to be portable.

But back to the topic, Microsoft has been having a lot of boots on the ground problems, no matter what our personal situations have happening.

You don't like Time Machine? I have hourly backups on one drive, and daily backups on a drive I store in a different location.

I'd never use any cloud backup, that's like asking Jerry Sandusky to babysit a 10 year old boy.

What does that even mean? As a Boomer, and the boomers around me seem to be pretty darn adroit, I'm having issues parsing what you wrote.

Or do just mean you adhere to some concept that boomers are stupid?

Another issue is I've met many, many, people who insist on asking me "What do I do?" when any prompt comes up. Anything. From "Overwrite these files?" to "Installation finished. Do you want to launch NewlyInstalledApp now?"

And? You sound like the IT guy from Saturday Night Live who hates the people he is supposed to help. I do some teaching, and get asked questions like that pretty often. I just explain a little to them. They go away a little more knowledgeable.

I tend to disagree. People bashing around in Terminal (now zsh) tend toward the more adroit end of MacOS users. And just might be more skilled than you think.

And since I occasionally copy and paste, I and others are very interested in having a reality check. In most cases it isn't needed. But we can all fall for something in a weak moment

It's not. There's nothing about news which requires it to be a surprise. Why do you think anyone finds it surprising? TFS and TFA don't. The only surprise was the cancellation of SORA which very much came out of nowhere.

I spend almost as much time in Terminal as I do in the GUI. Sometimes more. So I am very interested in this. BTW, despite the memes, There are more of us Mac users that do that than you think.