The normal steps to delete an account don't work with Amazon linked accounts, and they send you to amazon.com account settings, which of course, is impenetrable. The Amazon customer service human did not even know what IMDb was.

Just a warning. This is something different than a dark pattern or enshittification.

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It's not even worth your time to pick up a penny off the ground.

If most developers haven't heard of them, it's because most developers don't create design systems. Even when you use a design system, the actual use of design tokens would likely be hidden.

Material Design uses them. https://m3.material.io/foundations/design-tokens/overview

Fluent UI uses them. https://fluent2.microsoft.design/design-tokens

I think this would result in some sort of credit score, which would be used by countless institutions. At least people wouldn't be able to hide it from their family. When a person wins the lottery, their name is supposed to be public although there's ways around this.

Obviously, it would create a black market for anonymous gambling, and lots of people would use an intermediary.

Some software should be free. Software that is nonfree has its place as well and should be allowed to have restrictions so the developers can protect their hard work, get paid, feed their families, etc. I really am looking at this from the indie developer's perspective.

My understanding was that Android apps were quite unsecure and could be pirated and distributed by another "developer" in an app store in a different country without the original developer ever knowing.

I think a membership co-op that is run to benefit its members should lower the fee by $5 or at least let them choose where the $5 goes.

I resupplied food in towns along the way. And while in town, I had a hot meal there. Also consider that resupplying is often not done in an actual town, but in a convenience store or whatever is closest to the trail.

Backpackers typically only cook dinner, and those get repetitive, so forgoing those with the added benefit of not carrying a stove, fuel, and a pot is sometimes nice. Some people find it wearisome to not have at least one hot meal a day.

Of course, I have done countless backpacking trips and have cooked on most of them.

I used a summer sleeping bag that was 14 oz after I cut the zipper off (Marmot Pounder, which I wish they still made).

I had a "blue foam" sleeping pad that was cut down to size, which is extremely cheap and light. I now opt for much heavier sleeping pads. When cowboy camping along the AT you do not need much of a sleeping pad because you'll likely be on top of leaves, but on a shelter floor it's not enough.

For shelter, I just had a 6 oz sil tarp for when an AT shelter was full and I expected rain. I set up the tarp exactly once, and it didn't rain anyways.

My spare clothes were a spare pair of socks, a fleece shirt, fleece gloves, and a fleece beanie. None of those were expensive. I had a $0.99 plastic poncho for rain gear.

I did not cook, so no cooking gear. I had a digital camera which I barely used. And then just small stuff like toothbrush, water treatment drops, etc.

My base pack weight was like 6 lbs and change, and I had a tarp and camera I wasn't really using.

So, yeah, you can hike extremely light and not spend a lot of money. It depends on what trip you are doing. I started very late in the season, so the weather was warmer and shelters were not full.

I've done the Paine Circuit (which includes the "W"), and would never call it a thru-hike or long-distance. It sounds weird to me to call any loop hike a thru-hike.