Well if that's true, that spells Depression for the economy - not a mild drawdown for a few years.

That's pitchforks politically. In the 1930s in the US (and Europe) it meant extreme right and extreme left parties dominated and moderates less so.

This article is either sensationalism, or doomerism.

The same thing happened to me with t shirt and other clothing brands.

Now if I buy something good, I'm rebuying multiple of it even if it's unneeded since apparently we live under the Law of Enshittification of Everything.

I ended up having to go to Run and type the .msc of device manager - obviously spelled with a shortened version that had to be googled as somehow THAT didn't auto-complete.

Windows 11 needs to be exposed for what it is, a spyware operating system. I had booted into it just to test whether a hardware device was at fault or a USB cable was, then dual-booted back into Linux.

As if ticket prices haven't gone up massively as a result of the prior mergers.

Alert, alert, this is insane for affordability!

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Now, if I search on win11 to start a program (which is what they want you to do), why does auto complete call out to the Internet? Users had had browsers for over two decades, who has asked Microsoft to mix local search, application startup and web search?

As it turns out, I really hated on-call my whole career. I guess different personalities here, as well.

I'm just waiting for dang, et. al to fix our thread voting system as it's a little too Reddity around here these last days.

HN is not Reddit, and that's a Reddit pattern. It's an anti-intellectual pattern because it's a popularity/anger contest and there's nothing of substance.

I'd love to hear the pros and cons and even likelihood of Linux in government, but I'm having trouble finding the smart commentary from the grey noise.

Help!

Why would anyone want to go to Texas to build a datacenter and worry about the cooling, when they could pick any other state?

It's very very complicated. And new construction makes rents go up here because it's all luxury - it has to be, or developers won't bother to build.

It's so complicated that I'm sick of reading the West Coasters hot take on housing problems - that it's 100 percent due to single family homes and zoning and other very very California problems.

Guys, we're not all in California.

But on a keyboard I type hella fast.

Now, I also hate creating account after account, having all these applications needing to be installed with ads in them that I can't block or some permissions that I don't think it needs. F that.

Your boss is presenting something that affects you, or someone adjacent is presenting an idea for something that will affect you.

Or if someone asks what you think.

Doesn't that solve most of the complaints about productivity in this thread?

One interesting factoid, since I can remember on HN, if you ever likened a conversation to Reddit they'd downvote you to grey. There are two ways to read that - Reddit is fine, don't criticize it; Reddit is embarrassing, don't diminish the conversation by comparing us to it.

Windows 10 was already pretty bad, but it felt fast and stable. I think they started putting content in the start menu, and I think I did regedit stuff I can no longer remember to get rid of it.

Windows 11 they made us upgrade with a gun to the back of our heads, they made it feel sluggish, they hid settings in such a way that you're expected to use Search to find the setting (although Apple has that issue too), and somehow the Search wants to include the whole Internet instead of what's local.

But the AI agentic force-feeding was the last straw. What am I, at work?

And then HN insisted Linux gaming was ready and they were right! Someone wrote to me in a comment, "join us, brother" and I'm glad I did, it's brought joy back to using my machine and playing around again.