Notices by Jan Rychter (jrychter@mastodon.social)

@whitequark This combination makes my brain explode.

For everyone who thought link shorteners were a good idea.

The lesson here is that if you don't own it, it will undergo enshittification. Even if it looks cool today.

Posting your blog articles on Substack? Telling people to use Bluesky or Threads? Enshittification is only a matter of time. I'm not sure why most people never learn the lesson.

By this point I am convinced that there is a person at Apple whose only job is to invent new ways of regularly switching the volume buttons around on various devices, so that we never know which button is "volume up" and which "volume down".

I'm going through the "Windows 11 on a new machine" setup. Coming from a Mac, this is such a soul-crushing experience. I have no idea why people say they "prefer Windows".

Apart from the crapware that comes preinstalled (McAfee? Seriously?), I feel like I own nothing on the machine. I am being treated like ad-meat, and deceptive prompts try to trick me into agreeing to my data being used and processed for ad targeting. Dark patterns everywhere.

@tubetime That font brings back memories. I can still viscerally feel the slowness!