Don’t forget waiting for hours, going to the toilet for a leak and returning to see you’ve been skipped

I swear I’ve seen this meme somewhere with a Cybertruck instead of a Wrangler

Meta … can’t guarantee “what a third-party provider does with sent or received messages.”

We (Meta) can guarantee that we do all the bad stuffs to your data!

Or “protect and serve their egos”. Implies both their own egos and those of the higher class

Kind of unrelated, but couldn’t this be prosecuted (among other things) on 4th amendment grounds, as I doubt “threathening people with a stick” isn’t protected (assuming qualified immunity otherwise) Although I doubt the curent SCOTUS lineup would come to any sensible decision on any matter.

About thinness: I also like my phones bendy and snappy (iPhone 6), as well as exploding batteries (Galaxy Note 7 or 10, I don’t remember the exact model tbh).

Or you have to ‘hold it right’ (OG iPhone).

These were all huge issues that could be fixed without sacrificing the thinness.

Thinness shouldn’t be used as an excuse for otherwise shitty phones, since it’s clearly a non-sequitur.

If an employer can’t ‘afford’ to pay you properly he shouldn’t run a business.

Is it not?

Curious: is that some ancient convention that just stuck around, prescribed in some old standard, or a Wibdows-specific thing?

Yeah. ‘Decay’ has a natural whiff to it, while ‘enshittification’ reeks of it being actively made that way.

Thanks, never heard of it & will switch to it myself!

Just as short and not as inappropriate.

Yes, but after 20 years you’re not at square one, others have free reign to use and abuse your expired patent. Sure, you can tacticize patents in a way where you make a starting patent, then before it’s about to expire “expand” it with a new one in a way which invalidates use of the previous, but I don’t know if that “loophole” is patched and if not, how it looks in real life.

Honest question: What are the alternstives?

I agree that enshittification is a, well, shitty term, but I know obly it to describe the problem at hand.

Alternstives I think of are walled gardens, collapse of the internet as we know it, lockdown of social media sites, etc. - none of them all that simple and miss the point enshittification has.

I mean Google Pay works, and that’s about it. I used to be able to read RFIDs and emulate my train pass, but it just “doesn’t recognize” it.

Beam was a mixture of NFC and Bluetooth/WiFi direct if I recall correctly. So while it isn’t going anywhere, a lot of functionality was lost.

Yes, yes it does. You xit xeets on the xitter.

I prefer xitter

Not really. Patests expire and then they can just read the specs in your idea. No reverse-engineering effort required.

Honestly, I’ll take having to try a few times until it works than being blasted by maximum brightness if I dare touch the phone wrong when waking up in the middle of the night.

Don’t mentionthe century-old and universal parts, especially with “service” added. DO NOT give them any ideas.

Android got rid of NFC and Beam