I don't think growth is neccesarily the problem by itself, it's the velocity that is the problem. Reddit had a massive amount of steady growth for years and I think it mostly stayed good. Then the Obama AMA happened, and that, in my opinion is when reddit died. The number of new users outnumbered the old users and the old users could not enforce the previously established cultural norms (some bad, some good, but that is what made reddit reddit), and made the ratio of users to donations crash. large corporations and political organizations realizing reddit was a powerful way to influence people didn't help, but I think if the old guard of reddit had bullied the new users into following the unwritten rules reddit would not be nearly as bad a dumpster fire and the userbase would not be nearly so tolerant to admin BS.
I want a battle royale movie where the villian tricks a bunch of people onto a cruise boat and forces them to fight to the death. The finale can be one of the major winner contenders capsizing the boat to win the game
I agree with you in general (would it be so hard to have pagination), but I imagine in the case of a disaster like this is designed for all the top picks from the editor would be of that disaster.
I find if I trace a figure 8 in the screen with my mouse the captcha passes much more often. I think it probably reads the small variations in your mouse movement to sus out bots, so the figure 8 gives it more data to work with.
It's not, its just popular. Its not windows job to police what software you choose to run on it.
However Windows does actually have an optional certification program called WHQL for kernal level drivers. Getting this certification lets updates get posted via windows' internal updater. It checks the driver calls apis correctly and doesn't misbehave with interrupt handling among other tests. Crowdstrike driver did pass this, and in fact there was no bug with the driver, the bug was with the configuration file. The configuration file updates about once an hour (and it really needs to do that), and does so outside the windows update process, making windows powerless to control its rollout. whql certification takes a few days to run and configuration files aren't really in scope.
These days most sites that do direct sales use a service like Shopify that let's you 1 click enter your info. I'm quite wary of them consolidating power, but they are definitely still better than Amazon today and very convenient.
I try my best to avoid it, Although I still end up getting stuff once a month or so. There isn't just 1 alternative, the fact amazon is a 1 stop shop is kind of the big problem with them. my priorities are: Shop local > shop direct from manufacturer > shop from a specialty store > google the amazon product name > buy amazon.
I actively use audible, there isn't really any alternatives (spotify's model for audiobooks is awful, I'm open to other suggestions), it hasn't enshittified yet, it's pretty cheap and I don't feel right pirating something as niche and valuable to me as audible.
I don't use prime video, even when I have access from getting prime (sometimes it's cheaper to buy a month of prime than pay for shipping once). The ads on launch are simply unacceptable and I largely would prefer if their studios close so I surf the high seas.
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