I don't know about McDonald's abroad, as I've never had it out of country, but here state side McDonald's isn't even fast anymore. It used to be fast, cheap, and acceptable, but they've given up fast and cheap and it's really only acceptable now.

Still faster than most sit down restaurants, but nowhere near what it was in terms of speed ten years ago.

I mean, I can fix them, but not because I'm a programmer. Makes it hard for normies to understand the difference.

What features are you missing from Eternity? It seems fairly stable and feature complete in my experience.

Wait, are you seriously overlooking ASP.NET and suggesting c# tes learn typescript and node to build web apps?

I get that it's a hypothetical, but typescript and node shouldn't be the first stop on the we need to build a web page train for folks already in the c# wagon.

I felt like I had a good understanding of both htmx and csp, but after this discussion I'm going to have to read up on both because both of you are making a logically sound argument to my mind.

I'm struggling to see how htmx is more vulnerable than say react or vue or angular, because with csp as far as I can tell I can explicitly lock down what htmx can do, despite any maliciously injected html that might try to do otherwise.

Thanks for this discussion 🙂

In app ads are removed, but what about the tracking and then showing you ads on other sites and services is that also removed when you pay? I can say that uBlock still killed hundreds of trackers on my paid outlook premium account.

It's pretty bad on PC as well, with more and more games requiring kernel level anticheat software. I wish I had something positive to say. Just lots of bad news coming out in gaming it seems.

I'm not sure, but if you draw the ven diagram of people that can recognize an issue with their cars heater core (and know what that is) stop and fill the radiator with coolant and the ven diagram of people that would understand what's wrong with their washing machine and attempt a repair themselves is just a circle.

I know the people outside that circle exist, but they really should spend a few minutes learning how things they depend on work, to save a few dollars in their spreadsheet.

Yes, and host it on Proton. They are pretty reasonably priced compared to paid offerings by Microsoft and Google, and even if you pay them you are still the product. With proton you are the customer.

You could forward emails manually, but you couldn't setup a rule to automatically forward emails based on a rule.

Fwiw, I'm in the same boat as the other poster. Love proton, but it's not as seamless as Google.

You've succinctly articulated something I've been struggling to for a long time.

We all suffer from enshitification because the "average consumer" makes it profitable with their apathy, their ignorance, and their laziness.

And then you follow up with this banger:

And there's nothing we can do about that. We're stuck in these markets with them, and they make up the majority, so they set the trends.

I hate it so much, but what can those of us that actually care do other than try to educate people?

Gotta build that brown fat.