Pushing SSL was probably the last big tech effort/push that actually benefited users. Sure it made self hosting a little harder, and probably consolidated some tracking behind bigger players, but overall end users did benefit.

Most of what I see now is purely for their benefit and users don't benefit.

Wth water running 24/7 there's no need for a white noise machine any more, just listen to the water.

While true, a government IDP would still be able to track what sites you're using your tokens at, which is not great.

As far as the movies are concerned, this is spot on.

Ah yes, the old turbo mode button was needed to fix.

Speed running the enshittification of AI would be ideal.

I do not like this prediction, because it seems like a plausible reality. Which would be awful.

This is what gets me the most. It's totally arbitrary, every time it's a chance for new rules. What you brought one way maybe a problem on your way home.

There are definitely still shareholders, they're just private.

Seeing this all the time in Chicago too. It's really frustrating. Coupled with the same vehicle height and regular light brightness inflation that's been occurring it's really bad.

I tend to agree with your summary of the generations, but my experience in life sounds largely similar to yours, so some obvious bias there. The future you paint feels almost inevitable, and I hate every bit of it. Yet I can't find any reasonably effective way to change it.

That's true, but once you trust a new device, there's no reason the authority (your phone that has all history) couldn't transfer the history over to the new client.

I get it would add some complexity, but it could be done in a secure and private way.