Or when software is "no longer supported", and the vendor activates the kill switch to "keep people safe."

I'm still pissed about Adobe using a kill switch to ruin Flash, and even more pissed about how the geek community unanimously celebrated it with thunderous fanfare.

What do you mean enjoy? Virtually everything I loved about the Internet in the 90's is now dead.

I remember when the worst thing I had to worry about was broken layout in Netscape because IE did CSS a bit differently. Now, everything is an app, home pages are dead, web search is useless, and a huge chunk of web sites are either functionally useless or give me a blank page if I don't have a Chromium-based browser.

I like that the Internet bandwidth is more plentiful than what it used to be, but I'd love to have the old WWW back. AI isn't going to make anything better.

Person1: "I don't know what to use!"
Person2: "What do you normally do with your computer? Is this for home or business? How often do you use it? Etc..."

More choice isn't a bad thing. What's bad is when you can't get the information you need to make a decision.

Worst case of this I've ever seen was HP's old web site that had a drop-down menu list of over 100 laptops listed by model number, and no easy way to compare/sort models by their features. I was dumbfounded at how such a large company could possibly be so incompetent at selling their products.

A more relevant example is how Linux distros tend to offer you a choice of 3-5 desktop environments, but don't give you a quick explanation of their features or even a few damn screenshots. Hell, I just checked out Zorrin Linux, and they don't even tell you what an ISO is or what to do with it until after you download it. WTF?

Linux geeks are great at giving you choices, but are really, really bad at design. That has always been true, and I don't think it will ever change.

The order doesn't matter when both posts have equal significance.

I don't. I'm sick of stuff breaking every time they "improve" the extension security model, especially if they should be core features, like menu organization and grouping. You really have to go out of your way to fuck that up.

The real problem, of course, is that they insist on fucking things up. Alas, the reality is that a ton of 3rd-party extensions isn't going to fix that. That's exactly why Mozilla is dying.

Prioritize? You can move things around on the classic Start menu, you know.

If you don't have basic organizational skills, you shouldn't use a desktop at all. Go ahead and use a phone and look at ads all day.

Ah, yes... I've seen YouTube videos of this game. Apparently, armies of raccoon are particularly good at stealing everyone else's vegetables.

Not sure that would helps to reduce my stress levels, but... to each their own.

My biggest problem with AI is the same as all this cloud/SAAS/DRM nonsense. At any moment you may have the rug pulled out from under your feet.

I mean, it's pretty obvious that if all this tech will be under a subscription, you'll have to keep paying forever to use it, and that's bad enough should you become dependent on it. The bigger issue is, what happens if an update breaks your workflow? Even if you pay your subscription, you can't do your work because your "tools" are busted. Bonus points for "morality" updates that make certain wrongthink illegal. Can't hurt the corporations feelings, you know.

I'm glad I'm retired. Everything about the tech industry today feels like it's built for failure.

So, they can't just have the client work in "offline mode" forever? They will forcibly delete all content?

This is why my gaming rig is a Win7 machine, and I pull the Ethernet cable every time I launch Steam. Steam throws a tantrum about not having a network connection, but amazingly I can still run my games. Good luck being able to do that in the future, when an Internet connection is mandatory just to power on your device, and any forced updates will brick all your content.

systemd?

Seriously. I almost never buy games anymore except an occasional indie title. I don't know why people buy this AAA crap, regardless of the level of DRM.

Go ahead and herald the death of Disney, but it would be nice if the entire rest of the industry doesn't go down with them.

Nobody is average. Everyone is either above or below average.

Sorry, I couldn't resist.

My dad has a late-model Ford Fusion. We've had chronic problems with updates not installing. In fact, he got so fed up with the update starting but not completing, he took it to the dealership to have them do it. They couldn't get it to work, either. No joke, we had to just keep trying again and again until it worked, which took a few weeks.

Each update attempt takes about an hour, and the engine must be running the whole time to keep the battery from going flat, so you can only effectively install the update on a long drive. The best part is that when the update "finishes" the system instantly restarts and then tries to do the installation again, and you have to wait for it to fail since the update is already installed. The Fusion is a nice car, but this software is total garbage. Seriously, I cannot believe how terrible the maintenance procedures are. It's like, there's no interaction, progress bars, or sanity checks built into this software.

It reminds me that I should never sell my old Subaru that predates all this forced telemetry and touchscreen nonsense.