I don’t understand how any of the big food conglomerates are still rolling along just fine. I stopped buying anything name-brand in 2021 short of a pound of Bar-S bologna for $1.69, given a food budget of $35 per week. I can afford more now, but I’m not paying $4.50 for Oreos (“Family Size,” which is smaller than the regular size was into the '90s) on sale or $7 for 1.5 quarts of ice cream. They’ve permanently lost me as a customer. Soda is a nonstarter when I can make two quarts of Kool-Aid for 36 cents.

I just placed a Huel order to see whether that’s a possible solution, since I’m also in a situation where I’ve been unable to cook since October.

I remember catching her show a couple of times in high school, but she was absolutely an icon we all made jokes about. Her bluntness was very refreshing compared to the messaging in the ‘90s shoved down teens’ throats.

And there are onion rings involved.

Politico has the full text of the ruling up.

You’re looking for 1994, not 2009. This shitshow gained traction with Gingrich’s “Contract with America.” Up to that point, the GOP had been clandestine with their goals, and Reagan had only left office five years earlier.

Niche Product Fails to Exit Niche

I went to TSC several times my first year in Texas, mostly for hay and pellets for the rabbitry. And we were not rural. Not exactly downtown on an acre, but in that suburban interface, it was the only realistic choice. I’ll certainly not shop there again. Like, I’ve never set foot in a Hobby Lobby, and the last time I got Chick-Fil-A was in high school, I don’t buy Domino’s. It is very easy to vote with one’s dollars when alternatives exist.

I could swear Google wasn’t broadly a thing yet. The startup I worked at in 1999 had an elevator pitch for how we “could be the next Yahoo.” Not a great thing to aspire to in retrospect, but Google wasn’t on our radar.

I left Facebook in 2014, having had to rejoin because in that era, you had to have an account to get a job. Which is another topic but worth keeping in mind.

If I don’t know why I’m somewhere, I leave. Rave, website, bar … these are all the same questions, just with less external pressure because you aren’t the product in the other two situations.

Remember what that landscape looked like. The only major players we know today that existed then are Microsoft and Apple, and Apple had just been bailed out by MS to get in front of antitrust issues. Amazon existed as a bookstore, Google was not around yet, Facebook would still be several years out … MySpace wasn’t yet around. AOL was still a behemoth. Adobe sold perpetual licenses.

This is a far more recent development.

There’s always the option to store things locally. You want to get fancy, you can set up a NAS for remote access.

Saying “isn’t X also doing Y” implies the behaviour itself isn’t the problem, when it is. Doesn’t matter who’s using dark patterns for rent-seeking; it matters that we’ve normalized it.

… they said Archly.

This is an underrepresented viewpoint. We are at the point of “find out,” which so many tech companies thought they could stay just to the other side of the line on. Thing is, you can only move the goalposts so often before they’re in someone’s yard, and they didn’t sign up for this shit.

It was OneDrive upgrade nagging that made me switch to Linux. Microsoft could have, you know, not done that and kept a user. They also could have not gone regressive with how the taskbar functions. Or any number of other things that were dismissive of users.

At a certain point, you’re sitting in ever warmer water in the pot, and it occurs that maybe you’re being turned into food. That’s when the Linux pots start looking appealing. This was a completely avoidable problem brought to you by greed.

Greed! Because we don’t think making a good product is what capitalism is about.

That is a uniquely awesome hed. And only strengthens my belief that 404 Media is going to make corporate journalism wish that they’d not shit the bed to the extent that viable alternative options sprang up.

Quick reminder that you are on Beehaw. There’s only one rule here, and this sort of dismissive take does not adhere to it. Please find something substantive to dismiss.

The only anchors I’ve spent any time with were at WHSV, and this was 2002. Remarkably normal people, but as journalists, they knew how to party. Still not a Sinclair outlet, so I guess there’s that.

It’s an investment problem. No one is doing scalable wave power because the money is in offshore wind.

Tread lightly with the impact of this. Medical debt already doesn’t affect credit scores.

There’s no need of “slam” – or “eye,” “mull,” “Solons,” usw – in an era where you’re not writing a 1-42-4.

(1 column, 42pt, four lines)

use unsuitable software for years in the hopes that volunteer devs will eventually add the features they need.

There’s an opportunity here to unbundle Photoshop from itself.

Since my background is print, I can say for at least a few more weeks, there’s an audience interested in reading RAW, cropping, toning for both CMYK and RGB, scratch removal on negatives and cutouts. And literally nothing else.

And so now imagine anyone else. They don’t need CMYK. What the fuck is that, anyway?

That Photoshop has gained bloat is not something to emulate. FOSS shouldn’t try to replicate it so long as there’s a universal file format one can jump between apps to manipulate.