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In my experience tech changed the way it is displayed in this article. Tech products really degraded in the past year. YouTube is now unwatchable because of ad

by dh2022 6mo ago

In my experience tech changed the way it is displayed in this article. Tech products really degraded in the past year. YouTube is now unwatchable because of ads every 4-5 minutes, google search is similarly un-usable (I switched to Bing and it is ok for now, but if it gets worse I already know its replacement). I used to love using Excel-it is now unusable as well (I switched to libreOffice on my work computer where I get Excel for free). I am typing this on my iPad and how I regret inadvertently “upgrading” to Liquid Glass. My family still watches Netflix but I stopped and the alternative is, well, you can probably guess what it is. My next project is installing Linux on my Windows desktop. All of this in 2025/2026. For me 2025 was the end of an era.

myfeethurt 6mo ago
Try Kagi for a search engine. It is a small monthly fee. But so worth it.
apublicfrog 6mo ago
I haven't used any of the things you mentioned (except for an iPad) for a decade or so, but I can assure you they were all awful then compared to my experience years earlier with them.
scottyah 6mo ago
Haha sounds like you're just getting old ;) I think we are seeing a crop of the old companies going through the Large Corporation Lifecycles. They're well past founder-run stage, and it's a hard transition. If profitability declines, they spiral fast when they are traded as Growth companies- even their talent pool requires stocks going up otherwise how many good, smart people stick around when they're getting an effective demotion quarter after quarter, year after year. I look at companies like GE and Sears and see how hard it is to survive one or two "generations" of leadership change. I still think these megacorps you reference aren't going full on Evil, but are just struggling to keep momentum (and trying everything they can to keep it). Youtube allows anyone to upload the most data and compute media forms in massive quantities for FREE. That's insane to me. On top of that, there are thousands of new companies being formed with people still trying to make the world a better place.

by dh2022 6mo ago

myfeethurt 6mo ago

Try Kagi for a search engine. It is a small monthly fee. But so worth it.

apublicfrog 6mo ago

I haven't used any of the things you mentioned (except for an iPad) for a decade or so, but I can assure you they were all awful then compared to my experience years earlier with them.

scottyah 6mo ago

Haha sounds like you're just getting old ;) I think we are seeing a crop of the old companies going through the Large Corporation Lifecycles. They're well past founder-run stage, and it's a hard transition. If profitability declines, they spiral fast when they are traded as Growth companies- even their talent pool requires stocks going up otherwise how many good, smart people stick around when they're getting an effective demotion quarter after quarter, year after year. I look at companies like GE and Sears and see how hard it is to survive one or two "generations" of leadership change. I still think these megacorps you reference aren't going full on Evil, but are just struggling to keep momentum (and trying everything they can to keep it). Youtube allows anyone to upload the most data and compute media forms in massive quantities for FREE. That's insane to me. On top of that, there are thousands of new companies being formed with people still trying to make the world a better place.