Social media (FB, Twitter, Instagram...) - never had any, never felt the need.
TikTok etc - I strongly believe these are brain cancer.
Crypto - never had any need or interest.
Smartwatches - never solved any need for me either. Same with tablets.
Apple ecosystem - I have a Macbook but all the other stuff IMHO is pretty bad or I don't need it.
Pokemon - no interest.
Home IoT - despite working for many years in (commercial) IoT, home IoT never clicked for me, it's all really clunky and useless, at least in my experience.
VR - we have Quest 3 but rarely play it, it's just not fun somehow after the initial novelty wears off, I much prefer PS5.
I brought my WiFi 7-capable ASUS RT-BE96U to Germany (from China) and I proudly notice that my average download speed is up to ~105 Mbit from ~95 Mbit with the stock Vodafone router.
> Big Tech is spending $364B on infrastructure instead of fixing the code
You mean CrowdStrike still crashes? Spotlight still writes 26TB every night? (Which only happened in beta, AFAIK...) Of course, they are fixing the code. Conflating infrastructure spending is not helpful.
The bitter truth is that complex software will always contain some bugs, it's close to impossible to ship a completely mathematically perfect software. It's how we react to bugs and the report/fix/update pipeline that truly matters.
Seriously, every Cursor update adds another override, their most favorite seeming to be Cmd+E. If I'm not mistaken, poor Cmd+E changed what it does already 3 or 4 times. And every time I have to remove the newly added shortcut to restore "find with selection"...
That's the truth, there are whole agencies specializing in removing bad reviews in Germany. The laws are really skewed against consumers in this respect.
I was looking for a gym and went to several, multiple times, paying outrageous amounts for single visits. Then I reviewed them on Google. None of my reviews survived the "defamation" steamroller.
I guess soon we'll be like Chinese people, inventing parables to say the truth without getting censored. "This was an amazing gym for a relaxing afternoon of crowd watching", or "I very thoroughly enjoyed the company of my friends while waiting for food in this restaurant, it also left me with an overrwhelming lightness in both my stomach and my wallet"...
You need to work with people who value async communications and uninterrupted work time (or cultivate this culture). I recently moved to EU and it's very very difficult for me to adapt to people insisting on having a call or a meeting for everything. It's such a waste of time and the knowledge is completely lost unless you make notes... in text. Before that I worked in SEA, with teams from across the time zones but in a very "Asian" context. Perhaps since not everybody spoke perfect English, the teams actually preferred typing.
For a while I worked on a 1pm-9pm schedule which gave me a decent overlap with the "let's have a quick call" folks. Having the whole morning to myself was nice.
> that would be a great idea since everyone hates using Teams, nobody knows where to find files in Sharepoint
Summarizes my experience in my new company, which is a Microsoft shop.
Though RevOps side, I don't see how this would make much difference. If cost cutting got so far, he can also propose switching to Mattermost+Jitsi+Nextcloud, hosted on Hetzner.
