Personally, I see planned obsolescence as the same thing. It’s all to force you to buy new stuff whether you want to or not.

As to your picture, everyone hated that.

There were plenty of people mad about most of those.

Tyranny of the default. Also aggressive enterprise salespeople.

Personally, I found Irfanview with Ghostscript to be the easiest way to turn multipage color PDFs into single page black and white tiffs with a simple repeatable script. I don’t know if there’s a better way to do that now, but I don’t have to anymore.

As to just viewing images, it wasn’t even all that much better than windows viewer at the time. It really shined as a lightweight image manipulator.

Not sure about edits, but its highly likely they still have every deleted post. Text is small and highly compressible, so there’s no reason to delete it. So it makes more sense to keep it to sell later.

Millions of tiny houses isn’t the worst idea.

There is another saying that uses ‘from the river to the sea’ and ‘decolonize’ is not in it. I think that might be the dog whistle they’re talking about.

No, but they can use it to drag out the court case until you run out of money.

Apparently, it’s full of lead.

Unfortunately, the US doesn’t yet consider that a legal right. Sadly, courts take the position that if you don’t agree with the terms, don’t buy the product. Even in the cases where you couldn’t access the terms ahead of the sale.

It’s not unrelated to the puritanical thing. Otherwise they wouldn’t be afraid of losing money facilitating payments for porn.

That doesn’t make sense though, since they can just create a bunch of free accounts for the bots to use.

Mario is going to have to get his brother on the case.

RAM is active. It doesn’t hold the entire OS when in use even now.

They didn’t have mice that far back.

They gained a cost reduction for a single quarter of a single year. No further thought was put into it.

Right, but none of them are new. They’ve all been around for billions of years.

Remote device bricking is cheaper than researching part wear for planned obsolescence.

It’s low as a percentage of total packages, but some areas are worse than others. For instance, in San Francisco it’s necessary to leave the trunk of your car open overnight so professional thieves don’t break your window to check it.