Rants
Rants
Intro
Ranting about anything and everything
enshittification
enshittification (uncountable) (neologism, Internet, vulgar) The phenomenon of online platforms gradually degrading the quality of their services, often by promoting advertisements and sponsored content, in order to increase profits.
Why everything turns bad eventually.
Legendary Star Wars Quote
You have become the very thing you swore to destroy!
Big Tech Three Ecosystem
Apple | Microsoft | Google
Amazon
Alexa
Bad software and doesn't care about privacy but everything else is much broader and tries to focus more on adding more features than making them work.
Nvidia
Anti consumer practices all around, less hardware, low supply and artificial demand to gauge up pricing and stocks.
Too much AI and very marginal improvements in different generations.
Very apple'iske way of demonstrating performance gain. 2x 3x compared to 2080ti for 3070 , 3080 but after independent reviewers called out their bull-crap about RTX benchmarks and not standard benchmarks gets butt-hurt about it.
Ridiculous pricing and embedding proprietary Physx engine based approach in few games making it bad for whoever has AMD Radeon based GPUs.
Tensor and DLSs is good so I have heard. DLSS works great on my 3080Ti for few games to reach 80+fps with 4K screens upscale from 1440p Native resolution rendering.
Intel
Runs synthetic benchmarks to masquerade high performance gains.
Long enterprise contracts to avoid OEMs to use AMD latest ryzen chips and anti consumer at most. Never invested in better technology and heating issues.
Too much high costs for unlocked processor K lineup and zero day exploits on few intel security chips.
When AMD Ryzen was on 8 and 10 nm die process Intel was still catching up - to 14 nm for so many years. Hate their Tick - Tock cycle of CPU upgrades as well.
Tesla
Sony
Playstation
Bad re-releases of same games without inventing anything new. Re-releasing same stuff over and over again. Due to being number one in Xbox One vs Playstation 4 race. It added more anti consumer practices.
Like not adopting EA access or Xbox game pass (Gaming as a service). But eventually had to adapt it. Also making console exclusives or timed exclusives with 1 year for consoles. Thank god that now after having Xbox 360 backwards compatibility and Xbox Play Anywhere (One license for All Xbox consoles + PC) + Xbox Cloud saves. Made Sony to realize the competition is killing it in consumer side of things. So they finally added backwards compatibility as well as porting console exclusive games to PC. God of War, Spiderman, Last of Us 1 and Uncharted to name few of those Playstation system sellers.
I'm just happy that I can play these exclusive games on PC. So kudos to Playstation to listen to consumer feedback and up their game like Microsoft. Since having these 1 Gen old games on PC would make people to actually buy the new console to try the new games. Now all we need is Bloodborne remaster on PC.
Nintendo
Anti consumer to the core, worse than Sony. Re - releasing same old NES, SNES or game cube / 64 games on Switch with $30, $60 price tag. Just emulating under the core. Hence I support open source projects of emulation like CEMU or Yuzu for Nintendo Wii U and Switch simulation.
Best console which started it all NES
First the API price increase, subreddits mod rights abuse, old reddit vs new reddit, analytics - selling off data.
killing 3rd party reddit client apps to make more money
bad UI and slow performance comparatively
posts were riddled with auto play videos now
Now maybe they will paywall certain subreddits for milking / squeezing more money from their own users who create, maintain and provide value to the whole product.
Attention Span
I already don't like how long videos are not hot anymore everyone's trying to copy tiktok short or Vine shorts again. The attention span has further dwindled to like 3 - 7 secs imho.
Internet Brownie Points
Their should be a term for dogfooding in terms of when your consumers are your producers and consumers. Working for free is a privilege in this economy or cult driven FOMO - I'm on latest beta to post something they find new or change in the software to get some more internet brownie points or upvotes.
Cult Stans
The fans of certain companies will go out of their daily lives to provide feedback to these large corporations. I'm not saying don't do stuff you like, I'm just alluding towards the blind following and faith people put in these corporations just never fails to astonish me.
Like finding free testers to test the products and going out of the way to provide feedback and more analytics data to accurately predict insights without the company actually investing that much money in R&D.
I don't mind providing feedback to Open source projects or when companies try to improve overall mankind but just bootlicking whatever decision the company picks and following them blindly is just the last straw.
I had a interesting conversation with a cult fan of apple defending lightning port, like its no way better than the current USB-C hardware port specification but indeed these people always have the same stereotypical / prejudice liking.
Free market, capitalism, conservatives, lower taxes, America is the best in everything etc. Like you can't even criticize or hold an actual debate with them.