Alec out there fighting the good fight for us.

Republicans changing laws to benefit megacorportions is always an assured thing, whether it be Trump or some other president.

Not that I’d ever buy it, but I’m looking forward to the price tag so I can have a good laugh.

Microsoft has gone all-in on AI to the detriment of basically every other aspect of their business. They are in deep deep shit when the bubble finally pops.

I remember when this garbage used to be called malware.

So glad I switched email and calender services years ago.

We can add this to the extensive list of times that we’ve assumed Russia’s military capabilities only for them to turn out to be wet farts.

Tea.

That smell of a freshly opened container of black tea leaves is lovely.

Nintendo and Sega’s IP. I did not grow up with them and have never seen the appeal or hype around them.

Been with Posteo for years now. They’re very solid.

Bitwarden.

I’m with Posteo.

I am open to the idea of paying for quality services that put the customer first. Hell, I pay for my email and have done so for years.

But Kagi has always squicked me out a bit. Some of their business practices over the years have been rather questionable, especially their push into AI which is exactly the sort of thing someone looking at Kagi would probably want to avoid. They are also very expensive. They’re one of those services that just assumes everyone is American so they just give a $ cost and don’t specify beyond that, so I’m going to assume their prices are in USD which means a plan for my dad and myself is $21CAD a month. That absurdly overpriced for a search engine subscription.

To put that into perspective: A YouTube premium family plan covers up to 6 accounts and is the same price and includes unlimited video and music streaming. Thoughts about YouTube aside and looking at this from a pure value perspective, paying that same price just for a search engine is a godawful shit deal. Do you know what my email costs per month? $1.25CAD

Yeah, pretty much. I’ve seen some cycling glasses as high as $200CAD. Absolutely absurd markup for tinted plastic.

I use basic safety glasses from 3M that have a foam gasket around the rim. They look like this:

They are cheap, offer good protection, and the gasket keeps out most of the wind while allowing a tiny amount through to keep them from fogging up. I have clear and tinted pairs that I alternate between depending on the weather.

They need lifetimes in prison for treason and domestic terrorism.

The 1080p for premium users is garbage too. Youtube’s video quality in general is shockingly poor. If there is even a slight amount of noisy movement on screen (foliage, confetti, rain, snow, etc) the the video can literally become unwatchable.

Kind of a tangent, but properly encoded 1080p video with a decent bitrate actually looks pretty damn good.

A big problem is that we’ve gotten so used to streaming services delivering visual slop, like YouTube’s 1080p option which is basically just upscaled 720p and can even look as bad as 480p.

I cannot think of a piece of software that I want on my computer less than something like this. Literal voluntary malware.

Is $60 supposed to be a big incentive or something? That’s nothing in this economy.

If you’re going to try and bribe voters then at least make it worth their time.