There are still plenty of counterculture people in tech. They just don’t run the show. (Source: burner community)

That’s not nearly enough to turn a DeLorean into a time machine.

I’d say something, but it’s pretty much all been covered. They’re now too big to fail, so we just have to put up with whatever they serve up next.

I’m not changing phone ecosystems, as I enjoy having some marginal level of control over the hardware I fucking purchased. Search is fucking worthless; I’ve not used that in ages. DDG gets the job done without a screen and a half of ads and sponsored content.

Who the fuck puts up with this shit?

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Also, as I have nearly run out of fucks to give: Fuck. And now I’m out of them again.

Both had “I’m a junior designer” vibes about them. If you saw the first few pages I designed in college, those were far worse. Of course, we didn’t have the luxury of CMYK, let alone just coughing up RGB shit. I’m used to seeing execrable design.

Would it have if you’d not been told it was ahead of time, though?

The last phone I had with a removable battery was over a decade ago. With proper gasketing, light rain wasn’t an issue, but up until that point, while I was still in my midrange-phone phase, it totally was. I know people who put their phone in the shower to listen to music and would be aghast that everything hasn’t always been IP68.

Plus .a few screws on the back shouldn’t be too much of an issue, since the case will cover them.

I’ve been out of the design game for six years at this point. Given that I did broadsheet design and wince at most everything for both art and typographical choices, it wasn’t really the sort of thing that stood out to me. There is a lot of bad design being happily gobbled up … hell, I didn’t look at rave flyers in the '90s and think “this is great design,” but rather “how the hell did they have the budget for C2S in CMYK with spot fluorescent and a top coat?”

The debates that led to these regulations seem tedious as hell. I miss being able to just pop in a new battery (I used to always have a spare, because batteries sucked a decade ago), but this said, I don’t miss the IP rating on dust and water that meant using a phone was risky in a light drizzle.

OK. What are the clues?

I spent two decades as a newspaper writer, editor and designer and have won national awards for all three. Try again.

Also, it doesn’t matter if it’s 100% as good as what I can do. Corporate will readily settle for 80% for a fraction of the price and time.

And the public was wowed by seven-fingered hands when image generation first came out. Their threshold is even lower.

As usual, we’re not getting the whole story. There’s plenty of stuff the company doesn’t make public … “national security” and so forth.

At a casino enjoying a martini?

This is part of why I buy instead of streaming. There’s no “AI”-generated music on my computer or phone, and no entry point for it.

Thanks for writing this for me. This seems implausible without other failures happening in concert.

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I’m seeing this “theme” way too much of late. It feels like there’s a targeted scheme here. The shit isn’t magic, but it’s better to blame that on Gen Z than the tools themselves.

I, over the years, learned how to do everything through prepress. I don’t know how to get the plates on the press, but pretty much everything up to that, I can do.

When you hear hoofbeats, think horses, not zebras.

Layouter? This is the first time I’m hearing the term, and I’ve designed tens of thousands of newspaper pages.

This results in an endash.