Thank you, it's really crazy to be see "it's sad that you want truth when ignorance makes me happy" being upvoted on this platform. I suppose it's par for the course on a VC forum..
When making purchasing decisions lots of people look beyond the utility of the product to the broader behaviour of the corporation and how it impacts society. I know people who've been avoiding Nestlé for decades.
Oh I don't know, maybe because I like to give dissenting takes a chance? Because from time to time they do make some new, decent points, or at least interesting ones? You know, basic intellectual rigor?
Do you imagine me being a clairvoyant by the way, or how do you expect me to know a post is of low quality before I read it or at least skim it?
This one ended up being a part of the vast majority that doesn't offer much of anything. It's a redundant rehash of all the usual rubbish anyone can come across any day. Left a comment about this stating so. Big deal.
Windows and Linux both ask for your language and locale during setup and default to the typical matching keyboard. I'm nearly sure Debian also asks you to confirm the keyboard it picked, but it's always the right one so I just hit enter.
Inconsistent paywalls are a product now. The Times (the original) has shoe-horned in some kind of AI paywall [1] which claims to maximise conversions by varying how much you get to see and for how long. It pissed me off because I was logged-in to my subscription but it was blocking me anyway.
An article here a couple of days ago said that the automation behind the scenes in Azure is piss poor and the whole thing is held together by thousands of contractors manually fixing the endless failures.
On the plus side, it does mean they have thousands of people who know how to fix problems.
At Google there is one guy who knows how to fix the problem.. he's a monk who is also in 700 different teams and the only one who remembers how the systems were built. You have to climb all the way up to his mountain abode, hope that he is home and pray that he will hear your cries and help you
Any painful automation story feels very different from their customer service. MS has always been superior to their competition with customer service - especially paid service contracts - because it's far closer to their identity: very long-term, tightly integrated enterprise. Google has never had this; even the idea of paying for support came very late (and reluctantly) to them.
> MS has always been superior to their competition with customer service - especially paid service contracts - because it's far closer to their identity: very long-term, tightly integrated enterprise. Google has never had this; even the idea of paying for support came very late (and reluctantly) to them.
If we're comparing cloud services, surely GCP has customer service? I can't imagine any big enterprise using it otherwise.
About twenty years ago I was generating long animated GIFs. They worked fine in Firefox. In Internet Explorer they started fine but became jankier as playback progressed. I realised that every time IE displayed a frame it was rereading the entire file from the beginning to get to the current frame. Which took longer and longer as the current frame advanced.
It's just so easy to squander performance without noticing.
Google used to prioritise search quality. About six years ago they decided to enshittify. Slop with more adverts is promoted over quality with fewer adverts. This isn't speculation. It came out in emails released as part of antitrust discovery.
To reiterate: Google search is shit now because they want it to be.
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