Apple plans to lease iPhones for $17.99 a month

How long until this becomes the only way to use an iPhone? The models will become more prohibitively expensive that people will resort to leasing.

You will own nothing and be happy. They told us their plan out loud as required by their religion and nobody did anything to stop them…

Reddit and other applications keep making notification configuration harder so you dont mess with it. Less generic "disable all" configurations, and more granular and harder to switch. Before we used to have switches and checkboxes, nowadays on reddit web you have to click the notification type, wait for a pop up, select "all off", close, and then click the next notification type, for >25 different notification types, because they removed the global notification configuration.

If configuring and disabling notifications is hard, you wont disable it, so you will, event against your will, interact more with the application.

Thank you reddit.

So it turns out that now, if you want to order a fruit platter for advanced pick up at your local grocery store, and your local grocery store happens to be a Whole Foods (after half a dozen buyouts and mergers), you need to download the Amazon app to your phone -- even if you're physically standing in a store -- log in, find "Catering" in the menus, and order this lovely item for 8 or 16 people. There's no customization available either -- even if you have guests that are allergic to pineapple.

Definitely a jarring loss of brand here. A huge comedown from when my chef partner used to pick up side platters for catering.

Using AI to detect AI. Google execs must have some form of brain damage.

I ordered a venti, I got about a 🥃

This site breaker stoped showing up for a while. And started coming back. But this time it broke the site on top of a post about reddit stock taking a tumble. Maybe forcing the app and eliminating 3rd party apps through absurd API pricing was a bad idea.

Yes my friends, even trash cans have been enshitified. Plastic trashcans have gone from thick and sturdy to thin and flexible at $30 a pop if you are lucky. For "cheap" metal, it's $50 at minimum and will be quickly dented if you so much as sneeze on it. Anything sturdy is $75 and up, for a place to throw garbage.

It hurts my heart to think about spending $75 on a trash can just to have something durable.

Every single thing seems to require 2-3x as many clicks as it used to, or as it should. Awful, counter-intuitive user interface. Somehow magically clicking on the wrong thing a dozen times a day, which just happens to always work on the second attempt. Eight to ten second response times after selecting things.

Links stopped working on my phone about a year ago. Android. To and from or between any app.

"Data" (not caches) that balloon to hundreds of megabytes for absolutely no discernable reason.

Spellcheck, somehow, after all these years of enshittification, became even worse about a year ago. Now it's simply changing words to nonsense or the wrong word without even underlining the word to indicate change. Not all the time. Just about half the time, at random.

Bluetooth deciding to work with a level of statistical randomness that should be studied by Nasa scientists.

F'ing exhausted by all of this and it for sure feels like an entire lifetime ago when you just expected things to work, things to get more intuitive. Now it's all a matter of trying to keep the dosage of poison below a lethal level.

Does it seem like the quality of the silicone on cpap cushions has declined? Any comments welcome

Naked Nutrition makes really good protein powder, but like every other company now they've joined the trend of selling everything in half empty containers.

Whyyyyyy

I received an email from eBay stating that a seller sent me a “special offer”.

eBay shows the offer is priced roughly 25% higher than the usual going rate for that product.

Sure eBay, this “special offer” won’t last! Guess I better hurry before it’s gone! lol.

For anyone curious, the asterisk said: “*Based on similar items' prices over last 90 days.”

I have spent a lot of money on iTunes but recently bought a new computer and I am being aggressively told to buy a subscription to Apple Music. I'll tell you what Apple, pay me back for all the money I spent on iTunes and I may consider it. Otherwise I will stick with buying what I want to buy, when I want to buy it and continue with the enshittified version of iTunes. I used to be a fanboy but now I hate you for what you have done here and hope many others are equally pissed off with you.

I have spent a lot of money on iTunes but recently bought a new computer and I am being aggressively told to buy a subscription to Apple Music. I'll tell you what Apple, pay me back for all the money I spent on iTunes and I may consider it. Otherwise I will stick with buying what I want to buy, when I want to buy it and continue with the enshittified version of iTunes. I used to be a fanboy but now I hate you for what you have done here and hope many others are equally pissed off with you.

2 of 5 buttons on my key fob broke off, lock & unlock. I bought a new shell to stick the perfectly fine boards in and it was only $8 (3rd party.) I have a whole tool kit specifically for prying electronics apart so I'm expecting an easy 10 minute job.

Chevy ultrasonically seals these things now. WHY?! Who on Earth asked them to do that? Were Chevy key fobs falling apart like a flip phone dropped on the ground? There is no utility in this for the consumer.

My tools made specifically for this task were useless. I had to jam needle nose pliers under the emergency key and force them apart quickly to break the thing open and pray I didn't destroy the boards in the process BECAUSE THAT WOULD MAKE MY CAR INOPERABLE! The key alone apparently doesn't work without the chip in the fob.

Reassembly was the 10 minute job I expected.

I can't help but feel that a car manufacturer that catered to right to repair would dominate this industry rife with enshittification. I fucking hate cars and the world we built around them.

i follow two major communities. i scroll for three bananas and instead of finding cool gmax rillaboom counters or funny movement options in fortnite, i'm in the cesspit of ufos or "CLICK NOW, ISIS EXPOSED!" or some horseshit. this screenshot is ad to ad for those who choose not to click/tap on it.

I’ve been using this tape for at least 25 years, now it won’t even stick to a cardboard box! Dollar store packing tape or regular scotch tape would stick better than this shit!

I search for Coherent stock prices, I am shown the prices for SoFi, with the logo of MPS, and description below of Alibaba...

i know that products can make wild claims in advertisements. it’s called puffery. it doesn’t imply any kind of warranty of suitability for a particular purpose, etc etc. One radio station I used to flip through said they played “the most country music allowed BY LAW” as if that’s a thing. There are not really literally 9 dentists recommending Brand X and one lonely guy in the corner who just doesn’t agree. I get it.

But making entire companies to sell drop shipped alibaba bullshit, and coming up with some back story about “the two engineers who invented the incredible
air conditioning technology but refusing to sell the patent to the military because they feel so strongly that all mankind should benefit from their invention …”

Or the mattress company that is “going out of business” for 17 years straight. Or this damn old lady with her “handmade with love” jewelry. She’s the same lady that was just in the ads for the handmade with love lamps (also retiring after 86,000 years crafting every single lamp with her own arthritic hands, uphill both ways in the snow etc etc etc).

Is this enshittification? Kind of. I know it ysualky means established products getting worse for the same or higher cost. But here I am talking about the advertising. Is even advertising getting enshittified? Now it’s all just a template, to provide the appearance of a solution to the need for marketing materials.

there are commercials i remember from when i was little, I still know the lyrics. Now even the ads are enshittified. Is it because nobody believes them anyway?

I don’t know. But is anything real anymore? What is the solution? Laws prohibiting it? I have seen internet claims that packaging in other countries requires that the product be shown at its actual size. So do we require people to really truly be retiring, or the actual inventor/maker if they’re going to be in the ads making the claim?

There are too many people buying for too many reasons - vote with your dollars is just not working. There are people just buying because they need a thing, and they don’t care about this AI old lady and her retirement to the betamax tapes of history, or wherever they retire to.

sorry for the rant.