Maybe instead of "a new web browser" I should be making "a new app" which fulfills some of my fave bits of the web.

E.g. structured content, small interactive apps, cross platform.

Probably my fourth time playing through jazzpunk and it just doesn't get old.

I think it's only just clicking for me that the death of the web is upon us. Instead of "googling" for stuff folks are searching on tiktok, instead of indexable forums there's closed discord communities. In fact apps and services are becoming locked within proprietary apps like discord. Paired with "ai" language models creating infinite web spam the whole thing is becoming less useful for the average person.

I like to imagine that my spelling mistakes when I type could be read kinda like a computer that's glitching out every now and then.

Every api call is a chance for them to make money off your data without your consent. Every stored file will get mined and sold to advertizers and LLMs

One fun fact is that even though I'm a tech person I've been lower income until pretty recently in my career and most of my friends in meatspace are in the lower brackets.

I get a bit of whiplash when I enter spaces with people making six figure salaries rather than living month to month.

Bluh, I feel bad for all the office workers I know that are being forced back into working from the office after getting a taste of remote.

Being fully remote since pre pandemic has made me extremely against being forced back into the commute and the noise. Thankful to be working with other fully remote folks!

Just saw the new ninja turtles movie in "4dx". The moving chairs gave me shaken baby syndrome and the smellovision reminded me of sewage.

10/10 movie, loved those turtle boys. 🥰

nostr:npub1j46ucxgzwukd6tkufgzkfrq3sltkdry3gspys4tntsdtljxjs3uq5hyl3a Probably not. My mental capacity is barely enough to get by as is :P

Ahhhhh. Wish I could split into four people to cover all the stuff I want to do. 😭 So much stuff so little energy/time in a day

Gonna audibly yell "ho ho ho you've been naughty" when I attack raiders.

Gonna make a melee build in Fallout 4 with a character that looks like santa clause. Gonna see how much I can RP as a grizzled saint nick for this round

nostr:npub1jt3643ngake9xx0d68v8et00pvvf24la6ya3y0vz5xwk0lfpryys5vrezs Right! Honestly I'm down to pay extra to just not have to deal with that shit. It's also frankly strange that it's required on consoles where I already need to give some corpo my personal information just to buy the game. Like, just use my playstation account. 🙃

Fuck bethesda for making you make an account to play a singleplayer game. Paid 90 bucks for this shit and now I need to give them extra personal information to play it. I hate what game studios have come to and I hate tech's obsession with cloud shit and user tracking.

nostr:npub1j3yanrycydhvevkghg75wxv59xtps6qdj5s3rd9muslqm8jxzqjscvlgnc facebook replaced meeting people in person and chatting about what they've been into lately

Also now I'm seeing more sites that are like "Oh you need to use Chrome to access this" which I thought the web had gotten over for a while now.

Especially annoying when I'm loading via a chromium browser that certainly has whatever Google-pushed feature they want to use anyway.

Did people really give up on progressive enhancement and cross browser interop?

nostr:npub17gdyhkh7kvf5vk8junsl8yltr5ux3ck7sqlf6nzceg52584uzcssvwa8lw I think the biggest thing I miss is the network tab and the sources tab.

I get you can _kinda_ get it with some cli debuggers and vscode integration, but nothing I've used feels quite the same.

Have I mentioned that I hate gmail? Their oauth login thing makes logging in with alternative clients a huge pain in the ass, and it's regular login requires a bunch of hoops to jump through and even then it barely works.

Really tired of this shit and that so many orgs require using it for "work email".

The calendar is also a pain.

People capitulating to megacorps ruining open protocols fills me with despair and is a recurring paint point.

nostr:npub15s7v52h9fyah3f8hchul7yu2elxanu6zu9hxxzm6m36f3295l89shfcfsl Yeah thankfully it seemed to just be the street itself and I don't know of any houses that got flooded. Last year our basement didn't do so well however :P

nostr:npub15s7v52h9fyah3f8hchul7yu2elxanu6zu9hxxzm6m36f3295l89shfcfsl OMG my street was totally flooded until one of the neighbors cleared a drain grate. Cars were up to their hubcaps in the stuff.