> Discord running on a modern computer isn't any more responsive, if not less responsive than an ICQ client was running on a computer 25 years ago.

I feel this. Humanity has peaked.

Every time Discord updates (which is often) I'm like "cool, slightly more code to run on the same hardware..."

Selling point isn’t the free speech (free speech don’t apply to private companies in US).

More like my data is less likely to be ingested by US intel, and the data used against me.

But you still have visibility into who uses what.

macOS presents your storage as a black box. You need to bend over backwards to delete things in that black box.

Because Apple differentiates their products by their storage sizes, they also sell iCloud subscription. There is zero (in fact negative) incentive to respect your storage space.

Been a while since I needed to use it there but it always amazed me that the Windows implementation of iCloud was more flexible in terms of location and ability to decide what files got synced.

Ho ho, except for where it puts the photos. Those go into a subfolder of the system photos folder, and there's no configuration (yet you can configure the "shared photos" location)

And then, should you try to set up OneDrive (despite Microsoft's shenanigans, it does simplify taking care of non-tech-savvy relatives), it will refuse to sync the photos folder because 'it contains another cloud storage' and you'll genuinely wonder how or why anyone uses computers anymore

Human or cow shet?

Bus needs to be slightly slower than cars to be viable, not 2x-4x the time taken. Otherwise what’s the point.

The top don’t run the show. Tells you how much a value they provide.

Alternatively: the companies at the top paid the necessary bribes (e.g. $100k H-1B sponsorships) and got to continue on with business as usual. The people at the bottom are the ones who can't pay the bribe and are thus hurting.

The amount of damage that was done in just a year says otherwise.

They’re not banning for excessive use. They’re banning for use with unauthorized software. Big difference.

Big companies are surprisingly nimble when it comes to AI.

They typically white label Azure LLM offerings or use Github Copilot Enterprise and sign everyone up wholesale.

Some with competent IT dept wrote their own router and offer multiple models from multiple vendors and present it as "<company name> chat".

Not in EU. There is a sacred process that has to be followed that can take months even to flip a switch.

Yes, if I know who you are and you have a list of what you might send. Anna’s Archive’s (who) content is well defined (what).