I lot of these people just want a menu board. One of the things about being a designer is you have to have some taste and understanding of the field. This is just business owners who are trying to check a box and don’t actually care. This is compounded by the fact that few small restaurant owners come at it from the ‘restauranteur’ side of the spectrum and usually come from the food side. This means design of anything is pretty far down the list.

It’s also just practicalities of the industry. You can write interactive elements on a site with minimal JS and some guys blog which could just be an MD file shouldn’t need 10mb bundles of JS. However when you do need to shift more in to the application on the web side of things and you need front-end developers it’s far cheaper and easier to source spa devs, there is just more of them.

The company I worked for used to use SSR which was fine but the web scraping was relentless and the “free” thing we offered was relatively computationally expensive. Eventually we moved to SPA and bought into the CloudFlare protection racket. This didn’t stop it of course but it made the low effort scrapers have to use a browser and hopefully bumped their costs us The advent of the LLM crawlers has made everything worse as well.

We got a bunch of complaints when we moved to the JS only site saying we were ruining the Internet and while I didn’t disagree the practicalities make it a requirement.

If you have things backed up well that shouldn’t take more than a few minutes but yeah there is definitely an argument to be made depending on your preference.

Or just keep back ups and reinstall the OS.

Honestly I’ve been using Linux for like 15 years and there have been times that just reinstalling which takes 45 minutes would have been the fastest and easiest solution to a problem I will likely never encounter again.

Even if they were not recording from his perspective you have no idea what the stupid things are doing. You don’t really control them, Meta does.

Yeah he’s likely still alive.

My bet is a stroke or something equally debilitating.

Lol at the lawnmower thumbnail

People hate when they identify AI slop.

When it’s not in a context they are used to they don’t even notice and are fine.

Currently I suspect this is greatest in restaurant menu board are art. At least that is where I notice it the most.

Most weather apps are just data collection.

Yeah… No maintenance… Which is a thing that datacenters require.

Enterprise Hardware can have redundancy but things still break.

If it was a success they would have done it. Ergo, not a success.

Remember when Microsoft dumped containers of servers in the ocean to test things.

If they couldn’t make that work they obviously can’t make space work.

It was always a scam.

This was always in the cards.

They should have pumped and dumped it. The Roblox kids are growing out of it and the younger kids have different things.

What’s funny is that in my anecdotal experience a lot of immigrants from the lower income end of the spectrum tend to be more likely to be Christian.

The evangelicals probably wouldn’t like that though.

I think this episode is the big flush which is a 1993 episode

Never use 1 pan when 5 pans will do

Yes, and it’s not generational at all. Boomers scroll YouTube shorts and tiktok and take it at Gospel just as much as the younger people do.

You joke but drunk drivers love those trucks.

If you take the entire thing in context it’s less that she invented something and more the time it was done and that she got credit for it.

I would like to do this but I’m not confident I wouldn’t turn the quality to shit when doing the reencode.