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Closed my Amazon (UK) account the other day. Never been happier not to give them money.

Nobody wants that shit other than a few tech people.

Also affordable generic drugs. YMMV.

I weep because the money was bad.

I have enough money to live a relatively meagre existence. Anything on top of that is welcome.

On the mark.

I have however run out of fucks and am ignorantly coasting and making optimal survival decisions only. Fuck the business. Fuck the career. Highly recommended.

What other providers did they shift to? So we can block them?

Taste improved and died long after Jobs was gone.

Oh we’re well aware. There’s nothing cheaper than upsell nags when you spent what you did already.

Yeah same here. I decided to use 5/6 year old trash PCs running Debian. They work absolutely fine. I think I’m actually more productive and certainly less distracted and less broke.

My entire desktop setup was bought with the cash left over from selling my 10th gen iPad. And I got a Xeon E 2276G, 32Gb of ECC RAM and 1TB enterprise SSD for that.

I have been exiting the Apple ecosystem for the last year. Feeling vindicated. It’s turning into the trash heap they were once proud not to be.

Let us consider the average user. The one who manages to lose their iPhone and has no idea what their iCloud account login is because they were aware of having to log into it once when they created the account at phone purchase 3 years previously.

That's where the trap is.

If AI agent deleted it or not, it's a human's fault. Really want to see the root-cause analysis here.

Yeah it was wearing off by then anyway. So they got to blame it on Trump I think.

It just silently evaporated here during a "restructure".

I've just stopped buying a lot of stuff. I think the availability of the cheap delivery just made me buy things I didn't need for convenience.

Yeah the broken packages thing is getting terrible. I think about 1/4 of what I was ordering turns up damaged or broken.

I’m just treading water.

The economics and the reality are unproven and opaque. Most of testimony we have is heavily invested folk and/or people paying the currently low discounted rates for the technology.

The companies providing the technology are not financially healthy, are heavily geopolitically aligned and a risk for many. If it works or not is moot: it looks like a large economic or political failure on the horizon.

Ergo wait and see before thinking about the future.

Yep. Amazon is almost no advantage here in the UK. I used to bulk buy stuff from them because it was cheaper than the supermarkets. That is no longer true. In fact it's 10-25% more expensive usually.

I really should just cancel my prime now.

Edit: just cancelled it!

This really didn't happen over here in Europe at all. That was mostly a US thing. Here it just faded out as it couldn't be leveraged.

At our place, it did not influence hiring decisions other than having a formal DEI position in the org which was disposed of almost immediately when it was seen as a cost and not a benefit.

That is exactly it. A good perspective: the activists were being used.

DEI didn’t implode. It stopped being a valuable marketing exercise for most companies as it wasn’t trending on social media any more.

Yeah that. After three bad experiences in a row they are no hire status.

There’s plenty of better people out there who just aren’t interested in that sort of stuff.

I want to read that but my slop detector went off. Instant disinterest.

Give me a shitty html4 page with the text ffs.

And then there’s AWS us-east-1

Based on Bahrain’s AWS region I would expect the first decapitation strike on a country, after defensive systems, would be cloud data centres. Everything we have from hospitals to logistics to power to SCADA to retail seems to be heavily centralised.

We need more distribution for the sake of redundancy. Less large data centres and hyper scalers, more servers in a back office somewhere.

The internet itself is less of a problem. It’s where most of the traffic goes that is the problem.

AWS is terrible. We had another tenant on AWS attacking us on AWS. AWS support took nearly a week of slowly bouncing around a case to do anything.

It's dire. Also ate a chunk of my storage on iOS.

I am so done.

So is this 1984 (surveillance) or Brave New World (distraction)?

I can't think of a single enterprise who I have worked with or know who'd pay for this when there's Chrome or Edge available.