Making a substack, or an account on Medium is "yet another thing" and many simply cannot be bothered and I don't blame them.
1. Its horribly complex
2. People are happy to buy buggy products.
Western society falls apart when we compromise on quality. This kind of behavior is much more common in 3rd world countries. One of the key differentiators in western society is how much we value trust, and “doing the bare minimum to get it done” is low trust.
There’s more to it than that ofc, but blaming “the people” is wrong and will never fix things. Blame the people in power, the people making things, etc. The consumers don’t stand a chance.
Having lived in both a developed western country and a third world one I think this is simplistic.
As far as quality goes there were (there are fewer now) there are lots of Sri Lankan manufacturers that used to produce high quality (at least in terms of reliability and durability), and some Indian ones that were popular there too.
As far as trust in general what you trust is different. In Britain I have more trust in being able to enforce a written contract through the courts because they are faster and more accessible (e.g. an easy not navigate small claims court, far less time to get to a judgement in most courts) but I would generally be more willing to trust an individual to keep their word in Sri Lanka (with caveats about how and in what circumstances) because reputations matter more.
... where Microsoft and Google have their headquarters. /s
1/31. Sure buddy closes the tab
A release date is set by them, developers need to cut corners to make that date. These days it is far worse then it was 40 years ago due to marketing.
This to me is really interesting. I've always assumed (incorrectly) that CPUs themselves don't age. It's the stuff around it (capacitors etc) that eventually cause a failure that might cascade to the CPU, but the CPU itself couldn't degrade.
amelius•2w ago