And soon even your oven will require an account with subscription so that the built-in camera can notify you when the bread is browning and it asks for permission to lower the temperature

This is not a new problem. Anyone remember what booting Windows was like back in 2000? All the programs loading bunch of libraries from spinning rust, just to get their tiny, useless icon to the tray. Some would show banners as they started in the background, to remind they exist. It would take minutes from GUI first paint to all icons in the tray and system responsive again.

Btw, night mode on that site is brilliant. Also necessary, the yellow burns my eyes.

This site has an ideal sign-in page https://tonsky.me/sign-in/

I'm going to move my HSA account as soon as I'm back stateside because of this problem.

BTW, stop making SMS your 2FA. Not everyone is in the US all the time. I have hardware keys. Just stop already.

This is a uniquely terrible article that doesn't bother with any kind of nuance. If you are using my service and I need to make backwards incompatible changes to my system, you can bet I'm going to force you to update. I'm not going to carry around legacy baggage forever so that I can accommodate luddites with loud opinions and too many Twitter followers.