It’s not that “excellent.” It’s just ‘for the evulz’ mustache-twirling comical villainy, which ends up downplaying what’s actually important to know about enshittification, which is how self-serving and abusive it is. When companies enshittify products and services, they’re not just making them worse; they’re specifically making them more exploitative.

A lot of the examples shown in the video – cutting holes in socks, sawing off a chair leg so it wobbles, drying out a marker, etc. – are not enshittification. Enshittification is stuff like putting spyware in devices so that you double-dip on the purchase price and the value of the data, or turning products (as opposed to services) into a subscription. Stuff that extracts unearned value from the customer.

It touches on it in the latter part of the video, but for the most part misses the mark.

I’ve always found it interesting/weird how bikepacking seems to have a different ‘style’ than touring or utility cycling. Like using an overgrown seatpost bag instead of a rear rack and panniers, for example. I guess maybe it saves weight(?) and that could be important if your bikepacking route involves hilly singletrack or something, but otherwise I feel like the more traditional ways of handling cargo are more versatile.

Turn that metal grating into a front rack/basket.

No, nobody should.

If you get my meaning.

Lots of unreasonable devs out there.

So did The Royal Guardsmen, sort of:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sh-J4GSPgAM

Running up medical debt, declaring bankruptcy, and expecting the inflated costs being charged by the insurance system to just sort of absorb it is entirely different from the government having public welfare programs!

You do see how it’s different, right?!

I mean, resources aren’t being spent on public welfare programs in the US either. We only have a higher standard of living because of the legacy of (roughly) the New Deal era, when we were investing in it as well as unions winning a lot of labor reforms. Those preexisting advantages have only been slowly eroding for the last 40-odd years.

By definition, no. Legitimate women’s healthcare providers don’t call themselves “crisis pregnancy centers.” Instead, they use other labels, ranging from “family planning” to “abortion clinic.”

Can’t do that anymore with the new ones, AFAIK.

That’s not enough. Just like with systemd, you will be made to care about what the corporatist Microsoft-garglers at Red Hat do, whether you use it or not.

Ah, I just love how laws against anticompetitive business practices have basically been totally flushed down the toilet worldwide, don’t you?

Then use Keepass, which is literally just a local app.

That wouldn’t be a suicide vest, though; it’d be a suicide fat suit.

It’s two penny-farthings welded together back-to-back. It’s a freakbike for doing stunt-riding, which is still way closer to stuff like mountain biking and bmx than it is to ‘normal’ utility or road cycling.

And yes, he also owns a couple of Bromptons and has made the very occasional video on urban cycling. But that doesn’t make him the best channel for it. I’m not throwing shade on the guy; I’m just saying it’s just not his focus.

(He also doesn’t cover stuff like, say, pro cycling or MAMIL-style road cycling. I hesitate to mention GCN 'cause I think I’d get flamed if I called them the “best” at anything, but they definitely cover those topics more than Seth does.)

Best mountain biking channel. There are others that are better for other types of biking (e.g. Shifter for utility cycling).

Nvidia slop on an AMD GPU?

Magic, I guess, 'cause nothing in the sceenshot would do it, unless the attacker had already replaced cat with a trojan or something.

Yes, but the real dad thing is to say that when you see horses, and say “look, horses” when there are cows.

I started watching the video on Youtube, but almost immediately switched to an older video from the same guy that went into more detail on the metal-melting part.