Just... damnit. Gmail finally dumped the html version, and, of course, the new thing is a sack of shit that looks worse and has worse performance, because that's fucking always what happens when websites dump things that just work for something that requires a friggin' loading screen.
Probably won't migrate just due the effort it would take, but for the love of fuck I wish these idiots would stop "updating" shit that doesn't need to be updated and isn't actually improved on any level in the process. Have to interact with fedex at work and they're trying to transition in a similar way, except their new version that's the same sort of crap is literally nonfunctional for my organization so it's this pigshit except somehow even less competent. How these billion dollar companies keep fucking up in the exact same way I'll never quite wrap my head around -- I know it's corpo brainrot skimping on something important, but I just can't understand it beyond the intellectual level.
Though there's days I look at this stuff and somewhere in all the frustration there's an odd sort of something like respect for whoever's managing to boondoggle the idiot CEOs into making bad decisions like this. Like, fuck them with a rusty rail spike powered by the infinite hate of competent UI designers, but at the same time someone out there's making bank convincing people to do remarkably stupid shit and there's something similar to respect for that. It's not actually respect, because they're using their power for evil and I hate them, but it's something resembling it. Just wish someone'd goddamn stop them, blech.
the router here lets you do all configuration within a web browser, entirely as it should
EXCEPT for port forwarding or DMZ settings, which REQUIRE you to use the xfinity app to configure, which requires you to log into their service
and, like, for what? configuring just these two features has always worked fine via html, why am i being required to install crapware to do basic router management
it's like everyone
a) moves fast and breaks things
b) patch jobs the things they break instead of doing proper fixes
c) has no clue how to program
d) changes things for the sake of change
e) has already moved onto enshittifying something else
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unrelated:
i stayed up until 2am reading a discworld novel, and i do
not cope well on a lack of sleep. not when i was doing this when i was seventeen, not when i was doing this when i was twenty, not when i do this at thirty
Small Gods was a fun read, though, ate the damn book in two nights
