This says everything really. We live in a profit driven society, so where we should invest in public health to ensure that mental healthcare is available for everyone, instead we count pennies, driving public health workers to become private or quit completely. As a result, there’s not enough healthcare professionals to go around, if we can alleviate that a little, we absolutely should invest heavily in it. Have people using AI and supervise the AI, make changes and make it the best we can. Because a free AI, which is the dream, can help to save thousands.

Yeah, it’s having issues like a MF.

I forgot that anime existed

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23. Anything Else You’ve Replaced? Home Assistant for Google Home and Kavita via Legado for Kindle

I said a while back on Mastodon that people don’t realise just how bad Gboard is. I don’t understand how a company with so many resources sunk into machine learning can fuck up something as bread and butter as a keyboard.

I’m still gutted that Minuum Keyboard never got open sourced. It’s the best keyboard I ever used.

It’s worse that Android 12 and that’s sayin a lot. It feels like beta software that was shoved out the door. You can tell the devs are iOS users.

There are so many things that need refining in the UI department that it’s actually amazing they released it. I do not understand what they thought they had accomplished with this update.

It’s kind of embarrassing, tbh.

These are your words. Now if you said…

My initial impressions are that this is a step backwards and beyond which I feel was the low point of Android 12.

While I agree that much of the UI needs refining, based on the images I’ve seen, I suspect they’ve fallen short to the point I’m surprised they’re poised to release it. I am bewildered as to what the goal was with this release as surely it can’t be as they say, to provide a more tactile and vibrant feeling user experience. You can clearly see they’re aiming to wrangle iOS users and I’m not sure this is the right way to go.

As far as improvements I would like to see…

I would be like, ‘fair enough’.

So you’re judging something you haven’t used yet? Cool!

Because you said, and I quote

It feels like beta software that was shoved out the door.

Emphasis mine.

Honestly, even if it’s 2p a month, it’ll add up and ensure the longevity of the service at the heart of what we all use daily.

Given that I’m yet to find an app that’s implemented MYE, I’m honestly stumped.

So it’s not actually Circle to Search any more then?

Let me rephrase. Upon which apps are you using Material 3 Expressive?

Where are you using it?

Enshittification, also known as crapification and platform decay, is a pattern in which two-sided online products and services decline in quality over time. Initially, vendors create high-quality offerings to attract users, then they degrade those offerings to better serve business customers, and finally degrade their services to users and business customers to maximize profits for shareholders.

Notice how it doesn’t, by definition, cover making UI changes that a particular user doesn’t like.

Put it in perspective, it’s merely a fresh coat of paint. It’s like calling enshittification because a CSS file doesn’t load.

I mean we also did fine without electricity and antibiotics…

It’s definitely fuck the Match Group all day every day.

more enshittification

Where, it’s a UI refresh, not a degradation of services.

is that really what people want?

Google are the outliers. iOS has similar aesthetics. One UI has similar aesthetics. Whatever Xiaomi’s is called has similar aesthetics. By the numbers, yes it is what people want.

Use your subscriptions and you can avoid it

There’s communities to highlight shit mods and to be honest, there’s a reason why you should search out smaller communities rather than big instances or surfing all. The Fediverse is what you make it.

Didn’t they just move off of GitHub like last year, forcing everyone back to bugzilla?