This thread is awesome because I keep reading an answer different than previous ones where I think “oh yeah, this too!”

Google docs (and slides) annoys the hell out of me because formatting is so opaque, and once it's out of whack, I have like a 30% change of figuring out how to fix it… So I thought I would click the Gemini button and now I'm wondering if there's a word like "roadrage" but for—

Would love to see this UX feature in Zcash shielded wallets: - as payer, scan a "payment request"-style QR code, - see it has the "subscription" toggle on, at X zec / time-period, - accept adding a user-selected title, sending first payment (w/ seller-chosen data in memo), 🧵

Open source app/infra products, let me pay you! Just use this feature combo: FLOSS, automatic/super-easy subscription to vendor hosting out-of-the-box, no lock-in exports. Shill me your apps with that combo!

MacOS apps independently update on their own schedules, and each time any of them need to update, it interrupts me with a password prompt dialog. Really?! Is there no way to batch these and do them all in the morning, or something?

Once in a blue moon they are criticizing ultra-optimized addictive smartphone gambling apps and, yeah, gotta hand it to them, that one is capitalism and pretty concerning

Every once in a while they are instead criticizing something that 1) is genuinely awful 2) is a consequence of government policies restricting supply and 3) is way less bad in places that do less government restriction of supply

Usually when I see someone saying something awful is capitalism they are describing something that 1) is genuinely awful 2) is a consequence of material scarcity and 3) has gotten much much less bad under capitalism

Ok, closing X, serialized my many desktops / tabs / terminals into a todo list, desktop-zero, no more political schadenfreude, let's build resilient opt-in permissionless institutions that can withstand the next couple of centuries.

Privacy matters when you have things that matter: Family, friends, money... all 10 fingers. For everyone else, there's public ledgers. ~🛡️