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I bought one earlier this year right before they announced the $70 price increase. Going from $130 to $200 to $300 in the same year is crazy.

The guy is 71 years old and has built a life long career of his own, people are acting like he just elected a 21 year old nepo baby to run the company.

To be fair, this website was from 2020... To your point, the web has gotten significantly more annoying to use since then.

Haven't had anything like that happen but can see the frustration... I think my biggest complaint is their CarPlay app. It's wicked buggy.

I just watched Benn Jordan's video about Flock's (numerous) vulnerabilities last night. Pretty crazy to think what people can do with these if they can get their hands on them.

I switched to Apple Music and haven't looked back. The UX isn't great, but the audio quality alone was worth the switch for me. It also actually shuffles your music instead of cycling through the same small subset of songs.

To be fair, does the US have a lead over China on anything anymore? Certainly not manufacturing, renewable energy, AI, or technology...

I can't believe GTA 5 came out 13 years ago...

This one is particularly interesting given that Vercel products (Nuxt) now rely on a competitor's tooling (Vite).

"It's possible Son of Anton thought the most efficient way to get rid of all the bugs was to get rid of all the software, which is technically and statistically correct"

Fair point. Maybe I should have said something about modern fonts not being properly hinted for windows instead of placing all the blame on the OS.

I installed Zed and tested out a bunch of fonts on my 1440p monitor. It looks decent, but not great. I think that's more a byproduct of Windows' awful font rendering in general though moreso than a Zed specific problem. VSCode is no better.

Seems like the only way to get high quality font rendering these days is a 4k+ display.

I agree that certain schemes overdo it with highlighting, but I disagree with his statements that things like function calls and keywords shouldn't be highlighted. Basically, if everything is important then nothing is; but I still want my code to be easily scannable. Right now I'm using using a version of Solarized that uses the default VSCode syntax highlighting and it's been pretty great.

Their documentation was also abysmal the last time I used their product.

My biggest problem with it now is the official React team pushes it as their framework of choice. Back when it used the Pages Router and wasn't trying to push everything into server components, etc., it wasn't terrible but I can't help but feel bad for any newcomers trying to learn web development.

I switched to Astro from Next for most projects and haven't looked back. It's such a breath of fresh air to use.