We were in a programming competition and I was in a team of 3. We had a solution that worked, but was slow so we got Time Limit Exceeded. I stared off into space for a few minutes…then EUREKA! I came up with an optimization. I implemented it and we got that question right pushing us up.

We ended up getting 3rd place.

Sounds as loosy goosy as soft sci-fi

Huh? Can anyone explain what all these words mean? Mesh? Ham radio? How does this work is it like toy walkie talkie?

Windows 10 stops working for my purposes (gaming, browsing internet, office docs, some other windows exclusive programs).

I’m TERRIBLE at drawing :((

Well the thing about enshitification is that it was always basically inevitable. These platforms only cared so much about UX early on because they wanted growth and didn’t mind being unprofitable in the short term in order to grow and dominate the market. Now that they have, they care about monetizing that growth. I don’t think deshitification of a platform is likely. The owners have no incentive to, unless they lose enough users. Inertia, and network effects makes that really hard.

Deshitification through new platforms meanwhile? Possible. I can honestly say people on the fediverse are so much nicer than Reddit, and the platforms themselves have so much more variaty, better customization and UX options. Plus they’re open source (which reddit initially was). The problem is the inactivity, and the overwhelmingness of US-politics and negativity.