Its not the IT guys themselves, its the aggregate influence. One large school campus flips the switch to Firefox on their next image deployment its a drop in a bucket, but when 1000 schools, 2000 government agencies and 5000 businesses all suddenly stop using Chrome the graph starts to move, because laypeople just accept the default.

IT guys are like browser-influencers, they tell their parents what to use, friends, and so on. We all used to recommend Chrome, I don’t anymore.

Its a valid rant, ditto to email

I exclusively browse with cURL and manually parse HTML myself the old fashioned way

Oh how the mighty have fallen

I can still recall my first PC, I used to love smashing the turbo button. No fucking clue what it did, but it sure was fun to press!

They have an existential population problem, chips won’t really fix that. Their tech prowess might delay the inevitable, but they need to start cranking out some babies or they’re on the fast track to stagnation

But surely the desktop PC market is going to bounce back soon

Any day now

IT guys will stop using it…

Which means they’ll stop deploying it as the default browser on some large enterprises, it won’t ship as defaults in pre-baked images going forward.

Average joes and janes will use Safari and Edge depending on OS.

Where is their growth going to come from after this change? Chromebooks? lol.

I hope they do it, it will hurt them in the long run.

You can bet 300 new uBlock replacements to spring up practically overnight, some of them scams, reducing trust in the Google ecostystem.

Could turn out to be a good thing. All power users will dump Chrome practically overnight, a huge boon to the alternatives, that could actually give them enough momentum to compete with Google for a change. I’m sure they’ve considered this, probably an empty treat.

Hyperloop 2.0

Oh buddy, if you think that is toxic, you might not want to keep going on the internet.

I once knew a “developer” with 20 years of “experience” who could not write a foreach loop by hand

Some people are really good at bullshitting their way through life

The system works

Laravel

So its a bank with video calling where you can also get laid and read right wing misinformation, that is a lot of checked boxes

The difference is those got off the ground

But think of the profit margins, and all the buzzwords our marketing team can use

The extra arm maintains legacy compatibility to not confuse the older users

I know a Perl programmer who exclusively writes all SQL in pure lowercase with atypical indentation.

He’s also a die-hard InfoWars follower, apparently his go to source, so… maybe there is a connection there.

Using the machines to fight the machines, well done