Oh yes, the world is enshittificating at an unbelievable pace. Here's one I have recently had to deal with. Sometime ago I failed my theory driving exam. The computers presented a series of 30 questions, to which you answer true or false. Fast forwarding to a few weeks ago, I found myself for round 2. The computers have all been changed. Shiny IBMs ThinkCentre with a small camera on top. The exam is supposed to start, but it doesn't. After 20 minutes of hearing someone absolutely not understanding why all the computers were blocked they suddenly are ready for its candidates to answer the questions. The little camera on top, why is there? Because if you deviate your eyes from it the quiz gets temporarily blocked until you get lucky once again and allows you to continue. WHY on earth the italian goverment has decided to spend money on this crap instead of buying simple cheap computers with a mighty reliable mouse is beyond my imagination. Ah before I forget, there was also a pinwheel in the corner whose only main purpose was to do facial recognition the same way is done in some airports. This is the enshittified world that we live in today, and it will get much much worse. Can we please stop all this BS?
How do we pay for parking?
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#112I. Hate. Technology. I hate working in this field. I hate how unprofessional every company is, from the largest to the smallest. I hate how incompetent all the engineers are. I hate how no business I have ever worked for has ever trained its workers on anything but how to fill out a time sheet. I hate all the blog posts about inane technical details. I hate how people start building a solution to a problem they're no…
It's not even the UI or the tech stack ... it's that it's tech at all.
Am I required to own a smart phone now to park? Am I required to have a credit card to park?
Idea:
1) Park without paying
2) Get towed
3) Sue the living shit out of the municipality so that they shut down modern parking meters.
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#113Earlier quoted context omitted.
If you aren't literate, life is hard. If you aren't digitally literate, life is hard. The problem is some people were 50 years old when the the 2nd statement became true. For nearly everyone alive, the first statement has always been true. I think the government is failing its citizens by assuming digital literacy is commonplace.
The literacy rate for all males and females that are at least 15 years old is 86.3%. Males aged 15 and over have a literacy rate of 90%, while females lag only slightly behind at 82.7%.
>The literacy rate for all males and females that are at least 15 years old is 86.3%. Males aged 15 and over have a literacy rate of 90%, while females lag only slightly behind at 82.7%. However, massive country-to-country differences exist. Developed nations almost always have an adult literacy rate of 96% or better.
https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/literacy-...
(In case anyone else read the above comment and thought these numbers sounded low.)
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#114Bill my license plate. That is the UX I want.
Best hope nobody steals your car, then.
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#115I. Hate. Technology. I hate working in this field. I hate how unprofessional every company is, from the largest to the smallest. I hate how incompetent all the engineers are. I hate how no business I have ever worked for has ever trained its workers on anything but how to fill out a time sheet. I hate all the blog posts about inane technical details. I hate how people start building a solution to a problem they're no…
You can practice the craft of software for money without working on horseshit. You just might get paid a little less
Re: How do we pay for parking?
#116I don't have a cell phone. What should I have done in this situation?
Without a cell phone I would be more concerned about other things than the parking lot, such as how people contact you when you are out?
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In the Netherlands and Germany at least I have never dealt with a parking lot attendant. There's just a machine you walk to, put your card/cash/whatever in, and you get a paper that you put in your car. The whole process takes 1 minute, the things have accessibility features to some degree, and if they don't work there's another one somewhere or its free.
Same experience. But in the US everything seems 99% anti-consumer while the majority of consumers keep supporting/voting for these things.
Not just parking, also banking ($ 30 overdraft fee mentioned in the article), telecom, health insurance. All of it is designed in very anti-consumer ways in the US, even though consumers should be a majority of the votes in a democracy.
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#118This is the bad place.
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#119What's next, a robot valet that rideshares your car to pay the bill?
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#120We built a startup. You scan a QR code, that sends a text message. If you have a saved card, you pay in the text thread by replying 'pay now', if not you get a link to save a new card. No apps required. Hoping that with enough adoption, it will obviate the need for experiences as bad as this.
50-75% of the year I have service on my phone that only supports IP networking and does not support SMS or calls - a data only SIM.