Pre-digg immigration OG reddit user here. The enshittification of reddit started when digg users joined en masse and flooded the site with advice animal memes and f7u13 macros.

You said there never had been a culture of computer hardware manufacture in Europe.

Siemens, then Infineon, had a big RAM factory in Germany before the crash in 2008.

Isn’t goodreads owned by Amazon?

I stopped when they removed the “download and transfer via USB” option. Before that I bought books, downloaded a copy and removed the DRM.

Now I just download books without DRM for free.

Or cassette

I listen to punk music recorded on crappy gear, so I prefer not to hear it hi-fi.

RIP the old Opera before they went Chromium.

Have never used Chrome. Firefox is very good. I had 5-6 years when I preferred Opera, but since 2014, I’ve been using Firefox exclusively.

The only effect this will have on me is that I’m going to stop buying books from Amazon.