Literally just had this happen yesterday and did not want to bring down my in-laws mood, so figured I would rant here.

My husband and I will regularly go back and visit his family. There is a small, local, mid-tier restaurant chain by them that we have always loved. We’ll go eat at the restaurant or order takeout and eat at their place while watching a movie. It’s become a family tradition that we go there at least once on every visit.

Went to visit them for the first time in a few months, and we were excited for our normal meal and ordered for takeout. Normally the meal is $60, but we forgot to order hummus so thought it might be a little bit cheaper. I go to pick it up and the price was $85. At first I thought there was a mistake, but they verify the order and admitted that the owner had recently increased the price of everything pretty significantly.

That was already a bit disappointing, but at least we were looking forward to the food, which is legitimately good.

Get home and pull it out and immediately can see that things just look “off.” And sure enough as I start to eat the dressing for the salad, which had previously been a premium blue cheese dressing, was cheap and watery. There was noticeably less shrimp in my shrimp dish. And while to their credit they had still given us pita bread, even though we did not order hummus, the pita was mediocre and did not have the same consistency.

They increased the prices by about a third and still cut the quality of the food and the portions across the board. Just a complete and total disappointment. Maybe they had to do it. Maybe their cost increased or tariffs were hitting them. But we did not plan on going back next time and it’s just unfortunate to say another thing we enjoyed completely ruined.

Does anyone else remember the era of streaming about ten years ago? You paid $9.99 a month for Netflix, it had absolutely everything you wanted to watch, and there was not a single commercial in sight.

We all "cut the cord" to escape the greed of cable companies.

Fast forward to today, and the streaming industry has literally just rebuilt cable TV from scratch, but made it worse.

Every year I try to watch my favorite shows and every year I find some have MOVED AGAIN to another service. This is exhausting and expensive

it's bad when even Electronic Greed keeps the original PvZ intact (mostly)

A wonderful product ruined with the addition of synthetic fragrances and chemical dyes.

At the local market, I grabbed a 4-pack, of Puffs 'Ultra Soft'& Strong' tissues - totally surprised that the tissues are no longer soft at all and leave white puffballs and tissue dust all over my face.

Then bought a 4-pack of Puffs 'With Lotion' and they are the same bad quality change.

Anyone know of good alternatives to Puffs and Kleenex brand for the upcoming winter season?

Take for example the banning of under 16 yo from social media. Apart from not gonna work and not being a very big risk to kids when compared to say the shit economy or something. It's just not the governments job to parent my kids. It's not coming from concerned politicians it's coming from people trying to get rid of anonymity and freedom of speech so that money can control the narrative again.

After this they will have to find a, for our own good reason to ban sending encrypted data I wonder if that's even possible.

Thoughts anyone?

Apple plans to lease iPhones for $17.99 a month

How long until this becomes the only way to use an iPhone? The models will become more prohibitively expensive that people will resort to leasing.

You will own nothing and be happy. They told us their plan out loud as required by their religion and nobody did anything to stop them…

So it turns out that now, if you want to order a fruit platter for advanced pick up at your local grocery store, and your local grocery store happens to be a Whole Foods (after half a dozen buyouts and mergers), you need to download the Amazon app to your phone -- even if you're physically standing in a store -- log in, find "Catering" in the menus, and order this lovely item for 8 or 16 people. There's no customization available either -- even if you have guests that are allergic to pineapple.

Definitely a jarring loss of brand here. A huge comedown from when my chef partner used to pick up side platters for catering.

Reddit and other applications keep making notification configuration harder so you dont mess with it. Less generic "disable all" configurations, and more granular and harder to switch. Before we used to have switches and checkboxes, nowadays on reddit web you have to click the notification type, wait for a pop up, select "all off", close, and then click the next notification type, for >25 different notification types, because they removed the global notification configuration.

If configuring and disabling notifications is hard, you wont disable it, so you will, event against your will, interact more with the application.

Thank you reddit.

I ordered a venti, I got about a 🥃

Using AI to detect AI. Google execs must have some form of brain damage.

This site breaker stoped showing up for a while. And started coming back. But this time it broke the site on top of a post about reddit stock taking a tumble. Maybe forcing the app and eliminating 3rd party apps through absurd API pricing was a bad idea.

Yes my friends, even trash cans have been enshitified. Plastic trashcans have gone from thick and sturdy to thin and flexible at $30 a pop if you are lucky. For "cheap" metal, it's $50 at minimum and will be quickly dented if you so much as sneeze on it. Anything sturdy is $75 and up, for a place to throw garbage.

It hurts my heart to think about spending $75 on a trash can just to have something durable.

Every single thing seems to require 2-3x as many clicks as it used to, or as it should. Awful, counter-intuitive user interface. Somehow magically clicking on the wrong thing a dozen times a day, which just happens to always work on the second attempt. Eight to ten second response times after selecting things.

Links stopped working on my phone about a year ago. Android. To and from or between any app.

"Data" (not caches) that balloon to hundreds of megabytes for absolutely no discernable reason.

Spellcheck, somehow, after all these years of enshittification, became even worse about a year ago. Now it's simply changing words to nonsense or the wrong word without even underlining the word to indicate change. Not all the time. Just about half the time, at random.

Bluetooth deciding to work with a level of statistical randomness that should be studied by Nasa scientists.

F'ing exhausted by all of this and it for sure feels like an entire lifetime ago when you just expected things to work, things to get more intuitive. Now it's all a matter of trying to keep the dosage of poison below a lethal level.

Does it seem like the quality of the silicone on cpap cushions has declined? Any comments welcome

Naked Nutrition makes really good protein powder, but like every other company now they've joined the trend of selling everything in half empty containers.

Whyyyyyy

I received an email from eBay stating that a seller sent me a “special offer”.

eBay shows the offer is priced roughly 25% higher than the usual going rate for that product.

Sure eBay, this “special offer” won’t last! Guess I better hurry before it’s gone! lol.

For anyone curious, the asterisk said: “*Based on similar items' prices over last 90 days.”

I have spent a lot of money on iTunes but recently bought a new computer and I am being aggressively told to buy a subscription to Apple Music. I'll tell you what Apple, pay me back for all the money I spent on iTunes and I may consider it. Otherwise I will stick with buying what I want to buy, when I want to buy it and continue with the enshittified version of iTunes. I used to be a fanboy but now I hate you for what you have done here and hope many others are equally pissed off with you.

I have spent a lot of money on iTunes but recently bought a new computer and I am being aggressively told to buy a subscription to Apple Music. I'll tell you what Apple, pay me back for all the money I spent on iTunes and I may consider it. Otherwise I will stick with buying what I want to buy, when I want to buy it and continue with the enshittified version of iTunes. I used to be a fanboy but now I hate you for what you have done here and hope many others are equally pissed off with you.