This Is Why Everything SUCKS Now - Sam Hyde, Nick Rochefort & Charls Carroll

[@PerfectGuyLife]

Watch the clip for PGL 61 - the first PGL with charls here: kzbin.info/www/bejne/eWiVknyCZpJ4bZI

[@Ballslapnificent]

I'm re fucking subscribed now, tell Charles to take that Dreamcast pedophile swirl shirt off tho

[@Joepage69]

Nobody tell Sam Hyde you can turn off auto correct, Apple is a shitty company.

[@QIKUGAMES-QIKU]

Correction.. It's called 🍏Crapple💩

[@FamineMachine]

Damnit hyde you guys gotta get shitty old VCRs hooked up to those shitty old TVs and then make a collection of fucked up mystery recordable VHS tapes you ripped from a VHS drive you hooked up to a computer. And do some short tapes with auto repeat and do the VCR counter while theyre playing and then do long VHS tapes on different VCRs for the longer broadcasts. All of your TVs but two arent even turned on. That is VAIDS.

[@therickestrickthereis36]

There is no excuse for Engineers at automobile companies to run a rubber belt for an oil pump. Just slopping through oil until it disintegrates. Ford just hires anyone. The swiping for phones is probably from the thicker glass. Great episode! Also fuck newman and his government contracts. His ranch tasted like cum. It was probably cum. His cum...Don't join the military.

[@JrIcify]

It's been over 15 years since smart phones took off. You want to highlight some text and copy it? You're in for a wild ride.

[@AliceBowie]

The screen resolution and cameras have gotten better, everything else gets worse each model.

[@sungazer454]

@@AliceBowieIt’s not for your pleasure, it’s for spying on you in the most sophisticated way.

[@SweetSleepMyDarkAngel]

i hate this world and the people that made it this way@@sungazer454

[@budget.88]

⌚️ Evrópa the last battle

[@headfullofacid8088]

That’s my biggest problem with the smartphone keyboard. I have nearly smashed my phone in an attempt to highlight text on my iPhone

[@grubermeister6139]

You WILL live in a pod You WILL eat the bugs You WILL send gay texts to your friends

[@2000demag1]

And be happy.

[@peteypete1984]

Shout out ‘’pod boys’’ rap duo. They’ll be big in 2030

[@davidnymann5423]

I send gay texts to your friends all the time 🥵🥵🥵

[@EMMmaximino]

ON M YWAY!

[@Mentallysubnormal]

@@EMMmaximinoWanna duck?

[@lil-soda-boi]

As soon as Sam launched into his auto-correct rant I was just hoping he would bring up the "On my way!" thing, who's fucking idea was that???

[@smokingfoos]

i had to disable it bc i felt like such a silly billy

[@tie7626]

@@smokingfoos thanks for sharing

[@HyperLethal0100]

Some guy from San Francisco names Jordan...

[@budget.88]

⌚️ Európa the last battle

[@cordan305]

@@smokingfoosSame here, that feature was so goddamn annoying lol

[@M17ispy]

Sam flipping out about omw changing to "On my way!" makes me so happy I'm not alone in this hatred.

[@aygwm]

You can turn it off, by the way

[@M17ispy]

@@aygwm How? You should have to turn that silly billy shit on if you want it.

[@Vid_Master]

Just imagine the group of elitist, effeminate men creating that stuff, talking about their favorite restaraunts in silicon valley

[@dionysis84]

Right wtf is up with the exclamation point in there? I’m not mad or excited ffs

[@grasshopper1153]

we should be able to express ourselves as we wish and not be thought controlled

[@titoslounge1946]

I’m a wire harness engineer. I make cables that connect and power shit in products. We have reached the zenith of functionality and engineering in this field. Everything else at this point is a tug-of-war between shaving down costs penny by penny and then going overboard with cost-outs and fucking up the product and backtracking and rinsing and repeating this process. I’m blowing my brains out

[@gang6009]

Blow me up the ass first then shoot me with a handgun tech tito. What the fuck I literally made up tech tito because it started with a t then looked at your name and it actually was tito

[@XanVicious]

Remember to leave a blank canvas in back that says “Best Of Me”

[@buddhaspriest]

Build a phone that the govt has a hard time getting in to is the way to go forward.

[@superultrasomethings]

this guy knows the future ig, he said theres nowhere else this could go

[@cbussey4676]

@@budget.88 only overweight nazis in their basement say this edit: which is pretty much all nazis

[@frydemwingz]

and Charles is 100% correct by the way. it's so refreshing to hear another man say this. It's all getting worse ON PURPOSE. All those movies, TV, entertainment, tools, internet, phones are getting worse on purpose. The buildings, cars, any transport looks horrendous and it's absolutely on purpose. The "why" is complicated, but that is a tough pill for people to swallow. The people that made fat lesbian version of Ghostbusters know that NOBODY wanted that movie and they made it anyway. It's to demoralize everyone, which is why everyone should stop using social media, dont look at any popular media, it's shit on purpose.

[@jeremias-serus]

>he says while on social media

[@susangoaway]

It's called demoralization. As predicted by Bezmenov. The West has fallen...

[@kylerherbert6870]

@@jeremias-serusit’s not really social media… you know what I mean

[@themodfather9382]

you were 21 and you thought this was profound as fuck

[@ElronHumpperdink]

@@jeremias-serusI’m all for him using an “evil” tool to spread the message while he can. No need to be obtuse.

[@myleslaurin3051]

selecting and editing text on iphone is like ancient japanese torture

[@Lull622]

I will never get tired of Sam’s tech rants

[@TheRealDioBrando]

Think about the "Goo goo google" baby take one a lot

[@426cylinders7]

He could have a 10 hour compilation of him bitching about the iPhone keyboard and I’d be overjoyed

[@Pensive_Scarlet]

The reason people these days think the old Blade Runner aesthetic looks "cool" instead of dystopian is because we're actually faced with the generic, homogenized, commodified reality of what our present dystopia looks like. We were promised a colorful purgatory, and we got something even worse.

[@ethanrosenfeld4416]

Nah

[@iCookCrystalMeth]

Yea

[@ethanrosenfeld4416]

@@iCookCrystalMeth The aesthetic has been considered cool since the 1980s. And we are not in anything close to a full-blown dystopia.

[@traddad9172]

​@ethanrosenfeld4416 easy for a Rosenfeld to say

[@ethanrosenfeld4416]

@@traddad9172 You’re conflating ideas again to gloss over nuances. Maybe you don’t realize it. Whether you do or don’t, what you said is a dumb joke and, worse, intellectually lazy. No?

[@combatboots3517]

Churches are a great example of this. Churches used to be beautiful. Even the shapes of the buildings themselves were crosses. When you look at a gothic church from the sky, it will look like a cross. People hundreds of years ago were skilled enough to make flying buttresses! Now a days, churches look like community centers. It really is all getting worse. Our culture prioritizes function over beauty, rather than just balancing the two.

[@defuncthusky6649]

Society now emphasizes beauty when something should be functional, and functions when it should be beautiful. Its absolutyly busted

[@netbirth]

That's mostly catholic churches though

[@SCHMALLZZZ]

​@@netbirthThere's only Catholic and Orthodox, everything else is a blatant heresy akin to Islam.

[@tyrantfitness]

But that is also intentional on the part of the protestant reformation so it doesn't really apply

[@UpperNileGuy]

​@@SCHMALLZZZonly orthodox

[@illiberalautist2222]

If women didn't like FaceTime and blue text boxes and worshipping satan apple would be bankrupt.

[@YourAverageExJunkie]

Get help bud.

[@illiberalautist2222]

@@YourAverageExJunkie what does the apple symbolize Women are still eve

[@jacob5058]

😂

[@thomashightower7881]

​@@YourAverageExJunkiehe's got a point. Most dudes would have either cared enough to realize that there are better phone choices than apple, or gotten a motorola because it's cheaper. But, because your text box is green, now whenever you text a girl with an iPhone, she's reminded that you have a cheap phone. I know most people are not so shallow to have that be an issue, but some are. The blue text box is more attractive, making the iPhone a status symbol to those who have an iPhone.

[@InspectorGadgit]

@@YourAverageExJunkie He's right

[@TheSecondR]

Sam: most violent Charls: most schizophrenic Nick: most psychotic

[@Cu8ez]

You: most ⌚️ of eüropa last battle

[@almcjones2132]

Noticing patterns and having a strong attention to detail isn't schizophrenic. Labeling that behavior as schizophrenic is what (((they))) want. Lumping people who question their clown world as mentally ill makes it easier to discredit their observations.

[@C00LI0DUDE]

@@sentaveliki425 you: just like me fr

[@basementproductionsmedia]

Nick: The mind Sam: The body Charls: The soul

[@etanb1]

@@Cu8ez lmao what the fuck is this europa last battle shit? you comment that on every video, im dying

[@D2017_]

Charls observing Sam as he kicked that stuff was hilarious.

[@J35h13]

🦆

[@sssurreal]

“You’re joking right?”

[@GrandmasterFerg]

🤔

[@Deadricblood]

"You joking right?"

[@thedingleberrybush6076]

Their whole dynamic is The Physique, The Mystical Seer and The Used Car Salesman You Can Trust

[@geniuskhan1337]

One thing I don't like about modern tech is how they want to automate everything. I highly prefer things to be manual, to put me in control of my machines, not the other way around. I hardly use social media because of how highly automated it is. They use algorithms to send you content you might like to keep you engaged and in a little box catered specifically to you instead of giving you free reign over what you want to see. Now it takes significantly more effort than it used to to find something wildly different than what you've already seen.

[@morrisalanisette9067]

very true, also i remember the good old days of youtube when you would find totally amazing and obscure videos and go down rabbit holes. It was more like an archive of video. With instagram i'm in a war against the thirst trap, they won't stop showing me whores in the suggested reels and i've tried everything. i can't use the app without seeing girls spreading their ass when i scroll down

[@geniuskhan1337]

@@morrisalanisette9067 Reject the doomscroll. Embrace the rabbit hole.

[@Jarl_egbert]

​@@morrisalanisette9067Same with youtube shorts. Im like 95% certain that these platforms actually take money from the P industry, to recommend videos of OF girls bending over in yoga pants. Im so sick of this world.

[@nation5478]

has to do with scale, the same reason managers exist in large orgs

[@patrickmcguire9671]

​@@morrisalanisette9067 I don't get thirst traps but a neverending barrage of 'self-loathing philosophy nerd' humor. Meta algorithm seems to zone in on one thing you might have responded to once and only show you that thing.

[@michaeln2768]

this conversation is a part of an emerging collective consciousness that is recognizing and rejecting the deliberate destruction of beauty in the world. there will be a revolution.

[@Pegarexucorn]

And we'll be in the same position in another century. Putin needs to just nuke this species to oblivion already

[@satisfiedconsumer649]

Yeah and then we can all get jobs where we cut green peppers for 4 hours a day and make 2000 dollars a week

[@MeatCatCheesyBlaster]

I think it's just some chuds nerd raging but ok

[@Vid_Master]

society is collapsing right now because of late stage capitalism

[@jslaserman]

It’s capitalism and short term profit incentive

[@meltedjax3619]

Sam literally not even joking having a childs temper tantrum up to this point was absolutely hilarious, this whole video is just an emotional dump for sam

[@budget-88]

⌚ Evŕopa the last battle

[@Lithuania8634]

​@@budget-88jejjin

[@johnshilacky2728]

Almost seems roid-y to me

[@graham8624]

he's been doin this bit for 15 years lol@@johnshilacky2728

[@cuve_ae]

Nah the On my way! destroys the chances of getting some 🐱

[@liamgallagherrr]

This went from Sam spazzing out kicking TVs to a serious intellectual debate on the purposefulness or incompetence of modern engineering real quick..my take away from this chat is Charles is a keen thinker

[@sorenjunkers3834]

charls is the guy with the lowest iq in the room and that says a lot

[@loremipsum2408]

Charls thinks more abstractly than most - they really have great chemistry as a trio, so glad to see them all together again. If you haven't seen it, you should check out the old Sam and Charls chats, smokin pipes/cigars and droppin facts.

[@_marlene]

" derp frustrating design is deliberate top down psy warfare. I have schizophrenia "

[@kekistanimememan170]

@@_marlene zersetzung has never been practiced ever by a state in human history.

[@jackslepowron5905]

​@@_marlenethats too bad hope you get help

[@morrisalanisette9067]

the chemistry of these 3 is just so good. 2 minutes in, and sam losing his mind, Charls quips like "Ohhh so it's got a little bit of a flair" and "Seems like an oversight that's pretty significant". lmao

[@SilverKen15]

Charls knows nothing matters and it's so funny when sam forgets this. Charls is his little reminder that the bit is going NOWHERE fast lol

[@davenoelperkins]

Charles is the worst I have never understood why he sits in on any of this.

[@morrisalanisette9067]

@@davenoelperkins mb cuz hes the 3rd member of MDE?

[@stoptrackingourdata8158]

I've always wondered why we went from having actual buttons that gave you real feedback and were easy to type with on phones to a touchscreen keyboard that never spells a single word correctly and I can cover up with both of my thumbs. Ships ducked up!

[@THESLlCK]

I hate the keyboard

[@ScottyLaPlata]

So ducked

[@budget.88]

⌚️ Európa the last battle

[@michaelmoonlight4484]

I remember having a phone with a touchscreen and a slide-out keyboard. I wish that design would come back.

[@summ.3433]

On my way!

[@b9bby]

Everyone flows so great and Charls just drops bombs. He was dearly missed. Thank god they squashed the beef

[@meltedjax3619]

I agree especially given the context can you imagine if charls never made it to mde2 over the petty reason they “fell out”

[@MarioSpeedWagon]

Is that why Sam rarely looks his way and acknowledges what he's saying here?

[@HiGlowie]

@@MarioSpeedWagonyea, there’s still tension. Sam seems like the type to hold a grudge for decades.

[@damienfinnegan8272]

what happened with charles?

[@justrandomguy5010]

For real though, it feels like every programmer and engineer became a useless monkey. All the apps are freezing, have shit UX, consume tons of space and RAM.

[@utubepooh14]

Unwiped hands now dominate the programming space. Cheap labor and just barely competent enough to get the job done.

[@BronzeAgePepper]

the "evil hidden swastika" redpill in the redacted WP bumpers have stuck with me, including the one talking about the "code diaper" that every major tech company must now wear because they insist on hiring more latrine-challenged curry-sloppers and bluehaired pronoun-users than people who can program.

[@tongpoo8985]

​@@utubepooh14and then you have to get wiped hands programmers anyway to come untangle everything when it inevitably breaks

[@dabqu]

incompetent management with a culture of software engineers prioritizing compensation (switching companies every year, misrepresenting skill for promotions) over solving problems well. Pride and jealousy also gets in the way, if you propose that someone else's work has problems you get shunned. I'm one of the only software engineers where I work that actually cares about the work we do. tons of useless meetings, having to collaborate with people who don't care but still want credit, (if working at google/microsoft/apple etc) the knowledge that the work you're doing actively makes the lives of customers worse, makes us useless monkeys. but I'd recon that's in every field these days

[@steviechampagne]

3rd world people create 3rd world results. There’s a reason why the West has been the best for 2000 years

[@qwerty52676]

Technology peaked in the late 90s. After that everything became invasive to get our personal information, tracking us, and requiring a subscription instead of having ownership of anything

[@ArtificialVik]

dude i'm so glad im not the only one that feels incomprehensible rage at omw being autocorrected to "On my way!". I even read it with that same voice in my head.

[@borntopwnyou]

Wild Vik spotted

[@warracer03]

Im really happy Charls is back , that guy is a legend

[@budget-88]

⌚ Evŕopa the last battle

[@detectivebloor4011]

Mirth for everyone

[@way2tehdawn]

I can explain this from my time in the corporate hellscape. Basically every manager has to go to the controlling officer and show what it is their department has been doing, mostly the department is just doing what needs to be done and is in no need of innovation but the managers have to “impress” the controlling officers. This means getting your workers to make random, needless changes to what they are doing. I got my job as fleet manager for the company my job was to get cars serviced, buy and sell cars, insurance and all that stuff. Within a couple weeks I had it on lock, I was taught all the contacts, the discounts and the companies we use. It was great I had a great relationship with all the outside contractors but my boss is like “Mike I need you to get us some better deals” so I’m spending god knows how much time pissing off insurers, pissing off dealership owners and whoever to try and I think the savings in the end were in the 100’s of dollars because we had a sweet set-up. In my opinion it was totally needless and people complained about the new trucks because everyone had gotten used to the old models which were ideal for the kind of outdoor work the other employees were doing. I ended up doing different things in that company but always the same thing, when the boss was up for review I knew I’d have to do some bullshit.

[@MinorityRespecter88]

A lot of refinement culture comes from entire departments of people in roles for things like "Usability" where they're being paid to improve products and software but they're often just making busywork, fixing things that aren't broken just to justify their roles. That's why so many updates ruin apps like KZbin

[@justanaverageguy912]

but where else would we get our infinite growth from?

[@turborunner7859]

Not really, I've studied usability, and refinement culture with flatism actually makes it worse often by making buttons unknown to fit their awful subjective "aesthetic."

[@MinorityRespecter88]

Hence why I said they fix things that aren't broken to give themselves busywork....@@turborunner7859

[@TheZUCCessor]

„Make-up on a fat girl“ was ferociously accurate 💀

[@frydemwingz]

this also drives me insane, and everyone around me seemingly doesnt share my frustration that phones have gotten WORSE. I had a lil LG phone until about 4 years ago that was the pinnacle of smartphones. It had Gorilla glass. Whatever happened to that?? I drove away with that phone on the roof of my car, I saw it smack the ground in my rearview, I just picked it up and it was fine. You cant do that shit with any phone now. It was awesome. Then the FEDS installed the update thing that made it run like shit and it's now unusable. they brick those phones because they want you to get the newer shittier ones. We are going to have barely functioning "AI" on our barely functional shitphones and everything will just kinda work sometimes. I'm furious that things arent just in shambles and they wont be for the rest of our lives. It's just going to get worse, and social media e-cummy points will decide if you get a promotion or not and it will just BARELY kinda work for some people, sometimes. I can barely even use navigation on my phone, it's less functional that the dash mounted Garmin I had in my car 12 years ago.

[@luke2806]

the phone manufacturers have figured out this area of planned obsolescence where if the phone has a few little annoying things like this so people will get the new phone more often in hopes of a patch that never really comes. its exactly like gambling. you get more dopamine from the small losses over time its total mind manipulation..

[@EcchiVwV]

2010-13 was like peak smartphone design. The smaller size of them and the fact they weren't razor thin meant they fit in the palm of your hand perfectly. Also, the skeuomorphic icons felt more human than the flat, minimalist icons that came after them. Even just the factory wallpapers that phones came with back then were more warm and welcoming. Most people probably barely even remember what phones were like back then because they buy a new one every year or two and throw away their previous one. They don't hold onto their phones for a long time like I do.

[@John_on_the_mountain]

@@EcchiVwVthe Iphone 6 was the best phone i ever had

[@TurtleChad1]

If you ever feel bad about yourself just remember you aren't an Apple fan.

[@uziclip9387]

I have an iPhone from 4 years ago, probably gonna make it last a few more years. I hate how people upgrade to the new iPhone just because something miniscule changes and they HAVE to HAVE it because they think it’s a status symbol. 🤦‍♂️

[@jacobesterson]

Man why do you watch everything that I do turtle bro.

[@voiceofreason2674]

As totally messed up as it is, in the white collar world, having an iphone is important. If somebody doesn't have iphone that means there's something wrong with them. Send a green text , you're not getting that contract. The only worse thing to be caught holding than an Android, is a Pepsi product. Like if you ever see somebody drinking a Pepsi it's a massive red flag that this person is not trustworthy or competent

[@suwooshi]

I 🏳️‍⚧️❤️ Apple I buy all their products!!

[@superultrasomethings]

my only sense of redemption

[@VanInhalin]

this has to do with corporatization and multinationalism. Beer branding and styles have never been nuttier because its a bunch of small producers. Food is over the top because of small hipster places and food trucks. Ikea is basic and bland compared to smaller furniture makers. Everything has been bought up and merged then run through the bean counters to shave a penny or two. Places like Applebees, Red Lobster, Olive Garden where never great or very good, but now they're basically serving microwave dinners.

[@AlexG-xl1cc]

I went to Mr Sub for the first time and they made me a sandwich and then put it in the microwave infront of me and fucking ruined it. Soggy ass bread for warm meat. who the fuck microwaves a sandwich. 10$. I was astounded.

[@wilproK]

Even Applebee's got shittier. It was at least decent 10 years ago to a teenager's palette.

[@FentyCola559]

@@wilproKApplebees all you can eat wings is pretty good tho I won’t eat anything else from there tho

[@spitfire3311]

(((Multinationalism)))

[@theilluminatimember8896]

I'm a web developer and my boss really cares more about the look of his applications than their functionality. This video this video opened my eyes for my personal projects as I realize I shouldn't waste too much time on making it look fancy.

[@theilluminatimember8896]

@johnmishell234 yeah but thats the thing, the boss cares more about those

[@GlassJ0e]

😂😂. I was told for months that the new update was going to be the tits…users are going to freak. This was the CEO. He fucking reskinned the product while people were biting the heads off support because we were buried in bugs including failures to log in. If he handed the decision making over to literally anybody else we’d have been taking steps forward. One egomaniac obsessed with pipe dream visions of 10x growth won’t take a 100% improvement on user experience if it gets in the way of looking like a finished product.

[@theilluminatimember8896]

@@GlassJ0e over here an idea gets pooped out, we talk about it, and with no planning whatsoever we go work on it. No long term planning! Which caused many issues already, but it's a cycle. I try to break out of it by openly speaking out about the consequences if we do it in a certain way, but get ignored. They'd hear me out but don't listen. Many times I'm right, I get to say "I told you so" a lot. But anyway, I'm getting payed AND they rely on me since I code in Vue and no one has any idea on how it works because their too lazy to read documentation. Sorry for the random rant, YT comments be therapy sometimes 😂

[@NettiNettinet]

Form is a function

[@jacobbunea3131]

Sounds like Xbox and their trash ass app 🙄

[@camillosteuss]

Love this man... As a machinist, i completely agree with him... Shit was more primitive back in the day, but it did what it was meant to do and what you required it to, along with being durable and long lasting, not just that, but things were serviceable... Love you Hyde, you are a gift to mankind... From crude humor to just 100% spitting facts...

[@claytonno2571]

I've came to the conclusion at least for vehicles. Is that while old vehicles were easy to work on, they required constant adjustment to keep running. Modern vehicles last longer without adjustment but, when they fall, they plummet. Cost vs time is how it appears to me

[@camillosteuss]

@@claytonno2571 Precisely... You get a modern car, its ``guaranteed`` to last for 5 years of clean running, then maybe another 5, so 10 in total and its junk, so a 50k$ cca for 10 years of use, where old cars were made to be inherited by your grandkids, and sure, while they took more care and maintenance, they were quite easy and cheap to maintain and if something went wrong, you could take the car to the nearest shop and have it fixed for like 200-1000$ for whatever went wrong... Today, you bump the headlight or taillight, cracking the ``glass`` and you get moisture in the module, it spikes the voltage or shorts the circuit, brings down another 5 modules, resulting in 1000$ for the damn lamp, plus additional 1000$ per module, and you are lucky if it can even be traced and successfully repaired even at that cost... Old lamp got cracked, you changed the glass for like 50$ and the bulb for 5$ and that was it... A bump on the taillight would not cause your car to go into service mode due to system linking and progressive cancer like spreading of failures until a damn lamp failure causes your engine to not crank over... Fuck this trend... When i spend 10k, let alone 50k$, i expect a 100 years of service life, not 5 or 10... Sure, old cars were not as crash safe, but hell, i will rather drive a w123 mercedes from 1978 when it peaked in quality and risk going out in a blaze of fire if i manage to fuck up, or have a reliable car that is older than me by like 1.5times and which will still outlast me and the next generation if just taken care of... All the best and kindest regards!

[@claytonno2571]

@@camillosteuss Agreed, well said.

[@chrispeterson5932]

Along with the dumbing down of shit. Now theres one machinist/programmer in a cell and 15 "operators," and nobody makes shit for a decent wage there.

[@camillosteuss]

@@chrispeterson5932 Yeah, back in the day, it was one machine, one damn skilled dude or a lady... Sure, a machinist can be skilled and use different machines, but as a single person, its one man - one machine... To have proper stuff made, you had to have had a near master level operator who both knew how to operate a machine, how to do math, make their own tools to actually best suit the operations, know a lot about general design and so on... You could not have made 1000 parts a day with barely adequate tolerances, you could have made one or a few parts a day, and at that rate, parts had to be masterfully done to justify the price of them, and not just that, but to cover the price of the master operator`s work, machine wear, consumables, materials, design department, quality control, dedicated rooms for each step in the process, almost a dozen of specialists in their own fields to come up with the design, calculate optimal material and tolerances and geometries, check the alloy, work the machines, inspect the finished part and its fit, inspect the finished part specimen of the batch for durability and all other factors before you actually offer it as a product... Now you have schmucks who cant sharpen a drill by hand or file a decent flat onto a round bar, who are ``operating`` dozens of machines to produce mediocre parts just to have the shit at least fit the description of a ``finished part`` when inspected by eye, from a meter afar... Fucking shit, i bought oem bearings for cars i worked on, which were more fucked up and crunchy than 15 year old worn out bearings that i needed to replace... LIke what the fuck? Even when automatic lathes and such were made, they sure, could batch up 1000s of parts like screws and shit, but they still took a master operator to make sure shit ran smooth, as nothing is as costly as an error on a self motivated machine... Much like with fucking up on modern cnc... Idiots having spindles hard crash into whatever and such, causing literally tens of thousands bucks in damage... At least on proper(high quality) machines... But cnc error is a programming error, not the operator`s fault, who just mashed the run button after uploading the programming into the console...

[@Cesification999]

The omw “On my way!” one is real af

[@DereliqueMahBAWLS]

I 100% relate to Sam’s rage over the somehow broken autocorrect on iPhones OS. It’s must be intentional because it is an easy fix but has been an issue for a decade UPDATE: 8/28 Sam’s rant did not fall on deaf ears. In the new IoS update, I’m now allowed to type “fucking”, along with auto-correct not changing the words I type correctly. However, in classic Apple fashion, now it’s been autocorrecting and changing words that I type correctly into grammatically incorrect hogwash with words that weren’t an issue before. Yay! 😑

[@squidvis]

Android is the same way, but what's wild is that it USED to be really good and then they fked it all to hell. I know for a fact they're doing this on purpose...

[@JB-qt3wo]

Rim cook 👨‍🍳

[@bahshas]

@@squidvis they are doing this so that you have a mental breakdown. do not go crazy thats exactly what they want. release yourself from worry, seek enlightenment, reach samsara.

[@Elgreasyburrito650]

@@squidvis even the worst androids I've had remembers my swear words even in Spanish

[@aygwm]

Do not mistake incompetence for malice...

[@gerard6038]

The worst part is that since everything sucks so badly now i dont want to work.

[@colors6229]

I personally despise touch screens in general. For everything, 90% of the time. I also agree with Charles it's partially intentional, sure it's frustrating but it's also potentially dangerous if you were fumbling with a shitty touch screen in an emergency

[@henrylicious]

Agree totally. I'm a production cnc operator. We have a couple of cnc lathes at the shop I work at. They have mostly touchscreens. It's a pita when you have to stop the machine mid cut and the fucking screen save is on and you have to essentially finger fuck the screen so you can get it to turn back on so you can reset it.

[@audie-cashstack-uk4881]

​​@@henryliciousthe old simple fanuc ones are god tire

[@michaellk2254]

This is actually insanely accurate. My phone keeps changing words randomly and jumping to different parts of the sentence for absolutely no reason

[@user-dj6mj5ck6s]

The first 3 minutes is basically me when I have to help someone scan a document using a shitty HP "printer" without creating an HP account

[@evanknight3629]

I used to set up all the equipment for office buildings and get everything working for opening day and even after setting up countless HP printers they still make me want to rip my hair out

[@AnthonyPompa]

I keep the "On my way!" thing on as a reminder to never get too happy.

[@sheepthief2785]

The last text the rabbi ever received was from Mr. Hyde: "On my way!"

[@kbjdesign]

I have been a graphic designer for 5 years and in even in that short time the shift from wanting unique detailed or characterful design is gone, and clients just want the quickest route to a "clean" minimal outcome. it all comes down to cost, and entities wanting to save their margins for them selves. Cost of hours, materials, marketing. A grey building that you can sell for the same price as a detailed build makes far more money because what you save. You just have to convince the people they want the grey concrete house.

[@mikeb6085]

Luxury apartments and condos in freshly gentrified neighborhoods have some of the tackiest looking exteriors, it's like the design equivalent of a mall Hollister storefront or something

[@RykrXky]

That ending, the BMW anti theft that just destroys your whole life, I haven’t crying belly laughed that hard in years 😂

[@lamesingram5280]

Same. One of the funniest things I’ve heard probably ever. “I wish I could rape a corpse. Anyways bye”

[@wimb0135]

This hits a note with me and I’m sure with other people that we’re all thinking, but haven’t been able to articulate in the way they did in 18 minutes. The “simplification” of everything from stores, cars, phones, and software is really depressing. AI is also being forced on us, and lots of times it’s “confidently wrong”, it gives an answer in text, which has no weight, cadence, or tone, so you read it as fact and it’s 100% wrong. Idk, but this video seems like it should have 20+ million views.

[@chazizphat]

you can see charls literally calculating if he should laugh or not at sams physical rage just incase he cops a beating too

[@Eargesplitten-Loudenboomer]

I remember doing 110+ in my VR6 multiple times with flawless swipe to text when I was a senior in high school, 2012. I thought everything could only get better from there, swipe barely works, trying to highlight text is 9 attempts before I have to give up and type the rest. I have to change my Google search 5 or 6 times because Google gives me a page and a half of news articles and says "Oops! There's not many results :3"

[@CommanderTycho]

Google is getting useless. I think it’s to push AI/Personal Assistants

[@MikeMarlowe-ym3zy]

When did Charls come back? This is great! Happy for you guys

[@gordtron]

when they shot World Peace 2. MDE is on its way!

[@ellgro]

They made up back around February

[@MikeMarlowe-ym3zy]

@@ellgro damn where have I been

[@Olizowshuffle]

​@@MikeMarlowe-ym3zy They already shot wp2, its in the editing stage, they released a small teaser as well

[@mikewilkens1950]

The reason why everything sucks is metrics-driven optimization. When you optimize for one thing, that one thing goes up, and every other attribute of the product tends to go down. Not necessarily down, but tends to go down. Design a Ferrari and optimize for performance. A large trunk or high ground clearance is not naturally going to fall out of that process. Optimize tomatoes for shelf life: nutrition and taste aren't going to improve by accident. Optimize a movie for lesbian feelings, and you get the Ghostbusters remake. The way out of this is explicitly to list all the metrics you care about, not just the shiny ones. If you can keep all the important metrics in view, you can save them from deteriorating. That won't work for the feelings people, because they don't care about anyone else except themselves. But it works for many, many businesses who are overlooking key metrics that they actually do care about, and are not including in their process.

[@benderbear762]

I think the motive behind the ugly architecture comes down to cost efficiency. Charles is right to say it is a war on beauty but the boots on the ground perspective is costs.

[@bahshas]

some of the modern art buildings are some of the most expensive architecture ever made. there are other reasons why it is everywhere. - the knose knowles

[@isomilo]

it's not cheap, nor it is efficient to build shit that is hideous and can be swayed by gust of wind, there are immense maintenance costs down the line that nobody pays and in the end shit is just bulldozed, the main issue is that real estate prices are so horrendous that investing in and developing greatly designed and advanced building projects cannot be justified by marking up the price for renters(they are dead broke).

[@Greg-n]

Manzoni's shit in a can sells for triple figures and a pollock sells for hundreds of millions. This isn't about cost efficiency. Darker forces are at play.

[@poon_don]

Thank you Charles, I was just semi-spazzing out about this when meeting my dad for lunch the other day, how even architecture all looks like copy-paste dogshit now and it feels intentional. Moving from a city filled with buildings with history back to my hometown, where nearly everything was built within the last two or three decades and is identically soulless, has had an objectively demoralizing effect on my psyche. I'd pay a good few hours wages just to be in the presence of another centuries old cathedral right now. My phone is alao constantly trying to infiltrate everything i write with goofball emojis. I hate it here.

[@MeanBeanComedy]

It's called Cobb's Law: All forms of technology will be "innovated" past the point of usefulness.

[@ThePressureKing]

the only way to fight back against minimalism is to make stuff that doesnt look minimalistic, look at web design and pretty much any design trend from the 2000s - 10s and get inspired, and soon enough minimalism will finally die

[@MrHowardMoon]

I literally had this "on my way!" bullshit happen the other day and I had to message my friend after and say "Ignore the BS !, Apple are dicks" and he immediately said "Ye, happened to me last week."

[@budget-88]

⌚ Evŕopa the last battle

[@grasshopper1153]

as a wage slave programmer, i will explain it to you. corporations have no clue how to manage knowledge workers like programmers. they think they have to keep the programmers busy all the time, so they have the programmers "fix" software that does not need to be fixed to look like they are being productive. it's like a stupid human thing. AI would never do the crap that humans force other humans to do for impressions or winning a boss' favor. you will literally lose brain cells if you work for a big corporation because of bad micro managers.

[@fatmunch6318]

World peace two is gonna be a banger

[@Pm0n3y]

Engineer's Dilemma is like the Maytag man in the commercial, if you design a product is perfect that needs no further refinement or updates or repairs then the engineers are done and out of a job but if they build flaws they stay employed but produce poor quality on purpose.

[@Cellocurve]

~8:20 I always thought 20th and 19th century product labels were more aesthetically appealing. It looks better organized in the pantry/cabinet and is a nicer look to come home too. Also clearer/easier to read in some cases.

[@presidentmorsi4677]

"a nice look to come home to". I fw that sentiment. Now we go home to a pantry of overly minimal labels that make us feel so "cool" for owning them. Like it's supposed to be edgy or something. Why does my oatmeal need to be this way :'(

[@JamesJackson-he2fs]

The primary reason for things becoming worse is companies are not interested in making the best thing, that is not sustainable in a monetary system, to make it cheap, and be the first to market are the prime drivers of commerce now. More money is spent on advertising than the product itself! That is the way now. It won’t last forever it is in the process of all falling down, to make room for something better.

[@weeb3277]

7:21 Chris knows what we actually want to look at.

[@andrewdopple6946]

I can only pray that i will one day have a conversation like this with sam hyde and his friends or people like them. Its so refreshing to see people talk about the same things i talk about, without being met with uncomfortable chucking or shrugging.

[@zackmatulis4094]

I remember when you could play a KZbin video, turn off your screen and listen without burning through your battery life or constantly pressing shit while the phone in your pocket. One day that was gone then years later it came back as a paid feature for KZbin premium... I remember having the Google G1 when it was just released and now I never buy anything more expensive than the lowest end Galaxy for $60. I'm not spending a grand on some piece of shit that's spying on me that I'll inevitably drop and break within a year...

[@Jack_Pepsi]

KZbin revanced gang

[@Rick_Sanchez_Jr.]

The iPhone started going downhill after the 8 Plus. That was the last good iPhone they made tbh. After that it was all focused on storing and selling your facial recognition data with their "innovative" Faceid

[@thomasbgage]

Never getting rid of my 8 plus

[@buddyboy330]

Still rockin the 8 plus to this day. Almost cried when I found out they’re gonna start phasing it out of updates. I like my home button

[@SYNTHSTRUMENTALS]

@@buddyboy330 The updates are just making your old phone slower, anyway.

[@YourAverageExJunkie]

8+ was fuckin dirt

[@ashgonza92]

The fact that you have experience with iPhones

[@xerxes9929]

1:13 The “on my way!” Thing alone makes me want to scream and change to android😂😂I’ve never related to Sam more in my life than that moment

[@rollerr]

I thought I was crazy thinking that swiping has gotten worse

[@californiavirus3566]

u r not alone

[@lawngoat933]

I might be the only one left in the world who misses T9 texting. I’m able to do it without looking and I actually did do that while driving. Having the bump on the 5 to be the home key allowing you to access the alphabet/qwerty keyboard via essentially 10 buttons was incredible.

[@AWDfreak]

I feel ya. I resisted switching to smartphones primarily due to the lack of rugged options (which is not as bad of an issue these days). But I also preferred having physical buttons over a touchscreen. With physical buttons, it's easier for me to type and perform other tasks. With a touchscreen? I have to perform corrections. I had gotten to the same point that my t9 was so personalized to me, I could write entire sentences without ever looking at the screen.

[@lordgoogoo69]

Same problem. Every time I try to offer my wife a duck as a gift she thinks I want to smash because of autocorrect. but I really don’t I just love giving out ducks and other birds as presents when I make a mistake or a peace offering or just a corky gift and I’m gay too

[@a1butcher]

On my way!

[@budget.88]

We defeated the wrong enemy

[@HavanaBobChannel]

​@@budget.88drink a shot when you see mixracial couple in commercial

[@NovemXI]

I want to throw my duck into you

[@budget.88]

We defeated the wrong enemy@@HavanaBobChannel

[@LigmusCrotum]

These are some of the distal problems I have seen in software: * Not caring about runtime performance enough, sometimes not at all (writing performant code is hard) * Increasing and unjustified system complexity (overuse of "frameworks", etc) * Anti-meritocratic hiring practices * Anti-meritocratic corporate culture * Overhiring (software shouldn't require too many people by the nature of what it is, few people are genuinely good at it anyway)

[@GlassJ0e]

Your bullets hit almost everything I’ve seen from the management side. I had engineers in Eastern Europe and Pakistan that could diagnose and solve issues in an hour or less. When they get yelled at for doing it before some donkey in a tie approves it…that initiative is stomped out real quick. So I would add *Stripping your team of autonomy and initiative. You wind up with people waiting to be tasked to polish what they see as a turd they aren’t allowed to fix.

[@MagnusVictor2015]

My experience from the mechanical/robotics engineering side is that few engineers in the workplace have ever tried to *use* their product in non-lab situations. It leads to stuff like access panels where you have to wedge your fingernails into the crack to lever it open (and cut your fingers, half the time), mounting screws positioned so that you need a 50cm-long screwdriver to reach them for routine maintenance, battery packs where you have to hold a 200lb robot in the air to reach underneath it to change batteries, etc. I suspect that a similar problem is in software: "*Separating design, manufacturing, and maintenance."

[@voiceofreason2674]

They tore down the McDonalds on Louisiana and St Charles Avenue in new Orleans. It's worth googling to see how beautiful it looked when it was new.

[@Moneyman-33]

Needed that space for another blm statue bro

[@off6848]

The two story one?

[@alpharoo2581]

They tore the hippodrome down

[@voiceofreason2674]

@@off6848 it was two stories and it had landscaping where you parked in shade the whole time. It was McDonald's respecting the fact that they were in a billionaire neighborhood. They replaced it with a minimalist methodone clinic

[@poika22]

If you google that address, you'll find design concept of the glass box that will replace it, and chatGPT written "design blogs" praising the "long needed upgrade".

[@AiAngel]

I'm SO SATISFIED he shares my SEETHING FURY for "OMW".

[@smiley48th65]

The typing while driving 90 is so true and I thought it was just me getting older lmao

[@Gaming_Legend2]

tbh about refining culture, i do like it when the thing that gets the refinement manages to mix properly both old and new into the mix, with suddle changes like changing the font a bit to make it look more balanced and stuff like that. BUT, a big but at that, this is what allows to change stuff for the worse, its like if someone throws trash on a specific part of the street, eventually that will become a dumpster full of trash because everyone else will do so too. Also, related to the busywork stuff, shit like windows has many issues, issues and stuff that has been carried over from legit MSDOS to Windows 11, but mainly stuff from 95, vista and 7. There is a clear need to update and change stuff really deep into the operative system to properly make the visual system actually work as a system, every windows iteration carries something from the previous one that they refuse to update along the way, if you going to do busywork might aswell redo the whole thing. Related to the dumpster stuff, when that happens there is a clear need to normalize everything for real this time and real work has to be done when shit like Windows 11 or 10 happen.

[@zaadbaad541]

We need cars that sprays acid if you hit someone.

[@quinnw4398]

I accidentally typed bigger the other day and android properly corrected it for me

[@iamgubbler95]

I've been convinced for a while now that tech has been getting increasingly more annoying to make me (and specifically me) SNAP

[@TheBraltProject]

Finally seeing these three together again is a blessing for me

[@bug______]

the "on my way!" shit is so true it sounds so fucking gay lmao

[@AnthonyPompa]

I believe this is the result of two things: Laziness and rushing. There's wayy too many oversights these days due to markets being so flooded.

[@efefefj]

Or it's all on purpose

[@iswearimblack]

wow i’m really impressed honest to god i’m blown away this is truly fantastic i’m just sitting shocked in awe this is the kind of stuff i’ve been looking all over for and here it is thank you so much honestly you don’t understand i’m going to break my femur in a vice at my work

[@coconutoil1614]

Bruh

[@demystify1567]

Every man needs his vice.

[@staples138]

What 12 bucks a month does to a mothafucka

[@morrisalanisette9067]

its not even the full episode

[@PatsRule1224]

whenever i type too fast and transpose the a and the u in "because", the spellcheck gives me three possible corrections "became", "bemuse" and "decease" it just makes me want to have a nice private and calm conversation with an indian coder

[@unevencompromise]

Charles is one hell of a drug

[@ThyCorylus]

They know people want higher spec cameras on their phones, hence the push towards flagship. Check out the specs, the flagship models usually have one extra optical zoom but the sensor and megapixels are either identical or the sensor will be the "+" variant. I just presume its an artificial distinction, with software ultimately determining image quality based upon pricepoint.

[@CuttinInIdaho]

Engineers go straight from school to work without living in the world we live in. They don't understand all use cases and the ways in which their designs will fail and break. They take book knowledge and make products to further the book knowledge repository of sterile concepts and sterile life. It is almost like everything is hyper focused for a narrow set of operations that if deviated from are catastrophic fails.

[@roleat]

Lack of artistic skill in design process led to all the UI changes. Going to touchscreen was also cheaper.

[@weezlewubs]

Great point about the giant rims on cars. They are an eyesore and a kitsch detractor from the body design. If you cant reinvent the wheel, do something silly.

[@ShallaBal82]

Years ago when there was all this upset about emojis not being diverse enough and there not being enough options, I speculated that eventually we'll revert back to hieroglyphics so that everyone has a universal language. The oversimplification of design and use of images rather than words seems intent on making multiculturalism function with less effort on the part of the newcomer to a Western country; we see it as dumbing down, someone who can't speak our language sees it as simplified and welcoming to their language barrier because they don't have to do any work to learn our language.

[@diabeticmonkey]

VW should really throw everyone for a loop and go back to their original logo

[@Kevin.A.S]

I love these three together! This should be regular from now on...

[@CR055FIRE]

It's just a communist nihilist design philosophy (i.e. resentment of white European culture and beauty), mixed with a capitalist addiction to succeed and be valuable. In other words, modern design is simply the maximization of the best parts of the communist aesthetic, since designers hate beauty, but are still motivated to be successful, sell and make money.

[@Tyuiiiizxvb]

WTF are you talking about???

[@CR055FIRE]

@@Tyuiiiizxvb I'm sorry, I can't explain it any simpler.

[@bk2524]

The Engineers Dilemma explains why government only grows and doesnt get smaller. Politicians have to do more and more and more to appear as though they are doing their job

[@gianni_schicchi]

I love Sam, but the M1/M2 chips are amazing and were a huge slap in the face to AMD and Intel. They have innovated since Jobs.

[@thydunk8182]

the problem else is that apples catalog has little to nothing else that has. The only reason the m1/2 chipset came out is because they were forced to by other companies, not inherently made. This is bolstered by the fact that their most competitive market is the computer.

[@gianni_schicchi]

@@thydunk8182their engineering forethought helped with that agility though. .app multi platform binaries seemed like bloat until it helped, twice. The design is stagnant but the developer libraries have grown in many useful ways. The next iOS/macos supposedly focuses on features and new ux

[@supperhey]

The Fountainhead encapsulates this perfectly, and it was published 8 decades ago

[@CommanderTycho]

Maybe it’s time for a new explosion of artistic renaissance and we should look back at what people used to value and use it to inspire us just to make awesome stuff. People just want cheap stuff now while working very little-all while hating their jobs. Maybe we should just make stuff we want and do stuff we want.

[@projectObject247]

Big and boring part of why cars all look so flat nowadays is safety regs. Passenger safety regs add a lot of bulk to the cabin and pedestrian safety regs make for almost standardised front of the car.

[@kardrasa]

Damn bro dats crazy... It's like im listening to a Rogan podcast

[@AngusBeef0]

Along the lines of Tucker Carlson saying Govt buildings becoming temporary block, drop ceiling, fluro tube buildings instead of architectural delights

[@TheKlappers]

Being Australian I used to start my emails with Gday & apple used to change it to Gay

[@eydk556]

Forget features. See the little three dots for the menus? Yeah click on those, but if you miss it you lose the screen.

[@theslavicharuspex]

"we're just making it zippy" fucking sent me

[@PresidentEvil]

autocorrect? the setting that everyone turns off in the first 10 seconds of getting their iPhone? 😂

[@MyCatsHeadBlewUp]

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