MALLoC
Anyone who knows me for long enough has been on the receiving end of a Logan Rant. Many things both interest and annoy me. I'm constantly in awe of everything, including how bad things can be sometimes. Because I like to generally project positivity (well, try) I am quarantining here a series of unrelated complaints that aren't long enough to justify a post/page of their own. Sorry, and please do enjoy.
Cycling in these States United -
Moving through the world of cars, while not in a car, is a daily,
high-risk case study of the
bully's pulpit those more fluent -
macOS 27 - The global "no AI please" switch lasted for a single OS version (26) for a single year. Then it was gone, and my device was suddenly generating nonsense replies (that sound nothing like me) and summaries (of dumbass group texts with friends) after I explicitly opted out of all such trash. Then it was gone (macOS, that is). The push was finally hard enough to get me to commit to Asahi Linux and KDE, and wow, both have come such a long way since the last time I used them! I am delighted. My aging Air-variant laptop's battery life has the capability to last all day again, and my computer no longer feels sluggish. I still have vendor lock-in for photography (because it takes a giant company to have support of esoteric RAW files and support a photo organizer with powerful non-destructive editing) but hopefully the future will prove brighter in that regard.
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Unit pricing - The unit price of a good is the cost of that good per some unit measurement — usually weight, volume, or count. Many stores, like Target, do not display per-unit prices. This encourages deceptive packaging practices, where bigger-looking packages (tall and wide, which are less efficient with packaging materials) appear intuitively to be a "better deal" than more efficiently-packed goods (cylinders and spheres). Many stores in the US display the per-unit cost much smaller than the total cost, if they display it at all. Many other countries require retailers to display per-unit pricing.
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Planned obsolescence - The more time and effort I put into maintaining and repairing things, the more frustrated I am by the planned obsolescence which surrounds us. If unfamiliar, this is the practice of selling goods or services, knowing that an upgrade is already in the works, and those goods/services will be undesirable or unusable within a certain timeframe. An example, or subcategory, of this is fast fashion, where clothes are sold knowing that they will be outmoded in a few months or years.