Thread by @page88

My lemon 2019
Mac is in the shop & I am using a loaner iPad, my least favorite of all devices.

I just spent 20 minutes digging around for the right combo of USBs, USB-cs, “lightning” thingamabob, and good old 2-pronged plug to get things into the wall.

Mediating among cables and cords and apps that represent competition among tech companies AND planned obsolescence is a huge waste of anyone’s executive brain.

I’ve also been trying to connect accounts from 2 different banks that viciously compete with each other.

Not only are the interfaces incompatible, but both banks have had security breaches & my pws are jacked. I had to change them b4 I could introduce one account to another.

And in working on the iPad I’ve had to download writing app Google Docs because it’s what I usually use. But my editor uses Word so I emailed her the article in the body of the email. When she sent it back in Word I had to download it in Pages, which I’ve never used.

ALL of these elements of software and hardware are in conflict with one another because of the cute dances of death among big corporations, esp tech companies.

Basically w/this illogical & inhumane bs animating companies, the cognitive burden of harmonizing everything falls to normal people as we navigate everything fr/self-checkout (Apple Pay? SNAP? Insert where?) to the lunatic interfaces of cars (Spotify & TikTok on the dashboard?).

In conclusion, there’s a surprise in the market that has crept up on our brains: a huge amount of executive, cognitive and even regularity work in corporate space now falls to our individual brains.

And instead of saying corporations are fucked up & we need greater regulation now, we say—or I do—*I* am fucked up because I can’t keep USB-c and Pages and HSBC and Apple nubs and Google docs and all the password hacks straight.

* regulatory