If not money, what are the types of issue you face?

Pairing seems to be the primary issue. The old social technology we had to increase the amounts of intersexual cooperation have for various reasons been discarded, but they have not been replaced with anything.

I can’t remember the last time I paid using anything else in the UK. Occasionally a credit card if I need additional protection

This tool is claimed to be able to find and fix bugs.

I mean, yes - if your biggest external source of energy declares war, and your hitherto trusted defence partner goes rogue - it's going to have a chilling effect and the measures needed to address that will hit both the economy and the populous

Why would measures aiming to create more energy supply necessarily hit the economy and the populous?

Losing a chunk of your energy supply, while simultaneously having to build a bunch of new energy supply, will hit the economy.

Yes, losing hurts, but building new supply would necessarily hurt why (instead of being accretive)?

Because it will cost money, and that money has to come from somewhere.

If you have 300 froblets per month being shipped to you, and suddenly you have only 200 froblets arriving and you have to spend £5 billion building a froblet factory, then you're both going to be short on froblets and high on expenses at least until the factory is built.

And yes, in the long run you'll have built the factory, will be getting a safer supply of froblets, and everything will be sunshine and roses, but while you're building it all that's an extra expense that you have to find the money for.

Investment costs money but why would investments hurt? What hurts is the loss of supply.

The money is spent on something and comes (hopefully) with a positive RoI and NPV. And you could borrow to build to reduce own capital outlay.

I don't think there was a lot of new energy production was put into place, though.

RoI isn't instant. If it takes you 20 years to build as much supply as you need then you're spending money over that time to try and get back to where you were.

And spending money on one thing means you don't have it for something else. Even if you're borrowing, you can borrow less for other things, unless you want to break your credit score, which would also hurt.

Your first paragraph is describing the effect of the loss of supply, not the investment.

I don't think Europe was anywhere close to borrowing capacity, so plenty of scope there.

The odd thing is you certainly used to have book

Meanwhile 2016 is still working fine…. Until Rosetta support is dropped.

Perhaps the commenter would just like to lead a contented life without having to bother with all of that

Is it because everybody else is swapping between several different computers, and you need the synchronization?

.. and phones, and tablets. Yes

Well it did happen - and then unhappened when people noticed.

There have been plenty of cases like this over time too. Company makes controversial change. Company rolls it back after outrage. Company slowly shifts over time until they've restored what's essentially the original controversial change.

When a company tells you their intention by announcing a change, it's often a good idea to listen. Even if their PR department does some good cleanup work in the aftermath.

Yeah exactly. When a company announces some money making scheme and it gets backlash they don't think "oops that was a mistake we won't do that"; they think "oops that was a mistake - we'll have to do it in a way that gets less backlash".

Another recent example is GitHub charging for self-hosted CI. They backtracked, but they're still going to end up doing something. They kind of have to because of all the "get 10x cheaper actions runners by changing one line" people.

So what does it matter?

If they are going to make it not free, they can just remove it right before they make it not free.

If it was somehow a binding promise, then it doesn’t matter if they remove it or not, the promise was already made.

If it isn’t a binding promise, then it doesn’t matter if they remove it or not, the promise was not binding anyway.

I had checked as soon as I found out about the news the other day and it was there. I just checked on wayback machine and you're right, it was removed for some time. However, if they're willing to put back that claim immediately, I doubt that their intention was to drop the free plan anytime soon, but probably it was to incentivize people to use the paid plans. Enshittification must happen sooner or later afterall, but fortunately vaultwarden exists and the export feature is highly unlikely gonna be removed immediately as the free plan disappears, so people could just switch to a third-party or self-hosted backend as soon as that happens.

> Enshittification must happen sooner or later afterall

There are a fair amount of multi-hundred year old companies out there.

Any out there still doing what they originally were?

most of them seem to be falling into the "or later part"

Companies can enshittify without dying, ahem microslop. Bitwarden likely isn't large enough to survive though.

You're right, pardon my cynical remark. I'm just disillusioned by the promises of most tech companies

Pardon my tone, as well - the enshittification is exhausting.