Looks like I’m spoiled for choice. Temu has exactly the same for 11.29. Not that I’d be purchasing from either place; it’s just another example of Amazon’s enshittification.

  • bridgeenjoyer@sh.itjust.works
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    You think normal people today go outside the 5 walled garden corpo sites?

    They dont.

    They are terrified of an html website. I dont have tech friends irl, so trust me. The real internet, the original non corpo net, is only for ultra nerds now.

    If you seriously think the internet is better now than 08 ish, well I dont agree.

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      If you seriously think the internet is better now than 08 ish, well I dont agree.

      I think it’s heavily predicated on what you’re using the Internet for. In the business world, we’ve improved system redundancy, backup/recovery, and transfer speeds by leaps and bounds.

      Back in 2008, I was in my car driving to Dallas to escape Hurricane Ike, with a trunk full of server hardware needed to keep our business running. Datacenter proliferation has fully eliminated the need to do anything like that again.

      We have significantly more high speed broadband. We have superior wireless connectivity. HTML5 is much better than it’s predecessors. We’ve modernized APIs and broadly adopted JSON for transmission. The hardware is so much better, from phones to routers to raspberry pis for self-hosting.

      I get you don’t like the current content of big Web 2.0 publishers. But you’re really missing the forest for a few big ugly trees