Thankfully the price of my YT free account is still only the cost of everything I’ve ever written in email or a web browser so all good 👍

Nonces and muzzies! Terrifying!

this is what pulp fiction was made for.

I really enjoyed hearing “enshittification” in the voice of Ian McKellen as Gandalf in my mind 👏👏

you live a couple blocks from me, don’t you?

Spot on. the placebo effect is powerful and very likely plays a role in both scenarios.

Often I have supposed really expensive cables improve things just because it was time to replace cables already, or the connection was janky to begin with because the budding audiophile is upgrading from bare wire connectors to banana plugs.