Happy to announce a bold new direction for the Auriali brand. With a bespoke new font, I’m ready to “Copy Something”.
Carmaker Jaguar looked at PayPal and said hold my beer because they’ve just dropped the strangest rebrand of the year by a mile (pun not intended). The new logo reads like JaGUar and removes what is known as the “Leaper” aka the Jaguar icon, relegating it to being on the cars themselves with a weird new design that looks like scan lines being placed on top. On top of all that, they released a new advert that contains no cars and rather models wearing brightly coloured clothes that you’d see at a pretentious fashion show. It is truly perplexing for a car brand that has been around for decades with such heritage to throw it all away. The chief creative officer of Jaguar Land Rover (parent company) said to reporters the team had “not been sniffing the white stuff — this is real”. This is a downgrade on every single level and I cannot fathom any logical reason for this kind of rebrand, its meant to be a transition to making only fully electric cars, but I’d argue it’d be more effective to build upon the existing well known brand than throw it all away to just come off as out of touch and generic. This looks like something I would’ve made back in SVE in like 2016 lmao.
I cannot be contained, I am now ranking Windows versions. Here are a few things to note:
I am only ranking versions of Windows that I’ve used for a good amount of time. I’ve rarely ever used Windows 95, 98, or any other MS-DOS version of Windows. Windows XP is a year older than me, so I mostly missed the era of Windows 9x and started from using computers from XP onwards.
I am not scoring down versions for limitations of the time period or things that have got worse with time. It’d be unfair to call Windows XP slow when it was fast for computers in the 2000s, but it is fair to call Vista unstable as that was a common issue for many people upgrading from XP to Vista at the time.
I will only give credit for new features or improvements that the OS itself made. It’d be fair to say that Windows 10 improved the start menu compared to what Windows 8 did, but it’d be unfair to credit Windows 7 for introducing the Aero UI design when in reality Vista did it first but didn’t get the credit due to computers of the time not being powerful enough to handle the translucency effects.
With all that said, here’s the list:
History's most recurring trope is that we repeat it again and again while failing to recognise it.
if there’s one thing we’ve learnt from history, it’s that we haven’t learnt anything from history
Updated my ranking of browsers, added Arc since I’ve now used it for a decent amount of time. A few notes:
I’m ranking them based on the Windows versions of each browser, I’ve tried them all on my current machine running Windows 11.
I’ve tried other niche browsers like Ungoogled Chromium, LibreWolf, Zen Browser, etc. However, I’m keeping it to the most “mainstream” browsers. I added Tor Browser since it’s less a Firefox fork but a uniquely set up browser for a specific use case.
I have more pros for my best browsers and more cons for my worst browsers but wanted to keep it to the biggest ones.
Okay that's it here's the list:
Warning: politics ahead.
Also, this is longer than 1500 characters and I don’t have beta access on this account, so you get this notes app style post instead.
