As for your community-idea: I’m the wrong one to advice anything.
And yeah, I prefer to speak to the right one to advice anything regarding my community-idea(s).
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Dyskolos@lemmy.zip 10 months ago
Short on time here, so I’ll just throw some things at you:
Don’t be technophobic. Our technological advancements are a beautiful wonder to marvel at. It’s what we usually do with it that’s questionable. And win11 isn’t that much worse than win11. Except the startmenu-changes. I hated it so much, I ended up coding my own startmenu 😔
As for paint, you might wanna give “gimp” a look. If that’s an overkill for your needs, try “paint.net”
That’s Microsoft. I’m a pro and have all their titles and certifications, but sometimes I just wanna punch them. Instead of adding just new features, they love to ban access to the old ones. Horrible design-decisions.
Just avoid the “home” versions. And maybe buy a cheap raspberry pi and install pihole there. The end of all ads, tracking and spying.
LibreOffice already was the best replacement for wordpad. No need to look back. One should never rely (or adapt to) ms-tools. They often just die.
For your aural pleasures, go check Mynoise.net You’ll love it. Even for free it’s totally beautiful and a labour-of-love.
As for your community-idea: I’m the wrong one to advice anything.
KonalaKoala@lemmy.world 10 months ago
KonalaKoala@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Don’t be technophobic. Our technological advancements are a beautiful wonder to marvel at. It’s what we usually do with it that’s questionable. And win11 isn’t that much worse than win11. Except the startmenu-changes. I hated it so much, I ended up coding my own startmenu 😔
I’m not exactly being technophobic here, I’m referring to technological advancements that I feel are very questionable while I look back at what technological wonders we used to have in the past, and wonder why they were depreciated and obsoleted instead of made better. I’m thinking of what we had that was analog vs digital. For one thing, we had some good old OSes such as Windows XP and I wonder why it wasn’t just updated to work with newer computer improvements and security patched against hackers. It feels like we could be at Windows XP SP8 going into Windows SP9 now at this time and age. And I did real that someone at Microsoft did said that Windows 10 would be the last version of Windows, but with Windows 11 being out now, makes you wonder wasn’t Windows 10 supposed to be the last version of Windows, what gives.
Also, it should be noted that at least two of my four computers that I have which have Windows 10 on them states “This PC doesn’t currently meet the minimum system requirements to run Windows 11” in Windows Updates, which I believe is due to their ridiculous system requirements.
Dyskolos@lemmy.zip 10 months ago
Well, there are some (good) reasons. From different perspectives:
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sometimes you’ll end up at your own restrictions from “back then”. Where you can’t fix or add anything but need to rebuild the foundation.
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a simple monetary reason. Just giving updates for free to people who bought a license 15yrs ago, is not a sustainable business-model.
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technological advancements you couldn’t predict. Like TPM and whatnot.
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simple marketing for clueless people. “I’ll better get the newest macos, windows still is at winXP” or the likes.
I’m not fan of it either. Win10->win11 wasn’t much of a change. Except things most people don’t care about (but need more modern hardware for) and the horribly nasty startmenu. For gamers there are some nice things, but those could’ve been a patch, like you say.
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cafeinux@infosec.pub 10 months ago
+1 to MyNoise.net. I use it everyday and it’s really the best website out there. So much that I’ve set up a monthly donation to the site owner.
KonalaKoala@lemmy.world 10 months ago
I have started checking that site out and it seems very good. I’m currently trying Primeval Forest, even though the water stream in it sounds more like a raging waterfall than a trickling water.
Dyskolos@lemmy.zip 10 months ago
Me too 😊 And there’s an app!
KonalaKoala@lemmy.world 10 months ago
It appears the app is only in the Google Play Store for anyone who is using an Android device, not in the Microsoft Store for those running Windows Something on their computer.
Dyskolos@lemmy.zip 10 months ago
Nah i think they didn’t do an MS-app. But on a desktop the website works fine, so there isn’t really a reason. If you absolutely need one, there surely are apps to containerize websites as an “app”.
Skua@kbin.social 10 months ago
I'm a huge fan of gimp and use it a lot, but it's not super friendly to someone not familiar with it and may be overkill for OP's purposes. Krita and paint.net might be more to their preference. But of course, the nice thing is that they're all free and you can just try them to see what you like!
KonalaKoala@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Yeah, I have not been in gimp yet and it may be overkill for my purposes.