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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The world is trying to log off U.S. tech⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Correct. And everyone needs to remember the actual problem, not the symptom. Its like leaving one social media platform for another then when it too goes to crap complaining. Oh how can this happen again!?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨'I'll believe it when I see it': Windows 11 users are cynical about Microsoft's promises to fix the OS and stop pushing AI⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  If you look at the foundations of the OS the pattern becomes clear. They release a concept of an OS, but its half baked and not implemented well. So they fix it and rebrand it, and that’s the “good” version. 95 became 98 ME became XP Vista became 7 10 became 10 - they broke pattern by wanting to stay in a perpetual 10 state and keep updating it (which is why it was around 10 years). 10 was not good when it launched and took years to fix it, essentially becoming its own replacement.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I tried out a handful of Lemmy apps and Thunder is what I used for most of it but then switched to Summit. There’s aspects I like about both and aspects I dislike about both, but they don’t have a bad UI.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨TikTokers are heading to UpScrolled following US takeover⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t really fault them when they don’t know there is an alternative. And the alternative isn’t clear cut and/or very good.

  I do fault them for when they think that the platform is the solution and don’t expect the same thing to happen.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨TikTok uninstalls are up 150% following U.S. joint venture⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I feel you on that. Even not being on xyz social trend of the day you still get exposed to the mentality of it by the people that are. To some extent that’s fine, but it can get old really quickly.

  I don’t want to doom scroll all day and night. I don’t want to socialize on media and follow people or have followers. Random people are not my entertainment. I don’t need my phone in my hand 24/7.

  My take is that I will live my life by my culture. If people see me be me and follow my example, great. If people think I’m a weirdo, oh well I’ll just go do my own thing.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How to turn off Gemini in Gmail — and why you should | Proton⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Its good to clarify that it’s not end to end encrypted like their email because its not clear from their marketing wording that its not. Its very easy to presume “encrypted” is the same encryption process they are known for on their email.

  The flip side of that coin is that it is a separate tool you don’t have to use. You can choose to use as many or few of their products as you wish (its not forced on you).

  It’s also a plus that there is SOME encryption and attempts at privacy vs every other alternative besides self hosting.

  I’ve personally found lumo to be very useful in troubleshooting computer issues that I’m unfamiliar with. I’ve learned a lot from using it, and the researching was faster than scouring forums myself and presented to me in a single pane. Its just a tool similar to a web browser. I choose a browser that helps me be private and I choose an AI tool that does the same, but I don’t expect either to actually keep me private.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Bending Spoons laid off almost everybody at Vimeo yesterday | Hacker News⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Companies that want control over their videos. I.e. not to have ads play, not to have their videos followed by suggested content that sends viewers to competitors, nor have that alternate content show when the UI is paused or interacted with. It also allows updating of videos (whereas YouTube makes you upload a new video and you loose all links or view stats/momentum from the switch)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨We own the hardware, but not the experience anymore — Big Tech keeps building smarter, more connected devices, but the user experience feels more intrusive, more confusing, and less human⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I agree. Linux has come a long way, and I love using it. But its definitely not for everybody.

  Many times I just don’t want to do something because I don’t want to invest the time. I also get that there’s a GUI that is very capable, but then why is the terminal easier sometimes?

  I also need to look up everything I do. That’s probably me just being a noob but I can never look through the system and figure out how to do something. Everything I do is an internet search first, then an implementation. Again, probably just lack of knowledge on my part but comparing that to the average Windows user, I can see the allure of adding AI to just do things you ask it to. Time is valuable and if you’re not invested into your system then its not worth it to most.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨We own the hardware, but not the experience anymore — Big Tech keeps building smarter, more connected devices, but the user experience feels more intrusive, more confusing, and less human⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Half-Life 3 Reportedly Delayed Due to Steam Machine Price, Leak Claims⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Oh yeah, hardware prices are what’s preventing HL3 from coming out. Sure.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Explained: Why you can't move Windows 11 taskbar like Windows 10, according to Microsoft⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Why can’t they just ask copilot to program that for them?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Apertus: Switzerland government release a fully open, transparent, multilingual language LLM⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Yo dawg, I heard you like language in your language.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Browser Fingerprinting And Why VPNs Won’t Make You Anonymous⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The other major advantage is your ISP can’t build a profile on you. Considering they know who you are and where you live, that’s a pretty important air gap to me.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Long-time iOS user considering switch to Android - Need advice on $1000 flagships⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It depends what experience you are looking for and why you are switching. Plus what region you are in because some phones are not available/the same in all countries.

  But I prefer Pixel with Graphene OS installed. Very private and granular controls, but not always the smoothest experience because locking down for privacy isn’t convenient.

  Stock I really like the Samsung S series. Decent UI and doesn’t feel bogged down.

  I think for “gotchas” you should consider how you message people and how you pay for things. Not that those are deal breakers for you, but they seem to be the most prevalent daily use cases that can’t always be gotten around.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I hear you. I’m not as doom and gloom as everybody else, but its definitely a shift away from their model. I mean, technically they are keeping their word by keeping Affinity separate and not subscription based like Canva. But I still don’t like it nonetheless.

  The problem though is that there isn’t an alternative. Affinity was the alternative. Inkscape and Gimp have their place, but they are not the same level of software. I guess I’m just going to run my v2 into the ground waiting for other software to step up.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨As Microsoft Forces Users to Ditch Windows 10, It Announces That It’s Also Turning Windows 11 into an AI-Controlled Monstrosity⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Like others said, bazzite and pop os, though I’ve never used either. I use mint and never had a problem.

  Though it should be pointed out that some MP games that use a kernel level anti cheat can’t be played (battlefield 6 for instance).

  But I also wanted to mention, you can run Linux from a USB flash drive. So of you want to try out one of them without actually installing it, you easily can. If you don’t like it you don’t install. If you do, then you go for the full install. Easy non committal trial so to speak.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft is endorsing the use of personal Copilot in workplaces, frustrating IT admins⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  All that aside, I just wanted to say I really like your name.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Discord customer service data breach leaks user info and scanned photo IDs⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  My take on this is a little more fundamental than the whole ID/age thing. We all knew this would happen, and why? Because nobody has addressed the first problem. Security is only as strong as the weakest link, and companies are not transparent with customers.

  Companies spell out in their Terms and Privacy statements that they have Affiliates that data gets shared with. And they want you to accept them all blindly, without clarifying who they are and what they do.

  Even here, with a reported breach, they are not naming them and just calling them “third party”. So they screwed up and many people have their information and IDs out in the wild because if them, but we don’t even get to know who they are?

  His are we to trust a company of we don’t know who they’re in bed with? How are we to rate their security and assess our risk of using their service without all the information?

  As far as I can tell Discord handled it pretty well as far as breaches go. But maybe if I know they are using a shit company as one of their vendors I might think twice about using them.

  Its the same logic as the next article in my feed, where crunchyroll is getting pushback from the subtitle service they are using. And that’s not even their own security in mind. People make choices based on what companies do, so be transparent with it all and we will have the warm fuzzies if things match up. If they don’t then the company gets customer feedback so they can adjust.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft is endorsing the use of personal Copilot in workplaces, frustrating IT admins⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Is that an internal KB article or something you send to the customers? If it’s public I’d like to read it for a chuckle.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft is endorsing the use of personal Copilot in workplaces, frustrating IT admins⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I get what you’re saying, but my point wasn’t really about viability of their price structure vs cost.

  It was the fact that they are offering a personal M365 license AND CoPilot license for $20. If they can do that, they’ve already done the math and are OK with the price.

  So if they are OK with the price, why not offer that same discounted bundle to business, adjusted to whatever business license is included?

  But no, they want to charge business $30 for CoPilot alone, with no M365 license.

  So this strategy is clear, they are trying to compete and gain adoption in the personal space, competing against $20 chatgpt or similar subscriptions. With that in mind, its a great strategy. They gain market share, gain your personal data for their advertising, and further cements people in their ecosystem.

  So, lengthy way to get to the point of, they are screwing over businesses without a similar (if not comparable) deal, and then forcing problems because people will just start using their own LLMs for business use which adds a huge shadow IT strain and risk. So business will react in turn and shut it all down, which then kills adoption.

  So they’re purposefully shooting themselves in the right foot so they can take a step with their left. It won’t work out in the end.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft is endorsing the use of personal Copilot in workplaces, frustrating IT admins⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Their logic is: Workplaces aren’t buying copilot licenses So make a good price on personal licenses

  If price is the barrier, maybe bring down that $30 license fee for business (which is on top of the M365 license) to see if adoption grows.

  This is not going to win any friends in the business world and will most likely result in blanket bans of AI tools in the workplace to counteract this.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Enthusiasts bond twelve 56K modems together to set dial-up broadband records — a dozen screeching boxes achieve record 668 kbps download speeds⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  If 12 modems simultaneously handshake and nobody is there to hear it, does it make a sound? You’re damn right it does and probably shattered glass too.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft announces it will automatically install the Copilot AI app alongside desktop versions of 365 products like Word, Excel and PowerPoint this October⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Oh definitely. Xlookup and sumifs are probably my most common formulas. But I also source and combine data sources on a regular basis which is the real hitch in my use.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft announces it will automatically install the Copilot AI app alongside desktop versions of 365 products like Word, Excel and PowerPoint this October⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  LibreOffice is great, but one of the problems is its not a business product. So sure, most everyone can do basic stuff and its fine. But if you’re a business, it really won’t cut it. And if you’re a power user of any of the app types, shifting away might not be possible.

  But yes, my goal is 100% shift from MS. I just can’t shake excel until there’s a better alternative (or I stop having the need).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Notepad gets AI features like Summarize, Write, and Rewrite, using local and cloud models.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  No, they shut down Wordpad since it was the awkward step between simple notepad and full blown word processing. It didn’t do anybody any harm, but it never really had a home.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft announces it will automatically install the Copilot AI app alongside desktop versions of 365 products like Word, Excel and PowerPoint this October⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  To be fair, I use excel (2019, not 365) frequently and I’m never prompted for anything. I had to jerry rig the installation so only excel installed and not the full suite of products, but other than that it’s been clean and perfect. Sure, I’m missing some features from 365, but one of those missing features is copilot. Everything else is perfect (and I need data sources and some other functions that aren’t in Calc which is why I still use it)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Mods react as Reddit kicks some of them out again: “This will break the site”⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It could be viewed as reasonable if viewed alone. I think that its fine and could make a lot of sense for control over their platform.

  The history of reddit sheds a different context in my mind though. Mods are volunteers. Subreddits were established to moderate themselves, implementing nuanced rules for their specific topics that might differ from other subs that need completely different rules and approaches. Its part of what made reddit unique compared to alternate sites.

  Then they made moderating much more difficult by eliminating third party apps. Then they started implementing their plans to take the platform where they wanted it, which is fine because its their platform, but they wanted all their mods to do a bunch of work and in a certain manner to make it so. Very demanding on free labor.

  So there’s mods still around and they want to restrict them more? Who knows, maybe that’s a great idea but they made the mess they’re in. This decision isn’t a single on on its own, its part of a stack of them.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Flooring Pop⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Make sure to ask the contractors about the subfloor. If its flexing at all (you can step on the empty space and see if your weight shifts it) then no matter how good the fix it’ll pop again.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Flooring Pop⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I would lead with questions for both context and for you to determine your plan of action.

  Its “always been” squishy…how long have you lived here? 1 year? 10 years? It matters in the context of if it was a quick flip install to sell the place and you’ve only been living there a short time, the rest will probably be falling apart soon too. If its been a long time, it could point to just that spot being an issue and needing repair.

  There’s also the question of your time and budget. There’s a good chance the entire floor needs to be replaced, but if that’s just out of the question then a patch job could keep it together a very long time if done right.

  What room is that? Bathroom? Mud room? There’s tile on the wall too so I’m wondering if water is playing into the problem (either in the tile install or damage to the sub floor in that spot).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What would stop you from switching to a flip phone (or dumbphone) in 2025?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I wholeheartedly agree with this perspective.

  I started on a privacy journey because I didn’t like that I’m being tracked (by basically everybody) and feel that the technology that I pay for should be service to me, not me as a service to it (and its related parties).

  Anyways, along the way I did a few things. Namely, I turned off mail notifications (this was an inadvertent feature since my mail service couldn’t send notifications without google services that I removed). I also removed my sim and use data only via a hotspot, to which I don’t always have on. These sound like crazy things, and admittedly they aren’t for everyone, but the resulting mental shifts are exactly to this point.

  Just because I have a device that let’s me be available to anybody in any place at any time, doesn’t mean I should be, or even need to be, available unless I want to be.

  Now I protect my time, and the mental clarity that comes with it. I never was a doom scrolled, but even now that concept is even more reduced. The phone is my tool, and I use when needed.