Lfrith
@Lfrith@lemmy.ca
- Comment on TikTok uninstalls are up 150% following U.S. joint venture 5 hours ago:
I think it is like Linux where those who opt for it are fine with some of the shortcomings being outweighed by aspects they value more.
For the majority, negatives can be things they don’t even see as a con, but the shortcomings deal breakers.
I think from a small active community it is fine for users who value that more than being the largest mainstream social media option. But, not something the average mainstream user will go out of their way to stick with.
- Comment on TikTok uninstalls are up 150% following U.S. joint venture 6 hours ago:
Its easier to sway people in the worse direction with more perceived benefits than the more difficult or less appealing ideologically better option.
- Comment on TikTok uninstalls are up 150% following U.S. joint venture 10 hours ago:
Think we’ve learned most people are easily impressionable or hateful or both with how easily they get swept up in things that disturb us, and its unfortunately a minority that aren’t despite being no more privileged, educated, or smarter than peers.
I guess its kind of like gambling as an example where no matter how much people try and dissuade others from falling into it their attempts fall on deaf ears to the majority actions. And its not that people who don’t fall into it are smarter.
Sometimes the issue is that the vast collective is just already set on their own course of action, and we’re just taken along for the ride due to their vast numbers and drowned out.
- Comment on OnePlus update blocks downgrades and custom ROMs by blowing a fuse 13 hours ago:
Fuses… That’s like what the first Switch did to try to deal with jailbreak.
- Comment on TikTok uninstalls are up 150% following U.S. joint venture 13 hours ago:
Joe Schmoe ended up in a situation no different than if tiktok had been US to begin with, since capitalistic companies will sell out everyone to keep the money flowing over shutting down. So country of origin never ended up mattering in making the app as much of a red flag as installing facebook, instagram, and twitter.
Using corporate social media that encourages people to share their faces, names, and voices are sketchy to begin with while also having the apps so intrusive they get access to everything on your phone from contacts to phone numbers.
I see people arguing country a lot, but I’ve never really understood it myself because I never believed who was collecting data would guarantee that data doesn’t end up in the hands of those unintended to get it.
Just as the tiktok transfer shows.
- Comment on TikTok uninstalls are up 150% following U.S. joint venture 13 hours ago:
Yeah, they theoretically could, but even getting reddit users moving over to the fediverse has been a challenge and reddit type social is basically an old school forum with a different UI.
When it comes to tiktok, twitter, Instagram type social media I think the main draw is getting the most views possible and going viral and getting followers, which leads to them wanting to be where all the famous people are and all the companies are.
It’ll appeal to those who want to escape corporatized sites, but I don’t think it’ll appeal to core users, since they want that large audience and followers. That they would use those sites to begin with that had privacy red flags makes it a big challenge, since they are willing to give that up in exchange for attention.
- Comment on TikTok uninstalls are up 150% following U.S. joint venture 1 day ago:
Are you not aware of the people who shit on facebook? I think most reddit and reddit to lemmy users hate Facebook.
Head to pcgaming, pcmasterrace, steam deck subs and you’ll also see hate for Microsoft. Partly due to copilot, hate of online account being pushed, and being spyware.
Same for Google too with them being seen as a company that is spying on everyone which is why roms like GrapheneOS gets brought up.
Now usage is still high partly due to some people’s dependency on it for productivity, but criticism and hate is there. Even China and Russia is stuck using Microsoft among regular consumers despite them having the most reason to not trust US software.
- Comment on TikTok uninstalls are up 150% following U.S. joint venture 1 day ago:
Yeah, I strayed away from tiktok and before that facebook, instagram, Twitter. Social media that encourages many users to forgo their privacy and share their faces and voices just always seemed like red flags.
- Comment on TikTok uninstalls are up 150% following U.S. joint venture 1 day ago:
They use social media in hopes of becoming influencers themselves to get the bag, or follow big influencers because they have a huge emotional attachment to them.
I don’t think fediverse is going to have appeal because they aren’t in it just to have a site to have conversations or see material.
The very foundation of it having to be where the most visible and popular people are is the whole draw of social media for them. Not pseudoanonynous usernames posting comments.
- Comment on TikTok uninstalls are up 150% following U.S. joint venture 1 day ago:
I always thought those who believed their data was safe because the app was China based was dumb, since Google showed that they’d comply with the Chinese government to operate in the country years ago.
So why would yet another billion dollar seeking app be different because of it being a different country when they are just as financially motivated to not protect your data but make money off you.
- Comment on TikTok uninstalls are up 150% following U.S. joint venture 1 day ago:
Not surprising, since you’d need tp be willfully ignorant to have used tiktok when it first came out with all the privacy concerns even back then with the app doing weird things.
And those who use it despite that are pretty addicted to the content on it. They in the same category as those that continue to use twitter.
- Comment on RAM Prices Got You Down? Try DDR3. Seriously! 1 day ago:
Yeah that is pretty unusual. I haven’t had a single ssd failure even still using the first one I ever got in addition to others I put in old laptops so I wouldn’t be stuck on slow hdd.
- Comment on RAM Prices Got You Down? Try DDR3. Seriously! 1 day ago:
I have multiple back ups of important stuff, so even if a drive died it wouldn’t be a big issue. But, what brand SSDs gave you troubles? Would like to know so I can stay away from those ones.
- Comment on RAM Prices Got You Down? Try DDR3. Seriously! 1 day ago:
I haven’t had any issues with my crucial and samsung ssds which I’ve had for many years. Maybe at least a decade old? So might be brand related.
- Comment on RAM Prices Got You Down? Try DDR3. Seriously! 1 day ago:
I jumped on some large external HDD deals before storage took a jump. I don’t want to move to subscription cloud services like the billionaires want to happen.
Wish I had gotten a m.2 2230 drive too for my Deck so I missed out on that.
- Comment on Giving University Exams in the Age of Chatbots 2 days ago:
I don’t get why exams are made more complicated than it needs to be. When it comes to homework and projects people could cheat on the entire thing, but when it comes to exams just keep it offline and those who know and those who don’t get exposed quick. And if 70-80% of a grade is the exam grades, so those who don’t know end up failing even if they get 100% on the take home stuff.
For comp sci classes there might be more reasons to allow internet access and computers on exams. But, for traditional math, history, writing, and science courses there’s no real need for anything beyond paper and pencil.
- Comment on Microsoft gave FBI a set of BitLocker encryption keys to unlock suspects' laptops: Reports | TechCrunch 4 days ago:
Use Windows LTSC that is stripped of offline requirements, copilot, and the Microsoft store. And use veracrypt. You can set up a container or encrypt a drive such as an external.
- Comment on How to turn off Gemini in Gmail — and why you should | Proton 4 days ago:
It is very freeing seeing updates that don’t affect me much since I’ve moved on from gmail.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
Thought so too after they banned the piracy sub.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
Yeah, fediverse with it having less uptake among mainstream users likely means those here are going to have more tech literacy, so VPN use is going to be higher than usual.
It’ll be a trivial bypass with how much this space already leans towards Linux and is more privacy aware and more likely to try to cut down on big tech than usual users.
To achieve being free of US content methods needed would be incredibly strict moderation (shadowbans and mod approval for posts), news censorship due to possibility of international incidents involving US, defederating from popular instances, and most effective would be no english allowed.
- Comment on Micron addresses Crucial exit backlash: 'We are trying to help consumers around the world' — company warns that DRAM drought could last until at least 2028 1 week ago:
Drones is what stands out. China is like the only one offering drone products to regular hobbyists. Whether its cheap whoops or more premium DJI drones.
I wonder if China will fill that consumer segment instead of they themselves deciding to just ignore it all to go after the AI business sector too.
Maybe PC will go the route of people having to scrap retro parts or jailbreaking consoles to install Linux when it comes to hardware acquisition in the future.
- Comment on Bully Online, the ambitious mod that brought multiplayer and more to Rockstar's classic school sim, shuts down a month after launch: 'This was not something we wanted' 1 week ago:
Releasing things without announcement is the route those who actually want to put out their work not for some portfolio showcase but playable for the community do.
One example being Link’s Awakening DX HD.
- Comment on Digg launches its new Reddit rival to the public 1 week ago:
Do you really have to? I think these days its best to not create a new account for corporate run social media sites, and instead just lurk instead of being an active contributor. Ideally using a front end if available.
- Comment on Do we need more users ? 1 week ago:
What social media isn’t filled with politics and rage when looking at the all category? I don’t know any social media that is broad appeal that doesn’t have that stuff unless you stick only to your subscription feed or use filters.
Only social media I’ve seen that’s been free of that stuff by default have been niche topic focused communities like a video game forum that only allows off tangent stuff in the offtopic section.
- Comment on Do we need more users ? 1 week ago:
Rage bait, tiktok/twitter/facebook/Instagram reposts, politics just happen to be what tends to get the most activity across social media. That’s what you see when you view social media without an account whether it is lemmy or popular corporate run sites.
Its why filter tools, avoiding all, and sticking to subscriptions has been a thing for a long time prior to the reddit third party hammer.
I don’t know any social media that isn’t explicitly niche focused that isn’t a terrible default experience. And by niche I mean like some old school forum that only talks allows talks of a specific topic like video games.
Broad appeal talk about whatever topic you want is going to be generally trash by default, since so many different topics and communities are sharing the same space.
- Comment on 'Worst in Show' CES products include AI refrigerators, AI companions and AI doorbells 2 weeks ago:
Inclusion of AI isn’t meant to be a selling point to product buying customers but to convince retail investors who throw money at anything with AI into buying up shares of stock.
And some companies like NVIDIA and micron have reached a point where retail customer revenue is a rounding error compared to direct corporate sales, so there’s no need to cater them and for some no need to even sell to retail customers anymore.
As things get more expensive it helps create a rental economy, so people having to rent leads to companies able to make money selling to companies that are making money providing subscription services to consumers who have been priced out.
Kind of like the housing market in a way.
- Comment on Switch 2 Sales Reportedly Struggled Over The Christmas Period 2 weeks ago:
I got a Switch because of handheld gaming and then I stopped using my Switch because I got a Deck, and my library became playable on it without having to rebuy them. And I can get cheaper games, bundles, and giveaways than on Nintendo to play on my Deck or PC. And if ARM support for steam frame makes its way to Android then I’ll be able to play those same Steam games on my phone too.
- Comment on Switch 2 Sales Reportedly Struggled Over The Christmas Period 2 weeks ago:
How relevant is inflation when cost of living has gotten so inflated that the idea of home ownership went the way of renting. So if anything in today’s money eating costs can hurt the wallet even more with how essentials are eating up more disposable income.
People bring up inflation as though salaries have kept up like NBA salaries have kept up due to their strong union. But, for every day people salaries have stagnated in relation to cost of property, rent, utilities, and food.
- Comment on Dell says the quiet part out loud: Consumers don't actually care about AI PCs — "AI probably confuses them more than it helps them" 2 weeks ago:
Extent of my comfort with AI is through website and interaction is limited to copy and paste or upload. Capabilities not running on a system level.
But, when it comes to actually running on hardware and being able to do things by reading what is on the screen or hearing what is said I don’t trust AI to be secure or privacy respecting. When it comes to that type of functionality I’ll only trust ones that is compiled myself to run locally as opposed to provided by a corporations who are largely in the business of data collection.
- Comment on Why the PS5 ROM Leak Could be a Turning Point for Console Security 2 weeks ago:
Been wondering the same. If the console gets opened up I’ll be rushing to get a PS5 to get one with old firmware that hasn’t had the exploit patched out.