mereo
@mereo@piefed.ca
- Comment on Mods react as Reddit kicks some of them out again: “This will break the site” 1 day ago:
Piefed/Lemmy/Fediverse: freedom from capitalist tyranny. True organic, human communities.
Reddit is cyberpunk. It's a world governed by a corporation that acts as its government and only cares about its shareholders, not its citizens. - Comment on Microsoft is testing full-screen Microsoft 365 ads in Windows 11 for expired subscriptions 4 days ago:
I don't know why you're being downvoted but that's a legitimate reason. Unfortunately, Microsoft Office has a total monopoly of the office market so incompatibilities are bound to happen with alternative Office software.
- Comment on Microsoft is testing full-screen Microsoft 365 ads in Windows 11 for expired subscriptions 4 days ago:
Onlyoffice is not sufficient for you?
- Comment on Borderlands 4 Launches To Mostly Negative Steam Reviews Over Performance Issues And Crashing 6 days ago:
*sigh*... This generation of games will all suck because of Unreal Engine 5. I'm a patient gamer, I have plenty of unplayed games on my Steam library. I will not upgrade my video card because of this horrendous game engine.
- Comment on Which stage are you at? 1 week ago:
I'm running Manjaro since 2022 and it has been running smoothly. I guess I'm foolish...
- Comment on Why is Lemmy much better with telling a user why they were banned? 1 week ago:
Think of Reddit as Cyberpunk or Mirror's Edge: a world controlled by corporations instead of governments. A corporation only seeks its own interests and those of its shareholders. In that world, you're nothing. There's no transparency, and you don't have any rights.
Lemmy instances are run by the community and funded by donations. As such, the interests of the group as a whole prevail; they are not the interests of shareholders. To maintain cohesion, transparency is necessary, hence the modlog. Without transparency, cohesion and community cannot be maintained.
Reddit and Lemmy are two completely different worlds.
- Comment on Half of Young Men Would Rather Date an AI Girlfriend Than Face Loneliness or Rejection, New Report Reveals 1 week ago:
Why is this upvoted? It an ad for a company.
- Comment on 18% of people running Nextcloud don't know what database they are using 1 week ago:
There could be multiple factors. For example, I have a Nextcloud instance that is fully managed by Hetzner, and I didn't bother to find out what database it uses...
- Comment on Creepy companies don't ask for your consent. 2 weeks ago:
Linux is a worldwide community project, and its source code is readily available. It's nonprofit. Proton is now a Swiss nonprofit organization without shareholders (https://proton.me/foundation). Nextcloud is an open-source project that you can host on your own server or in the cloud, which means you have total control over your information.
These are nonprofit projects that don't seek to monetize you because you're not the product.
- Comment on Creepy companies don't ask for your consent. 2 weeks ago:
The only way to escape these companies is to prioritize your privacy. When you do so, you'll find replacements for the current capitalist platforms. For example, I switched from Windows to Linux and from Gmail to ProtonMail. I also switched from Dropbox to Nextcloud, which offers multiple services like a calendar and tasks. This means that I switched my calendar from Google to Nextcloud, for example.
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- Comment on How did it come to be that only two companies supply all of the world's PC graphics chips? 2 weeks ago:
We cannot forget that 3dfx went under when they bought STB to manufacture their own video cards instead of letting their board partners do it.
- Comment on How did it come to be that only two companies supply all of the world's PC graphics chips? 2 weeks ago:
3dfx had market dominance in 90s but then basically committed suicide.
Very true. They committed suicide when they bought STB so that they could manufacture their own video cards. They didn't just focus on chip R&D they needed to manufacture and market their own video cards instead of letting board partners do it.
- Comment on 2 weeks ago:
The Fediverse is the way. In this Financialised capitalism, capitalist platforms will continue to be enshitified as they only tend to shareholders interests of continual growth. They do not care about humans.
We need to keep this momentum going.
- Comment on WhatsApp's new AI feature lets you rephrase and adjust the tone of your messages | TechCrunch 3 weeks ago:
The problem will be to convince your friends and family to use Signal, and that's really not obvious.
- Comment on Intel details everything that could go wrong with US taking a 10% stake 3 weeks ago:
I've been building computers since 1999, and I've noticed that the industry is cyclical. I've purchased CPUs from both Intel and AMD. We need Intel to succeed, otherwise AMD will dominate the x86 processor market.