I don't mind the concept of enshittification, but I'm getting sick of constantly seeing people repeating the word in every single article about big tech getting worse like trained parrots. Often they barely have anything else in the message, they just "go oh yeah that's enshittification" as if that's an insight.
Reddit has been dead for a long time.
It's filled with an extremist monoculture. The mere idea that someone might believe something different than the Reddit monoculture is thought of as if you're trolling, they are so used to seeing nothing but their own opinions that the only reason anyone might have another opinion is that you're trying to attack them.
For a long time I had a reddit account, and it was my main place to see things and have discussions about things. After a while I started to erase my account every few months because there was a very real threat of having some psycho track down where I lived based on hints in my posts. Eventually I deleted my account for the last time, because there was only one opinion you were allowed to have, and if you didn't have that opinion you'll be down voted into oblivion, banned from a subreddit, adjust face a torrent of low effort "refutations" that essentially beg the question -- the assumptions built into discussion mean discussions can't even take place.
A lot of redditors moved over to lemmy, and now lemmy has the exact same problem. There were once a couple decent instances that got chased off the platform, and the large reddit population now socially polices that platform too.
I have ended up on the fediverse, and it's absolutely incredible. The level of intellectual diversity is beautiful, I'm mutuals with on one hand people who have hammer and sickle in their name, and on the other hand people who have black suns and swastikas in their name. That doesn't mean that I endorse either ideology whatsoever, but it does mean that all across a broad spectrum I can see all kinds of different opinions and that's kind of what I want.
It's filled with an extremist monoculture. The mere idea that someone might believe something different than the Reddit monoculture is thought of as if you're trolling, they are so used to seeing nothing but their own opinions that the only reason anyone might have another opinion is that you're trying to attack them.
For a long time I had a reddit account, and it was my main place to see things and have discussions about things. After a while I started to erase my account every few months because there was a very real threat of having some psycho track down where I lived based on hints in my posts. Eventually I deleted my account for the last time, because there was only one opinion you were allowed to have, and if you didn't have that opinion you'll be down voted into oblivion, banned from a subreddit, adjust face a torrent of low effort "refutations" that essentially beg the question -- the assumptions built into discussion mean discussions can't even take place.
A lot of redditors moved over to lemmy, and now lemmy has the exact same problem. There were once a couple decent instances that got chased off the platform, and the large reddit population now socially polices that platform too.
I have ended up on the fediverse, and it's absolutely incredible. The level of intellectual diversity is beautiful, I'm mutuals with on one hand people who have hammer and sickle in their name, and on the other hand people who have black suns and swastikas in their name. That doesn't mean that I endorse either ideology whatsoever, but it does mean that all across a broad spectrum I can see all kinds of different opinions and that's kind of what I want.
My wife got mad at me when I looked at my son and said "you're such a beautiful baby, and don't worry if you weren't I'd tell you"
I love how discord is like "Attention everyone! Prepare to be banned at any moment. Also, would you like to pay us some money in our store?"
So with a new tax on unrealized gains, there must be a tax credit for unrealized losses?
It's a built-in feature to stop charging at 85%, but I don't think it's a feature to schedule it. That's what I'm using Tasker for, to activate the feature during the times that I would expect the phone to be sitting on a charger for an extended period.
I had to replace my phone battery recently, so I got an idea. I set up tasker (remember tasker?) to switch my phone to protect the battery from shortly after I'm typically asleep until shortly before I typically wake up. Thereby, every night my phone will stay at 85% for most of the night, only charging up when I'm about to wake up, which my understanding is it should help keep the battery running a lot longer with no real impact on my day-to-day usage.
Trying to be an inoffensive brown sludge and succeeding means nobody will hate you, but nobody will love you either. Who's favorite food is plain porrige?
For the most part, yeah.
Like, for people who don't use linux they hear people discussing how to get certain drivers to work and assume that's the world of linux, but reality is on most hardware you stick the USB stick in, press install and move on with your day.
Like, for people who don't use linux they hear people discussing how to get certain drivers to work and assume that's the world of linux, but reality is on most hardware you stick the USB stick in, press install and move on with your day.
Devuan specifically does not use systemd as I recall. I'm using devuan sid on my arm chromebook.
Yeah, the whole "platform Y is dead because people I don't like are using it" is dumb particularly when you're talking about a w3c standard. Literally everyone is using tcp/ip, and http and https, and html, and emcascript. You can't use the internet if your line is "if someone I don't like uses the thing then it's dead to me" because the same internet is used by pretty much everyone, and people just have to coexist for the most part.
Tbf, 2006 is right before the world ended, and it wasn't such a bad time. No good music had been released for about 5 years but we didn't notice yet. Right after the gfc is when things started to go downhill. By 2010 it was obvious that things were changing, and by 2015 the coffin was well and truly in the ground...
I'm always surprised these people left big tech since it's already the closest thing to the echo chamber they want.