After today's update, Lemmy runs like a dream. Happy with my move. I only use Reddit for work and in a desktop browser now.
CataclysmZA
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macOS? You gotta be kidding. Windows and Office is huge.
Just the entrenchment of Sharepoint and Outlook alone is enough to make switching to anything else a difficult prospect.
South Africa has been the exception.
Well yes, it's really difficult to switch when government only just managed to migrate to Windows 10 on most machines, and still uses Microsoft's document formats for everything aside from PDF.
Up until a few years ago, UNISA was still using public-facing IIS servers and SARS was paying up the wazoo to maintain old Flash applets that people used to file their taxes.
One government department managed to waste R5 million on a WordPress website that used a $15 theme.
The launcher isn't really the problem, it's the fact that Overwatch 2 isn't making them any money!
This is the basis of the ASUS warranty issues recently when they had exploding AM5 motherboards and vague text about EXPO support voiding warranty, painting themselves into a corner when they only had unsupported firmware that would technically void warranty.
It doesn't matter that the company says "Oh we won't enforce that rule" but they still keep the rule in place.
Meta's decision to work towards federation does need to be taken with a lot of salt. Corporations using open platforms or open source to make their money has always resulted in power imbalances that, left unchecked, may become impossible to solve without concessions from said corporation, or else [X] thing just gets hung out to dry.
You have to hope the people running that company understand that these problems exist, and actively work against ruining everything for everyone else that relies on it.
They don't want users to be able to wipe their own chats manually or via GDPR requests.
If anyone asks, they will be told that the data is gone, but we all know that's not the case. They do have backups.
That will see more increases over time, especially as Windows 10 EOL approaches.
Ah, Russian boot-licking.
Google's Pixel Fold is pretty much what I'd like to see in a folding phone, whereas Samsung's extremely tall aspect ratio is a bit too thin for one-handed use.
Other competitors have figured out the formula for something that works well open and closed, so for the Fold type devices I'd like to see Samsung improve on the design and squish it a little, especially because it is so thick when folded.
Flip-style devices on the other hand, those are immediately cool. If the Z Flip had similar cameras to the S23, I would have considered holding out for one. The battery life on the S23 is what won me over.
"We need to be fair in our broadcasting!"
Yes, but you don't have to platform Nazis.
Given the... frankly absurd rate at which people are signing up to servers, and subscribing to other servers, and posting and commenting and upvoting and...
I mean it's getting a bit hairy, and user growth was already following a very steep growth curve. Reddifugees are hugging all instances to death.
I work for an online retailer for computer components. Reddit helped/helps give me perspective of what people think about tech products, what they're looking to buy, and I used it to keep up with the news in the hardware-focused subreddits. Reddit's community is sufficiently large enough that there are opinions you can read from enthusiasts to homelabbers to people who don't know what to do when Windows screws up their Radeon Software installation.
As a former technical writer, it helps fill in gaps about things I don't know enough about, like where people on lower budgets actually choose to spend their money in a build, and whether or not the RTX 4060 is actually terrible, as opposed to it not meeting expectations of an audience that it's not aimed at.
Given the... frankly absurd rate at which people are signing up to servers, and subscribing to other servers, and posting and commenting and upvoting and...
I mean it's getting a bit hairy, and user growth was already following a very steep growth curve.
Microsoft's implementation of the feature is called Windows Update Delivery Optimization.
Here's a short optimisation guide: https://www.ctrl.blog/entry/windows-delivery-optimization.html
Fundamentally it's not like the Bittorrent protocol, even though there are similar behaviours and the result is the same. Microsoft retains the ability to stop the network from seeding updates and has ways of only targeting specific supported configurations to receive new updates.
That's not a realistic proposal if Facebook volunteers dev resources to improve and support ActivityPub and we grow to rely on that. In the same way that Google co-opted the W3C to now just accept Chrome as the default, I can see something similar happen if Threads really kicks off and has a ton of effort put into it.
It's a lot more grey than you'd expect given the absurd resources that nation states have compiled to try and usurp Google's dominance, but all the same I'd rather not have the internet rely on something made by a publicly traded company that cuts projects on a whim.
That's probably why digital displays still have analog speedometer options. At a glance it's easier to tell what's happening with your speed, rev count, and other levels like fuel.
But much of that utility is useful for manuals and ICE-powered cars.
Oh it's going to be bad. Really bad. Microsoft said over a billion people were using Windows 10 & 11, but the vast majority of those were on machines that already ran Windows 7/8.1 just fine (and may have been upgraded forcefully).
They tried once to limit hardware compatibility as Intel was switching over to 10th gen by giving people a cut-off point where new versions of Windows 10 would not work on hardware older than Intel 8th gen, but it was so poorly received that they walked it back (and did it with Windows 11 instead).
An actual EOL is going to be very tough to pull off because everyone expects their computers to last more than three years now.
FTC really screwed themselves over building their arguments in the courtroom.
Right at the beginning of the announcement, Spencer appeared in an interview talking about it and started listing old ActiBlizz IP that the company owned, but did nothing with, saying that it would be cool to bring some of those franchises back.
There's no way you can argue against that. Bringing more games to consumers was always Microsoft's argument for the deal going through.
They probably looked at Facebook's latest dumpster fire involving hauling data outside of the EU and decided to just not find a workaround.
As the saying goes, "Everything old is new again."
My money is on Twitter employees and core engineers.
"Off the record" largely implies that an NDA would be involved, considering "confidential information that should not be shared with others."
I've just deleted Relay. End of an era, but I'm no longer going to use Reddit as much as I used to.
Oh so that's what the Spider-Man meme was about. Zuck knew this was coming.
Stuff is pretty smooth now!
Posting this from Jerboa. I am grateful for the hard work!
Can confirm. Clearing cookies on Edge browser on Windows 11 fixed the login issue.
Sometimes I wonder if 4Chan's model is really the one we should be implementing, somehow. Remove individuality via the profile names and avatars people use to post under, and things seem to largely work themselves out (speaking as an infrequent visitor that has surface-level knowledge of the politics of 4Chan).
Sure, you can do something similar with throwaway accounts on places like Reddit, but it's not quite the same.
Posting this from Jerboa! Thank you for the hard work.
I feel like most of the useful Linux stuff just got yeeted from forums and into Reddit. If there's nothing in the Arch wiki that's easy to follow it's a trying time to find answers that relate to your issue that are also up to date.
Posting this from Jerboa. I am grateful for the hard work!
Sheesh, imagine being a fly on that wall now.
"He's out of line, but he's right."
I similarly have separate logins. One day there'll be easier integrations, but I don't think kbin is it for now.
Spez has almost never had the gift of foresight.