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I like Google products but the search engine really has become shit. I'm not sure there's anything they can do about it though.

As much as I'm skeptical about the unchecked power of corporations, I feel like Lemmy tech enthusiasts are completely hostile to the more mainstream kind of enthusiasm that actually like a well designed product.

Like, you can whine about the theoretical problems of a centralized service all you want, but if you're not syncing with OneDrive (or an alternative, though those are kinda worse) on your Windows computer you're literally sabotaging yourself. I could go on about other examples, but I'll limit myself.

I don't care if you think Linux is better. For the average person, Linux is incomprehensible. Now don't get me wrong, I like Linux too! I use Linux for my servers, and it's a great option to have. But the ideologues who push it to everyone are infuriatingly dumb, and serve only to push people out of the tech community.

As a whole, this site has too many ideologues, and not enough nuance. It's like the whole "Reddit atheist" phenomenon but worse: people here are unquestionably critical to an absurd degree, and refuse to accept that there may be alternative viewpoints on what they're saying.

And I'm not fond of capitalism either. I just think that the constant negativity is draining.

"Your body, your choice" has a limit once a super dangerous pathogen shows up and people start refusing the best tool we have to stop it for increasingly batshit reasons.

If you choose not to vaccinate, you're directly putting everyone else you interact with at risk. So there's a limit

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I'm amenable to the idea of getting first dibs on an idea you came up with (software, hardware, fiction...), but it's been clearly abused to an insane degree by corporations who want to make a quick buck.

Nah it just makes it confusing, especially to non native English speakers

Alternatively, this is perhaps the only way for Microsoft to pressure hardware makers to stop shipping BIOS motherboards. They won't naturally go away unless there's an incentive.

I'd give you a pass if you said the NSA... but we clearly need something like the FBI. Who would stop child exploitation? Human trafficking?

I joined lemmy.world because it was the biggest.

Defederation didn't seem to be an issue at first, though I would like to know what exactly I'm missing out on (within reason... Not a fan of bigotry) But the performance issues are making me wonder if I should switch.

EDIT: I do kind of want to be on an instance that federates with both lemmy.world and beehaw. Any recommendations?

Here's an issue that people won't talk about that they need to: the right to commit crimes. Just because something is illegal doesn't mean it's immoral, and the growing belief on multiple fronts that a criminal justice system should be "perfect" is what's driving a lot of the erosion of privacy rights, among other things.

Yes, exactly. That's the point.

Even if you get rid of every nuclear power plant, governments will still pursue bombs.

Google will literally sell you photo books.

The penis must have a mind of its own! Oh no! The horror!

I really hoped Threads would supplant Twitter, but it wasn't even given a chance. All the people I follow have either stuck to Twitter over Bluesky's invite system and Threads being full of braindead Instagram people, or rejected the idea of a Twitter replacement completely (sorry, cohost is not a good replacement!)

Because who is going to operate the servers?

Originally with RCS it was the carrier, but basically every carrier switched to using Jibe (by Google) for the backend.

And it sounds like Apple is going to operate their own as well.

Exactly! It goes like this to me:

"Billionaires and landlords are bad for society." Hard agree!

"There should be less billionaires and landlords." Okay, I agree with that too.

"We should kill them!" NO! FUCK NO!

I understand that if society is going to change for the better, that some people deliberately stand in the way and others will inevitably be forced to stop them. But there's this new school of thought that says "My enemies are ontologically evil and all harm done towards them is morally good" which sickens me.

An act can be justified, necessary, and still immoral.

Yeah, that's definitely what I'm feeling. It's a lot more irritating browsing here than Reddit.

What actually happens is that it normalizes making fun of people like him. I do feel the socialization angle is important, but remember that classroom culture is very much predicated on kids making fun of those who are "different".

You mean Chrome? 🤣

Only Up? More like only dashing face first into spikes as your jaded ego throws shade at you.

Alright, you do you. But I'm not going to turn it off for my family members who would be pissed if their computer broke and lost their files.

What about people who can't be vaccinated?

Yeah, the lack of MTG players is really sad.

That's definitely a valid concern, I don't think private enterprises should hold the secrets to protecting people from deadly diseases.

That's not anti-echohamber. That's the algorithm reinforcing the anti-trans propaganda that drives clicks and views on most platforms. Controversy is sensational, and anger provokes responses.

Ah yes, gag in the bag. 😃 For some reason I kinda like their "buttery jack", it's just disgusting enough to hit the spot sometimes.

Oh, I've noticed that. Does the dev know about it?

It's not surprising, started with the Nexus devices really.

Idk, I've consistently seen that the instances defederated from (at least on lemmy.world) are either full of trolls or bigots.

You missed the point. OneDrive is the solution for my family. Why would they want to turn it off?

But to do that, the algorithm has to know the right answer in the first place. Meaning a human has to tell it what's right and what's wrong.

Have you seen Google's generative AI tests? They're trying to do exactly that and it's mostly useless.

Any metric that isn't direct human curation can be gamed.

Most of the big ones. Gmail, calendar, maps, YouTube, YouTube music, photos, tasks, pixel...

It's more interesting to say the ones I don't use tbh: Drive and Chrome.

Oh, that makes sense.

How would you recommend average users back up their content in case of hardware loss or failure?

You want a broken Windows install? This is how you get a broken Windows install.

Replace "woman" with "Black" in this rant and it sounds just like someone trying to make reparations look bad by strawmanning its supporters.

I agree that neoliberal capitalism has (largely successfully) used feminism as a way to distract from society's real problems. But this ain't it.

I'm not necessarily saying the content of the picture is ideal, I just think there's something to be said for clean interfaces that aren't jam packed with text.

Am I the only one who likes this? It's much better than New Reddit and Old Reddit.