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Microsoft quietly hides the new OneDrive app it force-installed on Windows 11, but it's still on your PC in c/pcmasterrace@lemmy.world
[–] bigmclargehuge@lemmy.zip 10 points 4 hours ago

Windows 11: The worlds premier Sloperating System

Is it just me or i feel life is getting more difficult these days? in c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml
[–] bigmclargehuge@lemmy.zip 6 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

You're correct OP. I think the difficulty of modern times is multifaceted. A lot of other comments here speak to various parts of it these days, but I want to add one I've noticed related to this issue.

Pre mid-2000's, technology worked for us. If you look at the hayday of tech (1980 thru early 2000's), it seemed like every tech innovation was aimed at the consumer. The tech got better and we did too. The tech worked for us.

Nowadays (and I think I can see all this turning course around the time of the 2008 collapse), tech is not for us. The consumer has become the product, and tech is built around working through us instead of for us. Manipulating us instead of helping us. It sucks.

I have no doubt that if the washing machine was invented today instead of like ~100 years ago, they would be the size of car, and only installed in corporate offices. You'd have to go to an office to get your clothes washed. Consumer-level washers wouldn't be a thing. They'd tie it to work like healthcare. It seems like no one is interested in making quality consumer devices. The consumer devices we do have are designed to become obsolete quickly without any repairability, so you buy another fast (i.e. all modern cars).

So yea, I think when you add this on top of everything else, it help explains what is amiss with life today. My 2c

Phone and OS Recommendations in c/technology@beehaw.org
[–] bigmclargehuge@lemmy.zip 7 points 13 hours ago (11 children)

If OP can wait, GrapheneOS is partnering with Motorola, but those phones won’t be available until 2027.

linux_irl in c/linuxmemes@lemmy.world
[–] bigmclargehuge@lemmy.zip 36 points 18 hours ago (4 children)

The left hand side is whenever I rice a fresh install. The right hand side is whenever I have to edit /etc/fstab

Roblox argues 8-year-old waived rights in wrongful death lawsuit in c/technology@lemmy.world
Coffee drinkers have less fat, more muscle, and surprising hormone differences in c/health@lemmy.world
ZOOM Platform announced You Are Empty: Absolute Edition - a revival of the retro Ukrainian FPS in c/gaming@lemmy.zip
[–] bigmclargehuge@lemmy.zip 1 points 1 day ago

Knowing this along with the game STALKER, it seems like Ukrainian studios are the kings of immersive jank.

Recommendations to watch Youtube on TV in c/selfhosted@lemmy.world
[–] bigmclargehuge@lemmy.zip 1 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Would a Roku work? Forgive my ignorance, not sure if they count as android based

Y'all, this is incredible! in c/newtolemmy@lemmy.ca
[–] bigmclargehuge@lemmy.zip 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Thanks so much! Great info. I had a question - can I group communities together into a custom feed? I can currently view all subscribed on my Home feed. But if I have , for example, 6 news communities, can I group them into a single “MyNews” style feed?

Diarrhea forever vs free puppies in c/microblogmemes@lemmy.world
[–] bigmclargehuge@lemmy.zip 3 points 2 days ago

Per an article from last week, she hasn't "ruled it out" but hasn't committed to it either.

Y'all, this is incredible! in c/newtolemmy@lemmy.ca
[–] bigmclargehuge@lemmy.zip 2 points 2 days ago

Ohh! Right on! I'm rocking EndeavourOS. Been my desktop go-to for a while. And just started the community here. Love me some debian though, it powers all the servers in my homelab.

Y'all, this is incredible! in c/newtolemmy@lemmy.ca
[–] bigmclargehuge@lemmy.zip 1 points 2 days ago

Oh my goodness you're correct! Ty so much

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Y'all, this is incredible! (lemmy.zip)
 

I'm an old reddit user, going back to '08. Like many of you I'm sure, I've seen the site rise and fall. Killing 3p apps was a major blow, along with the purge of so many subreddits, and now you have to log in to even view it...it's getting real bad.

I had heard of the fediverse back when Mastadon was first announced. Briefly checked it out, but didn't give it much mind. This morning I was browsing reddit and read a thread about the continual degradation of the site. Someone mentioned Lemmy (new to me), but I thought "hey! I'll check it out, why not''. A brief google search gave me some iOS apps, and I wound up using Voyager (10/10 btw, Voyager reminds me a lot of Apollo in it's hayday). I applied/logged in....and just...wow. Wow y'all. Lemmy reminds me so much of reddit circa late 00's. Sure, there is a smaller user base, but so was reddit at the time. I remember the subreddit you were supposed to go to when you made an acccount and introduce yourself :D

And here on Lemmy, nothing looks like obvious bot posts. Content seems real. In correlation with that, the post titles seem pretty reasonable and not based around rage bait / click bait.

After setting it up on my phone, I found the desktop site (I'm on a laptop some times) and I adore a.lemmy.zip. To me its the perfect layout. The other incredible thing about Lemmy is just how seamless it was to set up, on both mobile and desktop. It feels super accessible to non-technical users, which is something I don't think is true for a lot of fediverse things.

But seriously, I used to adore reddit so much. Watching it fall apart has made me sadder and sadder over time. There was seemingly nothing in its place. I really felt like that era of internet over entirely. Just my first few hours on Lemmy has made me realize I was wrong, in the best way possible. It gave me chills. I'm looking forward to this platform growing. So anyway, thanks for any/all of you who developed/are developing Lemmy. It really, truly feels like a return to the golden age of social.

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