steelplatedmech

What bothers me is that all the data goes back to meta.

I’m glad I dont know who he is and I will continue to not know him.

These days it seems like the internet is more pleasant the less influencers you know, and most aren’t worth knowing any further about.

I think the past where people’s awareness of public figures was much more distant was a healthier time. Like knowing the famous athlete or actor, but nothing further about their lives and not feeling like “you know them” because they called our your username or liked your comment and not being able to send them a direct message.

I wish it were possible to just flash something else on it like you can on smartphones, and get rid of all the meta stuff on it.

Seens like the same thing to me since whatever meta calls themselves its meta as a corporation that creeps me out.

Looks like I’m never getting into VR for the same reason I didn’t years back. Price continues to be expensive, and only cheap options are meta which is a big no.

I wouldn’t touch them on Windows either. No way would I want to log into a Windows account on Windows when they collect stuff like activity history and upload everything you do on your OS and link it all to one account. And that was even before the GDID news.

I don’t even feel comfortable logging into a Microsoft on an OS level on Windows. Which is a huge reason I never paid for Gamepass and never will. And only version of Microsoft I’d touch is ltsc which doesn’t have the Microsoft store installed.

So I’d pass on buying from the Microsoft Store or Xbox app if their games weren’t on Steam or GOG.

What distro did Linus use that changed his mind? I remember him using I think CachyOS, and then other people saying that may have led to him encountering the problems he did.

I think people making I can make a better steam machine content might have also helped too.

Microsoft helped the most though with Windows 11 forcing tpm requirements, disliked UI changes, copilot, and increasing hardware costs.

Among non gamers I think the buy non US alternatives helped get those that would normally not give more niche tech stuff a try to also join in. Such as guides people would share with alternatives to emails, software, phones, messengers, and OS.

Many different motivating factors now from boycotts, global relations, affordability, and increased accessibility of Linux than in the past pushing some people that wouldn’t have changed if life were not as eventful as it has been the last couple of years.

I feel like I heard of more people switching after the Steam Deck, and then more after the forced expansion of copilot in Windows.

I haven’t heard much of ltt other than him trying Linux and not liking it. Kind of been more on the negative side until the Steam Machine. His attempts just seemed to end in disasters.

If youtubers are pointed to I think pewdiepie is the one with way more Linux influence given his bigger reach and going all in on it a long time ago as opposed to a recent stint of saying something good about it in passing due to the steam machine.

I know I’d just bring it in my bag with it turned off and not take it out until class is over.

It is nice to use third party apps again. I like summit on android.

Redit is Fun app was the best times. When they killed off third party apps it pushed me into a lurker, since I refused to use the official reddit app and didn’t want to go to the effort of patching old third party apps to get them working.

I would switch to Linux or Windows 10 LTSC if Windows is needed on the laptop.

People who are still using meta products might lean towards the demographic that isn’t as educated on it. And the top 3 scam platforms according to the article are meta ones. Which either leans older or younger these days with them appearing to have the same level of tech literacy.

Banning valuable subs like piracy, emulation, and roms would get at least those people. The subs that provide valuable guides and resources like that would have to get purged for users to be forced to seek out alternatives.

I hope they purge piracy, roms, emulation. Currently that is a huge valuable resource, and getting rid of that might lead to those users coming here. Those types of contributors are the ones who add value with their content.

Um… Lecture lecture lecture.

I don’t know what youtube ads are like anymore. I ran away long ago when youtube went from putting ads in the front of videos and letting you skip after a few seconds to putting them in throughout the video.

I ran to newpipe when using it on my phone and never looked back. Also started the domino effect of making it easier to cut off usage of google account related services.

On my TV I use a minipc and use firefox with ublock origin.

And on iOS I think brave blocks youtube ads, and ublock is available for Safari now. I never bothered to install the youtube app on iOS.

This is one of those cases where AI generated comment pasted over the original comments to poision the data comes in handy. So AI is training off AI.