deweydecibel @ deweydecibel @lemmy.world

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Honestly, the automatic datetime conversion is the worst part if you're just trying to keep it text. It's idiotic there isn't a simple way to turn off that off. That's not formatting, that's actually changing the data in those cells which may not be what you want.

Also the fact Microsoft just doesn't seem to respect that the user is the admin, not them. You can still claw back control, but over the years, the amount of clawing you have to do has increased.

To put it simply, I hate when my OS does something I explicitly told it not to do, or undoes something I deliberately set. And as the years have gone by, the amount of times that happens with Windows has skyrocketed.

I absolutely cringe to make this comparison, but reading your comment, it's the first image that came to my pop-culture poisoned mind, so here we go:

In Rick and Morty, when Evil Morty has finally achieved his long-sought and hard-won goal of escaping Rick and the Central Finite Curve, that sigh of relief he gives before stepping into the new untamed universe.

That's how I feel about making the move to Linux, personally. That sense of overwhelming relief to be free of something you hate so much is a reward. That's why I put in the effort to manage Linux. Being free of Microsoft's (and Apple and Google) shit is something I want so much that I'll not only put in the time, I'll even enjoy it somewhat.

I spend a not insignificant amount of my work week now dealing with quarantined or bounced mail from other companies that can't or won't set up DKIM, SPF, and DMAC properly. Not individuals, companies, with IT departments.

You'll never get most people to properly manage their own email server.

There is a not-insignificant amount of start ups and small projects out there looking to hook the privacy-minded crowd seeking smaller, independent replacements for Microsoft /Google/Apple's various services and suites.

And that's good in the sense there's more options, but some of them (not all, but some) don't seem to be from people that truly believe in their product and intend to maintain it long term, they just want to get enough users to get acquired.

It's not habit, it's that there are many things on Reddit that are not on Lemmy in any meaningful sense yet. I use reddit for those communities that don't exist here and I don't feel like quitting, but Lemmy gets my full attention for everything else.

Using both platforms at once is more about necessity and patience. Lemmy will grow, I'm certain of that, but I'm not going to pretend it's anywhere near active enough yet to fully replace every aspect of reddit. It will, but it isn't there yet.

Yeah a lot of these privacy focused email services refuse to let you export or forward or pull mail to a third party client. On the surface, it makes sense for the encryption and privacy they advertise. In reality, it feels like denying the user the option to control their email how they choose, and a way to keep you having to use their apps.

Always be wary of any privacy or security service that doesn't give you an easy option to bypass their walls with your own data should you want to. Far, far too often the tech space in general refuses to acknowledge that security and privacy are extremely convenient covers for blatant vendor lock-in tactics.

I like Tutanota, and honestly, even though the app feels "old", I kind of like it. I don't think of that as "old" , I think of it as "professional". It doesn't look like a fisher price toy with giant round objects taking up the visual space, floating an annoying distance from on another for no reason. Though I'm keenly aware some "modern" UI designer will be brought in at some point to make it chase iOS aesthetics, as all apps must apparently do now.

What I don't like about Tutanota is that if I want to use something other than the app, there's no way. You can't use Tutanota in a different email client and you can't automatically forward emails.

I appreciate why. Only allowing access to email through their app helps keep everything encrypted end-to-end.

But not providing the option to allow certain mailboxes to be pulled into Thunderbird or Outlook makes it hard to justify a full move to Tuta. I don't need that level of security for every single email sent to every single one of my addresses, and I'd like the convenience of being able to let some come through to Thunderbird.

Proton allows this an option, Tutanota does not.

I mean....yeah? Did you think progress was going to come from the outside? Someone's gotta make an effort to steer the ship the right way.

Wait I thought this was dependent on the channel?

I've got a Discord account, on a lot of different channels for FLOSS and other things, and I've never set up a phone number. I have occasionally come across certain channels that I can't join without one, but the vast majority I've joined don't seem to require it

Not to defend Discord, by the way. It's fucking terrible and I despise this trend of telling people to come to your little private clubhouse to learn more about your software so I can sort through a bunch of obnoxious gif and image spam, while using an absolutely terrible search engine.

2012? The LHC black hole shit was the mid 2000s, around 2008 is when it peaked.

Which itself was a repeat of the same concerns that were thrown around in 2003, when CERN thoroughly debunked them the first time.

And I have full confidence we'll see a return of them once this project gets closer to fruition.

Just as an aside, why do some people take the time to use proper punctuation, capitalize proper nouns, make use of extensive commas and parentheses when most people would never miss them, even some text formatting, but completely refuse to capitalize the first letter of each sentence?

Seriously, what is that? Is it a sub culture thing I'm not aware of?

Like this right here:

i said I cant survive for 3 months without pay, I have a mortgage and they looked me in the eye and said:

The first I isn't capitalized but the next ones are. It's not laziness, that's a choice. Why would you do that?

That was in 1985, when conservativism was on the rise, and even then, it was extremely close.

But frankly I doubt it would even work today, and definitely not in Kentucky. What ads could Democrats run that is more effective than the Fox News Kentuckians injects into their veins now? The country is pretty significantly different now when it comes to politics and campaigning, and the demographics of Kentucky have shifted too. Kentucky is solidly Trump country now

Just like Ohio has become. Sherrod Brown has an outstanding Congressional record, he's been well liked for many terms, and he's been able to straddle the gulf between being a (mostly) progressive Democrat in an increasingly red state. It's remarkable he won his seat back in 2018. He's been a terrific Senator, but to spite all that, his seat is in real jeopardy, and it's entirely because of the letter next to his name.

It's not capitulation, it's an acknowledgment that this is cancer, not a virus.

America is not under attack, it's suffering from actions of its own people. We can't keep pretending like Trump or his supporters are an aberration, they are a significant portion of this country, and if we cannot change them, or change how the system works without their agreement, then we're stuck like this for quite some time until some sort of generational or cultural shift happens.

It's not nihilism, it's seeing the state of the field and acknowledging what the actual problem is. The question then is what we do about it, and chiefly, how much time we have left to do something about it before the damage becomes irreparable.

The tool is virus-free.

If someone points out valid concerns being raised about your software, and this is the only thing you have to say in response, that's not reassuring.

I don't get why someone would be willing to put in the effort to block that domain rather than just install a different launcher. Much simpler, less likely to inadvertently break something else.

Someone still on Reddit should go add a comment about the virus total, preferably as a reply to that top comment for visibility.

The camera existing was definitely part of it, not just an indicator light.

Also Google Glass was designed to be "casual" in that you'd always be wearing them passively, even when not actively using them. Therefore you'd have to be aware of the camera on you anytime you're in the room with someone that had them.

Apple's aren't the sort of thing people are just going to be wearing around all the time in casual moments. I mean, some will, but the vast majority of use cases will be purposeful, not just wearing them to wear them.

What a bizarre meme to post on a fettiverse site.

The whole idea of this place is trying to recapture the open and decentralized web in a new form, isn't it?

This feels like you want to rant about something else.

You're making the assumption anyone not happy with the current state of the internet must be some asshole that got de-platformed for being a Nazi.

You're also assuming all of this is about wanting people to have to see the things they say.

All of which is a strawman argument.

Fuck those people and their whining about whatever hate nest they were in before being banned from Reddit, but that's not the only thing happening here. And seeing as you're from lemmynsfw, I feel like you should know better than to assume that. I mean, hell, why are you here on the fediverse at all if those corporate controlled spaces are so agreeable? You know the Nazis aren't the only things those platforms eject, censor, or manipulate.

Being against corporations and the centralization of the internet under their umbrella on a few platforms is also about the way that ends up shaping the rest of the web and the standards that go along with it. The internet being primarily shaped by board rooms instead of people, basically. That was always at least somewhat the case but it's gotten dramatically worse.

Even though they're "big bad corporations," they paid for the labor and resources to build their platforms.

And then Elon Musk buys the platform and ruins it. Let's not act like the people pulling the levers on this shit are always the actual developers or customers or contributors or whatever else you want to pretend makes a corporation do what it does.

Also, what's on those platforms? What, or who, gives them their value? Who makes the content that drives people to them? A well designed app is worthless without content. Who makes it?

They invested time and money to build a thing, human users are what made it worth a damn, then they make money on those user's work. So when those human users are fucked over by a board that needs to see the line go up, they have every right to be upset.