Honestly, they often still are more annoying, IMO. After all, it's not often that you see a Windows user being snobby about their OS, generally it's just used by default because of work or it came with their PC and they haven't bothered changing, or gaming.
Thankfully gaming on Linux is almost better than on Windows these days, it's exciting to see!
It's definitely not in your face. I've been using Windows 11 in some fashion ever since it was released, and I didn't even know there was a backup app. I just ran it now to look at it, and it's pretty tame. It syncs app installs from the Windows Store (which you don't even need to use ever) and some settings like accessibility. I've long since removed OneDrive, which is what it looks as if the backup app uses to sync folders, so it's disabled for me.
I'm not sure the backup app even does anything on it's own, really. It seems like it's just displaying some settings from other apps in a central location. 🤷♂️ This seems like a non story to me.
My worker cooperative helps authors self-publish, and we use as much open-source as possible to do that. We rely almost exclusively on a number of tools which are all better than proprietary counterparts for one reason or another (sometimes merely because they are free and allow us to keep costs minimal) but the main reason is most of our clients value unquestioned data ownership over anything else. We avoid corporate cloud services and self-host as much as possible, for example.
Having said that, IMO many of these are also better designed and better UI than comparable paid tools. Blender being the obvious best example, but WordPress is another one. I used to ignorantly shit on WP so much when I was working in the professional startup industry as a web developer. Since then, I've learned to my delight that it's awesome if you don't bog it down with a bunch of horrible plugins, and the latest versions with their block editor approach are so good for easy and quick theming.
Here's a list off the top of my head of our regularly used software. I'm sure I'm forgetting some, and many of these are going to be unsurprising:
Linux (seems obvious, but definitely worth mentioning. We primarily use Ubuntu and Debian based images.)
Caddy (web server with dead-simple config and automatic https support)
Zulip (chat, the threading style they use is so effective for organizing discussions about client work, it's miles beyond Slack or any other options we've all used in past corporate lives)
There's probably always a reason for an app to be slow. Even if the developer intentionally made it slow on purpose to fuck with people, that's still a reason. 😂
Capitalist propaganda has done a good job of equating itself to market trade so thoroughly that many people can't even imagine markets existing outside of capitalism, and they think absence of capitalism means nobody buys anything from anyone else.
I think AMOLED screens might make a huge difference. I've read countless novels on my phone with zero eye strain because the black pixels are actually entirely unlit and literally black. This means the brightness for the letters can be extremely low while remaining legible and comfortably readable for hours.
I'm not sure that it's inconceivable to scientists that interesting buildings existed half a million years ago, but there is a lack of evidence of that, so findings like this one are important.
Ugh yeah the small 4-person worker cooperative I'm part of has been trying to get Apple to let us enroll in their developer program for literally weeks now. Every time we clear some other nonsense requirement, there's a new one right behind it; and we haven't even gotten to the "pay $100 for the privilege of undergoing this process" part yet.
I can't believe Apple ever managed to build an application ecosystem around their products when they are so unfriendly to developers.
I read somewhere that proper emojis are more accessible for screen readers, so I've avoided using the old style smiley versions and textmojis ever since.
Spam is just pork and ham mixed with some salt and sugar, I don't see how that's not "real food", people all over the planet have eaten those things as food for thousands of years before someone had the audacity to ...put it in a can for convenient distribution.
Similarily i don't want devices talking to me, i want them making intuitive noises and if they ever do have to speak to convey complex information i want it to be in a clearly artificial voice because otherwise it's creepy.
I would love to find some interesting voices of this type for my phone TTS. Everything is "natural" now, but what if I want a voice like SHODAN or something?
One time when I lived in Utah, I literally got pulled over for driving the speed limit. Literally. The cop told me that I needed to go with the flow of traffic instead. He didn't give me a ticket, but it was still an annoying interruption to my day, and I assume it gave him a power boner of some sort.
But another time, living in the same area, I got pulled over by a different cop for going with the flow of traffic, because speeding isn't justified even when everyone else on the road is.
As another comment said, you're fucked if you do and fucked if you don't. Although, I do prefer the alternative of going with the flow of traffic to avoid road rage incidents as you've pointed out.
I'm not convinced that those deletion tools work on Reddit either; there's nothing stopping Reddit (or whatever site you're trying to scrub) from restoring your edits (which they've done to lots of people recently) or even just viewing the older version of your comment that is still present in their database without publicly showing that text.
Just because you've used some script that claims to scrub your data doesn't mean it did so. At most you may have toggled an is_deleted=true flag, or added another edit entry to the table your original comment was stored in, but that doesn't mean nobody has your data anymore.
The only way to be sure nobody can ever see your post history is to never make posts in the first place.
Yep, like if you want to know about new phones coming out or whatever other topic of interest, subscribe to one of the myriad magazine websites that obsess over that kind of thing. Ads for that stuff showing up everywhere including our damn physical mailbox is a public nuisance, and a waste of resources.
Ah yes, it's always everyone else's fault for not buying enough shit, and not wage stagnation and market saturation with pointless product offerings driven by the soulless demand for ever increasing growth by the wealthy under capitalism.
Never the system at fault, always the exploited not being obedient enough market consumers.
UPBGE is a free and open source game engine (it's a fork of Blender) and has node-based game logic built in. From what I understand, you can get really far with using only nodes. Maybe even your entire game, I'm not sure.
I have now stopped donating because y'all can't get off this topic.
When I stopped my donation, there was "other" then a box to say why. I filled it in. It's just one donation that stopped, but who knows, there could be more.
You stopped supporting the server you use because some other people (on different servers) commented about another topic entirely? I don't understand the logic behind that. Are you under the impression that someone posting from lemmy.ca is secretly the maintainer of lemmy.world? What's the logical connection here for you?
I don't understand; how would a potential mugger or murderer know ahead of time that you don't have a banking app installed on your phone?