I can’t stand application clutter on my second monitor. So the only thing I keep open is a tiny window for discord but half the screen stays uncovered. Keeping app windows small reduces distraction for me if there’s some sort of pop up. I’m not staring at it, but it’s always in my peripheral vision.
I have an animated 80s-PC-vibe sirenhead wall paper with a music bar visualizer and working clock I’ve had since 2021 and I love it too much to ever take it off…
I haven’t touched it since, so I don’t know what’s going on currently
It’s AIM and Yahoo messenger in a group message format with work spaces and gif support. You can organize stuff in there as well and use it like a pseudo Teams. Its good for keeping in contact with a friend group.
It got popular because someone in your game could just send a link and you could temporarily voice chat without ever needing to make an account.
One of my professional organizations uses it over slack. My RP groups use it to organize, save stuff, and plan sessions. It’s impossible to get away from now, so now is the time for it to enshittify.
Since everything has moved off forums into discord, so much information can no longer be found through search results. This hurts for niche hobby stuff that would usually be in open forums, but are now hidden behind discord’s non-indexed wall.
If it enshittifies and servers shut down, then all that information is lost. There’s no easy way to export all that information.
You get social security if that’s what you mean, but chances are the boomers will drain it all before my generation gets a whiff at it. And it’s ass anyway.
We have sophisticated systems that detect and prevent inauthentic behavior, coordinated manipulation, and astroturfing, and we recently announced that any fishy automated accounts will be asked to verify their humanity.
Uh huh sure. Like I didn’t just watch my favorite gaming subreddit get locked after 2 weeks of constant copy paste spam posts about IPTV that even the simplest automod line could have fixed. I reported every single one of the and yet the accounts could keep posting.
They weren’t AI, but rather paid spammers from spam networks in India or Africa, so they can bypass biometric requirements.
According to Startrek you need a deadly riot first before that happens.
I am not a mechanic and can’t fix cars, but I have found the same to be true for just jumping a car with jumper cables.
Where is my battery on my 08 Toyota Corolla? Right there. I can see it.
Where is the battery in the 19 Honda pilot? Under some bullshit, have no idea where it is without a YouTube video and even then you need baby hands to fit through the junk and reach it without taking anything out.
Where is the battery in the 19 Toyota hybrid? I think it’s under the trunk?? I don’t know because by this point I had given up and just called a tow truck and purchased a portable jumper for my 08 Toyota I was trying to jump with those two vehicles from my family.
I’m not buying a new car until it rots out from under me.
Epstein was planted by Israel to control the most powerful in the US with blackmail of the abhorrent shit they did. They still have them all under their thumb from the info he gave them.
Now Israel basically controls the US thanks to all this bullshit.
You can just buy cheese powder??
Never had those, but the fun shapes one was always my favorite since I was a kid and now even those taste like the plastic the regular ones tasted like for awhile.
I’ve really been liking Goodles. Reminds me of what Kraft used to taste like.
Kraft changed their macaroni ingredients and now it tastes like plastic, so…
Some of the gen zers I come across can’t even double click an icon on PC.
There’s no reason not to have an update button somewhere.
I only have 3 hard drive slots and they are for gaming.
Surely not for 1 TB though. I want to stay on Linux for the most part and save my stuff there.
If I missed a payment does my email get deleted? Or is it just held until I pay up again? My fear is losing my stuff because I forgot to pay after a card change or something.
I eventually want a NAS to self host cloud storage and all that too but costs are a big problem so I’m stuck with Google for the meantime anyway with 14 gigs of stuff.
SSDs costing $300 for me. For some reason my current drives refuse to partition. I got an old laptop on it, but it barely works regardless of what OS is on it.
I would love to host my own email but PC parts are outrageous right now and I can’t even afford to update my main rig.
Everyone degoogles for their own reasons. For me it’s not even about privacy, I just really can’t stand ads, enshittification, or paying subscription fees.
VERY big difference between necessary utility bills for life and random subscription shit like Netflix, don’t you think? Stop being pedantic.
Proton has a smaller storage limit and I refuse to pay for any monthly subscriptions.
Evidently the malware is stored in wallpapers that have a built in game in them? So it’s a bit more involved than just the usual animated wall paper.