Best Solution is to not use Microsoft, i just setup an old Laptop with Linux Mint to see if it can work for my requirements.

If all goes well ill just use that for my main pc.

People will get outraged, scream for a bit and then accept it and keep using the service.

The additional ad-revenue will outscale the few users that quit by far and thus enshittification continues.

Tho i guess we should be happy for the few that escape the shothole instagram because social media is cancer anyways.

Which is good that you know now.

Not being on social media has helped me connect with friends more if anything, when i meet them irl they can tell me about their vacation, their new dog etc. because i didnt see it. Interacting with friends got human again and not a “yep seen that on fb” conversationkiller.

I also do not ever miss any of the people who i thought were important to keep touch with. Because i got their phone number and they got mine we COULD contact each other. But guess what we dont.

I got Netflix stock, and i can tell you guys that stock is just going up and up.

People rly are fking stupid

more like Signal, which is superior to Whatsapp snd iMessage

Apparently the way TikTok manipulates and influences users is so powerful ByteDance doesn’t want to disclose any of that information.

Even if that means they shut down their business completely in the US. Them considering giving up this big of a market is a very scary indication on how sofisticated and powerful their algorithm.

And ByteDance is basically controlled by the CCP.

Here is what you should know: never ever buy a shit product

I dont think so, Texas finally solved the problem with porn, now nobody can watch it and everyones life (and children) are finally safe.

/s

I use keepass with my database on onedrive.

Then i connect every device to said onedrive account, copy the private key manually on each device that i need to use.

I secure my databse with said private key + a passphrase.

Might not be the best setup, but i feel like with passphrase+key i am secure enough to have the db file in the cloud.

signal

yes you are because the plan has some sort of arrangement with netflix whwre they probably get a reduced price, but still counts you as a subscriber

Their subscriber rate goes up anyway, so they dont care.

Most of the people are to lazy or dont care enough to vote with their wallet unfortunately

yeah man then u know what this data is worth to them.

Its a shit choice between paying with your money vs paying with your data.

and pay in cash always everywhere.

If they accept no cash no business for me.

People are so used to seeing ads they probably wont bother, i have friends who work in IT who just acceppt that half of the sites they visit are full of annoying flashy and intrusive ads.

first point drives me mad, happens every now and then, a workaround is to close the tab and undo that, gets it to work again. Happens in normal mode as well

Now i just wish they fix the stupid bug where my tab becomes unuseable, it happens randomly and i cant reproduce, only thing that helps is to close it and undo the closing.

When piracy becomes more convenient to actually play the game sail those ships boys

As if a CEO had any idea of data, other than requesting it from their staff.

Just quit, these platform thrive on user generated content while selling your data and now they want money from you so you continue to create content for them.

All because they make you believe that you NEED them to stay in contact and up to date. In reality it’s much nicer to speak with friends personally, show a few pics and talk about your/their experience.

Too often when i still used that social media crap people would just cut me off with “yeah i’ve seen that already on fb,insta etc.” and no experience shared.

Being off social media, as weird as that sounds, made me feel more social and it’s more fun to interact with ppl again.