Me: It's painful watching you deal with such utterly $#!++y software (esp. #Outlook), but I don't want so say anything, because it sounds like I'm just being critical.
Family Member: It's not like there's a choice.
Me: There's always a choice. The choices aren't easy, but you exchange one form of difficulty for another. It's like if you had a really terrible gardener. You'd fire him and do the weeding yourself. Still difficult, but way better.
@RL_Dane I'm not a fan of email period, other than the fact that it's a nice way to have a written record of when something bad happens and you have to CYA. Other than than, IM is much more efficient.
I was using Outlook for personal email but switched over to Thunderbird a few months ago. It's ok. It's still email lol.
Random thought:
"Acorn" is a self-describing name.
"A corn!" (corn originally meant "seed" before Maize was "discovered," imported, and popularized in Europe)
See also: "Island" (Is land!!)
(Of course, neither of these are actual valid etymologies. Just fun)
@RL_Dane Yeah, Hubzilla solves some of the problems we see in most other mainstream apps.
Like, what if my instance shuts down for good? Answer is nomadic identity.
What is my instance is broken for a few days or weeks? Answer is Clone your channel with another server, then use it while your main instance is down.
What if I want to post a photo of my family but only want certain people to see it, while these other people are on different servers without creating a room? Answer is Use privacy groups to limit visibility to those you specify.
Hubzilla also accepts RSS feeds and makes them appear as a real connection.
Hubzilla is the bomb. It's the Swiss Army Knife of the Fediverse.
I was surprised to find this in my mailbox this morning, as I had forgotten about ordering it.
I was pining for physical keyboards last week, and wishing I had bought a Blackberry when they were cheap AND still usable.
Unfortunately, the experience with this one was just bad. The keys are mushy, and there's no autocorrect when using BT keyboard (or maybe there is and I have to find out where to turn it on)
Maybe I should buy a used Blackberry, just to see what they were like.
Why it's suddenly necessary to involve arcane swipe gestures and round after round of "guess the mystery icon" to find a simple feature that has always been easily located behind the same menu in the same spot for the past 20+ years - on a desktop! - is absolutely beyond my capacity to understand.
It's so sad.
I'm imagining what smartphones could be like today if the iToy never happened.
Physical buttons, extensive and flexible mobile OSes, non-stupefied userbase.
And most of all, no destruction of desktop UIs to make it look like a 23" iFad.
2021: #Cryptocrap is amazing and will change everything for the better.
2023: #AI is amazing and will change everything for the better.
2025: The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse are our friends and will change everything for the better. No, really. Trust us. When has Wall St./Silicon Valley ever steered you wrong?
@teamtuck@RL_Dane I used to be hardcore Google but the lack of longevity on security upgrades and the fact that Google kills products/services (or lack of a real messaging platform) made me test the “dark side”.
My 2010 MacBook Pro was a beast and lasted me and my family 12 years! My iPhone XR could have lasted longer but I got a sweet upgrade for little to nothing.
I love FOSS and Nix OSes but I don’t feel shackled to Apple in any way. Sure, I still want UBlock Origin system wide for all of my iDevices more than anything but it’s less important than having devices that just work for me and my entire family. Continuity is amazing!