No, I left it a couple of times before. But every time I left Reddit for one of the new sites, I came back, because it only took a couple of months for those sites to be taken over by Christian conspiracy theorists. I ended up back on Reddit because it was the least bad discussion site, but there were still huge moderation problems and a lot of bots/shilling.
At one point, I posted something positive about a large country with an enormous population which is adjacent to my home country, and how they pulled hundreds of millions of people out of poverty, and suddenly found that everything I posted anywhere was automatically downvoted.
There was a lot of paranoia in some specific subs because it seemed the articles posted were curated by people with an agenda, who may not have even shared our heritage. So it was no longer a safe space for us to discuss our community's issues. I got downvoted for bringing up inconvenient facts, like how bombs dropped by the US still kill and maim people in Laos every year.
In the end, outside of some NBA, Star Trek (again, dancing around/ignoring certain issues i.e. Why didn't Star Trek fans like Avery Brooks or what he said with Far Beyond the Stars?), and tech discussion, Reddit was circling the drain.
I found more community, and culture sharing, on TikTok of all places. The community I found there changed my world view.
As a KDE user since the last millennium, I love the work they are putting in.
But I was burned by the KDE3 -> KDE4 transition. And then the KDE4 -> KDE5 transition.
So I've parked on Debian bookworm for the next couple of years while KDE 6 gets ready. If it's good to go in 2 years when Debian trixie is released, great!
But if it's still a mess of Qt5 and Qt6 libs and still waiting for feature parity, I can stay on bookworm and still have a reasonably stable desktop until forky.
That's the POS that they released back in 2015, premium glass with ridged metal sides, and they only supported it for about four months with software updates before declaring it obsolete because of the chipset.
Yeah, my wife had one of those. Google Keep would crash and it was generally unusable. I sold and moved to iPhones after that experience for the next 5 years.
Yes. /r/DaystromInstitute was a level of Star Trek research and discussion that was well thought out, researched, and went beyond the usual "Who would win Borg or Dominion?" that most Star Trek forums fall into.
XP was garbage when it came out. Everyone wanted Windows 2000's interface back.
Also, you couldn't install Windows while connected to the internet or you would finish the install with the Blaster worm. You had to be quick to download the patch before your computer was discovered.
Yes, the LCD on the MacBook is where I learned of pwm dimming to start with. It's a solved issue for most LCD manufacturers.
Most OLED panels in the consumer market pulse at 240Hz. I can't see the flicker, but text is wobbly on the screen for me and I get headaches after a bit. Turn the brightness to 100 ... no more wobble, no more headache, and no more pwm.
It's the pwm dimming that causes eyestrain. Not everyone, but a sizeable portion of the population.
I found out about it from my doctor back in 2011 when my 11" MacBook Air was causing headaches. The screen blinks on and off at 240Hz which is enough for your eyes to recognize and try and adjust; but it's not enough for your brain to register what you are seeing.
I used a W530 later on and it was very bad, headaches at anything other than 100% brightness.
Lenovo fixed the issue in 2016 on most of their laptops, and the Retina MacBooks have never had pwm dimming.
Notebookcheck.net tests all their reviews for pwm dimming.