wow thanks, these are super cheap!

It comes for all tech at some point :(

Not sure if all tech, but definitely the ones that just want to grow grow grow. A counterexample (so far) is the Obsidian team.

I think there’s a difference though, in that capitalism rewards this kind of innate motive, while socialism doesn’t, so I think it would be much easier to build a system based on that that’s not fucked from the foundations like capitalism is. The societal benefits of capitalism always feel like an accidental side effect at most, when it should be at a heart of any economy system.

Also it definitely seems that holding power over others warps the human mind, so I would definitely advocate for distributing policy-making power as evenly across the population as possible.

passwords and secure notes of recovery codes and the like

And this is why every time a tech company raises venture capitalist funding, it’s almost inevitably on the road to enshittification, as the ones holding the pursestrings only care about what profit they can extract from the company over the next few years.

It needs a conscious effort from companies that are small but successful to stay that way, to keep their size and business model sustainable, and their mission connected to the interests of their users. From the top of my head I know Obsidian does it this way (fully user-funded), but there are probably others too.

it’s all motivated by the accumulation of wealth = capitalism

reading this as someone who migrated the rest of the household to Bitwarden literally yesterday: 😒

Makes sense!

it hasn’t left my PC in 20+ years 😎 (not counting OS reinstalls lol)

You think there are still redditors around?

I think it’s just troll farms and bots. Every once in a while someone stumbles into the site and says something. THEN there is a whirlwind of answers/speculations/theories/lies.

I guess it depends on where you look. All the subs I’ve been visiting where people actually hang out, rather than just a handful of karma farmers spamming, are still flourishing*, so I never fully switched to Lemmy, but use both 🤷 Reddit subs have a magnitude or two more people, so imho they’re better for news, memes and technical advice, while for the past couple years Lemmy feels better for insightful conversations.

* my main subs are for specific games and apps, a few countries/regions, and r/BestofRedditorUpdates, so ymmv

ugh I host my domains with them, but probably high time I switched away :/

edit: and done! switched to a local host :)

Please don’t recommend AI for therapeutic uses, it’s only been optimised to keep the user engaged and pushed many people into psychosis. Just search for “ai psychosis” on your favourite search engine and you’ll get a ton of reports on how LLMs validate vulnerable people’s delusions, sometimes pushing them all the way into murder and/or suicide.

I agree - there definitely would need to be many more reverse proxy services, because the current dominance of just a handful is making the internet brittle in ways it wasn’t before.

You won’t be able to access 22% of websites, among them many of the largest ones.

Lawnchair worked out pretty well for me, might be worth a try for you too? I just had to ignore that their promotional screenshots are all boring monochrome, turns out the launcher itself doesn’t force any colours :)

Allergic? No. Need certain features for my work that FLOSS software either doesn’t have or takes a lot more hassle to achieve? Yes.

Not paying for Adobe, but tried out Inkscape as an Illustrator alternative and damn its UI just felt so unintuitive - many tools and menus were laid out by a different logic than the one I’m used to. Also it still doesn’t properly support CMYK colours from what I can see on their website.

ew… it is my favourite launcher but I disabled updates once it got acquired 😭

Does anyone know of a launcher with similar customisability? All the active launchers I found focus on minimalism and no or monochrome icons, while Nova lets me arrange my colourful icons in whatever way I want, reskin them, etc 😐

Edit: Lawnchair’s Nova backup import feature in their newest beta release pushed me to try it out, let’s see 👀

Edit 2: ok it seems to only have lost my home-pinned website bookmarks, so this could be a workable solution 😊

I’m using the cracked versions released by m0nkrus, and they have worked reliably over the years.

Predictably Adobe’s apps are now full of genAI crap, but sadly(?) they still release useful new features as well, so I keep them up to date.

Thanks, I’ll check out Where Winds Meet! :)

(Edit: according to their Steam page they use genAI dialogue and art, so that’s a pass :/ )

Dunno about current adobes, but don’t they also run fine via wine? Have only one single tool so far that makes a bit trouble (mediamonkey).

From the reports I see on WineHQ, they are all various levels of broken, though the last versions tested were from 2024.