Literally have not been back since I decided to leave before the blackout.
Considering incised to spen hours a day s rolling that place, I haven’t missed it and just moved on. 12years or more I was a regular contributor and viewer and quit cold turkey style :)
It’s good to know I’m not alone… I buy a lot of games and have a huge catalogue over a number of systems. It really is the thing I enjoy most as downtime.
However, I can count on one hand how many title screens I have seen over the last 5 years. I get so far, lose interest, move on. Several months later I will feel like playing again, wipe the save and start over rinse and repeat.
Games that keep calling me back however are Skyrim, Fallout 4 and the Bioshock trilogy.
Gerally it’s decent… I don’t use it anywhere near as much as I used Reddit but I’m not sorry to see the back of that place.
It can be a little buggy sometimes, responses dont post or further posts fail to load. I think the lack of consistency is whynim using it less at the moment but overall, happy chappy :)
Gerally it’s decent… I don’t use it anywhere near as much as I used Reddit but I’m not sorry to see the back of that place.
It can be a little buggy sometimes, responses dont post or further posts fail to load. I think the lack of consistency is whynim using it less at the moment but overall, happy chappy :)
I have never understood people’s lack of ability to just move on.
Don’t like something, like seriously just move on, don’t like a post / comment, move on rinse and repeat.
You’re not going to like everything and you’re not going to agree with everyone, and you know what… That’s alright, it’s being human !
That a Welsh username by chance?
And yea, thoroughly depressing… I find the situation similar to the old micro transaction / shit game port situation where the masses couldn’t care less and the small minority rebel and have little to no effect.
Sadly those that care about these things are generally grossly outweighed by those that couldn’t give a toss. I haven’t been back to Reddit for 4-5 weeks now and as a very early Reddit adopter I thought the break would be harder than what it has been. I have mentioned in a few posts here that the most surprisong thing to me is how often I was being served subtle ads guised in the form of content on Reddit. In 4 weeks or more I don’t think I have seen a brand as such mentioned on Lemmy yet with Reddit it was legit every dozen posts. I knew this went on, but it took a week or so on Lemmy for me to realise the actual extent of it…
Good riddance to the place, Lemmy feels like the early doors of the internet and I’m quite comfortable here :)
Thanks for this… I honestly thought it was a bug of sorts and commented as such somewhere below.
This is a pretty poor usability design decision and hope they reverse it.
Ha ha… Someone internally really needs to be like “dude, seriously shut up at this point you’re just making it worse” .
There is nothing more amusing than someone with an enormouse ego making a complete cluster fuck of a situation.
Like the box that contains the internet on the IT Crowd…
As the audience stares in sheer awe !
:)
I once had one on an e-commerce store…
“The dollar sign before the price looks a little bland… Can you make it POP or doing something more interesting like make it move around or something?”
Completely agree… I see so many posts with “I would like this feature from Reddit etc.” But honestly, it’s quite refreshing to have something different.
The API changes were just the straw that broke the camel for me as after 13 years plus on the platform, it didn’t even resemble what I initially signed up for.
I legit hope Lemmy doesn’t turn in to a Reddit 2.0 where every reply to question is someone trying to be a smart ass and where not conforming to the ideology of the masses gets you nuked.
I too remember the days of IRC and I remember sitting in certain channels where we would all take turns in staying silent and allowing someone on the chat to hit the record voice and play a Jazz song they loved. I would sit there all night listening to and sharing music with people from all over the world drinking beers and chatting among ourselves.
Man, the early days of work arounds and early internet I miss. Every night of surfing was seriously exciting as you never knew what you would stumble on or find. Now it’s the same dozen websites over and over rinse and repeat.
Anyhow, nostalgia and gripe over… I agree 100%.
I’m really enjoying Lemmy as is and don’t want to be wishing it away any time soon !
Thanks ! I ended up installing Mint and couldn’t be happier.
It installed the Nvidia driver for me, the one thing I did note is it didn’t play well in managing the dual graphic chips.r When I was using a secondary display, there was a huge amount of lag on the second monitor even when mirrored.
I changed the system settings to only use the Nvidia card and job is a good one. It’s been many years since I have dabbled with Linux (I’m talking Windows XP era) and to see how far it’s come and how easy the process is these days was surprising to say the least. I got everything set and today will be the first of using Linux as a daily driver!
Thanks both… I have just installed Mint and I’m up and running :)
Heated Fedora mentioned in a few different places so will definitely keep it on the radar !
Thanks so much ! I really appreciate it… I have literally just hit the install button so no going back now :)
Thank you !
At the moment I want it out of the box and just work. I want to see natively how much of my workflow I can actually migrate across. I am however a brute in my day job and have no doubt that once I’m relatively comfortable with some form of Linux I will stretch it and eventually head somewhere I can fully customise like Arch.
I’m semi Linux literate as I manage a number of web servers so I understand the absolute basics. No more, no less :)
Thank you so much for this, I really appreciate the vote of confidence and also the extended rabbit holes to start going down :) :)
Well,. that’s pretty epic… Will. Definitely follow that Git! Thanks :)
I hear you… it’s a killer isn’t it.
The number of times I have made a rod for my own back with clients… “Yea, I’ll add that I’m for you no problem”…
The famous last words.
The can of worms opens and a few rounds of crisis of confidence and tears later, eventually get there and think, I’m keeping my mouth shut from here on in.
Rinse and repeat :)
MSN was a blast… I can’t say I used Gooey or Odigo they don’t ring a bell :)
I remember eventually progressing into IRC relay chat (the app I used to use was called MIRC) and that was a blast.
I remember the first time talking to someone on MSN and they were in America. I’m not exaggerating when I say it blew my mind ! I could reach out and speak to someone that far away almost instantaneously. It was and still is phenomenal to me. So much so I eventually changed careers to become a developer :)
Yes… Melted on anything…