@otter@lemmy.ca

otter

@otter@lemmy.ca

I waddled onto the beach and stole found a computer to use.

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Note: I’m moderating a handful of communities in more of a caretaker role. If you want to take one on, send me a message and I’ll share more info :)

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otter,

I dislike a lot of their decision making, and I avoid Google Chrome because of repeated shenanigans.

I use Google docs, Gmail, google photos, etc. because it just works for me with school and work. I might switch to something for photos, but I don’t hate google. Just wish they’d be better

otter, (edited )

That’s still all I can see, what is it actually lol

Edit: got it right after posting whoops

“I use…”

otter,

A key one is batteries

Dell, and other brands, sometimes have it so the device will reject all third party batteries. It has to be one made by Dell.

Meanwhile they stop selling the battery for older devices, which is usually when you need one of those batteries.

otter,

I assumed that the people over in the DataHoarder communities had archives running this whole time. There’s probably data out there somewhere, it’s a matter of getting it into a usable hosted state

otter, (edited )

Could be familiarity? I saw an article go by recently about how projects that aren’t on GitHub suffer from lack of contributions. Although that matters more for smaller projects, Mozilla is a beast and could probably pull people off GitHub if it wanted to.

Also if anyone should be trying to build up an alternative to GitHub, it should be Mozilla

otter,

this

^(example of the types of comments that don’t really contribute anything)

otter,

Do you have any recommendations on which ones to go with?

Black Friday is coming up and I’ve wanted to try too

otter,

That’s not what they asked though, they’re already using Firefox and they don’t intend to drop it

otter,

I didn’t think to use that, thanks :)

otter,

Who’s the artist for this one?

I love it, would like to read more but the name is a little blurry

otter, (edited )

Also I’d rather there was a separate option for additional privacy than it be the default.

People who want the extra privacy can usually figure out what they need and how to get it. The average person will just switch back to chrome when websites break. They wont be able to figure out which settings to toggle off in order to fix the site

Keep Firefox useful for most people while also building more privacy friendly features.

If it’s something people SHOULD be using, have a popup explaining it and let people decide

otter,

Garbage answer:

Garbage collection and general management. It’s nice that we don’t dump our waste outside our homes anymore.

otter,

I saw that some people put emulators on them and thought it might be cool to have.

I’ll be honest, I don’t quite understand the hardware side of it and where the bottleneck will be

otter,

Since they’re not making them anymore, what might be the next best thing in the future? Anything to look forward to?

otter,

Sorry, I read they might not make any newer models and that they’re leaving the market (I read it somewhere on Lemmy).

Since the hardware is going to get more dated, I was curious what good alternatives are out there. Feels like there’s an audience for them

otter,

There was a Lemmy post with a video about how things have changed, which I even commented on, but I can’t find anymore.

What I remember was that yes they did address most of the concerns. There were some issues still (unrelated to data collection iirc), and there’s one other fork that’s being maintained if you don’t want that

Edit: I think the was the video, I don’t want to watch it again but I’ll link my TLDW if I find it: m.youtube.com/watch?v=QfmDn1IaDmY

otter,

Interesting, could you share more on how that works? Is it a neurological change or more of a physical “clogging”

otter, (edited )

For those advertising communities, also try posting on !communityPromo

As for some of the ones I’m helping with

otter,

Good point :) Here’s the blurb from the pinned post in !communityPromo

A great way to find lesser known communities is to look at the /communities page on an instance. For example: lemmy.ca/communities

🌐 Instances to look through

  • pangora.social (NEW): Great way to find instances related to a particular topic. This is also great for picking an instance when first making an account/moving accounts.
  • awesome-lemmy-instances: not that organized, but it

🔎 Search pages

🔥 Apps and Browser Extensions

🙌 Communities for discovering new communities:

Here are some other communities, some of which are less active:

Remember, you can also post questions about finding new communities right here!

👽 Coming from Reddit?

otter,

nope, it’s built in to lemmy

otter,

I love it, even better that it’s OC 😊

otter,

thanks! forgot to add those

otter,

Alternate link because this is worth sharing with others (who might not understand what this frontend is): www.youtube.com/watch?v=PyqNYGCmkQU

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