I'm feeling the opposite, with federation it's trying too hard to be like social media.
I prefer to have disconnected communities like the forums of the old times.
erwan
joined 2 years ago
Web 2.0 was the web going from being just documents to web applications. And to an extend it's great, the problem is when sites that are supposed to be just documents (like news sites) try to become applications.
I still feel like the social web has sucked in a lot of things that used to exist outside of it.
Like blogs. I feel like the blog world was much healthier before most of the content moved out of independent websites to a unified dump of social shit.
Where in Europe? Depending on the country the IT job markets are wildly different.
Buying series on a disc is crazy expensive. You're better off subscribing to a streaming service and cancel when you're done watching, even with the price increases.
Not on my Steam Deck.
x86 handhelds also don't get hot or have their fans running if you play games that can be played on that thing (emulators, small indies).
It's only when you play bigger games, that don't exist on Android anyway that it runs hotter.
Seriously, there are people buying phones to play high specs games on it?
There are platforms that are so much better than phones for gaming, and most people playing games on their phones are playing small F2P crap anyway.
That's what they need to pay to get people to use it.
When Google was released in the 90's they didn't have to pay anyone, everyone wanted to use it.
Question is - is Qualcomm going to do the same bullshit as their mobile ARM processors with the drivers?
Where you need to wait for their proprietary Linux driver to upgrade your kernel?
Yes, until now we've accepted to be governed by what Big Tech can convince "average users" to use and here we are.
Internet is controlled by a handful of company who decide what you read, what you watch, how you communicate with friends and family.
They're still all disconnected.
It kills me that after going through the old messaging apps days (ICQ, AIM, MSN, etc), then a small window of hope with XMPP we're back to disconnected messaging apps on mobile.
Even worse: SMS is distributed. I can send an SMS to anyone in the world, even if they use an old Nokia phone on 2G with a mobile carrier I've never heard of. But instead of using its modern version, RCS, people are happy to hop from a proprietary service to another.