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2 days agoAfter installing an SSD and a couple of hours of clean-up, it was as fast as new. I guess with proper maintenance it can be good enough.
The reason people say Windows is “crap” isn’t the performance, it’s the ads.
James R Kirk
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31·2 days agoYou asked how can you live peacefully knowing that your words might be used against you. I don’t believe you can, and I also don’t believe you ever truly could. But I also don’t believe that is a reason to self-censor.
how can i live peacfully knowing that i can be suspected of anything just because i made a joke here or said something there?
You’ve never been able to say things publicly (or, since the internet, publish something that the entire world can read) and expect to be shielded from the consequences. There is always a risk that comes with speaking freely, especially if powerful people perceive your words as a challenge to their power.
The erosion of privacy protections is a reason to despair, but it is also a reason to speak more.
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Yesterday I caught you spreading disinformation to promote a for-profit social media company. Today you’re here with disinformation about Lemmy.
Privacy is a spectrum. But when 99.99% of userdata is publicly available no responsible person could call that service “private”.
I’m going to be THAT guy and point out that while Piefed and Lemmy instances have much better incentive structures to be good to their users they are very much NOT private and on the default instance setup nearly all data collected is publicly available.
EDIT: Many people in this comment section don’t seem to be understanding that “Lemmy” is not one website like Reddit. Each instance is it’s own thing entirely and there is ZERO guarantee than a given instance isn’t using hidden trackers. This is NOT a defense of Reddit or a criticim of Lemmy software which is very good. But it is a fact and you should be wary of the motivations of anyone claiming that “Lemmy” is private or similar.
1·4 days agoHa! That’s on me for not reading until the end, thanks for that.
That’s a good quote, I know she didn’t mean it this way, but it made me think of LLM chatbots. They have no substance beyond their power to convince. They’re basically pure marketing machines.
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10·4 days agoI agree, atomic distos have allowed me to make the switch and are better and easier than windows and even macos.
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No, you can’t. You can have a custom domain (“PDS” is the term they invented for this) but it still relies on bluesky’s servers.
Don’t let them distract with with the “whattabout matrix”. The Matrix Foundation is not a social media company, and furthermore it’s a nonprofit.
It seems that you’re implying they’re not? Could you expand?