Its lighter and the size of an ipod nano. And I don’t care if it is dropped or breaks and there’s nothing important on it.

When I go on runs I don’t want to be carrying a phone.

I wonder if apple still provides battery replacement for it.

Yeah, it’s like consoles vs PCs. Those who are hardcore PC prefer it due to all the flexibility it provides while hardcore console people find PC too troublesome and complicated.

Which is also the case for smart phones vs PCs where PC is too complicated in that aspect too with people preferring easy to use sandbox and don’t even know what a file explorer is.

This is one of those cases where as opposed to people not adopting new tech because they are less educated like old people had trouble comprehending the Internet its more tech and privacy educated individuals being aware of the risks. And even if they use AI they’d opt for a locally run open source instance over the corporate provided ones the masses flock to.

Like people who set up their own personal security camera system versus those who mindless pick up a Blink camera without a second thought.

Someone should tell them it is possible to use reddit and also lemmy. And reddit removing posts is a good reason to use both, so content that disappears on reddit continues to be accessible on the fediverse.

I think the best way to convince people to use the fediverse is by pointing out they are likely already using social media other than just reddit, so they should add the fediverse into the mix instead of being so hesitant about it.

Trying to make it like a reddit replacement I think is adding some barrier to adoption psychologically. But, these same people are fine using reddit, twitter, instagram, threads, tiktok, bluesky, etc. So it’s not like they dont have room to also use the fediverse like lemmy.

Yeah, it’s crazy that someone could have gotten like a Ryzen 5 1600 then upgraded to a 5800x3D around 5 years later without needing to buy a new motherboard, which usually can mean having to buy a new set of ram too.

For a long time just doing a new build if upgrading to a newer CPU used to be the thing when Intel was dominant.

Yeah, and when CPU is the bottleneck upgrading the CPU, mobo, and ram but not the GPU.

This time though I only upgraded the CPU, since AM4 had supported multiple generations of CPUs. One of the best things to happen for PC.

I think it is pc gamers who get the most out of TVs funny enough. Particularly when it comes to framerate, since I was enjoying 60 fps while 2 consoles generations passed with 30 fps being the standard. And when 120 hz came out I was enjoying 120 hz on some titles with freesync before the PS5 came out.

But, for average tv/movie watchers streaming stuff as well as console gamers prior to PS5 lot of the features of 4k TVs weren’t fully utilized.

Have you liked the colour? I’ve started reading some light novels, and that made me wish I could see color for some of the occasional illustrations instead of pulling out my phone for them.

It is because there are less roadblocks to completely changing out the OS to be completely degoogled than it is to do the same for an iPhone or iPad. OS is the part that is the most damaging than the hardware itself, and alternate deAppled OS for iPhones and Ipad are pretty much nonexistent.

Best thing about ltsc is you only get security patches. All the amazing features people get like copilot and more copilot and yet more copilot is stuff ltsc doesn’t get.

You can use rufus to bypass whatever hardware requirements there are like tpm if you need to use Windows 11. For ltsc tpm isn’t even a requirement and has the copilot crap removed.

Even people who don’t care about usage of propaganda are affected, since these social media addicted folks have brought up how they are getting more unrelated propaganda content exposed to them even if all they want to see is cats and food recipes as an example.

Billionaires are running the most popular social media sites and utilizing the algorithm to attempt to influence their addicted userbase on a large scale, and succeeded on many demographics and even win elections.

I don’t think it is a stretch to call it a moral panic, because its not an unbiased and transparent system that is dictating what is seen and spread. It is a huge black box propganda tool.

I think it has gotten better, since we used to not have fediverse as an option from corporate social media. And I’m happy with the level of activity.

What is mentioned as pros are cons to me haha. The idea of sharing stuff so people can just catch up on your life without even contacting you just seemed like a creepy concept to me from the beginning.

I’ve preferred people just contact me directly or I contact them instead of documenting life events for people to browse through. Then there’s facebook having all those photos and messages and personal documentation to have a very strong profile on you that adds to the additional creep factor.

Instagram is one of the shittiest social media since it goes out of its way to become unviewable for those that aren’t logged in. So its a really shitty platform to use in place of a regular site.

It does say a lot though that I’ve seen comments in this very thread suggesting rednote as a tiktok alternative. So people just doing the same thing all over again even if they use the fediverse.

I just don’t have much expectations of people changing. Better to just be happy that at least those of us that are “weird” due to being fine with being somewhat cut off from rest of mainstream social media have those options now. So not too concerned about numbers increasing, since it was never much an expectation.

Old school forums didn’t need more than a few hundred or maybe a thousand active users to be happy compared to the millions people have come to expect now.

I think it is like Linux where those who opt for it are fine with some of the shortcomings being outweighed by aspects they value more.

For the majority, negatives can be things they don’t even see as a con, but the shortcomings deal breakers.

I think from a small active community it is fine for users who value that more than being the largest mainstream social media option. But, not something the average mainstream user will go out of their way to stick with.