I am so thankful that the executives took a productivity and happiness survey when we went full time remote.

Any time a new manager brings up maybe we should return to the office, our offcial remote manual begins with data: we are far more productive remote working. There is the data, the proof.

The second part about being overall happier reminds us that we didn’t really like being in the office either.

We also have two more metrics: amount of time saved by a company in commute reduction, and the increase in safety.

But the first two are the most important.

I switched when XP came out. Microsoft started enshitifying then and never stopped.

Agreed that it’s not really AI, but forcing a thing that doesn’t really do what is promised and uses a lot of energy to do it might might be something to be irritated about.

pretty cheap relatively speaking, and usually a lot more flexible depending on what you use.

You have to do a lot of work. You would have to keep up on what domains it’s using (which were in the dozens four years ago for samsung), and make sure it doesn’t use some as kill switches if it finds something blocked.

We aren’t stopping just ads, we are stopping spying, data sharing, snooping, network mapping, etc.

Its even easier to never let it on the network.

LinkedIn is not, nor ever was a social business networking site. It’s a data mining and harvesting site that recently added AI training data to the mix.

It is mind boggling that people use it, even before microsoft bought it for data mining, it was going through the users emails.

Avoid.

Its always been this way. Never said hello in the first place. But good to see people waking up to it.

In the micorosft line? Yes. Windows ID started here, telemetry, pushing their software, licensing schemes that only put you in control if you had a corporate key and so on.

My office jumped ship at XP, it was that bad. We went to Linux because getting work done was actually more important.

So many things finally caught up, we did a lot of server client things with the Linux stack for field offices.

Now they call it the cloud. Which means it isn’t your server.

XP started the enshittification and it continued year after year…

If you are talking about using Linux on a desktop, then use DigiKam for photo management. It is far more advanced, because it is a desktop application and been around a lot longer.

You could have a workflow of a desktop environment AND immich on the server for the best of what they both offer.

Want to mention some? I have no containers using that at all.

Perhaps you never clean up as you move forward? It’s easy to forget to prune them.

I can’t imagine. I can get all of that elsewhere, video is such a slow delivery…

There is something just wrong with quick cuts and fast in your face stuff. I swear it’s a simple dumbing down plus dopamine injection. It can’t be good for you.

How many quick short videos can one consume before they become tired of them? What is the bizarre appeal to that crap instead of actually doing something?

Yes I am typing here on Lemmy, you could make an argument, but damn you see ten short videos you have seen them all.

Because people have cell plans (and no land lines anymore, like most places) that they brought from their own country or region that a lot of the time a phone call would be long distance. Or have text fees for reminders, or a combination of both. So the solution, a long time ago, was a single method that has no fees for either.

Imagine if every state had a different cell phone carrier or go back even further to when it was long distance even just blocks or cities over. Now imagine a technology comes in that doesn’t care what carrier you are on, or if it’s long distance.

That is kind of what happened to countries. Especially if you have people who work in one and live in another or have clients in another.

So even though now maybe it isn’t long distance, or carriers talk to each other, everyone is used to the way they have been doing it for free.

Sure, I won’t use anything meta.

But it can be hard like I said. You want to make an appointment with a doctor, an electrician, flower delivery? They want your WhatsApp. You can’t make an appointment without it. They can’t fill out their billing system. They won’t call you on your phone because your number is long distance.

Everyone just expects WhatsApp. Makes it hard.

Instagram and WhatsApp… So hard to get people to stop. Particularly where smaller countries and people who travel are, where WhatsApp is the default phone.

So shitty.

Yeah, I see that. I must have just been lucky with my choice of search terms. I concede, its worse. The AI function shows them though, which is due to it crawling the tags? I don’t know.

I havent used google in a long time, I switched to Kagi and it works.

irony machine neocities

My first duckduckgo result was a scam result site for that domain to check if it was safe, lol.

Second result was the creators website page that linked back to neocities.

The duckduck AI result at the top however was a direct link to the neocities page. Interesting.

Kagi’s results were first result was the link.

I concede though, it is hit and miss with Duckduckgo, even doing site:neocities.org