[-] MediaActivist@lemmy.ml 10 points 1 year ago

Oh, totally. I've lost count of the times I've helped folks with their computers and most of their problems seem to be from using Windows: "I'm confused about antivirus," "I keep forgetting to check on updates for the program I use so much," "I'm unsure if I'm on the correct site to download an exe file from," "I keep getting ads in my taskbar," "I was going to find a different browser to use but my computer dissuaded me from doing so," and on and on, and I just think "If only you'd simply try Linux."

[-] MediaActivist@lemmy.ml 12 points 1 year ago

Sigh. This is where I have to mention Brendan Eich yet again.

[-] MediaActivist@lemmy.ml 13 points 1 year ago

Yes. Yes, it has.

[-] MediaActivist@lemmy.ml 6 points 1 year ago

I love AntennaPod! I've relied on it for what feels like a few years (has it even been around that long?) and can't recommend it enough. Just give it time to get used to!

[-] MediaActivist@lemmy.ml 26 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

It started off well enough, but then it began talking about "left-wing propaganda" being promoted by Microsoft - an inherently right-wing capitalist corporation - and instantly lost all credibility. I expected it to degenerate into Covid denialism and tinfoil hat-wearing antisemitic conspiracy theories and tropes. Hardly a way to win over "normies" by sounding like an absolute freak in the first place.

Edit: Just checked and to be fair, the entire instance describes itself as "content on liberating your electronics from the tyranny of left wing Big Tech surveillance." God that's some mental gymnastics right there: left-wing capitalism. Please read a book.

[-] MediaActivist@lemmy.ml 22 points 1 year ago

It's almost as if the prime minister himself was a selfish billionaire or something. Oh wait!

[-] MediaActivist@lemmy.ml 6 points 1 year ago

I had no idea, so I'm glad this was posted - thanks!

I'm wondering, since I also have a kbin account, how effectively can I follow all the subscriptions I've had on Lemmy.ml?

I use Liftoff as my main app currently, and I assume I am probably yet to fully use its capabilities since I'm not always getting some of my subscriptions coming up, especially the kbin ones I found there and subscribed to from my Lemmy account.

[-] MediaActivist@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 year ago

I agree with a few others here in mentioning /e/ from the Murena phone folks (you can buy a Murena phone with /e/OS preinstalled if you don't have an older device they've listed as compatible on their website).

[-] MediaActivist@lemmy.ml 6 points 1 year ago

Holy crap. This is awful. Totally against the ethos and culture of the entire organisation as I know it.

[-] MediaActivist@lemmy.ml 17 points 1 year ago

And their CEO is a bigot.

[-] MediaActivist@lemmy.ml 17 points 1 year ago

Haha. Wow these big corporations are the biggest whiny snowflakes there are.

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I hope it's appropriate to post this here - apologies in advance if not.

You may know Park Hill flats for being included in TV shoots for shows such as Dr Who - and the status as a controversial icon of brutalist urban architecture (also a listed building as of 1998, making it the largest listed building in Europe!).

The apartment buildings are in a location central to the city of Sheffield in England.

There are now proposals to increase the number of car parking spaces, seemingly without much consultation and as a means to generate profits, in opposition to local plans to extend the Peak District, protect green spaces, promote Sheffield as "an outdoors city," and prevent flash flooding.

There is now a drive to build greater opposition to these proposals, from residents (local and beyond), who have put together more information here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/12V9NeL-YT51LJD13spBfkiPObBuBK80ysz0d5S6uZGE/mobilebasic

We can't keep letting this happen!

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