I got a lot of complaints from family, too. Especially because I block Meta. I just let them bitch and I tell them things like “those ads are broken because of malware” which isn’t entirely untrue.

Box breathing can help. Inhale slowly for four seconds. Hold for four seconds. Exhale slowly for four seconds. Hold for four seconds. Repeat the cycle a few times.

I run RPG games for my friends. I create a new vault for each adventure. I typically create document folders like: locations, npcs, objects, events, rules, notes.

For common stuff that I use in every adventure, I just copy those files and folders into the new vault from the most recent old vault (the rules folder, for example).

I love how lightweight and simple this is in Obsidian.

I use links where it makes sense to me, and I don’t worry overly much about link counts or the graph view. (I use both, I just don’t stress over it). The tool should work for me, not vice versa.

I don’t use plug-ins, but I do use style sheets and game specific fonts. Autohotkey is also great for making repetitive and/or complicated formatting easier. Getting the fonts embedded into the first project was a technical nuisance, but now I just copy that into every new vault.

Watching YouTube videos made by Obsidian power users, I’m super impressed by the things some people do with it. But I prefer keeping my workflow fairly simple. If I spend too much time messing with the tool, that feels counterproductive to me.

Preach. I hate the “bubble” that curated / sponsored feeds try to wrap everyone inside of.

The admins are the worst but honestly 80% of the reddit mods are absolute trash, too. They may be volunteers working hard for free, but they are addicted to their “power” and will do anything (including humiliate themselves and lick admin boots) to hang on to that “power”. It’s beyond pathetic.

Worse, they have a serious “uber mod” problem, where a small number of moderators lord their “power” over multiple popular subs. The general rule on there is, the more popular a sub is, the worse it will be.

Reddit was once a treasure trove of information…but that once valuable hoard is swarmed over by goblins and trolls.

Really hoping it fails or it’s just another abandoned Google project, but it’s deeply worrisome for us netizens.

Shit like this is why I use ad blockers and route all my home network traffic through a Pi Hole.

If Google gets their way with their evil “Web Environment Integrity” bullshit this is going to get so. Much. Worse.

This is what happens when you let MBAs and marketers run things to the point that competent cybersec folks and coders leave, or quiet quit, and/or give up on best practices. Microsoft is a clown company.

Whenever I get frustrated by the outages I remind myself: still better than reddit.

Reaper is awesome. It’s pro tools for non-millionaires.

Me too, friend. Me too. Very similar situation.

The MBA dickheads took Microsoft over years ago. Engineers used to have some input on features and design, but those days are long gone. I know the term enshittification has been overused, but it applies double to Microsoft.

Tools like ShutUp10 (which works on Windows 11) are the only reason I can bear to use their bloated horrible OS for my job.

Office 365 pissed me off so much I only use LibreOffice now (and it’s excellent).

We should all be using Linux, but some folks (like me) are trapped for now.

I have a Brother color laser that I like, and a Brother black and white laser / scanner that I love. I will say I don’t particularly care for the Brother scanning software, so I use NAPS2 instead (and it’s awesome IMO). That’s just a personal preference, though. Plenty of people think the software is fine.

Yup, even Digg is still around. Like you, I think reddit will be around for many more years. The content quality, which is already bad, will continue to get worse.

I didn’t migrate to Lemmy to help kill reddit. I’m here to help Lemmy grow. It’s already a better experience in some ways. Rough around the edges, and needs some features and fixes, but I feel like the user base is already much better than reddit is.

The DSM should add a subsection.

Dave Foley.

I agree with the article that real estate is at the core of the issue. Always follow the money.

However, I also think some mid-level supervisor types get off on the power trip of making subordinates do things they don’t want to do, such as wasting several hours a week commuting and polluting between home and office.

And of course you’ll always have the suckups who want to score points by acting so eager to show up in person. They are the reason it’s so hard to unify and fight these measures in many shops.

I’m not talking about people who have a genuine preference for working in the office. There are many legitimate reasons to have such a preference. I’m talking about psychos who want to force everyone to do it when it’s not necessary, and don’t support telecommuting as a legitimate way to work.

Apologies for sort of weaseling out of a committed answer…but I do think the Dead Internet theory will be true at some point, and that we’re already on the way there. However, I don’t think it’s absolutely true right now.

I think selection bias is part of it, we tend to hear from the folks who run into issues more than the folks who don’t. I also think a drive that sits on a desktop or in a drawer most of the time in an air-conditioned house will last much longer than one that’s often thrown into a bag and transported in vehicles, airports, etc.

Just throwing this out there for anyone shopping for storage drives. BackBlaze does a pretty good regular writeup on the drives they use and how they perform, how reliable they are, etc. It’s very informative and a fun read (if you’re into nerdy stuff).

https://www.backblaze.com/blog/backblaze-drive-stats-for-q2-2023/