No, I don’t think so. Not in the sense that social media became defined. Web forum, and bbs rooms, existed long before the term. The key difference and turning point was self promotion, and the removal of anonymity. I know they are similar and overlap, but the evolution from one to the other did occur. Reddit and Lemmy still have more in common with news aggregation and forums than say a Titter, Instagram, Facebook, or TikTok. Most of the content here is in reference to something else, end then discussion are on that.

If you look up the history of the term the turning point is definitely the change to having real personas and real people connect. That is where the “social” part comes from. The term “social networking”. But we are not social networking here. Do you actually know anyone here? Do you want to?

No, I don’t think so. Not in the sense that social media became defined. Web forum, and bbs rooms, existed long before the term. The key difference and turning point was removal of anonymity, and the concept of self promotion. I know they are similar and overlap, but the evolution from one to the other did occur. Reddit and Lemmy still have more in common with news aggregation and forums than say a Titter, Instagram, Facebook, or TikTok. Most of the content here is in reference to something else, end then discussion are on that.

I don’t consider this or reddit social media. I don’t know anyone, nor do I care to.

Instead it is like a collection of forums since forever like in the bbs days.

I pick and choose what rooms to go in and learn something. But it isn’t about me, or staying connected. You know, the social part.

I took the steam deck on my last trip out of country to use on the flight.

There was a monitor, mouse and keyboard at my destination. I worked for several weeks and used the steam deck in desktop mode for me, and used remote desktop on it for work.

So I didn’t have to bring my laptop anymore.

Awesome little device.

You are saying, regulations will fix this? Politicians create the regulations, the fines, and enforcement.

Political parties are running on platforms of deregulation right now.

I can see that’s the difference. I never went to /r/all. I picked things I was interested in and if they were good subs I joined them. To each thier own I guess.

I have been on Reddit for a few more years than you but never blocked anyone. Why not scroll past and move on? I find it weird to block or mute. On the other hand seems perfectly reasonable to curate your view to places you enjoy visiting. I don’t bother (usually) seeing anything outside of what I am subscribed to.

And that is the reason I don’t block anyone: they often are not in a place I visit OR they happen to be rational and interesting when it is not the crazy thing I might consider blocking them for.

But I understand your experience may be different than mine.

Goes to? Now even many libraries have streaming options.

Streaming has become remarkably easy, all in one place and free. No need to even sail any seas these days.

I wonder if all the companies considered that as they raised prices and divided the user base…

This is the one thing I am going to miss more than anything: Twitter worked for resolving issues with companies. It was the single good thing about it. Now that is going away, companies can ignore you.

Seriously I have been on the phone, email, on hold, trying to get things resolved. One tweet and suddenly I am important and they want to help. A lot of companies have different support teams to monitor social media and that is where shit gets done.

In this day and age they should expect you to bring your own device. But they should also not expect you to install any of their software on your device. You simply remote to their machine. They keep it locked down, you get to use your own equipment for all the things you like (music, your personal email, internet, etc).

Or your tasks should be set up so you can do your work using a web browser (in a container - thanks Firefox) and call it a day.

I use Linux for everything and just remote into the works computers to do theirs. I am happy with that. When I went to another country recently I only brought a Steam Deck and was able to do all the work I needed to do.

As long as it isn’t my computer, I don’t care.

I remote to all our windows machines from my Linux box which is fine with me. They can lock down their computer, I am just supposed to use what they give me. They pay me, they put the malware on their own machines, so… whatever.

This is their choice not to configure it correctly. You can set up Azure RDP and use Remmina as a front end to FreeRDP or just FreeRDP by itself.

Also why are they using a browser “client”? That is also an odd configuration. You don’t need a special client. I use Firefox on Linux (with a container - love those) to connect to the Azure Desktops.

I do all my windows work from a Linux machine. Recently I traveled to another country and did all my clients Windows (Azure remote desktops) work from a Steam Deck (Arch linux), lol.

They are inside. So you have to open the case to set them, which is not hard. It is not obvious to anyone else that there are switches or what they are set to, so maybe being inside is a positive.

Although the picture doesnt show it, they are rather small.

yes, i believe they do. Although I only knew for certain that mine does. But it is older.

And are you really going to get your 12 year old the latest flagship android when there are cheaper options?

Looking at the kids I know, I think this is definitely one of the reasons they moved to iphones. A second line cheap android is basically a free phone, which is perfect for the first phone for emergencies and such as a kid. They break or lose it, it doesnt really matter. But the experience of having a crappy phone sticks with them and they want to move up to a “real” phone, which means “away from android”. Then all the kids get iphones about the time being in contact with friends is important, and suddenly imessage can tell you who is still using the “cheap phone”.

My pinephone has hardware switches.

Well I can only speak for myself, but looking through these comments there are plenty of people who see this as a positive! I just always have gone the extra step to get there even before google made the change.

Yeah, read what I am commenting on: Microsoft is letting you remove it. Seems like it is a handy item, certainly not as annoying as an ad or anything. And I also am commenting on how it is so useful, why do they ban the server from their home product?

This just seems like a really weird item to say: finally! you can remove the RDP client! Just like nobody ever asked for!

Wait: They are saying you can remove the Remote Desktop client? You mean the client you cannot use to connect to a Windows Home license because you cannot run remote desktop without a higher license?

Interesting flex there Microsoft.