Now, you can’t perma-crack your new PC with a “real” HWID key, then years later reinstall Windows and keep your “real” license anymore! And you can’t upgrade anymore on that new PC either! You have to patch Windows every time!

In our country, texting (through the built-in Messenger app) is mostly done as an emergency measure, as most people here use Meta’s other messaging app, WhatsApp.

Or perhaps Web 3.1. But seriously, I would call it the Federated Web.

That was the first thing I noticed.

Now that is an everything app I can get behind.

Individuals are constantly surrounded by potentially meaningful information; however, their ability to use this information is consistently constrained by cognitive systems that are capable of attending to and processing only a small amount of the information available at any given time

100% this.

People, if an instance is crumbling, sign up to another instance! When you are able to use lemmy.world again, use lemmy2opml/lemmy_migrate (or any other tool that works, there’s a list on the Awesome Lemmy Github page) to migrate your followed communities to the new instance.

This begins with ABC, will end with other media resources. But I doubt Mastodon will be the future. Facebook and Instagram seem to be more viable options for mainstream media outlets, though I would also like to see more of them creating Mastodon servers, the way the BBC did recently.

Corporate centralized social media: advertises “decentralization” through crypto People on actual decentralized social media: “That’s the stupidest thing I heard in the last 2 days”

The only annoying thing is setting up file association with 7zip. Why have the devs not made sure that it’s a simple task?