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 (DIR) Post #Ahwi6MGhUk9A5hZmsq by nick@introvert.social
       2024-04-19T01:06:02.247493Z
       
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       I'm of the opinion that if you need to order off-menu to get a good meal you're a shitty restaurant with a bad menu. I don't have enough spoons/brain-space to remember whatever secret decoder ring shit I need to follow to get fries that aren't wet and floppy, WTF in-n-out. The same thing goes for major tech and software. The baseline experience needs to be good, not perfect, but solidly good. I'm not interested in registry edits or installing Windows 10 IoT or whatever shit to get an acceptable experience. I used to tinker around like that but I have shit to get done now. I haven't had time for that shit since before college.Inspired by a discussion I saw on Reddit today about Ubuntu being faster on Framework laptops than Windows
       
 (DIR) Post #Ahwi6NKzWHAnPIajD6 by nick@introvert.social
       2024-04-19T01:18:23.329258Z
       
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       I owned 4 Android phones over 5 years and the whole time I told myself I would root them, install other OS's, optimize shit, whatever but I never once had time to even start. If you're value proposition is "Yeah, it's kind of slow and there's a lot of bloat but if you invest in a bunch of specialized knowledge you can get a good experience" it's not a good value. My time and brain-space is finite and worth something to me. I need a phone and a computer that works well out of the gate and doesn't get slower and more bloated with every update. After the string of Android phones I used a single iPhone for 5 years. If Apple deliberately slows down iOS, it's still not as bad as Qualcomm supporting more than one version of Android in their drivers. And on the computer side, Snaps have problems sure but Ubuntu runs just as well now on my desktop as when I installed it 2 years ago. Meanwhile the Windows partition has become increasingly unusable even with minimal use just from regular software updates and going to Win 11.
       
 (DIR) Post #Ahwi6OkuFPUrnxiwF6 by nick@introvert.social
       2024-04-19T01:26:40.337428Z
       
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       All I'm asking is please, have a baseline experience with your tech product that is good (enough). If I wanted to go full hacker experience I'd pull a Thinkpad out of a recycling bin, run Arch, and use a rotary mobile phone built from trash. But I don't want to do that. I need a 2FA app that's reliable. I need basic web browsing, email, phone calls, and messaging that works without a struggle. I don't have time to be a beta tester for bleeding edge updates. I want to spend my spare bandwidth on repairing old Laserdisc players and film cameras, not on my day-to-day computer to get basic work and life responsibilities done.