Wouldn’t that be the case with most people who’ve moved to a new area? Like, presumably unless they’re there for work, school, or family or a spouse they moved because they wanted to get out of wherever they were. I’d imagine that if you go to Ohio and ask people how they like it, you’d probably find more people who are happy living there.

Given the responses in this thread, it seems that the same bias exists even in ostensibly leftist spaces. Yikes.

Y’all need to get out more.

I literally don’t set up my voicemail, and I typically don’t listen to recorded audio that gets messaged to me. Texting is functional and doesn’t leave me some anxiety-provoking message that I have to sit through and digest without saying anything. If a conversation needs to happen in voice, text to say that and see if it’s a good time.

Wild that people just ring a personal phone number unprompted in 2024 without that being an established routine.

That said, I also remember when it wasn’t at all weird to show up to someone’s house and knock on their door. Things have really changed.

Putin only pays to derail Democrat energy.

Oh, sorry, and Xi.

This almost makes me want to give them my email address, or at least a throwaway, but I really don’t want to encourage that behavior.

If a couple of decades and some change on the internet has taught me anything, it’s that toxic, abuseable change is insidious. Subscription models for games seemed pretty harmless when it was just a handful of MMOs. Consolidating more user-directed social interactions into an algorithmic feed seemed like a pretty good idea in 2009.

But now, in 2024, when a company tries to get me to play along with something I try to think of what the wider implications would be of other companies adopting the same model. How many websites would start asking for email addresses? How long until they start doing shady things with them?

I know that I can send something off to a junk address that will expire or that I’ll just never check, but for most users it’s just a massive spam vector for what is likely to be their only email address. It’s not really something I’d like to encourage.

Goofy name aside, they sound like a pretty alright company other than that. Love the idea of a journalist-owned outlet, but I’d be even more into the idea of a journalist-owned outlet that’s more concerned with setting an example for the future health of the internet than with self-protectionism.

Notion has lost work on me a couple of times, so I think I’m going to keep exploring. Does Notesnook automatically save and sync everything?

I learned about Cory Doctorow when I found a copy of Down and Out In the Magic Kingdom at a bus stop. Never been disappointed.

My main concern with privacy in this case is just not wanting to train AI on my notes for stuff I haven’t even released yet. Like, once it’s out in the open, whatever, but at least wait until I publish. Damn.

Searches that require some context are often a lot easier to find. Like, if I’m searching for something D&D related, I rarely have to specify that that’s what I’m looking for. If it’s on wikidot, it’ll come up right away. Even for pretty generic words like ‘web’ or ‘death’, it knows I’m looking for the spell on the one hand and the cleric domain on the other, just because I’ve searched for so much D&D stuff and done so over and over again.

For mail I use Proton, for backup I use iDrive. I’m pretty happy with both.

Notesnook

Looks pretty similar to Skiff, honestly!

Does this do the whole automatic instant syncing thing without needing to save? Any history saved?

Honestly, I’ve been using Skiff for a few months and I switched to Notion last night. It’s basically just a better version of Skiff. I kinda get why they threw in with them now.

They’re literally .md files. I transferred mine over from Skiff.

The whole thing definitely makes me raise an eyebrow, but Notion honestly seems like better software than Skiff so I’m less upset than I was initially. Always a good idea to keep backups rather than relying on a single company, though.

DuckDuckGo has an addon with a similar thing. Spits out a fresh email right into the prompt.

Yeah, that’s an automatic no for me on all of their articles. I hope they eventually see posts like this and realize they’re shooting themselves in the foot.

This seems cool, and it’s nice to see people creating alternatives to google, but I probably won’t end up using it.

Over the past few months I’ve tried both DuckDuckGo and Kagi. Both are decent for a lot of things, and Kagi has some really nice features, but in practice they’ve just taught me that I actually want my search engine to know a bit about me.

If I’m looking for something in the area on a google search, I can literally just search the thing. Google already knows where I am and knows what context I’m probably looking for, so it gets me to important results faster. While that might not be particularly useful for areas where Kagi’s tools shine (like research), it turns out that a ton of my searches are just basic stuff like looking for store hours and phone numbers. In both cases I found myself getting frustrated with not having google as my default, requiring a bunch of extra typing or a manual switch of search engines.

I’d love to get a viable replacement for google, but realizing how much my searching benefits from their massive pile of data on me, I don’t know that I’ll actually find one without that. It is nice to have an alternative if results get too personalized or if I want to check against like a baseline search, but search is the one place I’ve tried to get away from google that I keep going back.

I definitely am glad I got away from them for email and document storage, though.

Basically something like Google docs with better privacy. Cloud-based document editing with at least markdown that automatically stays synced across devices. Sorting into folders is nice too, and an Android app is a must.

I was using a word processor and idrive storage for a while, but I ended up losing work to crashes with a frequency that really was not working for me. Plus LibreOffice sucks. I don’t know why word processors need to be such bloated ugly garbage.

Skiff really kind of hit the sweet spot. I’m looking at Notion but like, ugh.

Edit: Okay. Notion seems okay so far. I’m a little shaded out by the whole let’s pull our project and merge it with this other one, buuut… It’s kind of better by the look of it. Hmph.

Okay. Notion is complete and utter trash. It’s failing to save literally everything I do on my phone.

God fucking damn it. I finally find something to replace Google docs, get all my fucking work into it, and they shut it down. I will never have anything to do with any of these flakes again.

Anyone recommend a replacement?

Right, but that’s not why companies started soldering batteries. Yes, there’s truth in the concept that with some features you may trade some repairability for some portability, but it’s not like it’s a 1:1. It’s close enough to the truth that it makes a good lie, but if you think Apple’s resistance to allowing users to repair their phones is actually because of decisions made by engineers rather than decisions made in board rooms, I have a bridge in Florida to sell you.

Hilary wasn’t an incumbent. Biden should have been the go to in 2016. You run your sitting vice president if you’ve got one, because they have a way better chance of winning. Doubly so for a sitting president.

It would be an incredibly stupid political strategy to try to run someone else right now. I think the DNC learned that lesson eight years ago.

Anybody else feel like Lemmy is like 60% Russian trolls lately?