I'm glad I dont know who he is and I will continue to not know him.
These days it seems like the internet is more pleasant the less influencers you know, and most aren't worth knowing any further about.
I think the past where people's awareness of public figures was much more distant was a healthier time. Like knowing the famous athlete or actor, but nothing further about their lives and not feeling like "you know them" because they called our your username or liked your comment and not being able to send them a direct message.
Looks like I'm never getting into VR for the same reason I didn't years back. Price continues to be expensive, and only cheap options are meta which is a big no.
They see their parenrs struggling and see what is possibly in store for them, and their parents may also not believe like previous generations that their kid is destined to be better off than them.
Not surprising if the parents accomplished what the generation before them thought was the key to success of getting educated and choosing the right career path. So they've already "succeeded" and hit the ceiling and see it wasn't all they envisioned it to be and the job opportunities and salaries in relation to cost of living getting worse.
I think the simple explanation is that it is just result of reddit becoming mainstream and bringing the twitter and tiktok crowd which overtime became the larger members of the site.
Noticed it even before the third party app fiasco with things gradually turning into twitter and tiktok reposts filling the /r/all feed leading me to avoid it.
I haven't watch any MCU stuff for the last several years. I'm the type to want to see the stuff that happened before, but lost the motivation to do so. As a result, just been skipping all the MCU stuff post Endgame.
For people who do watch it there's people who don't care about having watched everything, and just hop in because it has their favorite super heroe.
But, for your case were you keeping up with MCU franchise leading up to Spider-Man? I wonder what percentage of viewers kept up with MCU and what percentage are hopping in to watch it despite not having kept up with the franchise for years.
I wouldn't touch them on Windows either. No way would I want to log into a Windows account on Windows when they collect stuff like activity history and upload everything you do on your OS and link it all to one account. And that was even before the GDID news.
I don't even feel comfortable logging into a Microsoft on an OS level on Windows. Which is a huge reason I never paid for Gamepass and never will. And only version of Microsoft I'd touch is ltsc which doesn't have the Microsoft store installed.
So I'd pass on buying from the Microsoft Store or Xbox app if their games weren't on Steam or GOG.
What distro did Linus use that changed his mind? I remember him using I think CachyOS, and then other people saying that may have led to him encountering the problems he did.
I think people making I can make a better steam machine content might have also helped too.
Microsoft helped the most though with Windows 11 forcing tpm requirements, disliked UI changes, copilot, and increasing hardware costs.
Among non gamers I think the buy non US alternatives helped get those that would normally not give more niche tech stuff a try to also join in. Such as guides people would share with alternatives to emails, software, phones, messengers, and OS.
Many different motivating factors now from boycotts, global relations, affordability, and increased accessibility of Linux than in the past pushing some people that wouldn't have changed if life were not as eventful as it has been the last couple of years.
I feel like I heard of more people switching after the Steam Deck, and then more after the forced expansion of copilot in Windows.
I haven't heard much of ltt other than him trying Linux and not liking it. Kind of been more on the negative side until the Steam Machine. His attempts just seemed to end in disasters.
If youtubers are pointed to I think pewdiepie is the one with way more Linux influence given his bigger reach and going all in on it a long time ago as opposed to a recent stint of saying something good about it in passing due to the steam machine.
Losing reddit is fun killed off lot of the reason to use reddit logged in, which led to less reasons to actually comment on things.
I never made an account on quora but it would sometimes show up in search results and try to not show everything to get people to sign up but I never felt compelled to. Wonder if that is what is happening with reddit now.
I don't find the default reddit interface pleasant to scroll or read through, so wonder if people are just getting their info from search results and leaving.
Redit is Fun app was the best times. When they killed off third party apps it pushed me into a lurker, since I refused to use the official reddit app and didn't want to go to the effort of patching old third party apps to get them working.
What bothers me is that all the data goes back to meta.
I'm glad I dont know who he is and I will continue to not know him.
These days it seems like the internet is more pleasant the less influencers you know, and most aren't worth knowing any further about.
I think the past where people's awareness of public figures was much more distant was a healthier time. Like knowing the famous athlete or actor, but nothing further about their lives and not feeling like "you know them" because they called our your username or liked your comment and not being able to send them a direct message.
I wish it were possible to just flash something else on it like you can on smartphones, and get rid of all the meta stuff on it.
Seens like the same thing to me since whatever meta calls themselves its meta as a corporation that creeps me out.
Episode 10 of Violet Evergarden is the only time I cried while watching anime.
I never played Jet Set Radio so I can't compare, but I played through this and really liked it. Was fun doing tricks and finding places to tag.
Looks like I'm never getting into VR for the same reason I didn't years back. Price continues to be expensive, and only cheap options are meta which is a big no.
They see their parenrs struggling and see what is possibly in store for them, and their parents may also not believe like previous generations that their kid is destined to be better off than them.
Not surprising if the parents accomplished what the generation before them thought was the key to success of getting educated and choosing the right career path. So they've already "succeeded" and hit the ceiling and see it wasn't all they envisioned it to be and the job opportunities and salaries in relation to cost of living getting worse.
And the kids pick up on that.
I think the simple explanation is that it is just result of reddit becoming mainstream and bringing the twitter and tiktok crowd which overtime became the larger members of the site.
Noticed it even before the third party app fiasco with things gradually turning into twitter and tiktok reposts filling the /r/all feed leading me to avoid it.
I haven't watch any MCU stuff for the last several years. I'm the type to want to see the stuff that happened before, but lost the motivation to do so. As a result, just been skipping all the MCU stuff post Endgame.
For people who do watch it there's people who don't care about having watched everything, and just hop in because it has their favorite super heroe.
But, for your case were you keeping up with MCU franchise leading up to Spider-Man? I wonder what percentage of viewers kept up with MCU and what percentage are hopping in to watch it despite not having kept up with the franchise for years.
I wouldn't touch them on Windows either. No way would I want to log into a Windows account on Windows when they collect stuff like activity history and upload everything you do on your OS and link it all to one account. And that was even before the GDID news.
I don't even feel comfortable logging into a Microsoft on an OS level on Windows. Which is a huge reason I never paid for Gamepass and never will. And only version of Microsoft I'd touch is ltsc which doesn't have the Microsoft store installed.
So I'd pass on buying from the Microsoft Store or Xbox app if their games weren't on Steam or GOG.
What distro did Linus use that changed his mind? I remember him using I think CachyOS, and then other people saying that may have led to him encountering the problems he did.
I think people making I can make a better steam machine content might have also helped too.
Microsoft helped the most though with Windows 11 forcing tpm requirements, disliked UI changes, copilot, and increasing hardware costs.
Among non gamers I think the buy non US alternatives helped get those that would normally not give more niche tech stuff a try to also join in. Such as guides people would share with alternatives to emails, software, phones, messengers, and OS.
Many different motivating factors now from boycotts, global relations, affordability, and increased accessibility of Linux than in the past pushing some people that wouldn't have changed if life were not as eventful as it has been the last couple of years.
I feel like I heard of more people switching after the Steam Deck, and then more after the forced expansion of copilot in Windows.
I haven't heard much of ltt other than him trying Linux and not liking it. Kind of been more on the negative side until the Steam Machine. His attempts just seemed to end in disasters.
If youtubers are pointed to I think pewdiepie is the one with way more Linux influence given his bigger reach and going all in on it a long time ago as opposed to a recent stint of saying something good about it in passing due to the steam machine.
I know I'd just bring it in my bag with it turned off and not take it out until class is over.
Losing reddit is fun killed off lot of the reason to use reddit logged in, which led to less reasons to actually comment on things.
I never made an account on quora but it would sometimes show up in search results and try to not show everything to get people to sign up but I never felt compelled to. Wonder if that is what is happening with reddit now.
I don't find the default reddit interface pleasant to scroll or read through, so wonder if people are just getting their info from search results and leaving.
It is nice to use third party apps again. I like summit on android.
Redit is Fun app was the best times. When they killed off third party apps it pushed me into a lurker, since I refused to use the official reddit app and didn't want to go to the effort of patching old third party apps to get them working.
I would switch to Linux or Windows 10 LTSC if Windows is needed on the laptop.