this post was submitted on 21 Jun 2023
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I'll start:

  • RSS and blogs, news vs. social media
  • XMPP vs. WhatsApp/FB messenger/Snapchat
  • IRC vs. Matrix, Teams, Discord etc.
  • Forums vs. Social media, Reddit, Lemmy(?)
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[–] Spudger@lemmy.sdf.org 5 points 2 years ago

I still get most of my news via RSS. Lemmy is my sole social media usage. I use Matrix every day but see it as very different to IRC for some uses. Forums are useful but much of the tech content you find via search engines is out of date. Also not all forums are created equally. The new KDE forums have a major shortcoming compared to the old version.

[–] Lost_Wanderer@beehaw.org 4 points 2 years ago (5 children)

I too prefer forums over news aggravators with comment trees.

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[–] nicman24@kbin.social 4 points 2 years ago (1 children)

openscad looks ancient and works awesomely

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[–] atlasraven31@lemm.ee 4 points 2 years ago

Instant Messenger was the shit back in the day.

[–] hakerdefo@beehaw.org 4 points 2 years ago (1 children)
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[–] kdegeek@discuss.tchncs.de 4 points 2 years ago (3 children)

KDE 3 over everything else.

I love modern KDE, and use many different desktop environments regularly, but nothing will ever come close to the feeling I had the first time I got to experience KDE. And I really don't think anyone has been able to approach the configurability KDE 3 had

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[–] iuseit@iusearchlinux.fyi 3 points 2 years ago

The other day I was able to delete 80gigs of dupicated files cause by copying and pasting on a GUI

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