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I figured this may lead to an interesting discussion in the comments.

How has your use of Technology changed in the past year? I'll start.


  • Due to the rise of streaming services and Sony/discovery removing content from libraries, I downloaded all my iTunes purchases onto a 2TB SSD (which I'll soon need to get another).

  • Like many, I've stopped using Reddit outside of Google search.

  • I've reduced my subscriptions to just two. (Apple One and Google One)

  • I've purchased DVDs/Blu rays of my favorite uncensored shows (Family Guy and American Dad) and ripped them and watch them through Cloud storage (Google Drive via Infuse for Apple platforms, and Kodi for Windows)(I've also purchased MakeMKV just because it is so damn useful)

  • I've used Google App Scripts to bypass some Gmail limitations to make filters that I otherwise couldn't. For instance, in Outlook.com, you can block email addresses and domains before you have ever gotten an email from them. In Gmail, you can't. The best you can do is create a filter that deletes them. In my case, I've created a Google App Script that runs every hour and looks for (@.mil) domain emails and marks them as spam. (I am in college, and I fucking hate that they give my email to recruiters.)

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[–] Argyle13@lemmy.world 2 points 10 months ago
  • Left Reddit for Lemmy, only came back several times to seek for specific information in a couple of niche communities
  • Started using Firefox again, both in desktop and mobile
  • Opened a nextcloud account, with plans to host our own when we have a little more free time
  • Autohosted FreshRSS
  • Started with Sonarr, Radarr, jellyfin and so on (you can guess what for)
  • Mastodon is now my main social network
  • Stopped using Windows. If I have to use some applications to interact with my clients I prefer to do it via cloud.
[–] Diana@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 6 months ago

As the market for physical discs dwindled, I started using the best dvd ripper for mac to save DVDs to my computer.

[–] Diana@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 8 months ago (1 children)

To save my collections of videos on iTunes, I choose to burn M4V to DVD so that they can be played on home screen.

[–] Katya@fed.dyne.org 1 points 3 months ago

Rip-Software that can bypass Blu-ray protection can be really useful. Here's a tutorial for digitalization of discs I can share: blu-ray rippen trotz kopierschutz freeware

[–] gregorum@lemm.ee 1 points 10 months ago

reddit + apollo 🤬

lemmy + mlem 😍

[–] rottingleaf@lemmy.zip 1 points 10 months ago

This may seem unimportant, but I've stumbled upon https://github.com/Aris-t2/CustomCSSforFx and my FF is much more usable than before.

[–] MxM111@kbin.social 1 points 10 months ago

The year when LLMs exploded.

[–] jeena@jemmy.jeena.net 1 points 10 months ago

I finally deleted my corporate accounts (twitter, reddit) because the alternatives were finally good enough to use. Still on Facebook and WhatsApp though because of some stubborn friends and family

[–] Kolanaki@yiffit.net 1 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

The only thing that changed how I did anything internet wise in 2023 was Reddit killing 3rd party apps and moving here. Tech related, I got a PS5 so I played that sometimes instead of 100% PC.

[–] Pistcow@lemm.ee 1 points 10 months ago

No more Reddit

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