ProfessorYakkington

joined 4 years ago
[–] ProfessorYakkington@lemmy.ml 4 points 7 months ago

Once I had to use the internet without and ad blocker ( shiver ). It was horrible. I still have nightmares.

Joking aside. I couldn’t believe how crammed full and chaotic sites were without an ad blocker. I have no evidence to support this other than my experience but I think , for me , ad blockers are good for my mental health. Being constantly exposed to all those messages trying to exploit insecurities can’t be good for people.

Anyways ad blockers are the best.

[–] ProfessorYakkington@lemmy.ml 3 points 7 months ago

Yeah I 100% understand and to a large extent agree with this. I think money should be involved , creators should get paid. I don’t think peertube has become “the answer” yet and there is some combination of market level event and technology/feature set that needs to be in place to create enough moment for people to move off YouTube. It will happen eventually ( I think ) but what exist today isn’t enough of a pull to overcome the momentum YouTube has but that doesn’t mean that “we” should give up.

[–] ProfessorYakkington@lemmy.ml 165 points 7 months ago (38 children)

As much as I like the privacy frontends I think 'we' have to move to alternative platforms sooner than later and pull the bandaid vs. continuing to indirectly be dependent on google as the base platform.

[–] ProfessorYakkington@lemmy.ml 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I've used StandardNotes for years. They are great, very privacy friendly and lots of good features. I've also used Obsidian like others have mentioned but I didn't use 95% of the features on either standard notes or Obsidian -- now days I just use a general markdown files and store them in a git repo -- low complexity and I like the simplicity of it. 100% recommend.

[–] ProfessorYakkington@lemmy.ml 4 points 10 months ago

Same. I used graphene and calyx for a while but really needed the nav features so stoped using them. Very excited for this!!

I am on pop is for my home desktop. I like the built in tiling manager. Ubuntu for work. Might give nix or kde a go next.