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Divorce proceedings are over for me. I've never used Amazon. I stopped using Microsoft products eight years ago. I left Facebook five years ago. I exited Google's ecosystem shortly…

I set up a Lemmy account yesterday. It has promise.

My daily driver is still a Dell XPS13 I bought in 2018 when it was the highest spec XPS13 available. I replaced it with a later (and higher spec) XPS13 in late 2021, but didn't lik…

We're a duo from Aotearoa New Zealand currently finished our first album. Some of our music is at https://sidesister.bandcamp.com/ We upgraded our home studio three years ago; it's…

We still use Object Pascal (in the freeware Lazarus IDE) for dev utilities. Mostly they're native desktop apps, but some interface with cloud services.

I continue using https://startpage.com without any issues.

Eating Marmite instead of Vegemite. Only in my fifties did I discover that Marmite tastes different because it contains sugar.

Sixty eight year old female here. I start every day except Sunday with 30 situps, 30 pushups and 30 squats. I ride my (non-electric) bicycle when I go shopping (including supermark…

In our environment support trumps sprint every time, regardless of whether the support task is legitimate or not. By legitimate, I mean that many of the "support tasks" are things …

It's just a shame Windows is the only operating system in the world, otherwise we could all use something else.

I've run Linux on a series of Dell laptops (same model, different versions), all with i7 processors. There's no appreciable difference running 32GB RAM over 16GB, but there is an o…

I wrote a web app that moved paper-based funding submission and grant management online. A second client wanted the same thing, so I wrote it again with newer tech. When the third …

Buy a decent protective case when you buy your new phone, and never remove it. I've never lost a phone yet to accidental damage, while friends without cases break screens and destr…

I work at home in a low light room. I have my 4K laptop screen at 25% brightness, and the 38" 4K monitor above it at 5% brightness. I eschew dark mode in my IDE and other apps in f…

I worked on a messaging convergence product in the early 2000s. I'd written several components including the POP3 server. The product owner had a demonstration scheduled with a pot…

Shared notes, timesheets, device backups, video and audio streaming, calendar, email, addressbook, various utilities.

I chose to cut out the middle man. I'll only buy mobile devices with SD card slots and headphone sockets. Loading all my music onto an SD card is an order of magnitude quicker than…

Call me a freeloader if you wish; I'd welcome the moniker. I use Twitter lists and Tweetdeck's filters to enjoy a firehose-free Twitter experience. I follow accounts from around th…

Work: Dell XPS13 with Linux Mint Home: Dell XPS13 with Linux Mint, and Intel Mac Mini with Monterey

I've built up folios of RSS feeds over more than ten years, and continue to curate them. Every day they throw up a fair percentage of content I'm not interested in, but that's easi…

Absolutely. I've had multiple careers, my most recent starting when I was 46. N

In 1990 I was programme director of a radio station and had an ongoing requirement that only software could efficiently deliver. There was no suitable app available and I had neith…

I was a company of one, providing specialised web software powering research funding for multiple clients. I deliberately chose a dead-simple tech stack, and had a backup agreement…

I still write static sites which are hand-coded in HTML and CSS augmented by a (very little) javascript. They're quick to build and easy to deploy and, for some clients, they're al…

I've migrated family, friends and neighbours to Linux Mint and had nothing but positive responses. In most cases they had a middle-aged computer that was not eligible for a newer W…