I know people prefer to complain instead of act, but what is something people don’t like but has an alternative?
Windows -> GNU/Linux
KDE/Gnome -> JWM
TV -> Reading books
Twitter -> Fediverse
Coke/Cola -> Tea/infusion
Amazon -> Local bookshop
Amazon needs a bit more than bookshops to replace it. Need a whole shopping mall
A shopping mall and a dumpster full of worthless crap, but you often can’t tell if you’re looking at an item from the shopping mall or the dumpster.
Thankfully for things other than books (and maybe also for books), a lot of companies offer two day shipping now. Sometimes there’s an order minimum for that but I find that most of the time my purchase exceeds the order minimum anyway.
People hate KDE? I’ll check out JWM, but KDE is incredible.
Both KDE and Gnome can be seen as pretty bloated. They come pre-packaged with a lot of programs and tools that sit around unused, possibly even having corresponding daemons running for no reason.
For someone who doesn’t want to think about their computer, and just want to know it’s prepared for anything, they may want that. But if they left windows/mac to have a smaller, simpler OS that isn’t wasting CPU cycles or disk space on superfluous stuff, then KDE/Gnome might not suit them.
Edit: that said, I’ve heard of a lot of alternative DEs/WMs, but I’ve never heard of JWM. I’ve heard good things about Budgie, might also check that out.
Coke/Cola -> Tea/infusion
Wut
Nah but seriously, they’re not interchangeable. A Coke replacement would be another cola.
I’m downvoting you simply for suggesting an alternative to Coca Cola.
Good day.
Reddit -> Lemmy
lmfao the 10 downvotes
Some people hate books.
Moving to Linux sounds cool and is cool until you realize 2 things, one, you can fuck yourself in ways you didn’t know possible.
2, windows is dominant and you will lose access to a fair portion of games immediately upon switching.
Unless you really need to lower background bloat, develop code, or got something vehemently against windows, its not worth the swap for 90%+ of the population, you will go back.
I didn’t mind the learning curve, realizing the sheer amount of programs and games that have no development plan for Linux was what made me swap back.
Gaming has come a long way now in Linux with steam and proton, most games are playable. You can check out protondb to see what games don’t work, but it’s amazing compared to even a few years ago.
Dungeon and Dragon. There is a ton of TTRPG out there and things like Level up 5e are direct replacement with better content.
Hell even just D&D 3.5e is better than 5e imo. Though I mostly play Pathfinder 2e nowadays (I’d be happy with Pathfinder 1e as well).
Just 5e is boring as hell to both DM and to play.
undefined> 5e is boring as hell to both DM and to play.
My experience this is 100% the group, the system is secondary to the quality of DM and other players. A good group will have fun in any system.
Out of curiosity, are you using some kinda app? Cause I’ve been seeing comments, including yours, contain “undefined>” and it doesn’t seem to be either a Lemmy or kbin thing. Maybe a misfunctioning app?
Ha I run a game store and it’s finnally good to see things like Blades in the Dark, Mork Borg, Alice is Missing, Avatar, Cyberpunk, and Pathfinder knock a percent or two into the D&D Market share.
Reddit
Oh c’mon… nothing holds a candle to Reddit. What other public forum can harrass, downplay, and degrade its contributors while 90% of them remain ignorant/uncaring of what is happening around them?
Google. Use Searxng for search, Firefox/Librewolf for browser, Newpipe for Youtube, Graphene instead of default Android, literally anything for calendar and notes, and FDroid for apps. Don’t let Google’s services destroy your privacy.
Yup. To add more: Brave for searching because it has it’s own crawler. OrganicMaps and OSM for maps. Joplin for notes. AsteroidOS for WearOS. NextCloud for Drive (including some auto-syncing/back-up stuff like mobile contacts). Proton or Tutanota for mail.
alternativeto.net is great for this
- Fizz ( @Fizz@lemmy.nz ) 10•1 year ago
Frozen veggies over fresh. I’m so fucking sick pf buying veggies then having a ticking clock on them. Frozen gives me all the nutrients and I can leave them in the freezer for months and not lose anything.
For me it’s the watties frozen stir fry mix. Cheap and has a good range. I do however pick out the pea pods because they suck.
There was a medditarrian mix that was amazing to cook in the air fryer but after buying 8 bags in a week they took it off special and it went from $4 to $8
Aren’t frozen veggies usually fresher as well. Like they are frozen within a couple hours of being harvested?
Pretty much only buy frozen veg now
Can you clarify - do you mean hate because it’s paid for marketing and there’s much better products for a similar price,(sort of BIFL maybe?) or hate because the company is anti consumer somehow and there’s a better company or free version?
Like for the first, Kitchen Aid stand mixers. Way overblown because marketing and resting on laurals from 50 years ago when they’re not built like that anymore. Bosch Universal Plus is a much better spend if you want robustness imho.
For the second the obvious is Microsoft, and a community driven Linux as the alternative.
I could go on I suppose.
Was explaining that to a customer how things that used to be bad ass but now are shit but expensive as hell because they are using the name and the reputation from 50 years ago to sell the shit.
Like Maytag, and Whirlpool used to be the best brands to buy. Now they are crap won’t last ten years.
Got sick of the SEO spam from Google so I switched to Kagi. It lets me block all the blogspam and Pinterest junk when I search.
1.5 cents per search query. hmmm… not sure if i could switch my mind to be careful about searches.
I guess I would start using local calculator and dictionary more.
Openoffice is easily a better alternative to Microsoft office or office 365 or whatever monetized garbage they’re trying to repackage it as
I have started buying books and notebooks etc at my favourite bookstores instead of the cheaper version at Amazon.
I really don’t think that the world gets better if I support someone buying a mega yacht (while treating the people who work for him like garbage).
Adobe design products, there’s Affinity, it’s great, professional and a lot cheaper.
The Affinity Designer and Photo programs are great. Buy once with none of this subscription crap, they go on sale regularly, and they’re great alternatives to Photoshop and Illustrator.
For video, Davinci Resolve is a solid all-in-one suite that has similar functions to Premiere, Audition, and After Effects. The basic version is free, and the studio version is a one time payment that’s much more affordable than Adobe. Not to mention it has the best colouring suite in the business. Reaper is also a good DAW alternative to Audition.
I made the mistake of saying I use Photopea instead of Photoshop on a forum. The adobe mafia slammed me into oblivion for that one 😆
People complain about Banks screwing them over with fees and caring more about investor profits all the time. But few people move their money to credit unions or other co-operatively owned financial institutions. Usually it’s because of some minor inconvenience.
The thing with a CU is it’s great until something goes wrong. Although anecdotal, these are all real world trouble I’ve had with ours: 1) Need to have safe deposit box drilled. Took over 6 months to get it scheduled and repeated visits to the branch manager. 2) Had a double post of a debit. Not a biggie, but no 24 hour customer service (or weekend service unless you come in person). Had it been fraud or a huge double post I would have been out of luck until the next business day. And would likely have had to go in person. 3) Ordering checks required an in person visit. 4) Changing out an old secondary signer for a new one required an appointment that took several weeks to book (apparently no one there works full time). 5) Interest on our money market is worse than the local big banks.
Interest, cash back, and in person locations are hard to beat for me. I search a couple times a year to see if I can find a credit union that beats or meets what I got currently.
In my suburban town you can’t turn around without bumping into a credit union branch. They all work together cooperatively too. The only reason I ever go into a branch is for my safe deposit box.
Nice! Yeah one around here is really good and has remote tellers at thier ATMs which is super cool. They just don’t have the same cash back rate as my current bank.
Dyson vacuums are crap. Pretty much any bagged or canister vacuum will beat them in every category.
I agree, unless you are talking about dyson cordless vacuums, they are always on top in just about every real word test ive seen for consumer grade cordless vacuums.
Dyson fans too. Cheap fans are quieter and produce more airflow.
