PurpleTentacle

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What’s one word to prove you lived trough the 90’s? in c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml
[–] PurpleTentacle@lemdro.id 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Sorry, I fail to see, how a product that was developed from 2002 until 2017 proves that you lived through the 90's.

What’s one word to prove you lived trough the 90’s? in c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml
[–] PurpleTentacle@lemdro.id 64 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

Tamagotchi

What’s one word to prove you lived trough the 90’s? in c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml
[–] PurpleTentacle@lemdro.id 6 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (4 children)

eMule was first released in 2002, as an open source alternative client to the official eDonkey2000 client.

Napster would have technically been a 90's term, since it released mid 1999, but p2p wasn't really a mainstream thing until the early 2000's.

Why are all basic app settings tied to the Lemmy account/instance? in c/syncforlemmy@lemmy.world
[–] PurpleTentacle@lemdro.id 14 points 2 years ago (2 children)

That's pretty cumbersome, isn't it, though?

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Why are all basic app settings tied to the Lemmy account/instance? (lemdro.id)
 

Why on earth are most, if not all (?), basic and general app settings tied to the Lemmy account@instance?

It really doesn't make sense to me that stuff like "base font size" and virtually all app usability and appearance settings are reset to their defaults every time I add or switch Lemmy accounts/instances.

Even if there are good arguments to be made that the app *should *look completely different for each account@instance and not share any settings between them (and I'm struggling to think of many), why would that be default behavior?

I'm pretty sure my app's font size and media handling didn't change every time when I switched accounts in Sync for Reddit.

Microsoft shuts down Cortana app on Windows 11 in c/technology@lemmy.world
[–] PurpleTentacle@lemdro.id 11 points 2 years ago

I generally agree with you, and Microsoft has always been notoriously awful at naming just about anything. The still are.

But Cortana's reputation has been ruined to the point where there's no coming back from it. It was a good name, but a lousy product. From a marketing perspective, it's far, far, easier to start from scratch with a better product than to try to repair the reputation of the old one.