what's the biggest downgrade you had to ensure so far, and how are you holding up?

Working from home to going back to the office.

Our productivity was at an all time high, we we’re saving a ton of time and money commuting, and everyone was happier. But that’s not good enough to stay.

Windows 11 is just Windows 10 with rounded corners, shittier menus, and even more spyware.

and this is why linux is gaining so much market share in the desktop space so quickly.
- I think it's mostly gaining market share cause Steam Deck
- Is it? I still have yet to try a distro that works properly with multiple monitors and supports all the software I have.
- Love Linux but that's mostly steam deck pumping up numbers. Look at year over year desktop usage and it's not spiking even though it would be cool if it did.
I do like that tabs got added to file explorer and I almost always enjoy UI changes so I like the new desktop and menus. Control panel is always still there if you want the classic style settings.

Android. Version 11 was peak android and every update is a downgrade. Updating from 11 to 12 brought:

No performance upgrades
Apps no longer closing, just minimizing
Battery drains faster
Dumb UI tweaks (springing swipe etc.)
Removed options for notifications, vibration, share etc.
Weather widget stopped respecting dark theme to show some idiotic animations
and more

Version 13 only doubled down on these changes.

Constant nagging to update which you cannot disable, only postpone.

And of course you can't go back. Would love reimage it with some custom rom but I'm afraid some apps can stop working (banking, pay, who knows what else). Fucking infuriating.

As someone who uses both, I’m always fascinated by the things that Android “takes” from Apple. It’s usually the worst of iOS and then made even more unbearable.

Like apps just minimizing. Yeah, that’s fine for iOS where the apps themselves aren’t technically running while they’re not in focus. You can have 2 iOS apps open or 60 and you still have the same effect on battery life. There’s no need for this on Android.

The nags for updates are one of the things I hate most about iOS. I get why it’s done; increased version adoption and greater cohesion across the larger scale of the OS. It’s still nonsense, though.
I was pretty down on swipe navigation, but now I've gotten used to it and like that I can navigate without having to reach to the bottom of my screen. I'm also very happy about Bluetooth LE but I don't have an audio device that takes advantage of the codec yet. Anything that improves Bluetooth is great in my eyes.
My phone is on Android 8 and I could swear there was a dark mode option before that got removed in some update.

Returning to my PhD salary after a summer internship in industry

Moving somewhere with solid reliable internet to somewhere without even cell reception.

Back where I left I could download gta5 in probably 20 minutes. Now it took 20 minutes to download a calculator app.

30% of the time my texts don't go through without telling me they didn't go through, so I just drive to peoples homes and talk in person or go to Walmart to make calls

I'm fucking dieing. The only saving grace is I have a friend 2ish miles away with starlink. I set up an old phone to download files to a certain folder, then when it's on LAN at my house to back up that folder over my local network to my desktop.

It may be worth investing in ubiquiti WISP equipment if your friend is fine with it! Then again, yall’d share bandwidth caps and such.

Before university I was a frontend webdeveloper earning 38000 SEK after university I had to downgrade to 34000 SEK to get the job I wanted. But with a degree I was able to get more and more over time and earn now much more that before uni, so it was still worth it.

My body. As it gets older and worse I still have to insure it but it just keeps costing more and more.

If I’d known I was going to live this long, I would have taken better care of myself. Why didn’t anyone tell me!?

I lost everything I owned a year ago when I failed to make payments on a storage unit.

I just went back to this feeling this morning. My husband brought up gold panning and I remembered I had some gold flakes from childhood, a very fond memory of mine. Then I remembered it was among the items stolen out of my garage to day before I gave birth to my kid. We had just moved so everything was in boxes and easy to transport. Including my camera. I only have one photo of the day my kid was born, thanks to a kind nurse.

I hope that thief got what they needed. :/
- What if all they needed was the boxes! 😱
  
  Some dude bought my entire storage unit for about $20. They gave him my contact info so he could pass off the un-sellable bits like:
  
  my degree from college
  
  my passport, birth certificate
  
  black and white photo albums I inherited
  
  a stack of notebooks, completely full of my handwritten journal entries, dating back to 2000 when I started my journal. In a single stack they’d be about 4-5 feet tall
  
  my baby clothes
  
  a little red plastic “3” filled with photos from my third birthday
  
  a million little souvenirs from my travels
  
  a first place ribbon from a cross country race
  
  I don’t know if he dumped it in a dumpster, or maybe there’s some weird intensely_human museum out in the desert, or he was able to sell that shit, or what.

Coming home from college for the summer and no longer having gigabit upload speeds. Can't wait to go back and be able to self host all my stuff from my dorm.

endure

But fine, thanks for asking.

On that note, you can edit titles in Lemmy, which you can't do on Reddit. So that's a pretty great upgrade.

I gave up a $38/hr job because it was fucking with my mental health, now my $19/hr job is fucking with my mental health in fun new ways. I'm trying to quit this but I haven't had the motivation to update my resume and I've only applied for 1 new job that won't even be hiring for 2-3 months.

Swapped my Car for an e-Bike. I save lots of money now and cycling to work is still a moderate training. It's not always easy, but was worth it overall.

I barely drive anymore, ebikes are great! Feel free to stop on by !micromobility@lemmy.world

Control panel is always still there if you want the classic style settings.

Not really. A lot of it has been neutered. Updates were moved to the settings "app" in 10. Now you can't even manage printers without that stupid app in 11.

If you want to talk about going from Reddit to Lemmy, probably lack of infinite scrolling, so I went ahead and made a Firefox addon called Lemmy Infinite Scroller. It's 11 lines of code. It's literally an addEventListener for the scroll event. Apparently it can take up to 3 weeks for it to be approved and end up in the Firefox Add-ons store, so I won't link it here, but it's coming.

edit: A few hours later, it's up to 40 lines of code because of handling race conditions. It should work well under normal use now but if people scroll too fast it could cause problems loading two pages ahead instead of one. It's obviously not ideal compared to an official implementation but it's something at least, unless it gets officially implemented in Lemmy before my add-on gets approved. lol

Why coding yourself a corporate practice that encouraged addition? Why you felt we were lacking that stuff?
- It's a feature that makes the website more convenient for me to use. I like to work on software I know I will use myself, and then I share it with the rest of the world in case somebody else wants to use it too.
  
  I'm sure Lemmy will get optional infinite scrolling implemented with a better implementation than mine, but it was a fun afternoon project (started out as a quick 30 minute project before the race conditions) the day before starting my new remote dev job.
  
  I think more options and user choice is a good thing.
- But addition is such a positive thing.

Social life. I got my first full time job about a year ago, I’m trying my best to not make it my life but it’s hard

I was in an volatile business before COVID. Then I was laid off due to no work and I was just fed up. Now I'm trying to get work in IT instead and the paycheck difference hurts my wallet and plans to buy a house. Hopefully it'll be more stable and hopefully the pay will end up being better in the long run.

Living in a stable location to living as a transient (for work).

I never recovered from the 3g network being shut down.

I had a great setup with a 3g modem & a 3g phone. sms messages from friends would come to my laptop when I was sitting at my desk, and when I was away would be forwarded to my phone. I had all sorts of commands I could execute on my server from my phone via sms. Home automation, media player, etc.

I replaced the 3g modem with a 4g model from the same company and... no one would give me cheap sms-only service. Everyone considered it a "hot spot router", so 10x the monthly fee for service. No way. (The REALLY frustrating thing there was that the 4g modem was much nicer from my perspective. Talking to the 3g modem took a few hundred lines of C. Talking to the new one was a 20 line shell script.)

Also, 4g coverage apparently sucks here. I have to walk out to the front of the building to MAYBE get a signal.

I've given up and switched to xmpp over wifi, which works great in some ways, but doesn't replace everything I had working with the 3g setup.