I was not about to put up with windows co-pilot or recall and had already put up with enough ads and bugs.

I had been running Debian on my laptop for a year without a problem and then finally Windows 11 started doing this when I was trying to update:

Click check for updates? Same result. Wait a week and try again? Same result.

I could no longer trust that the OS was secure from even 3rd parties, so I pulled the trigger and installed Debian 12 - later upgrading to Debian 13 when it released.

There just is never any going back now - Linux is just waaaaaaay too good.

Now I just need something similar to happen with phones.

As a user who has been on Lemmy since the Reddit API nonsense, I welcome you to the platform as well Sado.

This is true and it works pretty well due to the lack of an algorithm getting in the way. I am not subscribed to this community, but the last 2 posts for it did show up for me on my local page, so you are correct when you say that if it is relevant for the instance users, they will engage when they see a post.

It’s nice that dead communities aren’t ever really permanently dead like on reddit or some such in this regard.

The craziest thing I discovered when I started using it was when I noticed that because my desktop was now connected to my phone and my phone was connected to my watch, I could completely control the media on both from my watch and the integration felt natural - but also something I haven’t seen work that well in the proprietary world.