Dreaming_Novaling

+1 for the mailbox.org, moving to it as Proton's CEO Andy outed himself as a Trump supporter. It's been working fine so far with my anonaddy (moved from simplelogin to...)

I'm using Thunderbird on my phone to see my mailbox.org emails

Well, for the download/export stuff, yeah, you just go to the "File" tab and click the download drop down tab, and you can save it to the computer or Google Drive. Which some people still didn't know about somehow but... (Some people never touch the tabs I guess)

But when I mean file sharing, I'm talking like sharing stuff to another person's drive, or simply just letting them have access to it by clicking a link. To be fair, sometimes the sharing is wonky or really dumb, but it's basically, give access to specific emails/accounts, give access to anyone within your organization with the link, or give access to anyone who has the link. You can specify if this access link should be viewer, commenter, or editor.

The amount of people who have shared a document with incorrect access rights where teachers can't see their work and have to ask them to resubmit, or trying to do group projects with people who claim that it's not working, is fucking insane. I get some of them are just being lazy and probably lying about it not working to get more time to procrastinate, but dead serious, some people just have no idea how to share files correctly. My public speaking class was full of these blunders, especially when sharing a presentation done with Canva, and we'd always have to waste like 3 minutes waiting for them to fix it...

In literal tears and confusion as I watched this and then I said "holy shit" out loud, only to delve deeper into my 3am fueled headache delirium of laughter 😭

Yeah, we got Chromebooks, with predownloaded stuff on them (hell, our School policy probably PREVENTED us from downloading anything...) or you just used Chrome browser for everything. We definitely weren't allowed to use terminal either. The extensions store was blocked/didn't allow downloads.

Chromebooks aren't built for storage and performance, they're made for the cloud. So anything that you wouldn't encounter on Chrome/Google Drive means they have zero knowledge of it.

I think the last time I remember using tablets was like 2nd grade to do math games. But that could've changed.

You were also punished/heavily discouraged from using personal laptops instead of school issued Chromebooks, cause they wanted to ensure you had no issues completing work and that you weren't cheating on assignments and tests. So students were literally forced to use them.

Me and a classmate were absolutely stunned when we saw this girl typing in her password, and using Caps Lock to do uppercase letters instead of shift. We looked at her like, "WTF are you doing?" And she seriously did not know what the shift button was for.

I just don't know how nobody showed or told her this before, and we're in college...

Gen Z here, in college.

Some of these people are braindead when it comes to tech.

Like, I get if you're not used to technology because you're poor/had a lack of access to it, as many people might not have a home computer. So there were kids who were absolutely hopeless when it came to using windows at my tech school because they were broke, and the school only gives out Chromebooks (cause they're shitty and cheap).

But outside of not knowing a UI and different file formats, you should absolutely know how to use anything on the web, unless you literally lived in an area with absolutely no internet and electricity.

Some people at my college STILL don't know how to share Google documents correctly, and it's the most insane and frustrating thing to me. Literally any device with an Internet connection can use it. Windows, apple, Chromebook, Linux, you name it. HOW DO YOU NOT KNOW HOW TO WORK GOOGLE DRIVE?!?!?!

Like many comments have said, devs have dumbed down a lot of shit in the name of protecting users, and people expect stuff to just work without any issues/effort, which I get, but damn, you've never simply done a 5 mins search on Google or YouTube for a quick fix?

My hand-me-down phone journey started with a Samsung G Note 4 as a kid, then a old iPhone (don't remember which), moved to a Moto G Play 7 (I adore that thing today), moved to iPhone X, and now I'm at a Pixel 8a cause I put GrapheneOS on it. My mom got me it as a grad gift cause I hated my iPhone so much for all the shit I couldn't do while I was on it. I've always just liked Android and Windows more for the freedom to fuck up (which I never did), instead of Apple's shitty walled garden. And now I'm on Fedora, because I know I don't have to subject myself to a shit user experience on Windows just for simplicity.

But other people my gen who aren't willing to be adventurous for a bit and even try will never do that. Hell, you get shamed in school for not loving the Apple overlords and wanting Apple deciding everything in your life (green bubble shaming is real, I hated middle and early high school...). We want quick and easy, and we got it, but at what cost?

I'm pretty computer literate (I'm using Fedora silver blue now and I'm a cyber college student), and I'm gen z.

I hated our digital literacy units in school, because it was always the most braindead shit every year. Stuff that you shouldn't have to explain to a person every year, like digital footprint (think before you post), make sure it's a https website, and misinformation vs disinformation. I wanna cry because my tech and society class I'm taking right now feels like the same shit, but I'm paying now.

I'm not sure how they should revamp, but maybe they need to show modern examples like the honey scam, the thousands of Tiktok influencers who admitted they lied about the stuff they sold when they thought the service was shutting down, and how Google search is forcing shitty AI results. But we do have the unit, it just feels braindead to anyone like me who gives a damn about the services they use online. But I'm a nerd who looks at privacy/cyber shit for fun for hours, not TikTok dual screen braindead...

I have no idea if Betterbird is actually better than regular Thunderbird, but I use that cause people said so and I read about it a bit. If it does die I guess I'll switch to Thunderbird, just a little cautious about Mozilla after the privacy policy fiasco.

Betterbird is in flathub too which is great for newbies like me.

Wow, hide yo wife guy in 2025...

I remember being like, idk a elementary school kid when my mom would laugh and show me the remixes. I'm in college now.

Sorry if I aged anybody right there...

Unfortunately some really just don't work, you got lucky. There's a whole list of reports on GitHub about which ones work and don't work, and unfortunately, the two I use the most didn't, which is Navy Federal and PayPal. I tried both but they crashed everytime, and I couldn't get past login.

Annoyingly, I just got a discover credit card, and Discover's app works just fine, even though I don't plan to use it nearly as much 🙄

But yeah some apps do not like how we don't have safety net, hell, you can't use Google Wallet and tap to pay which is a downer...

I never did and I hate the app, this is just the shit I see from Youtubers who cover awful/interesting trends on Tiktok.

This is why I get so fucking mad at the tradwife Tiktok people, who go "Oh feminists are forcing you to go to work, I miss the good old days!"

Like no you fucking don't, in the "good old days" since the industrial revolution anyone who wasn't rich had to work their ass off in shit conditions, including women and children. These people never read The Jungle (that shit was horrifying in middle school, and I only read an excerpt), or saw the pictures of coal kids, or the Triangle Shirtwaist factory fire back in 1911 that killed 100+ women and girls.

You get to pose for the camera with a full face of makeup and hold your soccer team of kids because your husband is rich and thinks you're hot. Full stop.