nixCraft 🐧Which tech giant's personal desktop app would you abandon forever the first chance you get?
Adobe
Microsoft
Apple
Other/I will comment below
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EaterOfSnacks@nixCraft Ditched the Adobe tax some years ago. Only have a piggy-back MS account because someone else has a spare seat on their licence, but use it as little as possible. Never used Apple much and am working on ditching Google's offerings where I can
LillyLyle/Count Melancholia@eaterofsnacks Two of the few things I would find very sad to have to live without are google maps/streetview and Wikipedia. Literally two websites I use daily and with great pleasure.
Like you I abandoned Adobe long ago, only ever used MS at work. Have never used anything by Meta.
@LillyHerself @nixCraft With you on those two sites. I use both at once when I'm "browsing" French towns in search of somewhere to move to one day. I just love taking little virtual tours.
@eaterofsnacks @nixCraft The weird thing is when you actually visit a place you have zoomed around in Streetview.
It's like deja vu!
I had the strange experience of directing someone around a town I was visiting for the first time, with scary accuracy.
The other weird thing is making discoveries about somewhere you lived for years, because of being able to see it from above, and in a much richer way than just from a map.
It's like deja vu!
I had the strange experience of directing someone around a town I was visiting for the first time, with scary accuracy.
The other weird thing is making discoveries about somewhere you lived for years, because of being able to see it from above, and in a much richer way than just from a map.
@eaterofsnacks @nixCraft The sad thing about using it to scope a potential place to move to, is that it can be 10 years out of date for smaller places, and profoundly inaccurate as a result.
@LillyHerself @nixCraft Yes, good point. There's usually a huge mismatch between the places you can see in a town centre and what's still in business. And if anywhere has been on a development splurge -- a bit like where I live now -- half the surrounding countryside might have vanished too.