I tend to not really care for most new things, as most of it feels cheap, inauthentic or a scam to further the surviellance facist oligarchy state. Id be completely content with time frozen in 2004.

So, to be a little more positive, what are some new things that are actually good?

Note, to me, new is within the last 10 years.

I’ll start. The fediverse concept is neat.

  • hesh@quokk.auEnglish
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    1 day ago

    Good thread, since I hate a lot of “new” things. It’ll be good to read about the good ones.

    I’ll add: GrapheneOS (and other custom phone OSes) giving us a choice besides being tracked by the big corpos.

    • wake@quokk.auEnglish
      3·
      1 day ago

      Same. Updated to Graphene almost two weeks ago and have been loving it so far. The only thing I’m missing is the built in call screening. I get so many spam calls.

        • wake@quokk.auEnglish
          1·
          1 day ago

          As of now, nothing. When I was on stock android I had the Pixel built-in call screening. I might try a third party service but I haven’t found one I like yet.

          • Hammerjack@lemmy.zipEnglish
            2·
            10 hours ago

            In Graphene’s phone app, you can go to Settings -> Blocked Numbers, and enable “Numbers not in Contacts”. That will send any call from numbers you don’t have saved directly to voicemail. I still get the occasional voicemail message that’s just 2 seconds of silence (they didn’t hang up in time) but it stopped all spam calls for me.

            • huquad@lemmy.mlEnglish
              2·
              6 hours ago

              Ive been using GOS for two years and just learned this. Thank you kind stranger!