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Chris Baskind says Twitter deserves to die, and Jesse Stay is also taking leave of Twitter. They’re both right. We deserve better.
While Twitter is far from the best of any possible world, it’s working ~barely~ for me right now. I completely agree with Jesse Stay, and would join him in his Twitter Exodus, but that I have so many other software and hardware problems to deal with. I’m already one year into the life of this Dell Inspiron 1501. It’s so frustrating to use that I’m starting to revert to pen and paper.
Jesse Stay recommends Friend Feed and Identi.ca.
But it’s a delicate balance here on this machine, Dell/Vista’s hideous progeny. I’m reluctant to install anything else, ever. Every decision, from installs & uninstalls, to simply clicking on programs on the desktop, or even in my Firefox toolbar, tips the balance in unexpected ways. I’m just trying to hobble along. ~which makes the ridiculously large check i sent dell last week to pay off this piece of shit sting all the more~ My wi-fi card could crap-out at any time, and I’ll be suddenly no longer on the Internet.
Vista tells me every 15 minutes that Windows has blocked some start-up programs NO MATTER HOW LONG IT HAS BEEN SINCE START-UP. Clicking on that little window does nothing to help, and the blocked programs don’t even show up on the list of blocked programs, so I can’t unblock them. Clicking on pretty much anything can start me watching the light in the purple donut. Once the purple donut starts, there’s no telling how long it will last, so there’s nothing to do but wait. Or do a hard restart. ~which will be six minutes from hitting the button to start-bar visibility. still another 2 or 3 before i can do anything.~
Jing wants to update itself every two days. Twhirl updates way too often, too. I’ve also given up on Flock & CoComment. ~co-comment because it’s unreliable and flock because too many .exe files on this machine makes it even worse~
Oh, and my processor just overheats at least once a day and the machine goes black — plays dead.
My relationship with Bill Gates has left me with no fight in me.
So perhaps part of the reason so many of us put up with Twitter is that we’ve come to have such low expectations. We’re used to it.
8 responses so far ↓
1 Doug Aitken // Jul 28, 2008 at 9:33 am
found you via a Twitter friends comment.
Try Ubuntu Linux, you’ll be surprised, no Twirl but there’s a heck of a lot of other software that I’m sure you’d love.
2 Pat // Jul 28, 2008 at 10:04 am
I have been trying Plurk (www.plurk.com) and love it! Have you tried this? It is alot easier and more fun than twitter I think. I am still on twitter and use ping.fm to post so it goes to both and I don’t have to do it twice. Just a thought…
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3 Andrew // Jul 28, 2008 at 2:43 pm
I had Vista and it gave me problems so I kicked it to the curb. Now I have Leopard, Win XP and Edubuntu installed on my 2 year old MacBook.
Mac wins in reliability and ease of use (like friendfeed) and XP has programs I need for work. (analogous to the twitter user base)
Blog from Flock & CoComment in the Mac OS. Play games with kids in Edubuntu. Make school ID’s in XP. All thanks to Sun’s VirtualBox software. Reminds me of the Dead Troll video ‘Every OS Sucks.”
I empathize with you. But, really… Don’t take that crap from your OS. Backup your data and get a new one that you like.
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4 Andrew // Jul 28, 2008 at 3:02 pm
Update: Just found a detailed dual-boot tutorial in my RSS reader. Here you go…
http://fosswire.com/2008/07/28/dual-boot-ubuntu-with-windows-vistaxp-with-printable-guide/
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5 Taylor // Jul 28, 2008 at 10:19 pm
Thanks for that link, Andrew. You and Doug seem to be saying the same thing. I’ll definitely check it out. I’m a bit nervous about it especially since it’ll void my warranty. But I need to get over that. You’re the second person to tell me to do that!
Pat, I’ve not tried Plurk. I just don’t have the energy right now for one more service. Remember when everyone on twitter was talking about Friend Feed for a while… and what was that other one before that? Was that plurk? Seems like everyone goes to twitter & discusses the others for a while, then moves on, but twitter remains.
After we get settled, I might try it, though, if twitter keeps acting up. Especially if I can still get my @replies and dms from twitter…
6 musicmixingguru // Jul 29, 2008 at 1:34 am
Im with you on this Taylor I have all the Copy Twitters out there and i go right back to twitter. Only because They were the first to post of the website. everybody else is just coping but very effective. Its not so much of a copy more so upgrade to what twitter is but what people fail to realize is twitter has way more traffic then all those services combined.
Every service and social network is talking to twitter all at the same time So Them twitter boys have there work cut out for them.
The way I understand it is Twitter is still in Beta Mode and we are the guinea pigs. How i come up with that was from a article on techcrunch or one of them tech blogs that once Twitter is at 99% uptime there putting up ads. So love it like it is b/c what we have now is going to change if it gets better. I just hope they don’t charge for the necessities.
7 musicmixingguru // Jul 29, 2008 at 1:38 am
oh one more thing ..my mac is 7 yrs old and i run all of them with no problem..but its time for even this old mac to get the stepping and in with A new Mac. But the beauty of macs is you can buy a used one and be just as good. im just money broke at the time and i hope my old mac last just long enough till i can afford to leave.
8 Taylor // Jul 30, 2008 at 10:11 am
Sounds like you’ve had a great time with your mac! I wish my PCs lasted 7 yrs.
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