Agreed. Sometimes context comes from more screen, not less. I receive a lot of cropped screenshots that show the “problem” but hide the surrounding context, and they often exclude things that would make a solution immediately clear from a shot of the full application window.
Definitely true although my motive is more based on a principle of “don’t let people send me on a fishing trip”. I’m glad to help but people need to learn the proper way of asking without completely inconveniencing the other person
I'm a bit nuts, but I run Wine headless to host a niche product server for software developed on Windows many years ago. Using Wine, I can have one profile/prefix per customer, and run multiple customers on a single box without needing any Windows licenses. The way the original server was developed only expected a single customer per box (since they would be running it on their private network), but many customers have opted to have me host it for them, and a big rewrite was out of the question.
It's been working out nicely for many years, with only a few bumps and bruises in the early stages getting everything stable.
I spent an hour trying to get Ark Survival Evolves server trying to run on wine a while ago. But gave up after a while. I used to host a service providing ark servers :P
I've got some fixes in for wine. But debugging Wine can be quite a challenge, you need a lot of low level understanding.
Agreed, it can be a challenge to debug. I probably spent a couple weeks getting everything working for my app server the first time around. It helps that I control the source code though, so I can lean on some old fashioned text logs to pinpoint problem areas. Wine updates can sometimes break things too (had some problems with early 6.0 releases breaking the network stack), so it's important to hold Wine updates and test new versions thoroughly before updating.
It's an app I coded myself over the better part of 15 years now - it's nothing too exciting, just a LoB app for contract administration with a small but dedicated user base. The version I worked on before the current one was a local-only app. The current version was developed to be client-server. Toyed around with doing a web app all those years ago, but it didn't feel like the web as an app platform was quite there yet. I also had a fair amount of legacy code that was still useful that I didn't want to throw away completely.
Anyway, after focusing so much time and effort on the client-server apps, it is finally time to focus on a web front end (only 10 years or so late!). So I've written a middle-tier (running under Wine) with Nginx in front it. The middle tier translates JSON over HTTP->COM calls, then translates COM->JSON over HTTP on the way back. It's a bit of a Frankenstein's monster, but it works and the approach has meant I can keep a tonne of existing code and keep adding features and improving existing features, which has been nice.
I think the main similarity between TikTok and traditional social media is the "keeping up with the Joneses" aspect. Once you've bought in, you see how amazing these peoples' lives are and you want your life to be that great too.
IMO it's all an illusion, but it's not much different from seeing a friend, family member, co-worker. or a prominent business-person/celebrity being more successful than you. The interesting (scary?) thing about TikTok is that it hyper-compresses that environment into a few seconds, then constantly bombards you with it via a neverending flow of videos. It's like keeping up with the Joneses on amphetamines.
Weird part about it, it really depends. The last time I checked, my TikTok feed was just full of funny small videos filmed by random people doing stupid trends outside. Nothing about their lives exactly attracts me. However, the fact that a lot of people see these videos, and I reshare it with my friends and laugh at it together is what can make it remarkable.
Obviously, it heavily depends. I’ve looked at my friends’ feeds and it’s exactly what you’ve described.
This is the actual great thing about TikTok. My experience of TikTok seems very different to the majority of the commenters here, it’s like we’re on different platforms.
Obviously we all like different things, and there is enough content to fill everyone’s feeds with it.
Yeah, the one thing people familiar with TikTok seen to agree on and be impressed by is its ability to cater the content it serves to your desires.
That's actually what got me to try it out. There were multiple cases where I heard that, so downloaded it and spent some time on it. After you've used it a few hours, you start really getting mostly the stuff you like.
You just have to be very careful not to engage with stuff you don't want to see. Scroll away as soon as you've determined it's not for you, as they'll notice if you watch things to the end. I made a conscious decision that I didn't want to engage in content where people were complaining about the behavior of other people and scrolled past as soon as I identified things as such, and I stopped getting them within a few days. My TikTok is all fun/funny stuff.
I've took on a shitty job recently (which I've since quit) and there were a lot of 40-50-60 y.o men working the said crap job. Some 75% of them are watching Tiktoks during breaks, which I've never seen with Youtube/Insta. You can think of "keeping up with the Joneseses" as a disease or something negative (which I do personally), but it's what a looot of people want to do and live like.
I'm not entirely sure I believe this argument that Tiktok is a different level of addictiveness than "traditional" social media (which IMO is a fake distinction with no fundamental difference to "$NEW" social media, but that's a separate discussion). I'd like to see if any data or studies actually suggests the endless scroll of twitter, facebook, instagram and reddit, or the autoplay of youtube, is less addictive than tiktok.
I've certainly seen friends and family compulsively scroll and obsessively check instagram and snapchat in a manner no different than what people are criticizing about tiktok. It seems like people witness their "their generation" using instagram/snapchat for hours on end; then they see the younger generation using tiktok for (the same number of) hours on end, and get the idea it's far more damaging.
I can't seem to find a single site (which would presumably mean a consistent methodology) that lists recent data for average|median use per day for both of them, but I've seen numbers saying people spend 33-50 min per day on Facebook, vs 90+ min per day on TikTok.*
I suspect the curated short video format is what really holds people's attention in a way that is different from "traditional social media".
*disclaimer: as reported by different sites, with different methodologies, and different reporting dates.
TikTok does in some ways seem like the anti-Instagram or Facebook, or at least my feed does. It's all people using their hardships or quirks as humor and a way to connect, or couples examining the annoyances of marriage and relationships in good humor.
The amount of things I want to and do share with my wife and kids in there makes me thing of the items as small emotional payloads I can send which are themselves a message, sort of like sending an emoji or string of them.
