OBS Studio. It's probably a terrible idea, but I have a real Jenga tower of a setup, and any time I update it seems to break something
this post was submitted on 28 Apr 2025
64 points (98.5% liked)
Ask Lemmy
32002 readers
847 users here now
A Fediverse community for open-ended, thought provoking questions
Rules: (interactive)
1) Be nice and; have fun
Doxxing, trolling, sealioning, racism, and toxicity are not welcomed in AskLemmy. Remember what your mother said: if you can't say something nice, don't say anything at all. In addition, the site-wide Lemmy.world terms of service also apply here. Please familiarize yourself with them2) All posts must end with a '?'
This is sort of like Jeopardy. Please phrase all post titles in the form of a proper question ending with ?3) No spam
Please do not flood the community with nonsense. Actual suspected spammers will be banned on site. No astroturfing.4) NSFW is okay, within reason
Just remember to tag posts with either a content warning or a [NSFW] tag. Overtly sexual posts are not allowed, please direct them to either !asklemmyafterdark@lemmy.world or !asklemmynsfw@lemmynsfw.com. NSFW comments should be restricted to posts tagged [NSFW].5) This is not a support community.
It is not a place for 'how do I?', type questions.
If you have any questions regarding the site itself or would like to report a community, please direct them to Lemmy.world Support or email info@lemmy.world. For other questions check our partnered communities list, or use the search function.
6) No US Politics.
Please don't post about current US Politics. If you need to do this, try !politicaldiscussion@lemmy.world or !askusa@discuss.online
Reminder: The terms of service apply here too.
Partnered Communities:
Logo design credit goes to: tubbadu
founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
Deezer, because I maintain a usertheme based on an old version of the website so I use on old build of the app as reference.
Kindle (Paperwhite). Never registered since I bought it, never will. Not once did it touch any network. I only use Calibre to manage books.
Nvidia Shield - The Android update (from 9 to 10, iirc) turned mine into a sluggish, unresponsive piece of crap. I ended up downgrading back to Android 9 and blocked the update servers in my router.
Switch Joycons - This might be a placebo, but I swear that every second Joycon update completely messes with their ability to connect to the tablet via the rails. They still disconnect every once in a while, but I'm certain that some versions of the Joycon firmware made my Switch completely unusable in portable mode.
Audacity. I stayed back at whatever old version for quite some time before finally switching to Tenacity.
What's up with audacity? I use it like twice a year so I just download it whenever I need and uninstall it. I don't really do anything except some incredibly basic things (like record audio, cut segments out, maybe some noise reduction if I'm feeling fancy)
The developers sold out, and the new parent company wanted to add opt-out telemetry IIRC. They received a lot of backlash and apparently reduced the data collected, but they had proven that they could not be trusted, and multiple forks were made before the new version with telemetry even released. Tenacity is what came of at least two of those forks.
Some apps that I've patched with revanced manager like messenger to remove the inbox ads for example.
The Phillips hue bridge app. They forced online login in the new version for "security". I don't see how connecting to Philipps servers is more secure than local only.
I have wifi lights, when I move they will 100% be changed to zigbee. The cloud and iot has gone off the rails in security and convenience.
Feels like a lot of programs that I use. It is like, if they're still working as is and nothing is happening to them, why bother?
But specifically, my pick is Windows. I have the most lapsed way of handling Windows OSes over the years.
I was on Windows 98 and it lasted until roughly mid-2000s did I finally get on Windows XP. Didn't touch Vista. Didn't touch 7. Got into Windows 8 mid-2010s after buying a friend's PC. Didn't get on Windows 10 until a few years ago. Not going to touch Windows 11.
Get win10 LTSC iot. Have to reinstall, not sure you can just convert, but will help if you don't want Linux. LTSC iot is good til 2032 I think.
Windows. Haven't booted to it in years and am afraid of it fucking up my Linux partition.
On fairly older version of 3C all-in-one tꝏlbox (2.6.6b) bcus has only reliable way for me to keep screen on all the time (hate screen timeouts sorry) . That function appears to be missing from newer versions , all other "keep screen awake" type apps I tried don't work very well for me , so just rolled back lmao
Calibre Companion, on android. For years it was the best way to sync books between my calibre install on my computer and my phone, even after the developer abandoned it. Then a while back, the dev released a single update that broke the app's integration with reader apps, then disappeared again. I rolled that back extremely quickly, by grabbing an older version from my old phone.
Vscode always breaks something so I do it as rarely as possible. Still can't remember a single new update or feature adding anything for me other than github copilot.
Android TV launcher on my shield tv so it doesn't get terminal advertising disease. DNS blocking hides the ones in the old version of the launcher.
iTunes was better before they got rid of Party Shuffle. It's such a good feature and I continue to be frustrated than no other music player offers something similar.
How is it different from other random/shuffle options?
The three big differences are these:
-
It doesn't shuffle a playlist, it adds to a queue by pulling from a playlist at random. This means that if the playlist changes, eg. because it's a smart playlist, you get the new songs added to the queue later.
-
You can change the playlist it pulls from without interrupting playback or resetting the queue.
-
It keeps track of which songs were just played as well as what is about to be played.
It has other great features that are present in some or most other apps. But the third thing I've only seen in one other app, the first two in none.
I really miss party shuffle. I swear it used to have a feature where other people could add songs to your party shuffle too?
That's one feature I wish would come back to streaming services
It did! That's why they called it party shuffle.
And Spotify does have this feature, but the "host" user has to turn it on, then everyone on the WiFi can add songs to the "jam".
I disabled updates for Blender and keep another old version for modding purposes I also refuse to update mobile discord since I heard the layout was changing. IDK what discord mobile is supposed to look like anymore, it also stopped letting me use the nitro discord themes a while ago. I’m on a version from Sept 2023 :x
Ah, Blender. I'm mainly using 3.6, because 4.x crashes or freezes too often
Discord and spotify cus I modified it illegally:3
The Tesla Super Bowl rom hack from when my favorite team was still good. :(
None, because I get almost all my apps from F-Droid and the repository maintainers themselves will quit making updated versions available if the app enshittifies.
Also, I cannot imagine accepting that shit from Samsung or Xiaomi in the first place. Believe it or not, instant boycott.
Everything on F-Droid is open source. Someone will just fork an app if the current maintainer starts pushing negative stuff into the app.
The dev of simplemobiletools selling out is an example.
TreeSize Free (Portable), versions older than 4.7.3 can run on Windows Server and still work just fine. They added a restriction on 4.7.3 that disallows server OS.
WinDirStat might be worth a look.
I refuse to update the Android messaging (text) app. I forget what they added to it, but my friend constantly complains about it.
It's quite dangerous to not keep messaging apps up-to-date, though.
Im scared
Maybe try Fossifiy SMS Messenger, it's on the IzzyOnDroid Repository
Im happy to just not update.
But I'll keep that in mind for down the road, thanks!
- ABC iView v4.16.1 [4148], the last version of the Australian streaming service before they started requiring a login, IIRC this doesn't even work any more so I just stopped using it
- the legacy version of Discord, more specifically the Aliucord mod which backports some modern features along with a bunch of optional plugins
- Simple Solitaire Collection, an open-source card game collection; the developer took it closed-source and ad-supported so I just stopped updating
- Skype on the last version before they added Copilot, but with Skype shutting down that's not really useful information to anybody
I started using BeyondPod for podcasts in 2009. At one point, they came out with an UI update that everyone hated but I was able to save an older version, I just had to avoid updating it in the store. I did that until they went out of business and it disappeared from the store a year or two ago. I'm guessing the version I still use came out in 2012
Maybe AntennaPod is for you: https://antennapod.org/
I've tried it multiple times. I'm not sure why I didn't like it but every few years I try a bunch of them and I still like BeyondPod. It still works perfectly.
This reminds me, I updated Android the other day and now my phone is running like shit. Damn planned obsolescence
Fenix nightly. Mozilla removed the tab strip experiment/secret setting in current builds :c