That’s stupid.

The main problem with lemmy now is adoption, there isn’t a critical mass of users yet.

When users see the stats without lemmy.world, they’ll be discouraged from joining. Add to that the issues with federation and the few who join will leave because of the steep learning curve.

Way to alienate potential users.

I tried switching to Linux many years ago (forgot what distro). It was hell.

I don’t remember the specifics anymore, but I remember encountering issues almost every step of the way. Driver support, not being able to find the right buttons, etc. Searching for fixes usually led me down a rabbit hole of “oh cool this user on this forum said in another thread that I just need to install Gobbledegook… But what is it and how do I install it?” and of course a bunch of things require CLI which I’m not fantastic at. Unfortunately I gave up after a week.

Compared to that, Windows really “just works”. I have had my share of frustrations, but it’s usually with stuff that’s comparatively an edge case when compared to the problems I had with Linux. I don’t like that I’m giving money/data to a megacorp, but the price of that is convenience. I don’t churn my own butter, I don’t build my own car, I don’t want to think too much about how my OS works under the hood.

Not a church service, but I attended a church wedding.

Pastor gave a sermon as is tradition during a church wedding. Every minute or so, he somehow managed to work in “and since you are in a place of God, you should not disrespect the bride and groom or our worshippers by using your phones”.

Bitch, I’m here to support my friend who’s getting married, not your church or your worshippers. I know for a fact that my friend chose to get married in the church because it’s cheaper, not because she’s super religious. Also I’m agnostic and haven’t read the Bible, but I’m pretty sure it doesn’t say “thou shalt not use mobile phones in churches”.

I very pointedly had my phone out for his entire sermon out of spite

Anyone who cared would already be off Twitter.

“The most secure system is a system that’s not live. Crowdstrike, bringing you the best-in-class security.”

genuine question: do people use twitter to catch up with folks?

As much as I hate it, I still occasionally use fb to message old friends, and instagram to keep up with friends. twitter… used to be for following celebrities but i’ve gone off that since (and if i wanted to, i can do that on insta).

best option is some sort of support agent work which allows remote, but you need steady hours.

if she really can’t hold steady hours for whatever reason then fiverr is the next best option. or look up things like gaming where you can sell in-game currency or resources for money

“Can I have some shoes” too

I don’t think peertube will succeed in scaling because video streaming and transcoding takes so much more resources to run than lemmy, and I can’t see volunteers doing this for nothing in return in the long run.

Tens of thousands of lemmy users can be hosted on hundreds of dollars per month; I bet it’s 10x more for peertube.

I’ve never had an issue with any of the changes Facebook has made over the past 5 years.

That’s because I haven’t used facebook at all.

Why would anyone care what Russians use?

Just use the right ublock filter to get past these silly anti adblocks

That’s great news, he’s helping us accelerate the demise of twitter.

Yes my desktop functions as a NAS - It takes maybe $100 more to get from a synology NAS to a working desktop-cum-NAS-cum-plex-server which I have.

On the other hand, it takes $500+ more to buy a laptop to plug in to a nas.

My point is, a laptop isnt always better.

I’ll switch when they make a laptop with 30+TB storage like my desktop has lol

Me too. Back facing fingerprint sensors were so ergonomic and responsive. Phone makers literally unanimously decided to throw away the best option for all kinds of sub optimal alternatives.

This is the most privileged thing you could say.

“Hey, why isn’t everyone eating sustainably sourced GMO-free, organic, locally-grown food all the time?”

Spoiler alert: it costs more

I used to pay for Netflix because it was easier to have one service to watch everything, than it was to pirate.

I’ve obviously stopped.

Piracy really is a service problem for me.

There was a point in time where I paid for Netflix because it was simply easier than downloading everything.

That point has long passed, and I no longer pay for streaming.

If I’m reading that correctly, you basically have 100gb worth of streaming?