Adderbox76

Literally everything to do with modern life.

I’m not saying that we should all pull a BSG and give it all up to be cavemen again.

But our bodies most certainly didn’t evolve in order to sit at desks, stare at screens, communicate without physical contact, and avoid sunshine like the plague.

We evolved to be active, but developed the technology that allows most of us to be sedentary 99% of the time, and then we wonder why obesity and chronic back pain are pandemics.

You’re assuming that the point of the American justice system IS to refrain and rehabilitate. It’s not.

A for-profit prison system seriously is low-key the most fucked up thing in a country full of fucked up things.

American prisons exist to make a profit for their investors. They do this by both government subsidies (which are calculated per inmate) and using the prisoners as cheap labor that they legally only have to pay pennies.

The system NEEDS a continuous influx of prisoners (slaves) to remain profitable. Rehabilitation is anathema to that.

Mastodon (specifically mstdn.ca). Lemmy.ca, pixelated (though I rarely use it like I should) and I’m hoping to soon get a tilvids account to document my progress modelling for X-plane and creating the assets for my own computer board game.

I’m old enough that typing 55378008 into my scientific calculator and then turning it upside-down absolutely fits the criteria.

I don’t hate it by any means. But design wise I always end up back in Jerboa which (to me) seems more old-school and familiar.

I find it hard to put into words, and obviously it’s completely subjective, but aps like Connect and Liftoff seem too “fluffy” to me, with UI elements being larger and in-your-face. Whereas Jerboa just kind of gets the heck out of my way.

One of my all time favourites.

As cliche as it sounds, the breakdown of their relationship and the personalities involved are so spot on to me and my ex-wife that I was floored the moment that I saw it.

“Constantly talking isn’t necessarily communicating.”

It’s the natural evolution of a federated social network.

It’ll all work itself out eventually. Some communities will thrive while others will slowly stagnate. This all happens by nature. Give it time.

All of the above.

Humanity is, at it’s core, motivated by self interest. The singularity will be harnessed by those with the power and means to do so, while those who don’t will either suffer or die.

The powerful few will adapt to the singularity; using it to craft their own utopia. The masses, without access to the same power that the upper class enjoyed, will fall into a dystopia while even more marginalized substrates of society go extinct completely unnoticed.

Motorola One 5G Ace.

After years working in telecom, I’m in the camp of “absolutely no device needs to cost thousands of bucks.”

Midrange phones do just fine, and it’s borderline criminal marketing that the Apples and Samsungs of the world convince gullible consumers that their 260 dollars worth of parts and labour is somehow worth more than an average mortgage payment.

Turn off porn on the “all” thread without having to block other NSFW content. It’s getting pretty bad blocking three or four porn communities every time I try to browse, but not being able to block the instances they’re all coming from.

Personally I doubt I’ll delete my account on Reddit. But as someone who will cling to old.reddit.com and adguard to the bitter end, I’ll happily let my gather dust unless there’s a support question or something for a community that hasn’t taken off here.

Keeping Reddit as a backup will at least being me some productivity back. I’m supposed to be a writer, I would probably down more times actually doing that anyway.

I don’t think it’s too abstract for people. I think we’re all just really bad at explaining it to non-techies.

When you move to a city, choosing the neighborhood you want to buy your house in doesn’t stop you from being able to drive around looking at others.

It ain’t rocket science.

I just keep an eye on all of them.
Eventually this whole thing will sort itself out and the snowball effect will see some communities get bigger while others fall to the wayside. It’s a natural progression.

Duck Duck Go. It just works for me. I’ve never had a problem with it’s results.

Good so far. The one and only Android app available for it is serviceable, though not without issues. Other than that, if usage picks up I can see myself spending more time here.