What I did on reddit was to filter specific political words using RIF. If the app you’re using supports word filters I would do that

I’d rather rely on someone else, I think it’s unlikely that Gmail, outlook, protonmail, etc would go down without me hearing about it. I can’t afford to have my emails bounce for days until I both realise its happening and have the time to figure out the problem and fix it.

Monkeys paw: you randomly teleport to your desk

Just only ever go to private resorts or places where everyone is richer than you anyway

Turn them all into men and end the human race

Performance, security, reliability, other quality of life features, better UX, there are 374 issues open on their github: https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues

The less social media in the world the better

Even if you run your own instance, if you’re federated with other instances then your posts, comments and upvotes could still be scraped by someone else

A small lemmy instance = a small dataset = less desirable to advertisers = less valuable for the owner of the instance to attempt to sell

So it’s not just the tech industry

But even so, the margins on the crap they sell must be so thin

Funny how things go isn’t it

I’ve bought from aliexpress in the past for obscure electronics that you can’t really get anywhere else for a good price. But I will never shop at temu, I am incredibly suspicious about how they have such an incredibly large advertising budget yet their prices are so low. Either it’s a straight up scam or they are expecting to make a lot of money later down the line

I’ve changed my mind, but I do think that the concept is somewhat difficult to grasp

To be honest, I thought it was stupid. I misunderstood how it works and I thought it was overcomplicating the idea of decentralised instances

The ability to remember the lyrics to basically any pop song from 1990s-2010s

Why would they?

Maybe because it was a work laptop I didn’t spend as much time on setup as I would for a personal computer. There’s were a lot of issues that I solved with tweaking at the start, but many of the lingering issues either had no solution or were so intermittent or complex that I couldn’t figure out how to word it in a way that would lead me to the solution.

Do they have an equivalent of ClearType yet?

I used Linux desktop as my work rig for a year and a half. I absolutely hated it, had constant problems and lost time almost every day to stupid workarounds. When I tried to search or ask for help the answer I was usually met with was “your hardware is wrong” or “why do you want to do that” or more often than no “you’re using the wrong distro, you should use [different one every time]”. I also found the UI to be quite ugly and often obtuse, you can tell that there’s very few open source UI/UX designers. I switched back to windows and I’ve had better performance and less bugs.