while browsing the web (hosted on linux).

naturally.

it’s the whole “if you can’t afford it, it isn’t for you.” attitude that pisses me off when society is literally turning into a place where just breathing costs you money. it’s such a common attitude among people well off as well. they all think themselves ‘deserving’ of their quality of life and anyone beneath it is simply not deserving. while they did absolutely nothing to get their position beside rolling dice.

another guy i know got his job through his dad who owned the business. he has been making very good income since day one out of school (and i mean, for this guy, and the other guy - they have no degrees because back then you didn’t need one to get good jobs); but after his dad retired 20 years ago they have slowly been tearing apart the job and making the conditions crap. so he actually quit a few months ago and now he is still making some 70% more than my salary on government welfare based on his previous salary and he has the gall to complain that he can’t figure out his economy. like bro, you’ve been giving me life lessons on money management and telling me i shouldn’t live outside of my means and now that you took a hit to your income but still have 70% more than me then suddenly the economy is too hard to manage? take your own damn advice for once and cut down on your frivolous expenses lol. like, do you really need to buy that camera part which costs 4 times your salary? is it vital? how often do you use the camera, once every 3 years? yeah i don’t see you bleeding mate.

you sound like a guy i know who wanted to be a car mechanic but failed to qualify for the job on account of talking too much shit; but they hired him as a car sales instead with commission so his salary got 8x higher. of course he always gives financial advice now that he’s rich. for example, you shouldn’t buy a house near the city if you can’t afford one. you shouldn’t buy a car if you can’t afford one. and you shouldn’t buy a mobile phone and a subscription if you can’t afford it.

so if we break it down, his advice is: if you have a shitty job that pays you poorly; you don’t deserve to live in any kind of proximity to your shitty job, you should also have no means of transportation to said shitty job (because you now live far away from the city and would actually need a car to get to your job), nor any means of bank and digital ID access (to receive your shitty salary, because its priced outside of the bare minimum wage you’re forced to subsist on).

the real cold turkey was Riot killing linux support last year. Seems like there wasn’t enough linux players at the time for them to walk back that decision.

so, the fediverse wants to avoid all hobbies?

i mean; this has always been my take but people don’t understand that we’re all different and insist video medium is best medium.

and now blogs are dying because of ai.

which is the dumbest shit in the world. why the fuck are people on facebook?

i pay $20 a year for basically all of that and even more stuff but open source provided and maintained by a local server company in my country. of course i don’t use half of their offerings because some stuff has alternatives more suited for the platform or its simply not needed. but e.g. their service offers nextcloud which has most of the stuff you listed bundled into the platform by default. and then they have another 50 services added on top available for use.

starlite runs the n100 and n200 cpus. the cpus are pretty great (have an n100 on my nuc). the problem with linux is the touch interface first and foremost imo. i have an old windows tablet converted to linux and its a daily headache. well, was. i haven’t used the thing for months.

you could account share? most services banned account sharing last year afaik.

and anyway; how is it a bad thing to reject predatory services?

piracy wad literally always a service problem. they solved it by netflix monopoly providing a great service people wanted and piracy was practically dead for an entire decade - then they all got greedy and we’re all headed back to piracy.

the solution here seems pretty obvious, and i think even the execs are aware of it.

the absolute volume of people who complain daily about how shit facebook groups are for organizing community information and discussion is radical. most of my hobby associations moved to fb groups from traditional forums and now they are dying partly because there is no longer any meaningful discussions due to facebook structure and partly because people are joining there instead of a membership, and partly because facebook decided to kill all animal based hobbies around 3 years ago just as they had all migrated to the platform. and STILL people won’t move to a new one. the hobbies are literally dying because the hobby activity is banned on facebook and its STIlL there. because the platform literally can’t supply that which it needs while also profiting from the flow algorithms. but do you see anyone switching? nope. they are doubling down on using the wrong tool for the task and it’s even growing in users because it just happens to be where the users are. it’s a catch-22. if there was a mass migrate to a superior platform people would switch in a heartbeat because there is a mass migration to a superior platform.

people won’t actively seek to break the law just because something sucks. if that was the case we wouldn’t have things like facebook or twitter or tiktok.

i caught my 5yo playing golden eye the other day and i was not disappointed!

afaik our digital identification system does not work well outside of iOS or Android (most of the time, not at all - since it breaks on updates and they update basically daily). so we’re stuck with their duopoly. because digital id is mandatory.

Once upon a time they did support linux on desktop but then ubuntu went and decided to make a phone and linux support was mysteriously discontinued a week after.

who will pay our representatives to push this through?

the problem is algorithms. during the whole bluesky promo all over lemmy while everyone was shitting on mastodon. the only thing that’s broken is algorithms, and once you throw them out social media is immediately fixed - but of course the primary argument of mastodon vs bluesky was that mastodon requires you to curate your content (like joining a sub on reddit to see it on your front page stream, before algorithms fucked that site, and the thing is people LOVED old reddit so i fail to see how this is bad and doesn’t work, but hey, all of lemmy said so, so who am i to blame) whereas bluesky being a relaunch of twitter and literally curating content for you no matter if you actually want to see it or not but for most people reactionary content is the only content they happily interact with anyway so algorithms makes a lot of sense for them because they feel they are engaging more with the site despite the pointless empty engagement they are doing instead of interacting with real users and real content on pages where you have to actively curate your content instead of being fed the lowest hanging fruit.

/ rant off

i stopped paying for cryptpad when they stopped building their own software and started peddling the utter garbage that is onlyoffice.

i asked them a few years ago if they are planning to build something new and they just said why build when there are things like onlyoffice already available.

sigh.

many governments are currently trying to tear down art grants aren’t they tho?

the majority keep voting for the people trying to break everything and get shocked when it breaks.

what lesson? it’s a ponzi scheme and whoever is the last holding the bag is the only one losing.

whats still p2p today? seems like mostly everything was updated to run through corporate servers. i mean heck chats no longer has the capabilities they used to when things were p2p; now, a chat has like one single feature, to chat, and half the time that doesn’t even work because their servers are down lol.