The incredible happiness of exchanging the time I was given on earth for money so I can pay my bills. Highly recommended, 10/10.

What do you enjoy? Need some tips on what to do outside of work. :)

I liked that people could run their own instance and that it was not controlled by big tech.

Kagi is making some money by providing value that Google can’t. I’m not sure if it would be enough for mozilla, but Kagi is making a profit now.

Sadly, both of these companies still depend on Google.

If there are no logs, there is nothing to give up. There is no law that they have to keep logs as far as I know.

Don’t get me wrong, I’m interested in i2p. Thanks for posting.

Maybe because they have no desire to let you teach them things they have no interest in?

It sounds like you expect them to hang around and watch you do things you like… Of course they walk away if it’s not interesting to them.

So yeah, you need to find other friends somewhere, just like you say. It’s difficult.

I think its been interesting to watch. What has happened is that there is now a super large instance in Lemmy.world, and a handful of smaller ones with above a thousand users.

The promise of proper decentralization didn’t really happen. There are hundreds of small instances but they are not self contained and completely depend on the larger ones to get content.

Defederation seems to be common since admins don’t want to deal with moderating hostile conversations, which makes a lot of sense. But it also makes it a echo chamber to some degree. We see mostly memes and jokes instead of meaningful discussions. So it’s great for a fun time but not so much more than that.

Still, I’m happy it’s an alternative to reddit and those shitty services. I love that it’s run by ordinary people and not tech companies. And no ads or tracking. All good stuff.

I think if you run Linux, you don’t notice it so much. Don’t need office suite or Adobe suitsäe or mediation apps or whatever… There are many decent free ones.

I don’t pay for any software at all actually, and my job pays for chat gpt…

I guess you know, but there is a remastered version of blade runner that is blue ray quality… Soo good. Still holds up graphically in most places.

I actually think that’s pretty cool. Make the user swear so we know he/she is real. :)

But it also won’t work. You can run Ai models at home that doesn’t have the language police.

Too late… People are reporting posts for literally using the “wrong” words or for someone expressing anger over something. It’s like their wet dream is that people act like machines.

Is there a question to me anywhere in that long post about yourself? You think of yourself as a rational person, following advice from medical professionals and scientific research. But somehow you can’t see why someone may not trust the vaccines on a personal level?

There are side effects from vaccines. I decided to get covid instead of risking those side effects. I had a mild cold for a few days, then it was over and never came back.

I had coworkers who got very sick after taking the vaccine. And several of them developed very weird issues with their body. When going to a doctor, the doctor said it was covid, not the vaccine.

So in short, I rather get infected with covid and let my body develop its own anti bodies than take the vaccine. Works very well so far.

We share that view then! I also don’t see myself as a bigot and I don’t tolerate them. So we shouldn’t waste each other’s time. :)

I guess you are referring to my comment about not trusting vaccines? That single comment got 300 downvotes or so. :) I think it shows very clearly that there is point discussing the topic.

Just the fact that you think it’s crazy to not vaccinate is an absolute position with no room for discussing it at all.

So as a consequence, we don’t discuss these things on Lemmy. Most people are happy about that. :) I’m just saying there are topics we don’t discuss here. That can’t be discussed. This is true. :)

You don’t see yourself as a bigot I guess? Just other people. :)

Bigot means:

“a prejudiced person who is intolerant of any opinions differing from his own”

This is exactly what we see on Lemmy when it comes to trans and vaccination topics. People are not tolerant of opinions different from their own.

Avoid trans and vaccination topics on Lemmy if you don’t want downvotes. :)

I think it’s a good place for discussing surface level topics though. Memes, big tech behavior, etc. Things nobody gets upset about hearing.

I can also play that game. Not at any point did I say to be drooling rotting animals. You are the one using those word words along with words like eye-fucking…

I think you have a twisted view of sexuality my man.

Disagree, and you see the same thing in women when there is an attractive guy around.

This political correct bullshit trying to make people think it’s wrong to be attracted to someone is just ridiculous. :)

Won’t happen :) And disagree about the weak mind as well. Has nothing to do with mind, it’s hormones. Ask teenage boys to have their hands on their cover and exercise their willpower… :)