For sure. Though if you make 350k, you should be able to pay back 200k loans in 2 or 3 years easy.

Consumer spending in general is actually still quite strong, but the growth has slowed a bit.

Do you mean other instances of kbin, or other fediverse sites?

AI summary:

• Brave Browser has marketed itself as a privacy-preserving web browser and has gained attention from cryptocurrency enthusiasts.
• The company behind Brave, founded by Brendan Eich, faced backlash due to Eich’s previous donation in support of California’s Proposition 8, which aimed to ban same-sex marriage.
• Brave initially planned to replace ads with its own ad units and split revenue with publishers, but this idea was met with legal issues and criticism from both inside and outside the company.
• Brave introduced Basic Attention Tokens (BAT) as a way to reward users for viewing ads and content, but the rewards are minimal and the value of BAT is volatile.
• Brave has incorporated various cryptocurrency-related features, including a full crypto wallet, but many of its crypto partners have faced controversies and scandals.
• Brave was involved in a privacy scandal in which affiliate codes were added to URLs typed into the address bar, allowing the company to collect revenue from user signups or purchases.
• The article concludes that Brave is a flawed software project and should not be used, recommending Firefox or Vivaldi as privacy-focused alternatives.

Agreed. Travel if you can when you’re young, or just make sure to not have kids or put it off a while so you can get to a more money-making part of your career and can afford it more without being tied down by children.

Something in IT is great, I think, and will be applicable to such a variety of fields and allow you to pivot in your career. Once you’re progressing in your career, well, I’ve seen or heard of people making surprising shifts. So much learning for various jobs is really institutional anyways and will happen on the job. Just make sure you learn to well, learn. Always be playing with and learning new tools and processes and be adaptable. For instance, you could start out a developer and find out you like managing projects on your team and finding ways to make things more efficient and wind up a project manager who also understands what your team is talking about and working on.

Yeah, particularly chat in a meeting, it feels so barebones.

Curious – not saying it’s great, but I don’t think the Zoom UX is much better, personally. What bothers you about Teams, if I might ask?

Oh sweet, thank you!

Wait, importing what?

Pretty much exactly the same here. There’s no denying the existing collection of knowledge on Reddit, but it is no longer a browse randomly app for me.

Absoltuely. Definitely depends on what you’re listening to. Gotta be able to adjust per podcast.

That’s a decent solution, but unfortunately doesn’t have handy podcast app features like silence trimming, voice boosting, etc. Great suggestion though!

I’ll admit I do. And I won’t like, I’ll still append “Reddit” to my searches as needed. I’m just not really actively contributing or anything there anymore, which is sad

Pretty cool, especially considering how it’s been shown that WiFi can be used to pretty accurately determine the position and number of people in a room with AI.

This is super helpful, thanks so much

Any tips on jumping in? Recommended services, etc

Any tips on where you source the torrents from? Also looking into Usenet as well

That works. F-Droid is an alternative to the Play store. You can also download the .apk directly instead if you prefer. Just scroll down to the versions and find the most recent.

Not sure about them, but I use browser on desktop and the progressive web app on mobile generally. Sometimes browser on mobile