Mark Zuckerburg was up there at the inauguration because he is one of the richest men alive, and he became so mostly because of the platforms he owns.

By using the Fediverse and not his platforms, I’m denying him revenue from ads and data, even if its an infinitely small amount.

Use open platforms, give your money to ethical businesses and keep it from these assholes. Money isn’t the only way for someone to have power, but there’s no denying that the net worth on that inauguration stage was the most concentrated anywhere on earth. Don’t give them a cent more.

You have to pay if you want to sign in, but you can stay logged out and subscribe to subreddits for free.

I really like your phrasing of privacy as the choice of whether or not to share information about yourself, and I think this influences my stance on the expectation of privacy. Just because I’m going to the store for groceries, for example, doesn’t mean I would want a camera pointed in my face during the whole experience.

Tried it a few months ago! I’ll never complain about alternative software, but it currently has only the basics. Until its further developed, I wouldn’t be comfortable recommending this over LibreOffice to anyone.

• American casualties, not total

• “excluding the Covid period”, this is purposeful sensationalism. Even the first paragraph of the article admits the title is misleading.

Although federated social media has the “chicken or egg” problem with content and attracting users, I’m content with places like Lemmy and Mastodon staying the small size they are right now for a little longer.

Sure, I definitely miss content from other platforms from time to time. But I think your comment about businesses and celebrities rings true. I’m happy to be clear of the grifters and influencers for as long as possible.

Post in communities that align with your interests. Post in communities for your geographic area, if you’re comfortable with that. Comment on posts you see, if you think you can add something of value to the conversation.

I really enjoyed Doom 3. Has more of a horror vibe compared to the hack and slash nature of the rest of the series, but I feel its very enjoyable and doesn’t feel as old as it is.

On Eternity for Lemmy, its super easy.

After the election. I decided I just needed to take a break from the constant stream of negativity. Using these keywords in my post filter has removed political posts almost completely:

Trump, Kamala, Vance, Walz, Biden, Harris, Donald, Republican, Republicans, Democrat, Democrats, GOP, DNC, MAGA, liberal, conservative, government, court, Military, NATO, Nazi, Election, genocide, fascist, fascism, Twitter, trans, gender, police, cop, cops, abortion, federal, Europe, U.S., American, China, Israel, Gaza, Palestine, Russia, Russian, Chinese, Ukraine, Cruz, Thomas,

I recognize my privilege of being able to ignore these posts temporarily, and hope to come back from my hiatus with the will to do something about our awful political situation.

Stellaris isn’t awful on deck, but it would be nice to have the console controller layout that ships with the XBox edition.

I love this idea, I’m going to start practicing it myself.

I can’t think of any phone that is Private out of the box. Your best bet is to flash a custom ROM like Graphene or Calyx.

Everyone knows you need to pay for YouTube Premium-Pro-Plus if you don’t want to see ads. Only 69.99 per month week.

My wife had never seen Breaking Bad, so I’m introducing her to one of the best TV shows of all time.

I ran into the same issue you did. No verification email, and my login credentials won’t work on the app or on the website.

Carl Richell (System76 CEO) mentioned at the Ubuntu Summit that they’re expecting a Beta in January or February.

I’m hoping to start. Although I still don’t really post, I comment way more on Lemmy/Mastodon than when I used Reddit, because I want the platforms to grow.

It helped me tremendously in college, and I still use it today, both for past knowledge retention, as well as learning some new things. It is an incredible tool.

As far as the learning curve goes, I would recommend this: just use it as is. You can dive down a rabbit hole of optimizing your learning approach and adding the right extensions, but that time is better spent just studying what you want to learn.

Use the Cloze format, keep cards limited to a couple sentences at most, and practice daily for a couple minutes, and you can’t go wrong.

Given the ridiculously low prices of all Steam Deck models, I imagine that the main revenue for Valve is mainly from increased game sales rather than profit from their hardware. If that’s the case, it makes sense to see Steam OS on as many devices as possible, even if they compete directly with the Steam Deck.

That being said, I’m just excited by any decision that puts Linux in front of more users.