My new years resolution is to spend less money and spend more deliberately.
January is wrapping up and I’m kinda shocked. I discovered that the estimate in my head of how much monthly house bills are is… off… by… a lot… I was just thinking about the monthly bills like water, electricity, internet, but failed to account for gas, groceries, restaurants, and repairs.
Now that I’m actually budgeting and tracking, I’m seeing what’s really going on.
In this latest update, Google has adjusted this to allow for more granularity. Newly added “Temperature” and “Weather units” sections in Pixel Weather’s settings menu allow for changes for each unit of measurement. These include: Precipitation, Wind Speed, Barometric Pressure, Visibility
I’m from the US, but I usually switch units to metric as much as possible. Currently, I can only switch over the temperature. It’ll be great to switch over the rest of the data. Great news!
My neighbor told me I was gonna die in 1year after getting the first round of COVID vaccines. Pff. I wish! Still here unfortunately.
Can we make Matrix not suck first?
Technologically, very cool, much wow. But UI/UX wise, it’s pretty terrible. I managed to convince 5 friends to move to Matrix from Discord. They lasted like 3 days before going back to Discord. One guy couldn’t even figure out how to post a message and have it be decrypted by everyone in the group. We just kept seeing “Message could not be decrypted” or whatever over and over again. We had to fall back to Discord to reach him.
They probably won’t be taking recommendations from me anymore. :|
(We used Element X clients.)
Yeah, I wouldn’t mind a newsletter once a month with about 5 bullet points summarizing the most important events.
means you are now uninformed and unable to stop it from sucking
This seems better than being informed and unable to stop it from sucking, which was what I was doing previously.
closing down your visibility to, for example, news and politics that are negative puts you in a bad place to vote
I mean, I kiiinda agree, but not totally. I definitely do vote. I usually block out a few days to research candidates and propositions before filling out my ballot. So I am making an informed vote.
However, I don’t see how getting a play-by-play of the world falling apart is helpful. I get the summary when it’s time to vote, then I put it away. I can’t stop Trump from doing stupid shit. I can’t stop the war in Ukraine. I can’t stop Elon from befriending Nazis.
put on your big girl panties and let’s get past the worldwide push for authoritarian take overs
How?? All I can do is vote in my own country. And I did that. I’ve tried talking to friends and family, but I have yet to convince a Trumper of anything. They don’t care about reality. It doesn’t matter if I have all my facts straight. They don’t want to listen.
I can donate to Ukraine for the war, donate to orgs suing the government, or go to a protest, but all of that seems orthogonal to watching daily/weekly news.
It seems like being “informed” is just a way to “feel” like you’re doing something? Am I missing something here? I don’t get it.
Good questions!
But problem is, all my email address would be @mydomainname.com instead of @protonmail which millions of people use. Isn’t that just linking all your account together.
I mean, yeah. You can’t setup sockpuppets on the same service. It’ll be obvious it’s the same person. And if someone is tracking you across services, it’ll be way easier to find you. This is a con.
I would recommend not picking a domain with your real name, like smith.com or john.com. Even though it does seem popular to have me@johnsmith.com. It won’t solve the issue you noticed, but it’ll mitigate it a tiny bit.
its hard to even pick a name that sound good
Also, true. Ideally, you pick a common word with normal spelling that doesn’t have a homophone that’s not embarrassing to say to random people on the street. It would be awkward to be applying to a job or a loan and have to say your email is “[email protected]”. Also, you will have to speak your email over the phone at some point, the shorter and easier it is the better.
I would also recommend picking a domain with either .com or .net TLDs. Some companies blanket destroy your email if it comes from some weird TLD like “.party” or “.xyz”. Omg, specifically, .xyz I think has been linked to tons of spam. Bigger companies will handle this more gracefully (put it in spam). But smaller companies, like my local garbage company run by normies, will just not deliver the email. (And debugging why emails don’t get received is really hard and annoying.)
Unfortunately, a lot of people squat domains, so finding a short, simple, easy domain is really hard. I’m curious what other people do. Maybe other people just have me@reallylongdomainthaticanactuallyget.com? Or maybe other people have had better experience with john@mail.club? Or maybe some people don’t care that their domain is john@boss.baby?
Ultimately though, having email independence is valuable enough for some folks to be OK with the downsides.
Fresh install.
My experience with my friends and family:
I left Facebook a long time ago and never looked back.
Every body clap your hands. 👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏
How low can you go?
Can you go down low?
All the way to the floor?
📉
I just got a pop-up about this today… It would have been nice to get this at the beginning of the month…
I’ve been blocking as many news/political communities as possible. Also, this helped: https://lemmy.today/post/22524765
https://purelymail.com/ seems like it’s a cheap, no-nonsense email provider. I’m already setup on Migadu and happy enough, so I haven’t tried it. But it seems like a lot of people like it.
People were recently talking about it on HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42836818
Did you notice if it seemed to improve a bit with time?
Mmm… no. I just more violently drag across the trackpad until it works and then resume what I was doing. 😅
I don’t have problems with high DPI … only problems I’ve come across is … I DID have scaling problems with Wayland
This is exactly my point. You did have problems with high DPI. You had to fix some random config and avoid Wayland.
I don’t want to deal with this. I want to be able to use whatever software I want and have it work with minimal or no extra “fixing”. I value this over slightly neater pixels.
Here’s a screenshot I just took from my Framework 13. Notice how some of the text is clear, but the entire menu to the right is blurry.
Common “fixes” are “move to Fedora” or “just enable some experimental flag in some random config”. This all misses the point though: I don’t want to have to do any of that. I just want a system that works with the most amount of apps.
Of course, it depends on what you specifically value. For me, I value broader software compatibility over slightly neater pixels. Some people might like it the other way around. That’s fine, but it’s something important to know.
Me playing Returnal: This game is impossible!! Stupid devs! I buy games to have fun! Not to get stressed out!
throws the controller
…
picks up the controller, keeps playing