YouTube is a great experience with a paid subscription. It’s the streaming service I use the most and I find the monthly cost to be worth the content I watch there. It’s also an even more effective way to fight the disruptive influence advertising has on our online communities and helps fund the creators on the platform that I enjoy.
Everyone should make their own choices, I’m just highlighting one of those choices that works well for me.
You might not see it as clearly, but that’s our role in society as well
I spent a decade as a full time Tcl developer and even I don’t use fossil.
Puns are their own rewords!
Profit is created from the output of productive labor. The amount of profit varies depending on the efficiency of the market and the company.
Companies are force multipliers for labor. The company’s profit comes from that force mulitplication, not by withholding profit from the worker who generated it.
Profit can only be made by exploiting labour. There can’t be any other way
This is a bad take and suffers from overly-simplistic thinking. Corporations are force multipliers for labor and the economic value of your labor is increased by joining forces with others.
Usenet was the golden age of Reddit for its time. Before the binary newsgroups drowned everything out and web 1.0 captured everyone’s attention.
In a way, it was a lot like Lemmy. Federated servers all inter-exchanged posts to a giant, global message board of newsgroups (roughly analogous to a subreddit or Lemmy community). Anyone could create a newsgroup and there were a lot of them.
When it was good, it fostered the same kind of genuine conversation that Reddit and Lemmy do when they’re at their best. It was full of memes, too, although that word didn’t exist then.
X-No-Archive: yes
. . . increasing inequality, fueling injustice, destroying the planet, etc.
This is such an astute and accurate description of crypto and mining. You are a textbook example of projection.
my omnikey ultra is certainly wacky
You mis-spelled “clacky”
We should make sure he gets the big piece of chicken
DMCA was designed to prevent intellectual property infringement, not as a censorship tool.
Concorde wasn’t far off that sort of speed. . .
The concorde took 180 minutes (3 hours) to travel from New York to London (3,000 nautical miles).
Ignoring range limits, a trip from New York to Tokyo (5,861 nautical miles) at that speed would take 351 minutes (5.8 hours).
I’ve voted in every election since Bush senior in 1988 and I do not believe the other guy is speaking hyperbolically at all. It’s so different this time. It truly is.
If you don’t have upvotes and downvotes turned on then I’m even more confused why you let them influence how you comment.
Yeah thats why i opt for low effort comments because even if you’re right you’re downvoted
A day later and I notice that your low effort comment was downvoted, but the other comment with detail and explanation is 9:1 upvoted. Maybe it’s the low effort part that’s earning you the downvotes and not the underlying opinion.
Lemmy community is garbo.
All you post and all you read is all this place will ever be (apologies to Pink Floyd).
I like the advice others have given, particularly the “no kids” suggestion. If one of your core interests is raising kids, of course, you’re in for a wild ride. But if raising kids isn’t one of your core interests, then give it a good long think. There’s no rule that says you have to have kids. I’m in my mid 50’s, happily married, never had kids and it was a great decision. Zero regrets. Leading a full life.
I also suggest taking a long-term perspective when you’re trying to balance how you use your time. The circumstances of your life are going to hinder and enable all your interests in various ways over your life. Lean into that. There are core interests of mine that I’ve shelved for years at a time only to later revisit in a new way when my priorities re-aligned.
On the long run, it’s all been balanced.
It’s great you’re thinking about these things. The unexamined life is not worth living (said Socrates). But please don’t feel overwhelmed. The great thing about this dilemma is that you’re the one who gets to decide if it works out in the end.
21 minutes was the transfer time at 2400 baud but you used the 300 baud price. $7.88 to see it at $22.50/hour.
$36.25 to see it at 300 baud (174 minutes at $12.50/hour)
BBS lists were published in computer magazines and on other BBS systems in the same area code, generally. Once you found one you quickly found links to others in your area.
Some guy in your city would just leave his computer on all day and you could call it over a regular phone line with your modem. Only one person at a time could connect and if someone else was on that board you just got a busy signal.
Terminal software and later modems themselves had “autodial” features that would keep trying to call until they eventually connected, so if you wanted to call a specific board you’d just wait while your computer dialed and hung up and dialed and hung up over and over again until it heard a modem on the other end. It was a huge technical innovation when US Robotics invented a modem that could detect the busy signal, allowing it to try the next attempt much sooner. Earlier modems just waited 30 seconds for either a connection or nothing and timed out before trying again.
In the late 80s BBS software started supporting interconnections where you could call your local BBS and send an email to a user on a completely different BBS, even in a different city. This could take multiple days to send and then more days again for any potential reply. It felt like Star Trek at the time.
What’s a tortoise?