That depression that’s coming is only for the working class. The rich will keep making money using us indentured workers as slaves to make more money.

I keep a single domain for distnct emails. It’s not anonymous in the sense that anyone with half a brain could put 2+2 together and figure out who I am. It’s highly useful for three reasons: If I suddenly get junk mail on a specific email, I tell my server to deposit them in in the bit bucket. Next, the algorithms aren’t necessarily smart so having a different email for every login a) makes it harder to profile me, and b) it’s more secure. Hackers will waste a server month trying to open my lemmy email in all the money stores.

I use my own cloud server for everything except mail. For mail, I will probably move to Tuta. Their apps have issues, but they are open source.

definitely. I run one on my own server. It doesn’t do mail though.

If you mean the rise of serfdom and slavery under an oligarchy instead of an economically enlightened republic, I’d say it already happened.

Sager is rebranding Clevo, which are in fact awesome, but I don’t think you can buy them directly from Taiwan. And of course, no support.

They pull from several other search indexes, and they have awesome features. Infinitely more valuable than an overpriced coffee for $5/month.

I love the quick summarizer.

I meant Sam, although they are both considered Founding Fathers of US. I didn’t remember that John Adams was a signer of the Declaration of Independence. Besides, Samuel was a signer AND has beer named after him

Labels really suck. I don’t believe that hippies could possibly be so heterogeneous. Mostly, they were united in the 1960s in their anti-war position. Their older brothers/relatives died in Korea. And their friends and schoolmates were dying in Vietnam. And for what? Someone else’s war? But I don’t think they had too much else in common. Well, maybe drugs, LOL.

Conservatives is a crappy label too. My view is that the Republican party has become that party that wants an authoritarian oligarchy. Now they can check that off their list.

I say Republicans, instead of Conservatives, because the latter word has a much more time invariant definition. Republican position on the other hand has changed considerably since Republican Abe Lincoln’s time.

Could’ve, yes … it’s insulting to assume things about people - it pisses them off. It’s always better to just listen.

Fortran, yes. And machine language. In those days, you had to put the boot loader in manually from binary switches on the control panel. Ah, the wonders of non-volatile memory LOL. COBOL and BASIC later and JCL which was job control lang for mainframes.

as in free beer? 😁

Don’t underestimate people, @clubby. I WAS a hippie of the 60s. I got tear gassed in Washington at the protest Jane Fonda attended. I’ve also been programming since I was 14 years old. Do the math and see if you can figure out the language, newbie.

And NO, this was not the America we envisioned! This was also not the America that Samuel Adams, Thomas Jefferson, John Paine, Ben Franklin, and all the others envisioned. Since JFK, the Republicans have decimated education resulting in the ability to brainwash the idiots who voted for a dictator thinking he was going to lower food and housing prices.

America has jumped the shark.

Hilarious, because it appears as though none of you were alive in my youth… My parents were too damned smart to let me watch the “Boob Tube”. Turns out they had wicked foresightedness - now you have hundreds of streams and almost all of it $hit.

So this is what I did see: Howdy Doody, only at my friend’s house Captain Kangaroo which I could watch when I was sick That Was The Week That Was (TW3) which I could watch because it was intelligent, political satire.

I’m no worse for the deprivation, and probably better.

A private jet.

It would be really cool if all us ex-redditers sued Reddit and Google for “unjust enrichment” which is a cause of action in most states. They’re are currently taking OUR comments and selling them, meanwhile paywalling the platform. If each of us went to the county clerk and sued them for whatever is the maximum for small claims court, it could be thousands of petty little lawsuits that would cost them a fortune in lawyers. Or end up being a class action suit that could put them out of business. If they ignore the suit, they lose. When you file the suit, you file a discovery asking reddit and google to provide all your comments properly identified by date, etc,; And also for copies of their contract and to identify and produce any other party and contract that they may have sold your comments to. That alone is a huge pain in the butt for them. You have to prove that you contributed to reddit, that they sold your comments and earned money. I can’t do this as a nomad, but it would be cool. Could be a good exercise for a young lawyer here.