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Cake day: July 2nd, 2023

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  • I think part of the issue stems from Lemmy not having a good way of tracking a topic / community defined on multiple instances, so you have to track a community on each instance. People want the most active one, so they track the one on LW since it has the most members. And since they track mostly communities on LW it also makes sense to just use LW as the primary.

    If Lemmy could have some inbuilt support for tags or subscribing to a topic / multi-instance community, I think people could feel less inclined of defaulting to the largest instance.






  • I spent the rest of the day getting a new apartment, moved out, and used the night to move into my own, free space void of her. Not sure I slept, watched my favorite movies she didn’t like etc.

    I only learned that she had already been seeing someone else the day after. That flipped a switch in me and all the pain went away. I knew she was the wrong choice and glad I was out of it and free.

    Somehow, that she cheated made it much, much easier than that she just didn’t love me anymore. It turned into a f*ck you good riddance moment.

    Her new bf even helped me moved some larger stuff a week later, I didn’t care at all, I was so done with her. Never looked back.






  • The Internet is actually very fine and alternatives to the big guys will keep popping up.

    For tracking in general there are several options like pihole, adguard and NextDNS on a DNS level, Firefox/Orion browsers, Proton / Mullvad etc VPN and services.

    For search I’ve been fairly happy with DuckDuckGo for some years, but not swears by Kagi.

    What is gone is the early days of the seventies / early eighties with free servers at universities accessible to anyone. It doesn’t scale.

    Various models tried to figure it out until we got what we’ve had for the last 10 years, “free” services where you are the product.

    What you won’t get going forward is free services that gives you what you want without also tracking and collecting data on you and using it for ads etc.

    What you can get is high quality services that you choose to pay for.

    For now, a fair bit of them is niche and sort of expensive. Hopefully that will expand to giving is fairly broad service coverage from providers that are mostly crowd funded and open.




  • Z4rK@lemmy.worldtoAsklemmy@lemmy.mlHow would you spend $20 million a year?
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    Well first year I’d finally get a RTX 4090, new car, temporary new home and quite a lot to family and friends. Year 2-4 would be saving up / buying connecting property towards my dream home, and then year 5-10 would be saving up towards a sailing yacht. After that probably some of the fancy coffee equipment that James Hoffman uses.