When I first got to Reddit a front page post was like 1000 upvotes so Lemmy is approximately sorta the same level of users as when I first got to Reddit

I hope the fediverse attracts enough adoption to make it long term viable. I am making an effort to be here more than there for lemmy/Reddit but YouTube is still harder to quit

I happily pay for my email service from Proton to compensate for all the data mining they AREN’T doing to me

It’s like it’s trying to mirror Reddit except without users or comments

Protonmail is fine for searching old emails and they have their own calendar integration. I self host calDAV for my own calendar so I cannot comment on protonmail’s other cloud services but I’m happy enough with their email service that I subscribe yearly for it.

That’s the downside of not getting data mined, you need to pay for these services. Setting up a private cloud is not impossible for a derp like me but a private email server is definitely well beyond my skillset so that’s something I pay for.

I am so scared and aroused

fuckin’ birbs ain’t real

caaage of asparaaaaaaaagussssss…

My protege

Another rent free day in paradise

I’ve had like three primary email accounts since the dawn of the popular internet in the 90’s

The first was Hotmail because that was a big deal at the time.

The second was google because the interface was slick and it came with (what was at the time) a lot of free storage.

The third is protonmail specifically because after decade+ on Google I realized they pretty much have the keys to the kingdom on my life’s data. All my personal relationships and business being filtered through their inbox for a long-ass time. Just because they “know me” inside out for a significant part of my life doesn’t mean I gotta just keep feeding them data indefinitely.

This is not even worthy as self-aware ironic cringe

Tourists getting maimed by wildlife would be enough content to fill out a whole discovery Channel episode

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Aradix Retard

Sounds like a Harry Potter spell

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Don’t relax. That’s how they gonna getcha

Yea but LA is like the platonic ideal of the modern urban hellscape. It is the progenitor of the dystopian urban-planning model that affects most American cities

I had to temporarily live in LA for three months during which time I came to understand that LA is really a terribly place for humans to live. Yes LA “has everything” but it is all a 40 minute drive from wherever you are one-way. People in LA think driving 90 minutes round trip to go out for dinner is normal behavior because the city has so twisted their concept of “normal”

LA has very few places that are “pretty” surrounded by a hundred miles of sunbaked 1980’s low-rise stucco squalor sandwiched between freeways. It’s ugly, inconvenient and fully self-absorbed

I am debating mint vs arch. It’s been a minute since I fucked around with arch. Dunno if I want to “get into it” with arch or just do a plug’n play distro and take it from there.

I need to gtfo before Win 11 comes crashing down on my life.