Sure

I sure hope mastadon turns out better. We need a strong voice advocating for the fediverse.

All I’m saying is generally when those in big tech establish a non profit, it’s for the wrong reasons, or it eventually becomes the wrong reasons. Look at open AI. They had a non profit and and profit side. The non profit side essentially controlled with the for profit side did, then when they ousted the CEO for doing things that were clearly in the interest of profit over the betterment of society, the CEO had set it up so that without him the open AI ship began to sink. Then those on the board that were against him were ousted from the board. It was a hostile takeover.

I’m not saying that’s going to happen with mastadon, I’m just saying they have some key players that are investors and/or long time workers in big tech and it puts a bad taste in my mouth.

Welp, don’t like that. US nonprofit is a huge misnomer. For the most part they’re used by the wealthy to create businesses that don’t need to pay taxes.

Edit: Not sure why I’m getting mass downvotes. The non profit system in America is where the wealthy go to create tax free income. The CEOs of non profits still get huge salaries. Just seems out of line with the vision of a true non profit IMO. That’s why I call it a misnomer. Non profits are almost never set up to do what they actually say they are trying to do. They’re often just created to get public favor and money laundering.

I can see the benefit of it, just wanting the info without giving Reddit any traffic. But I think yeah if you wanna do that have an instance that doesn’t federate or something

I love that this gpu is like 4 feet long lol

I used to have small moments like that just before waking up. I vividly remember seeing a vision of myself dropping and breaking one of my mom’s favorite mugs in a dream, and I woke up and I told myself never to touch that mug again.

Well, come one day in winter my mom asks me to make her some hot chocolate while I’m making mine, sure enough, as I’m walking with her mug to the counter I drop it and it shatters exactly as I had seen in the dream.

It’s so frustrating because it’s like, you’re not showing me to prevent it, WHY am I seeing it???

My parents live in a house built by my great grandmother, when I was a kid, about 7, just before I went to take a bath I saw the spirit of an old woman walk out of my parents room and into mine.

She walked out, paused and looked at me, and then walked into my room. I. was. PETRIFIED. Although I knew if I told my dad something he wouldn’t believe me, so I put tried to not think about it as I had to walk towards the side of the house she had just walked from to take a bath lol. Nothing else happened that night. I didn’t recognize the woman but I remembered her face.

A few weeks later I was going to sit down in our front room. On the table next to the chair I was going to sit in was one of my mom’s lamps, it was ornate and had a small glass pane slotted into a piece of wood. We always had an obituary card wedged in there so that it would show through the glass, but I never really read it or looked at it, it was one of those things that kind of just faded into the background for me. Especially since I’m ADHD, my brain kind of just filters out stuff sometimes. Even though I never really looked at it, my mom had told me it was my great grandmother’s obituary card. Well, as I was sitting down I happened to glance at it, and I had to do a double take, that was the woman I saw!

I asked my dad when about my great grandmother lived here, where everyone’s bedroom’s were. He said “Well, Mimi had my bedroom, and yours was your grandmother’s and her sister’s.” That about confirmed it for me: I had seen the spirit of my great grandmother performing her nightly check up on her daughters. After that day sometimes if felt like she was watching over me in my room, although that could have just been in my head since I had seen her walk in.

I was already having issues with what the church taught about gay people. One of the priests at my college church likened sex before marriage to child sex trafficking, saying premarital sex directly lead to child sex trafficking. I walked out in the middle of the sermon.

I was still on the fence about if I was Catholic or not afterwards, it was all I knew growing up after all. I went to history class that next semester and learned the Bible was just piecemealed together by a bunch of old white men in the 16th 4th Century during the council of nicea. There is literally no way to tell who actually wrote the stories in the Bible, much less determine their validity because the stories were put together in a single book hundreds of years after they were written. On top of that, if a story didn’t fit what these guys decided the Catholic faith was supposed to be, they threw it out!

The Bible isn’t the word of God, it’s some dudes in the 16th 4th century’s head cannon.

That pretty much sealed the deal for me. If there is some divine force, it certainly wasn’t going to speak to me through this book or this faith.

Then to add insult to injury, in that same class I learned about the history about how the Christian faith came about, and how they basically just chose one of many Mesopotamian gods and decided he was the one true God and propagandized and crusaded their way into making people accept their beliefs. All of it was just decided and shaped by humans, and none of it was “divine” as I was taught. It was all a lie.

Same.

My opinion is that they need to leave it tf alone for the most part and just do updates and good features. Let phone makers do with it what they want.

Cuts still heal just fine for me about I’m about to hit 30, maybe you have some nutrient deficiencies?

How much shit I’ve had wrong with me this entire time that I didn’t realize was happening because it wasn’t as bad and I was young

Does this mean that windows updates will no longer bork Linux?

There are hundreds of servers, and hundreds of thousands of users, so yeah, there’s that many lol

Connect gives me issues because I’m subscribed to over 600 communities, something with how the sidebar renders that community list destroys the app, also the animations aren’t very refined, and there’s a lot of text and multi button clicks for things that could be single button presses.

This will most likely get better over time, but until then, I’m definitely using boost or sync.

That’s Google’s fault, not the dev’s. He’s just trying to make a living.

Really, it’s cool that some want to make their apps for free with no ads, but I’ll support devs who put in hard work to make a good app, it’s ridiculous to think that they don’t deserve some sort of compensation.

Connect is incredibly laggy for me, it’s code needs some optimization, it’s closed source because the dev himself admitted the codebase is a mess.

Liftoff’s ui is just not intuitive, like, at all.

It’s a one time purchase if you do purchase it