Teachers. It is such a widely known trope that teachers are overworked and underpaid. So many that want to pursue teaching now enter the market, understanding that they will likely need a second job at some point. Although internet kudos do little to actually address the problem, my respect goes to the teachers.

Best wishes for a recovery. Thank you for being such a great human being to your cat.

Nothing will change until they start jailing people. Fines are just the cost of doing business in the modern era.

Switched over to Pop!_OS from MacOS a few years ago. While there aren’t a ton of open source mobile options, I decided to go with GrapheneOS over iOS. Fuck walled gardens.

That 10% off at my coffee shop goes a long way towards affording rent.

I definitely understand your view on crypto, and I hate to be an apologist, but here’s a view you may not have considered:

I think mainstream society has gotten far too comfortable with the lack of privacy in our everyday lives, and this extends to finance. A company has no business tracking the data about my purchases, let alone selling it. The government doesn’t need to know everything I spend money on either.

As with most topics relating to privacy, it’s not that I worry about what I have to hide. I worry about your intention with that information. As one example, if I were needing to buy Plan B for an emergency contraceptive, there is a not insignificant portion of our government and the general population that frowns on that, and could paint me as a target in the future if it was known.

What OS are you running on your tablet? I am running Graphene on my phone, and the battery isn’t bad, but I bought a Pixel specifically for the purpose and don’t have a baseline to compare it to.

Maybe a dumb question, but what is the difference between a consumer and organic boycott?

Horrifying privacy implications aside, AI has really become the new cryptocurrency.

Don’t get me wrong, both technologies are interesting, but it’s tiring to see both be forced into applications that functioned just fine without them.

The only thing that keeps me tied to any Meta platform is the Facebook marketplace. It is the de facto method of buying and selling used goods in a sustainable fashion.

If there was any alternative, especially a federated one, I’d switch over in a heartbeat.

Family pushed college as the only possible way for me to lead a happy life and make money.

The kids from my high school who went into the oil fields are making double my salary.

Instead of making phones thin enough to shave with, just give me a battery that could last a few days.

During all the COVID quarantining, I had a 3 hr zoom class once a week that was unbearable. The professor required that we have our cameras on and engage in the conversation.

After seeing a Tik Took that gave me the inspiration, I recorded a 20 minute video of me sitting in the library with my mask on, shifting slightly so it looked realistic but otherwise staying still so the loop wouldn’t be noticable.

I then set this as my Zoom background and covered my webcam so it wouldn’t pick me up. This allowed me to relax and play video games, but respond to questions with no one being the wiser.

Props to you for getting a few to migrate over. Beyond the confusion that comes with federated media sign-up, Lemmy is definitely facing the chicken-or-egg problem. To get people to joi, it needs more substantial, diverse content. But to have that content, it needs a larger user base.

Have you seen many family members switch to Threads? Mine are sticking to the tried and true Facebook. I would have a Sisyphean battle to get them to switch to Threads, let alone Mastodon.