I find trying to assign reasoning to the unreasonable a waste of time. The bigot personality doesn’t respond to anything except the fear of consequences.
So you show up in public, in huge numbers, and demonstrate that bad behavior isn’t welcome. They’ll retreat to the edges of society until the next would-be despot shows up. Hopefully in less numbers over time.
An asshole doesn’t need an excuse to be an asshole.
After Apollo stopped working I learned I liked nice UI and no ads more than I tolerated vanilla Reddit.
Yet spammers find my clients’ contact forms and send dozens of emails an hour until I put on recapcha and then it stops.
I would love an alternative that isn’t swapping one insidious company with another.
Yes but if one use hundreds of Proton or Fastmail-generated email masks it’s a big switching cost.
I just don’t have the energy to play email host hopscotch. Every capitalist CEO is going to stay something I don’t like with eventually.
While completely disagreeing, I can tolerate Proton leadership having a preference towards the political party that imposes less red tape. But after the decade of the month it’s been the dude will probably reverse his opinion now that his money is in danger.
Pretty much. I don’t want to wake up to find out my email stopped working because a rapist wrote a new executive order after his Big Mac-fueled fever dream.
Prologue on iOS does a great job of device syncing my Plex audiobook library. And no subscription requirement for once.
I’ve been happy with Hover for several years. They don’t bug me and they’re owned by Tucows so they’ve got decades-old staying power.
I hope they come back. These other platforms are getting enshittier and enshittier by design.
Why use a browser?
Just learn how to parse raw HTTP responses. That’s all a browser does, with less protection.
The Day the World Stops Shoppong examined this and found that it doesn’t take a whole lot of concerted action to tank the consumption economy.
Buy nothing days are good but less good if you return to regular habits and redouble your consumption after the boycott is over.
I think it’s harder to find the signal from the noise of sameness.
I used to be able to find interesting bands and artists by watching The Wedge on MuchMusic or listening to my local alternative radio station. Now those stations all play Top 40 and TV shows got replaced by algorithmically curated beige.
As much as I am complaining I’d love if somebody could recommend some useful sources for somebody who wants to navigate away from Apple Music and Spotify streaming land.
It totally did. I am old enough to remember laughing at Abe Simpson and now I am become!
I remember when modern music was interesting enough to want to pirate.
I use em and en dashes according to traditional grammar rules. Been that way for years. It just looks and reads nicer. AI won’t take that from me.