ballgoat

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[–] ballgoat@lemmy.zip -2 points 22 hours ago

We should call lemmy “reddit’s bottom of the barrel”.

[–] ballgoat@lemmy.zip 14 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

One of the things we often forget is that a large part of our happiness is simply autonomy and self direction. I still remember working a “dreary office job” that I absolutely loved because we were given self direction and the managers were simply there to support us.

[–] ballgoat@lemmy.zip 3 points 1 day ago

You’re right, of course. I think it’s more like there isn’t much of an upgrade in lifestyle in general. Sure, it’s an order of magnitude more wealth, but you can do basically all of the most luxurious things in life.

For most luxury, you’re staying at the same presidential suite and driving the same car and that kind of thing. It’s not diminishing returns necessarily. I dunno.

[–] ballgoat@lemmy.zip 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Mamdani. He’s so hot right now. Mamdani.

[–] ballgoat@lemmy.zip 2 points 4 days ago

I’m just gently teasing you because I was 29 years old when Chrome came out. My parents would never have even thought to ask someone to install something like that when the internet first came out.

[–] ballgoat@lemmy.zip 1 points 6 days ago (2 children)

“Hey, so now that Chrome has been released, we’re gonna fly up to visit your son and install a packet sniffer on his network!”

[–] ballgoat@lemmy.zip 2 points 1 week ago

Yes, you can use their exact build environment straight from GitHub. You can also use Molly.im which is another app that i think is a fork? Im still investigating it.

[–] ballgoat@lemmy.zip 2 points 1 week ago (2 children)

That’s kind of a core tenet of libre/open software, innit? Independently verifiable software that you can change at your pleasure.

[–] ballgoat@lemmy.zip 2 points 1 week ago

I was looking at Molly.im and it has its own f-droid repo. There are two options: with and without Google servicios.