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toastal,

I used to feel this way with 2% cash back, but I don’t think it’s worth the privacy loss of giving a for-profit corporation all of my spending data. Where I live now, almost no one accepts credit cards in person & if they do, there’s a high minimum payment & you will be paying the transaction fee. After getting used to carrying cash again, I can confidently say I prefer the anonymity. What weirder in hindsight is many other places either not accepting cash or baking the credit fees into the prices so it’s cash payers getting screwed—meanwhile the credit companies get to skim fixed costs while providing minimal value.

toastal,

But that’s likely competing with the ongoing, multi-year spec for it

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toastal,

If looking to put in the work while also leveling up in programming since you have some basic experience already, NixOS/Guix should be on your shortlist.

Both have programmatic, declarative configuration instead of a mangle of configuration files that tend to break with entropy as software developers update config files & it’s very easy to miss a broken build until you restart (I remember when PAM had an update & a lot of folks, including myself, panicked as they could no longer log into their machines). Since these config files are tied to versions of software, such issues are much rarer, & with stateless config you get rollbacks to previous working versions for free. Both ship with a powerful package manager that can replace bad programming language package management & tools with overhead like Docker.

The biggest downside is having to learn Nix (language) or Guile Scheme to be able to script your config, but once you get the hang of it, it’s hard to feel confident in any stateful system & you learned valuable skills for package management.

toastal, (edited )

Then I guess you’ve never met the most populated continent that seems to be alright as is.

But also we could have free transit before the internet. Wrapping something in technology doesn’t mean its better. A smart watch doesn’t tell you the time any better than are without Bluetooth.

toastal,

Implying Lemmy is the only link aggregator? There are others, informal group & DM sharing as well.

toastal,

MAM & carbons is a solved issue with message synchronization on XMPP. Works great.

toastal,

I don’t use Discord for security/privacy reasons, but none of these are listed on F-Droid

toastal,

We still glossing over that there is no color management? arewewaylandyet.com

(I need Displaylink too)

toastal,

using a dedicated FF [sic] instance

If you don’t like having multiple windows open, you can keep them in dedicated container tabs on you main Fx (or favored Fx fork). I have a couple pinned like this in Librewolf now.

toastal,

You are correct.

I meant “2.8K (2880 × 1800)” or thereabouts but misremembered the naming.

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