it’s like they’re doing everything they can to make the sabotaging of datacenters as appealing as possible, next step is to label every datacenter with the value of the components inside.

yeah right sorry, i forgot there are no ways to hide traffic or limit what’s accessible, it’s just fundamentally impossible 😔

hit me with that satanic picnic

…sweden?

it’s gotta be some sort of mental pathology, surely

i really hope reticulum could enable easy wifi meshing, that should be rather revolutionary. Imagine people in apartment buildings being able to share their unused wired bandwidth!

It’s commonly said in scifi that any spacecraft is a warhead whose yield is only limited by how much fuel you have to accelerate it with.
The same basically applies to cars.

I checked the places near me and yeah a normal-ass haircut STARTS at $50, many places get very close to literally charging 80 bucks for a standard haircut.

$30 bucks maybe gets you a children’s haircut, here. Maybe.

baffling that this isn’t bog standard anywhere that isn’t horribly car dependent.

Like, we have a bunch of big factories basically smack in the middle of my town, and people continue to drive the like 5 kilometers there EVERY SINGLE DAY even when they know for a fact that fistfights break out over parking spaces and the weather is perfect.
I genuinely wonder if there’s anything that could convince these people to stop driving, if they’d drive to work even if there was a 50% chance of being shot in the face when exiting the car.

Perhaps more mildly infuriating is that the mods here seem to be on vacation

so here’s my “no stupid questions”: How on god’s green earth could you possibly afford tipping a barber 20%? Are american barbers dirt cheap or do you just actually consider it perfectly reasonable to pay closer to 100 bucks for someone to trim your hair?

Helix is tainted: https://github.com/helix-editor/helix/pull/15433/commits

i mean… okay then, step up and stretch your arms out while i get the hammer and nails…

i really do think this is something that should be brought up more, whatever ones opinion on AI there at least needs to be some things that don’t immediately jump on the bandwagon, as a fallback and control group.

like, fuck, imagine if our earliest ancestors had found some funny looking red mushrooms with white spots and all had a taste at once, our species would have gone extinct!

eh, i don’t think things’ll have time to regress that far before the pendulum swings back, plus it’s only getting easier to set up your own connections over long distances.

What i can see disappearing are things like youtube and global multiplayer gaming, because that’s just so incredibly data-heavy. But lightweight stuff like sane websites, forums, chats… that’s quite feasible on something like a globally interconnected mesh. At worst you’ll have to wait a bit for things to load, but like… we would probably benefit from that…

honestly i’ve been slowly working towards that kinda lifestyle for a few years now and i kinda hope the “internet” fucking dies so i’m free to go all the way, it just seems like what things should be like if our recent development wasn’t so directed by corporate interests or just happened more slowly.

Old-timey life was really quite a lot better in many ways, like we’re just not evolved to constantly read about every single horrible event that happens to any human, and we need to be a little bit bored sometimes.
But also smartphones are fucking awesome and i like being able to call emergency services if i’ve fallen and i can’t get up, which even the actual amish recognize.

Also the aesthetics/vibes of judicious mixing of technological eras is fucking impeccable, i want the countryside to look like Hobbiton, small towns like 18th century sweden, cities to look like 1920’s new york with everything VIOLENTLY art deco, and all of it connected with trams and trains that look like metal caterpillars and where 30-minute departure frequency is seen as bordering on not even having service.

hope for the best, prepare to go amish

when you say “every single iteration”, does that include stuff like lineageos? Because that’s what i’ve been using for ages and i still struggle to believe how non-shitty it is.

ironically google’s pixel lineup is one of the best options available, i’ve been using that for many years now and it’s so fucking easy to install lineage on them.

seriously, lineageos after having dived into every setting is by far the best mobile experience these days, i’m almost never even slightly annoyed by it.