Just check your tea leaves.

I now only buy offline or local-only software and products. If it doesn’t exist, I hack it.

You both aren’t wrong… But this isn’t about you.

The system is a product of each and everyone of us…

Except the rich and powerful have disproportionate control over perpetuating how the system works.

So fuck it it. No. You are dead wrong. This isn’t just the system. This is a few entrenched interests continuing to oppress everyone else. And I think this way of thinking is part of the way that broken system is perpetuated.

The rich and powerful control the narrative. They use that narrative to craft stories to keep people’s anger and extremism directed inwards.

This isn’t some great mystery. It’s just the reality of what tyranny actually looks like.

I am one of those. I ditched Signal and went back to the stock sms app and adopted matrix. Haven’t looked back since. The reality is that Signal dropping support for sms wasn’t going to stop me from using SMS. For that, other people need to be convinced to stop using it at the same time. Signal didn’t have nearly the market size needed to make that happen. And now that card is played, and nothing has changed. Signal is just another messaging app among hundreds. At least matrix offers a real paradigm shift.

Headphones do all this already. No mind control is a nice little benefit too.

This answer assumes a state of affairs where everyone living from paycheck to paycheck should be normalized. I think this way of thinking buries a much deeper issue which is that owners of capital continue to squeeze non-owners of capital.

Let’s assume we address that problem and ask the question again.

I would say, that choosing a riskier but higher average source of compensation is a perfectly reasonable, personal choice for someone to make.

Americans are so obsessed with money, they forgot about actually living.

My dudes. Money is just a means to an end. It is not the end goal. Wake the fuck up.

Congratulations, you’ve discovered the only negotiating power consumers have ever and will ever have: voting with your wallet.

Let’s normalize real customer loyalty again by sending a strong message that continued business is not to be taken for granted.

Don’t apologize. That pain is exactly why millennials are so much more tech literate than boomers and gen Alpha.

Arrogance: a tale in two acts.

I would accept boards glued together on an axis other than the thickness. So plywood, no, finger jointed wood, yes.

Your list could have ten things in it or 500. Perhaps you should order by necessity.

I would put things like miter saw, jointer, dado blade at the very bottom of the list, and move table saw, router, and planer to the very top.

After months of trying, I still can’t get Linux to recognize the 2.5Gbit network cards, or to function with multiple monitors. If the hardware support was better, I would ditch Windows for good instantly.

Hmmm. More kneck beards on Lemmy than I expected. Then again, why should I be surprised?

Simple solution: Try looking at the pictures of you through a mirror.

I spent an unhealthy amount of time on Reddit. Getting bored of Lemmy is a feature, not a bug. Embrace it.

The proportions of Mace Windu’s forehead and chin stick out as incorrect

Not backsliding into feudalism?