Aargh.
I’d be depressed if I had to endure the darkness of a Finnish winter
Funnily enough, winter is my favorite time. I love going for winter hikes etc. Its so peaceful and quiet.
TBH in principle I’m ready to give up on the Whatsapp boycott, it’s just so costly socially
I just use good ol’ SMS with the people who don’t have Signal. Though thats like one SMS message per year or so…
I like to think I’m not bitter and miserable but I suspect you’re not either - just introverted or on the spectrum
Perhaps I’m not bitter. I don’t know what I am. Tired, frustrated to the point of being done with everything and everyone. I’m not sure what to call it, depression is a major part of it. Introverted, for sure. I’m a introvert even in Finnish standards lol.
The only way to “win” here is by playing the ethics card. But alas that argument is just not well understood by most people.
That’s how I decided to drop Whatsapp. i explained to the people I felt I owed a explanation, that I’m not comfortable with the privacy issues and being a play button for big American corporations. They understood it, didn’t care. Meh. Fuck them, I guess lol.
Hear hear.
Its the only website in my adblocker whitelist.
My electricity comes from hydro, wind, solar and nuclear. I do have a petrol engine car but luckily its a Peugeot so the engine is broken and I have no plans of fixing it. My city has excellent public transportation. I have a bicycle. Also my grocery shop is 2 minute walk away.
I’m pretty lucky.
After deep consideration, I’d say you were the rare “Angel (she/her)@piefed.blahaj.zone” type student
Its such a weird thing to do. Especially when you click the translated link and it opens a page that is not translated. So if they think they are “helping” people who don’t know the language, how exactly does it help that they translate the title and half a sentence in the search results.
I look at it a bit differently. If I’m not important enough to my friends and family for them to install a easy to set up app, then I guess I never was that important to them.
I left facebook in 2011, lost contact with most of my school friends, army buddies etc. I left Whatsapp around 2016, lost contact with most of what was left. In my signal there’s 6 chats open. Two of them are my sisters, whom I rarely talk to. One of them is my weed dealer. The rest are friends, I guess, but even those chats haven’t been active since January 6th (I just checked) lol.
But I know I’m a bit different, I’m a bitter, miserable and grumpy man who doesn’t mind being alone. I know most of the people are not like that and would go mad without contact with other people. For me its more healthy to be away from these parasite apps and services than it is to keep up with everyone.
I love Ecosia because I love trees and will keep using them until I can afford kagi or something.
But one thing that drives me through the wall… If I search something in my native language, because I want results that are in my native language, google/bing (which ecosia uses) decides to translate reddit posts for me and Ecosia slaps them to the top of the results. Its rather annoying.
Do you mean the picture of the woman, in an article talking about how this particular woman is AI generated?
No. It is not a real picture.
I just wished they would be smart enough to understand how stupid they are.
Microslop, one stop slop shop.
So if I put a pair of nitrile gloves on, I should be able to touch those things with no problems? brb gonna go try it
“Don’t worry about it guys, we didn’t poison the water supply, we just replaced it with sewage!”
What do you think they are selling to the Pentagon?
Well, since google told me that they really care about my privacy and think its very important to keep things secret and safe… I assume they are selling Care Bears? Banana smoothies?
Yup. I would opt for the use of two phones.
And to be completely honest… Its a bit funny to see people complain about having to carry two phones. I mean I get it, its annoying. Buuuuut, back in the day we used to carry a camera, a cd or cassette walkman and of course the trusty old nokia 3210. And everyone thought it was the height of convenience :D Oh how times have changed lol
Aaaand now I sound like a old man yelling at clouds. I’m gonna go have a nap, I’m exhausted.
Have you tried Librewolf or Waterfox? I switched to Librewolf about a month ago, after 25 years of using Firefox. Some people say Librewolf breaks websites, but I guess the websites I use are not affected since I haven’t run into any problems so far.
I should really learn to not make these sort of ultimatum type statements.
Of course there’s some good things about it. But I’ve never been a spotify user, I’ve discovered a whole lot of stuff through things like last.fm, youtube and just music themed internet forums and IRC etc. So I wont argue that you can’t find stuff through spotify, but I’ll say that there are other ways to discover things, making spotify not necessary but helpful in that regard.
Yeah, totally understandable.
I mentioned to the other guy how my dad got a dual-sim phone (not a shitty one) just by sort of mentioning having to carry two phones. I guess some employers are nicer than others :D
Look, I came here for an argument, not abuse
I don’t have experience about that. Every time I’ve been invited to a group, I’ve removed myself immediately lol