I’ll take a bus for 1h rather than pay a taxi to get someplace in 10 min to save $40.

No, I never liked Twitter, so I can’t even begin to bother about mastodon. Never heard of the other one.

I tried the Instagram clone for a few days (forgot the name), but it was so empty I left it again.

Cousins in my age group once every few months maybe, aunts and uncles hardly ever. Not even my own all that frequently, but we have a whatsapp group with those and my parents where we chat somewhat frequently.

If you live in a country that is not the US, these things are certified and taken seriously.

I’ve downloaded books (novels) in pdf format, emailed them to myself or uploaded them in a public folder, and then printed them (double sided, two pages on one sheet, just like an actual book) in chunks of 20 pages (so 80 pages of the actual book). Stapled the whole thing in one corner, sat down at my desk, pen in hand, scribbling on the pages here and there.

Freedom from censorship.

Which doesn’t apply to Lemmy either, different instances just censor different trains of thought.

Any “article” starting with the words “in the ever evolving world of”… Lost its credibility before it was even published.

God what an awful, awful time to be alive.

The military probably knew all along, but are not going to tweet out their intel.

Nah still the same, pushing his tools hard in every video.

Only the April Fool’s videos are worth watching now.

Have you read the original? It’s half book, half bible study. There are modern copies with most of the religious context removed or shortened which are great.

Yeah the Netflix show was a good watch, agree. Didn’t even try the tencent one, I saw it coming…

Yeah agree. I was living in China when it was recommended to me since it was super popular with the locals, but really couldn’t get through.

I did enjoy the Western series though despite the mixed reviews, they reduced all the political clutter to the bare minimum to provide historical context, so maybe that’s something to check out instead.

I didn’t even make it through the first few chapters, Chinese writing style is just terribly convoluted and full of unnecessary pathos. Reminded me of some early 1700s literature from Britain, like Robinson Crusoe.

But do you know about Windows 10 IoT LTSC?

Supported until 2032, and comes without copilot and any other garbage, fully supports local accounts, etc.

All it takes is Firefox with some tweaking. Or simply use it with chameleon (browser plugin) that throws fingerprinting off big time.

The extra passengers make the ferries go down in the first place, so there’s that…

Quite a few crappy ferries sink weekly in South East Asia, usually overloaded way beyond safety margins.

I’ve been using Nine as exchange client since 2014, it’s working great. Didn’t receive any updates in well over a year though, but that’s hopefully because there’s nothing needed.

If you’re stuck with Windows at work, you might have. I couldn’t log on to our domain remotely and was unable to open some documents and emails that were signed as “internal use only”.

OnePlus, Pixel, Sony, Sharp.