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...I think it has something to do with not trusting (or feeling in control of) my commercial Android phone.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.kadaikupi.space/post/7167

Days, weeks, or months ago (if that's correct), I subscribed to a managed hosting service.

One of the apps is Lemmy, which I use more frequently than other apps like micro-blog.

Firstly, I paid less than the monthly price because it was days to weeks before the first fixed due date: June 1st.

Then, I was saving my money and doing some business by helping my mother sell and market her gardening materials.

A few days before the first due date, I had more than enough to cover the upcoming major managed hosting service fees.

In Lemmy, it's easier for me to assess whether my opinions or knowledge are compatible or agreeable with the public, partly because of the upvotes, downvotes, scores, and upvote percentage features.

I also experienced in Lemmy that there are many differing opinions; some genuinely support me, while others using Lemmy made me think they need to improve their online attitude and behavior.

I also have the idea or suggestion that Lemmy developers should make a built-in poll feature available, where the poll could include options such as: only local Lemmy instance users can vote (for example, for instance rule changes and policies), and another option allowing users from Lemmy software, whether local or fediverse, to vote.

My Fediverse lifelong journey is still my choice. I find that those very popular social networks aren't relevant for me, such as Reddit, Instagram, Facebook, and X. They are not relevant for me.

It's because they're closed source; I can't view or audit them fully. I have to trust their reputation and terms of service alone.

Paying for managed hosting is awesome because these Fediverse or ActivityPub protocol software and even the client apps are usually free, libre, and open source (FLOSS). At least this gives me a chance to own or rent them as I see fit, instead of blindly following big tech.

Thank you for reading my long essay. Yes, I used AI to correct my grammar.

• My savings for the 1st July due:

• Pokémon pic:

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.kadaikupi.space/post/7885

I am the only user of my Fediverse instances. Therefore, this shows that I value the people I trust to be part of my life over changing or taking action regarding their bad behavior that I do not accept.

To have someone join my instance, I must not be the only one to be the admin. Others need to be the same as me too, as partners sharing instance rules and policies, but I haven't found one yet.

Even my friends prefer popular apps over my Fediverse. They love Instagram. So, what to do? They just have to go on with them. They get confused about the things in the Fediverse I join; they don't understand the Fediverse. I tried to explain to them, but they still didn't join.

My cool DNS domains that I own—they just think they're another website. Yeah, I haven't found another admin yet.

Decoration pic

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.kadaikupi.space/post/7585

There are two kinds of people that I found.

The first kind is the people who rebel against God.

That first kind also has two types.

The first type disagrees and rebels against God; they will tell others that they do not agree with God. The other type claims they are being kind and peaceful and do follow God's words, while they are acting rebelliously toward God.

The second kind of person I found is people who actually worship and submit to God. If they push their limits, including doing what God forbids or something sinful, they repent to God.

Which kind of partner do you choose to be with? I choose the second one. You?

So maybe I'm spoiled by linux package managers, where you tell it to "upgrade" and things continue to work... to me that is just a natural expectation.

Well, it seems the python package manager (pip) will happily upgrade all your project's required dependencies, but not your optional dependencies... yet the old (incompatible) version is still visible at runtime.

Consequently, it seems to be an excepted norm in the python world that things may break after a "pip upgrade", at least on a single tool.

How do python devs put up with this? Apparently there are a bunch of hacks scattered across countless projects to test at runtime for incompatible deps, even though they have already dutifully specified the compatible version in the dependencies list.

What a mess.

It seems like every third meeting someone is driving. Is it really worth the added risk to your life? Can you really contribute or take anything from a meeting when your attantion is so divided and you have none of your productivity tools?

There is always a LESS organized way to do something, but that's not what you want. There is also a more CLEVER way to do anything, and you don't want that either. The goal is to make things is as organized and stupidly simple as possible... so boring that opening any file at any level you sigh "yep, that's what I thought it would look like" instead of "WTF?!"

It's a feature.

I've noticed since being silenced from the lemmy[dot]world ecosystem, my sincere interest posts no longer receive all the random, bullshit, drive by downvotes they used to.

It's been rather and unexpectedly peaceful, and I feel also says a lot about the toxicity LW has potentially brought to the platform.

It seems to me that if there is going to be a hardware widget mounted on the wall for the sole purpose of humans fiddling with it, then it ought to be engineered and optimized from that perspective first (UX: user experience)...

I went to the store expecting to buy a pack of nostalgia, but instead found that Mother's cookies (apparently) have cut their product line down to just the weird circus animal cookies.

https://thewisebaker.com/are-mothers-cookies-discontinued/#Do_Mothers_Cookies_Still_Make_Oatmeal_Cookies

I'm sure part of it is that open-source hardware in general is "harder" to do than software, but perhaps there is something more to it... such as people generally not wanting to invest time creating a more-crappy version of a black box that already does it's thing well enough. Perhaps it is only after printers get significantly worse or more annoying that people will start investing their own time creating alternative firmware/hardware.