I'm in my own bubble community so it's hard to say whether it's true, what makes me question that is my own experience.

Here in NZ we don't really have a China Town, there are higher asian concentrations in certain neighborhoods but you tend to get those with various cultures.

My friends (and myself) that are east/south east asian do keep an Asian identity but we don't hold as strong of a nationality attachment to our original country. I was raised in NZ, our ways of life are better than probably most other nations out there.

This is not the same as our parents who did grew up in Asia but I think that's understandable.

My personal barrier to be considered as from NZ is not internal, it's external. When people see me, the first guess at nationality is not NZ/kiwi but Chinese. The first question is where am I from (country of origin). This is a major concern for me in the US because of appearances.

I'm not sure I can really square that with belonging to a nation truly, so what am I left to work with here?

Well I actually have an answer to that but that's a wider opinion about nationality in general.

There's also a height limit

You can just disable that requirement with Rufus

I do that when I'm looking for music that fits my mood, for me music is a functional thing so there is a point and a destination so to speak.

Maybe you just need to find the right thing for the moment.

The app legit says "don't make us popular"

This is not the full story. It's just one half of the dunning kruger effect.

This is the trap I was in for a long time, because you'd think that being near average is the most likely case right?

But time and again, the evidence shows that I perform above average in my field.

The evidence shows that I consider the effects of my actions more in depth than most people.

But yet, I let others mess things up and cause problems because I don't lead. Because I think I'm just as good as average.

It took until I was 25 to finally be able to step up and say "no, this is stupid" to people, and provide a better alternative.

This is just dunning kruger. You should realize if your default is "I know better", you probably don't. But if your default is "I know nothing", you're probably above average.

That's like 4 technologies to set up, thank god there's docker and nginx proxy with acme companion xD

I'm thinking someone could just sell "fediboxes", plug n play servers with hosted lemmy, ddns and a free domain for lazy people

I'm literally on .net, should be a classic

Kinda depends on your familiarity with hosting! I just have a docker setup

I just have my own private instance, saves me worrying about data ownership

Indeed, I can't even read the full article

Over here, they tend to be much more expensive than ICE cars. They wouldn't do well on the used market either due to battery issues that would have developed by that point...

For adoption, the upfront price has to come down.