You used racist language and were trying to bait everyone into an argument, aka trolling. YDI

The real thing is that if we wanted fair and open elections we wouldn’t be looking internally to solve this, we’d be going to other countries who do and trying to emulate what they have. The fact that we haven’t even thought of doing that shows where the priorities are.

Sometimes it don’t be that way unless it do

Renewables are the obvious long term win. These people only think about the next 3 months

Others have said it here better than I could, but I was the same way but for probably other reasons. My mother lost her home, not due to misfortune but because she couldn’t manage her finances. Quick splurge items and random ideas too priority over long term stability. Anyway, so I thought mortgages and loans were scary too.

Then I got educated on them. They’re not scary if you understand what you’re doing. Loans are not scary, they are tools to achieve your goals. A tool can be extremely useful to accomplish your goal, but you also shouldn’t reach for that tool every time either.

If your goal is to own your home, a mortgage is a great tool if you know what you’re doing. Learning about interest rates, how they’ll affect you, sitting down and looking at your long term finances and knowing what you can manage paying every month for the forseeable future is how you can calculate what works for you.

Where it gets scary is when people walk in, not knowing what they can afford and taking everything the bank will give them, not knowing how much they’ll be paying over time. That’s when things get predatory and scary. Knowledge is power as they say.

Now when I need a loan I go in, and I know what interest rate I want, what duration I want, and exactly how much I need, and the bank usually says yes. I’ve proven myself with my credit score to be a trustworthy person to lend to, and l can now usually get pretty decent terms.

Learn about finances, learn the math, and learn how you spend money. Once you get that knowledge it stops being so scary.

No, it’s not. Financing is a great tool, and used wisely and with knowledge of interest rates and total cost, can elevate you quite a bit in life.

This however is predatory lending, and it should not be used ever.

Impressive, if it’s true. Would be interesting to see. So far I’ve seen flux 2, which would require way more GPU! Han I have, and queen image which seems on par with flux 1. This could get me to finally up my pipeline

Asking baity questions is worse.

Because we can’t just have a good movie. It has to be a franchise!

I’m getting there more day by day. I’ve moved over to using my own dns and email service, that was a big one, but kept my gmail for leftover items and now it’s mostly for spam. All of my oauth I’ve rolled off Google, and now use a password manager and separate emails. Phone is still the largest annoyance, but I just ordered a fairphone this week! (After google pushed a huge update which killed my battery, seriously sitting at home my battery died at 7pm last night, after barely using it. That didn’t happen even a month ago). So it’s a process.

But that’s not decentralized. It’s the same as discord, only instead of a corporation now you have a server admin.

I completely support you moving off of Discord, and I completely support you setting up Matrix. I tried a lot, I think it has the most feature parity. That being said, the biggest thing I regret when setting it up is that I went with Synapse for my backend Matrix server, when there are others.

I’ve heard very good things about Conduit (https://conduit.rs/), mostly that it’s easier to stand up and easier to maintain.

Either way, I think it’s a smart move, and it’s worth the investment. It’s not the easiest to stand up, but operationally our communication should be our own. Expect trial and error, getting one piece up and running, then the next, and then the next. Celebrate small wins like “Today I got it running” and then “Today I got federation working”, and then “Now I have voice working!”. Otherwise it’s going to feel overwhelming.

I believe in the cause, so feel free to DM me if you have any questions, or send me a DM on Matrix :)

Oh, and a very useful tool - https://federationtester.matrix.org/

This will tell you exactly what is wrong with your federation.

Could be? Soon? People they’re already doing it! Do people really not think so?

Which is stupid by itself. It should be assumed that a TV can be burned in, with the option to disable it if they don’t like it or don’t care.

God fuck cancer, and duck colon cancer. Men, go in and get your screenings. Colon cancer is more and more prevalent now. They lowered the age to 40 to start getting regular screenings.

The process sucks, but please just go do it.

Yeah when the company is looking to cut as much cost as possible, if it’s not an indefinite strike then you’re just telling them ahead of time that they should probably just let you all go

At this point a year is generous

That is phenomenal. Just absolutely stunning. The sheer stupidity of how they did that as astounding.

While boomer CEO criticizes they also pushed for this level of surveillance at the same time