Dyskolos

Who cares? Are there still people left paying for that crap?

Nailed it 😒

Lol I hear you, that is indeed one of the very rare exceptions where I wish I would’ve had kids. Too adorable and I couldn’t stop grinning the whole time 😁

Not to spoil your hopes, but the chance for it to not suck is infinitesimal. It’s just another quick cash-in with a close-to-guarantee-success. Not that I wouldn’t hope for the opposite…

Here in Germany, we’d just say “well, it’s a BMW”, shrug and move along.

I hear you. And yes lol. The banking-apps. That won’t work if I root my device “for security reasons!” but still demand to be installed on a fucking MOBILE device that gets lost or stolen. No bank ever made an app for the PC. Oh right, you should just use the browser there like an adult.

But yes, the choice between horrible corporate shit and semi-functional foss is hard. Lemmy really is the exception as all those apps are still nicer than the reddit official one. Minus everything bad.

Phones will be hard to switch though. Let alone for a great camera, which I highly favour most in a phone. I actually don’t care to make a call with them, they’re on DND 24/7 anyway. But those Linux phones I’ve checked all have horrible cams (and all other stats like an OLED) yet still cost a decent sum for feeling like it’s 2002. But I seriously can’t use stupid android anymore the second google kills side loading. I have many self made apps and would never ever make a legit google ACC with my real data and even pay to be “verified” for “security reasons” (so tired of hearing that argument for everything bad) Let alone rooting. That’s the absolute least I demand from a phone. To be MINE. That I can make backups from without googles silly cloudshit.

But they will do it anyway. This way or another, sooner or later. Like Samsung became the crapple of android, they want android itself to be like crapple. I hate the corporate world…

So far I manage to avoid “high class” most of my life 😁 And at best we’re two people, I guess I can’t do much wrong stacking two plates or so. But if that’s seen as rude, OK. Can’t know beforehand, but would assume most waiters are fine with it. If not, I’m not a psychic and just try my best to be polite. Can’t please everyone.

True. Lemmy is a great example of how it could (and damn should) be. Never regretted being forced to leave reddit in the apipocalypse. Yet, search? LaCy is the only one i know and searching is…challenging at best. I’m running an instance and also searXng.

Mobile, oh yes. My next phone will surely be Linux if Google will really fuck up android with killing sideloading. Not that I wouldn’t have expected them to do it sooner or later. Might be also challenging, but luckily I don’t NEED a phone, I just like having it (and for android-auto, i hate being forced into the car’s ecosystem…which now bites me in my ass).

WA is serious cancer, yes. The amount of “what?! why don’t u use WA?!?!”-faces i get saddens me. But fuck you all. My wife is on telegram (yeah, i know, but i need the API!) and that’s all I need. Whomever else wants to chat me? they’re free to do, but i won’t be held hostage on WA. And if people wouldn’t install an app for me (as i’m expected for them, but THEY are those that don’t care for privacy and such), i’m not important enough so screw them anyway. But I’ve often been schooled that in certain countries it’s totally unavoidable. But that probably just depends on your level of achievable freedom, so to speak. Wouldn’t share your optimism that they might cross a threshhold. Majority of users have not the slightest clue about anything or, way more badly, just don’t care (“I have nothing to hide!”).

At least on Fuckbook you kinda do it voluntarily. Noone forces you. But as far as I can oversee the job-world it’s kinda a necessity nowadays (LI). I guess I would really really really be screwed should I look for a job today. Can’t create an anonymous profile, would not gift my valuable personal info to - especially - a murican company. That would probably kill my chances pretty well. Especially in the IT. Ugh.

And yes, you’re right. Academics isn’t much better. And let me not start about ads or social cancer, err media.

How we got here? From an old far who was there day #1 (when i had to move to another city to personally sign a contract to have internet-access, lol): The more non-geeks explored the web, the more dumbed down (not meant demeaning) it had to become. And the lower the lowest common denominator became, the more everything had to adapt. Then google switched from “don’t be evil!” to being the most evil motherfucker of them all and it all went downhill. Now, after witnessing the rise of search-engines I’m right in the endtimes of their decay. Search SUCKS ASS. AI sucks a lil less ass, but more blows the front. It’s also shit, but faster! And 10yrs from now when 99% of the net is circlejerked AI-junk fed to other AIs that feed other AIs… I could go on for hours but…

At least, we have a buy-european-movement that slowly gains traction. That’s something, right? RIGHT?

That’s sad. And that’s coming from a misanthropist that can’t stand his own species. Doesn’t mean I mustn’t be polite to them.

I thought this to be common courtesy everywhere?

There still are good news in this world 😊

Yup. And I’m kinda curious how they’ll manage to put a bad label on “federation” in the end. How exactly they’ll fuck shit up. For users, not them of course.

Yeah sorry, busy times. But thanks again mate, it felt glorious. Ahhhhh, the memories of it.

I’d be more concerned about the privacy. Applying to a company is one - possibly unavoidable - thing, but offering my vita, picture and all to a murican company on top? Nope. I’d rather create a tiktok-account tbh. Especially when I’m not murican myself, otherwise it Wouldn’t matter much anyway.

The easy application might sound tempting to ease an already horrible system. But “Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety.” …and will loose both in the end.

Considering how I always put up jobs and my decision-process to choose the people (screw CVs and pictures), I feel very anachronistic now.

Lexus was better back in my days 😁

Sure, there are circumstances that might totally force you onto those shitty platforms. But I would really hate it and try to prevent it as long as I could.

Guess when I would have to look for a job, I’d be screwed nowadays with LinkedIn. Which is even worse cancer…

SHOOT ME IN THE FACE!

And then there’s me who never ever had an account there and surely will not at blowsky :-)

lost its professional edge

It HAD a professional edge? Okay, good to know. Maybe that’s an american thing. And screw blowsky. It’s the same shit, just a different asshole. I wouldn’t trust this federation per se. They will manage to enshittify it sooner or later.