It’s also a laundering scheme to make free software proprietary.
It’s also a laundering scheme to make free software proprietary.
Ah. I usually conflate the two under “internet archive”.
What’s the second?
“Less traumatic than violent, ad-hoc suicide” perhaps?
I felt the same about BotW. At first I enjoyed the freshness and exploration but it quickly gave way to the sinking realization that it’s an empty world with smatterings of lifeless villages and MMO-style quests. Ew.
Recently cut, myself! Happy to have done so.
Yeah, normalize either being okay. Just like long or short hair. Diversity is the spice of life.
Tbh Kodi is just kinda a hassle in general. I much prefer Jellyfin and will probably ditch Kodi in favor of it in the near future.
So… Most of the web?
Especially at such a short EOL date.
Well said. Contempt for the average user makes it easy to forget one’s humanity.
Baby boomers got burned more than Nero ever did!
Don’t hate it! You were just born in a different time. Your time will come where you have to explain to the young ones about how “smart phones” worked since they’ll just have their implants as interfaces. And also jetpacks.
And weird bugs like Windows audio somehow creeping into audio CD burns. Or the times in Linux where the tray would refuse to open or close. I used to keep a paper clip next to my next to force it open sometimes…
I don’t miss that hardware.
It took me until graduate school to learn that “mortified” is not another word for “scared”/“fearful”
It still looks that way to me what with mort in there!
It also took me a long time to realize that the word “awry”, which I read often in books and inferred its meaning, and “ah-rai” were the same thing. I thought awry was pronounced “aw-ree” and it was just a synonym for “ah-rai”.
People say that? How odd, that seems like a totally different world. I don’t agree with that sentiment! One is a general purpose communications protocol, the other is a community. As with any community, one can pick and choose who they fraternize with.
That’s the point of federation! Choosing who you want in your community.
XMPP still exists - and I use it for chatting with one person. Nobody I know uses it. Techies I know use IRC and, more recently, Matrix. Or discord, disappointingly enough.
And I mention techies because the rest of the world is just happy with WhatsApp/Messenger/Slack et al.
What I’m getting at is that XMPP feels pretty dead in my experience. But who knows, maybe it would be in this same position regardless of Google like you allude to.
Step back, take a breath, and focus your beliefs into more succinct and tactful displays. And lose the passive aggressive judgment rhetoric.
It could be a Facebook profile entry!