I’m not really the correct person to answer this, since I’m not struggling to the same degree as you are.

However I once heard a good tip on how to save money. Most people, when they receive their salary spent it first on the necessities (food, rent, etc) and then save the remainder (if anything is left). But instead you should first save a percentage of your pay before spending on any necessities. That way, your brain will try to make the best use the remaining money to survive the best it can

I don’t really mind nor care when someone is wrong about something as long as they’re not bothering/affecting other people.

For example:

Someone believes that flat earth is real. Fine, whatever, you’re not really going to cause any harm with this.

On the other hand, during the pandemic, when people refused to wear masks/take vaccines. Then it becomes a problem because they’re affecting other people (potentially putting them at risk)

Anything on the web that is accessible by you is accessible by web scrapers. So to answer your question, yes.

Unless Lemmy goes down the route of Twitter (I refuse to call it by its new name, it’s dumb) of blocking access unless you login. That’s just how things are.

Agreed.

I once worked on a team in a company who had to ssh into a server and do all the development work on that server. So all we could use was either vim or emacs. I had my vim decked out with all the plugins and customizations, and it was fine.

But after you get back to using an IDE (especially an IDE with a vim plugin), it’s hard to go back

I use OpenBoard, its based on GBoard I believe but without the Google dependencies and is open-source. Works pretty well, no complaints

Miniflux

They’ve been going on about that for years now, and last I heard about it, they said it would cost too much to implement or something like that? Can’t remember now.

Elon Musk: “No! You can scrape Twitter data for AI research!”

Also Elon Musk: “I’m gonna start scraping Internet data for my AI research”

Even then, I doubt some people will be able to correlate that to privacy infringing social media services. Some will, but a lot probably won’t.

Yep, correct

Different companies have different requirements, but generally if you know a bit of SQL and a bit of Linux terminal commands you should be good. Maybe have a browse through a testing framework like Selenium, though frameworks would vary depending on what the company does, so don’t fret too much about that.

QA work has a fairly low barrier of entry, and from there I’ve known a few people who moved from QA into Developer roles. So there’s that route.

The best model

You will later be able to delete your Threads account w/o losing Instagram

“Later” - such a nice word isn’t it? So vague and ambiguous

ChatGPT: I’m sorry, but as an AI language model I cannot “fuck your brains out” …

I’ve always been a lurker on Reddit. But with Lemmy I’m trying to be as active as I can, with both posts and comments

By having more instances and better user distribution. Running a small-ish instance isn’t very expensive, around 5-10 euro a month (some VPS providers are cheaper, etc). As Lemmy development continues, and more optimizations come in, these smaller lemmy instances will be able to support more users.

There is also a discussion on GitHub to introduce user and community migrations between instances. So once that feature is implemented, it will be easier to redistribute everything across all Lemmy instances.

Heard some people at work talking about it with such excitement and zeal. It really does baffle me how little people care about privacy as long as they get their fix of social media entertainment. It’s a little depressing, and I can only hope that Threads don’t ruin the Fediverse in the future.