i can see your point. i for example did buy from amazon once so far this year. it was because the product I needed was expensive and part of a business calculation where i dont have the luxury to waste money.

however, I bought more than a hundred smaller products off of local sellers which are more expensive but i was able to afford it.

thats all I’m asking. that folks make a concious effort to prefer local sellers if they can, not some one dimensional exclusivity that will not work anyway.

My stance is that most people have poor reading comprehension. Thanks for making my point.

I said „without necessity“. Having no other comparable options qualifies as necessity in my book.

Activism is great but the moment people shun others for not ruining themselves for the cause they become radicals.

So no, thats not my stance.

And no, I havent been born privileged in the typical western way. But I have the privilege of being pretty smart which enabled me to escape the prison of an uneducated, violent household.

And yes, I hold people accountable for not giving a shit about others. Deal with it.

And more condescension. Its as if more of the same thing will do different things.

Maybe add some racism or climate denial to the mix. Just for some seasoning.

You have exactly the attitude of someone able to work for a monster like amazon. Unnecessary aggressive and condescending.

Thanks for making my point.

I think people working at amazon and shopping at amazon, both without clear necessity, are part of the problem.

What part do you feel is horrible? I enjoyed playing it a lot.

I’m monitoring the cpu and ram and so far the server isnt utilizing it except short bursts which dont max out anything. i’ll try and optimize the network first and then go for performance. i suppose its a multi stage issue by now. will update on the matter.

i can see how this would be an interesting function. sadly, we’re, nowhere near an end user ready experience in any non corporate messenger. it very much still depends on how tech savvy the user and how good the admin is. until that changes I’m gonna unilaterally say no to reinventing any wheels and say fix the stuff we have before adding more functionality.

E3 1220v3 3.5 ghz

Xeon 4 core, 4 threads, 16 G DDR4 ram, onboard graphics.

Its not more open source. It is at all. Signal is dependent on the backend which is as proprietary as bluesky. You can absolutely not self host it which technically binds you to the next single point of failure.

Some use open source alternatives since signal still has the off switch to your communication. I personally use matrix for over a year and its pretty good. But its not polished so you need patience and a good admin.

Hmmm… that makes sense. I‘ll check. Thank you for the suggestion.

What happens is that I get rubberbanding (I go somewhere, build something, get set back like 30 seconds and my stuff is not built), loosing my connection like once every two hours or something. My wife plays with me and has similar issues.

The logs sometimes show „tick took longer than anticipated“ or something, which would indicate a performance issue but since the cpu and the ram arent even used properly, I assume it might be limited somehow.

Took me a moment to recognize it. This game is far better with friends imo. Have fun :)

im daily driving the pinetime on a postmarketos phone. it is glorious. but you kinda need to want to stick it to the man for maximum pleasure because thats whst youre doing. thats how it feels to me anyway.

The right cant meme

That was unexpected.

I‘d say its bearable compared to the others. Blocking people does make it a lot better though.

I did quite some reading in my time, as I mentioned. The methods you are describing are riddled with ifs and buts. The reality is that even online systems arent hacked if they dont have obvious flaws like passwords in root ssh. on the other hand tools like john the ripper can break each and every common encryption given the right circumstances. Its no difference. Its all just marketing.