Now waiting for spam articles about which is the best poop knife.
Naich
joined 1 year ago
When you fundamentally can't admit a truth because it destroys your entire world view, you end up going down conspiracy rabbit holes in order to avoid it.
Milla Jovovich, Resident Evil
Han So-hee, My Name
Short answer: yes.
Long answer: yes, it is.
This doesn't really explain anything. Not least why I should use it.
I, for one, welcome our new spiny overlords.
Better than getting worse more quickly, which is what was happening.
When I'm not broken, an 8 mile cycle ride that takes around 30 minutes. I'm currently recovering from a broken kneecap and getting the bus in, which is about 20 minutes and 5 minutes walk each end.
Kbin is better than Lemmy.
The old internet is still there. It's just dwarfed by the colossal amount of shit piled up on the shit sites.
As a general rule, stick to free and open stuff because the motivation of the people doing it is to give to the community, rather than make money. Mastodon and Lemmy/Kbin rather than Xitter and Reddit. Just stay away from Facebook. There are lots of old style bulletin boards still around for various interests, and they are often more used than FB groups.
I stopped putting adverts on my sites ages ago because I hate them so much. I don't want to be part of the enshittification.
I like FreeCAD. I know some people hate it, but I find the requirement to do things carefully and properly to avoid horrible errors later on really focusses my mind on what I'm designing. I end up with something that is probably better designed than if I could just lash something together and let the software sort out the mess.
I feel that I became a little bit stupider after reading this article.