Finding community in the modern age requires you to get interested and participate in something specific. Specific communities are often on Discord or equivalent, for example I'm super into some very specific video games with thriving communities, into specific genres of books and have found like minded people, love chatting about specific computing topics, etc. Specialize your interests and find others who have done the same
How does the whole vampire thing work anyways? Like if there's a hole in the wall breaking the integrity of the house are they still barred? How much of the house can be removed before it's no longer considered a house? A whole wall? In that case could the police vampire just drill a hole or remove a wall?
I've made apps in tons of different ways, kotlin with jetpack compose, react native, cordova, old school java activities.
Imo cross platform is the way to go, react native has been the easiest to maintain for me, I have 4 production react native apps that have been fairly successful and easy to maintain. My two biggest complaints are the difficulty of running on desktop, and the pain of upgrading react native versions. Expo sucks but it's the best we have and does help with upgrading.
Flutter is fine, dart is not my favorite but it's definitely worth looking into.
I looked into the tiktok platform, didn't really speak to me tbh
It probably evens out to ~$20 usd/month between recurring donations and one time random donations to the internet archive, wikipedia and some specific open source contributors. Gaming for me is usually 1-2 new games a year so likely similar in cost.
I donate $5/month to lemmy, and am considering doing more for the other important projects out there.
The open source community is one of the most important anchors in our modern society, not only do we as every day people benefit, but communities like npm, gradle, pip, etc all benefit the financial system greatly. We do not do enough.
When I was young, raised religious, there was an intense focus on finding purpose in life, almost as if there is no value to life itself without some end goal.
After leaving religion and superstition behind everything that is left is remarkable, fascinating, and beautiful. There's no need for life to have a purpose, a sunset doesn't need to clock in to work, a rock doesn't have an active role to perform but it's still fine for it to exist, us too.
I used to wish there was done grander purpose, but have you ever considered where that ends? Say you do have an ultimate purpose on earth, to collect all the smeeshmups, you do it and then what? Say your purpose is to be a good little Christian person and go to heaven, then what? Glorify some monkey with an anus for eternity because he agreed you did a good job? Yikes
Hmm not going to lie I don't trust humans to be qualified self-governing at scale, brains are too small and empathy is too weak.
Big brother surveillance sucks, but is probably one of the most effective ways to mitigate crime. Power begets corruption so it's essential to limit any one person's power, to that effect a monthly empathy and compassion test should be mandatory for any person in a position of power. Obviously the test itself is the weak point so you need some sort of balanced system of administration and auditing, one group has only the power to judge, the other has only the power to judge the judges etc. Perhaps some sort of distributed dao style voting system, in which voting is mandatory, you cannot purchase anything without performing your duty of voting.
Ai is imperfect but it’s fairly safe to assume that 1000 years of progress fine tuning the current technology would lead to a reasonable system that could be relied upon as a final arbiter for decisions that humans fail to form a consensus on. A "supreme court" of sorts. Important with such a broad timeline that the ai system can only be used after the death of the last person to work on it. So you literally cannot personally benefit from corruption, and income of officials would be strictly monitored, anything unreported would be assumed to be corruption and the position would be lost.
Prison is ineffective, punishment in general is ineffective, so some alternative needs to be established. Since we're all meaty human flesh machines, there's not an awful lot of options, perhaps an option to move off-planet if a crime is committed, with a system of working their way back to a main colony.
Work as established is dystopian, I think the focus should be on creating automations, mandatory work should be limited to something like 1 week a month.
There's a lot more I think, in general hedging against common human corruptions would be the gameplan. Humans will self destruct given enough time and there's just not much you can do about it
I genuinely don't understand the obsession with immigrants, why has it reached a new fever pitch? Who is benefiting from all of the isolationism and hate?
Neovim is basically just vim with easier extension creation. It's pretty good for a terminal editor. If you don't already like vim you may not really enjoy nvim, it's more of a lifestyle than a text editor.
Finding community in the modern age requires you to get interested and participate in something specific. Specific communities are often on Discord or equivalent, for example I'm super into some very specific video games with thriving communities, into specific genres of books and have found like minded people, love chatting about specific computing topics, etc. Specialize your interests and find others who have done the same