RufusFirefly @ RufusFirefly @lemmy.world

Retired IT guy, all-around nuisance

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Actually, Reagan and his trickle-down economics was the beginning of the end.

I sort of understand that they are a necessary evil but I really get tired of seeing stuff like this

65 Male Pacific NW

Whether you think this has a political bias or not, no matter what whose list you look up, they all basically say the same thing.

So long and thanks for all the fish!

Too much bash and not enough books

Never saw Pretty in Pink but enjoyed Molly Ringworm in The Breakfast Club. I also have a Kindle and am on the 3rd book in the Silo series. The other thing about e-books is that even bestsellers aren't tracked by anyone. There are nowhere near as many books on various sites as there are movies and TV shows, but you can still find just about anything.

I'm disabled and on a fixed income and there's no way I can afford 4 or 5 streaming services. I don't even watch that much other than an occasional series like Silo and a movie once in a while. I think a lot more stuff is tracked now than it used to be(I even got hit for an older game) and it's just not worth it to try without a VPN.

Considering I got 3 years worth at about $1.50 a month, I get more than enough content every month to make the cost worthwhile. I don't use it much for privacy but I use it a lot to access movies and such.

20 some years and I'm still doing it that way, except that I use Plex so I can watch stuff on the TV. I use Prowlarr once in a great while if I'm having a hard time finding something but I don't DL anywhere near as much as I used to.

There really is some major gaslighting going on here and a lot of people don't even see it.

I know but even if everybody begins to approach it with common sense rather than political posturing, we are probably going to run out of time. I'm in my 60s and don't have any kids or grandkids but I still feel pretty badly for future generations.

Even if EV's did reduce the world's carbon footprint, it still would not have that big an effect overall

I remember sitting there in front of a TRS-80 Model 1 computer, copying lines of code out of a Byte magazine; not knowing exactly what I was doing but thinking it was the coolest thing in the world.

I'm 65, so practically everybody online seems young to me

I only say something if I have something to say. And the larger platform gets, the harder it gets to be heard.

It seems to be okay now but I lost a couple of lengthy replies earlier

Probably because they tie it to their own personal self-image or self-worth. Of course, in the grand scheme of things, downvotes are virtual and don't mean a thing in the real world.