Evkob (they/them) @ Evkob @lemmy.ca

**Languages**: Français, English

---

Read more

Posts

19

Comments

924

Joined

2 yr. ago

This is about trackers as in devices which can geolocate, such as Apple's airtags, not privacy-invading data collection in apps. Google obviously wouldn't care to address the latter.

My ex taught me how to crochet, which was pretty cool of her. I've always wanted to do stuff with yarn and having someone there to guide and correct me was so useful. I'm not sure I would have stuck with it if I tried to learn via online tutorials.

I work in a café, so I usually drink what we have for espresso which is a medium-dark roast from Barista in Montréal

At home, I currently have a bag of medium roast blend from a local roaster, nothing fancy. I've been on a French press kick recently, and it does the job.

As someone whose credit card has been at the 5000$ limit for a couple of months, I'd say it's capitalism that's unsustainable.

Between groceries, rent, and the occasional treat to make life barely bearable, I don't have anywhere to cut expenses. My vehicle is a bicycle. I live with three roommates in an old building in a neighbourhood that's more down-and-leaving than up-and-coming. I only wear thrifted clothes. My diet consists largely of legumes and rice.

I don't think you had any ill intent with your comment, I feel like you're coming from a place of empathy, but it does rub me the wrong way and gives me the impression you might be unaware of the realities that many people are living through right now. I'm relatively lucky, I at least have a roof over my head and never go (too) hungry. A lot of people have it much worse.

If you have an actual tip to deal with my debts, I'd be all ears, but I highly doubt cutting the little luxuries I do afford myself (an occasional craft beer, 50$ of weed every two months or so, and a takeout meal or two per month) would suddenly make my situation financially sustainable. It's the landlords and the grocery-monopolies that are unsustainable.

Agreed, infantilizing fascists is dangerous. Are most of their supporters just dumb/misinformed? Probably. But we mustn't pretend that the movement isn't orchestrated by very smart people manipulating the masses in order to consolidate power in the hands of them and their rich friends.

It's not about the tuition (although most of our universities are effectively subsidized by foreign students paying higher tuition fees), it's about having an easily exploitable labour force while they're here studying. Less familiarity with labour laws and less protections than a citizen make for attractive wage slaves.

Of course, the solution isn't tightening immigration, but the actual solutions might make the wealthy accumulate riches at a slightly slower pace, therefore it is unimaginable.

There is also a Trakt add-on, like the other commenter said the integration isn't as seamless as a well-maintained Kodi setup, but it's definitely good enough that I've switched from Kodi to Stremio with Trakt being the way I organise my TV/movie watchlists.

This may or may not be the case, as people's experiences rarely map neatly on top of each other, but usually when I perceive others as being too cool to associate with "the peasants", it's usually more of an insecurity on my side than an aura of elitism from the person in question. In my mind, the thought is "they're too cool to hang out with me", not "they think they're hot shit".

Kodi + add-ons is great if you like tinkering, otherwise I would recommend Stremio with the Torrentio add-on. Stremio + Torrentio + Real-Debrid is the easiest way to consume pirated media IMO.

Definitely lighting a cig (don't smoke kids)

There's so much missing history in early tech. This article reminds me of Ahoy's video on YouTube about the first video game.

you can't transition away from just large cars, you still won't have the carless infrastructure in place anyway

I don't disagree with this, but that's not the point I was trying to make. Maybe I wasn't clear enough, since your paragraph re:veganism addresses an entire other issue than the one I was trying to highlight.

Let me clarify: Vegans, like anti-car folks, are politically extreme compared to the mainstream views. As a vegan, in my ideal world no one would eat meat. Similarly, in my ideal world no one would drive cars. However, we don't live in my ideal worlds (far from it).

I don't condone eating meat, nor do I condone driving cars. But for most people, these are normal, everyday things and they get defensive if they feel attacked for doing them.

As an anti-car person, you probably have more in common ideologically with a Prius driver than a Hummer driver. Equating the Prius driver with the Hummer driver is, in my experience, more likely to generate a negative reaction in the Prius driver where they see you as an enemy, and the Hummer as an ally.

I'd rather create more anti-car sentiment than accidentally contribute to motor vehicle solidarity.

That depends on your use case, I personally really only ever use RSS on my phone. Anyway, as others have mentioned, you can connect the app to FreshRSS for syncing.

Also, feel free to ignore this, but you could probably make your point without being so condescending. Something like "Cool, but the lack of apps across multiple platforms is a deal-breaker for me." Calling someone's work "cute, but [...] useless" after they provide it for free to the community is kinda rude, especially considering it's honestly one of the best actively-developped RSS apps for Android.

Yeah fuck all cars, you're definitely preaching to the choir there, but if we could get rid of them I'd start with the huge trucks and SUVs first. Your points all remain valid without equating all cars.

Like I truly wish everyone were vegan, but if someone's gonna eat meat I'd rather they eat a chicken stir-fry than an EpicMealTime-type monstrosity.

Same with cars, I wish everyone would drop this inefficient, antisocial method of transportation, but I'd also rather someone drive a Prius than a Hummer.

Sure all privately-owned cars are problematic, but I think it's ridiculous to suggest that small vehicles have the same impact as massive SUVs/trucks.

Bigger cars are not only more damaging in crashes with pedestrians/cyclists (which you've mentioned but seem to think is unimportant?!) but they also cause more accidents because of poor visibility and longer stopping distances. Also, environmentally-speaking, larger vehicles have a much bigger impact than small cars. Not only are they less fuel-efficient, they also cause more damage to roads leading to more frequent need for repairs.

I agree that ultimately reducing the total number of privately-owned vehicles should be the main goal, but we can also simultaneously strive for smaller cars for the vehicles that are on our roads.

If you truly want to write code from scratch, you first need to create the universe.

Using pre-transition pictures of someone for a dumb meme is honestly pretty inconsiderate.

Silly me, here I've been stealing from Loblaws every time I enter one of their stores!

Shop local, shoplift mega-corps

I got a Pixel specifically to install GrapheneOS on it after going on a huge FOSS/privacy kick last year (coincidentally around the same time I joined Lemmy...)

Look I definitely agree with you, never had a car and never plan on having one, and I try to promote cycling as a means of transportation as much as possible.

That being said, just replying "bicycles" is likely to rub people the wrong way. Bikes are not a 1:1 replacement for motor vehicles. There has to be investment into public transit, especially for intercity travel, as well as investments into safer cycling infrastructure.