[-] Sarcasmo220@lemmy.ml 4 points 5 days ago

My spouse and I together are millenials making around $150k a year, and we essentially bought my parent's house for cheap when they were scammed and could no longer afford it. Even with the "leg up" of being homeowners, we chose to be DINKs because it would be too much of a financial strain to live any sort of decent life otherwise.

We're in good health now, but living in the USA we have to save and prepare for the worst because if that were to change, we are on our own. And we have to prepare to take care of our parents, too.

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submitted 3 months ago by Sarcasmo220@lemmy.ml to c/memes@lemmy.ml

Alt text. A picture of Bane lifting Batman in the air. Top text reads “Me: Trying not to use words I painstakingly learned in college to make a document accessible.” Bottom text reads “Readability tool: Victory has defeated you.”

[-] Sarcasmo220@lemmy.ml 31 points 3 months ago

I wonder if he made a big deal when Battlestar Galactica did it for their promo poster:

[-] Sarcasmo220@lemmy.ml 25 points 3 months ago

Tattooed on the lower back to be more specific

[-] Sarcasmo220@lemmy.ml 26 points 5 months ago

I daily drive the Librem 5 and am typing this reply from the phone. The honest feedback (and tl;dr) is that it is a good device for those who value privacy over convenience.

The hardware kill switches are a nice touch, especially on the camera/microphone. I don't have moments of suspicion that if I have a conversation about a toaster that I will suddenly start seeing ads about toasters everywhere.

It's nice not to be bombarded with notifications to review their app, accept TOS that my data will be used to sell me stuff, irremovable bloatware, and some of the other annoyances we got used to experiencing.

As a basic communications device it works fine. Phone calls (VoLTE) and SMS text messaging works, depending if your carrier allows you to BYOD and provides the network info. SMS can sometimes get "clogged" in the modem when there is a very active group text; but for me usually resetting the modem using the hardware killswitch, a 15 second process, fixes it.

Of course the downside is a more limited app ecosystem compared to Android. You will have to search for convergent apps and flatpaks, but I have found everything I need through Flathub.

The camera does not take influencer quality photos, but if you need to take a quick picture of something and share it, then it works.

Battery life is definitely something to be desired, but I can make it through a work day with automatic suspend doing some light web browsing and sending some messages throughout the day.

Since I mostly use a computer for web browsing, emails, and word processing, I dock my phone and use it in desktop mode. It's not blazing fast, but for my purposes it is more than fine. Its actually a cool feeling to sit at my desk, start typing an email, listening to music, and then undocking my phone and continue the email on the go from the same device.

[-] Sarcasmo220@lemmy.ml 35 points 8 months ago

I get what you mean, but the way you worded it makes it seem like you experienced dependency hell for 20 out of 25 years...

[-] Sarcasmo220@lemmy.ml 24 points 8 months ago

I'm not a programmer either, but I am a Linux and open source user so I can at least wade through the waters, lol

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submitted 9 months ago by Sarcasmo220@lemmy.ml to c/books@lemmy.ml

I came across this website that focuses on highlighting books that are out if print but still worthy of reading, if you can find them. The most recent post (Feb. 29 2024) talks about the various reasons books become neglected.

[-] Sarcasmo220@lemmy.ml 20 points 9 months ago

I know Brotherhood tells a better overall story as it aligns more closely with the manga. BUT, the music and pacing of that scene in the original anime production of FMA hits a little harder, in my opinion.

[-] Sarcasmo220@lemmy.ml 103 points 10 months ago

The browser in my computer at work doesn't have an ad blocker. I haven't installed one because I most of the time I'm using it to access our intranet. But when I do happen to use the internet, damn are there so many ads! They literally block the content I'm trying to read, and come back even when I try to close it.

All that to say, due to enshittification I will forever keep my ad blocker on my personal computer.

[-] Sarcasmo220@lemmy.ml 80 points 11 months ago

And now on YouTube the Red Pill symbolizes accepting misogyny as the backbone for society.

Conservatives can truly spin everything for the worst.

[-] Sarcasmo220@lemmy.ml 52 points 11 months ago

What if, sometime after Win 10 loses support a virus takes advantage of the lack of patches and propagates across all the machines with a simple message "This operating system is no longer supported, please click here to upgrade." The button then runs a script to download and install a user friendly Linux distro. The world is then saved.

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submitted 11 months ago by Sarcasmo220@lemmy.ml to c/memes@lemmy.ml

Mathematically they're equivalent, but the feelings could not be further apart.

[-] Sarcasmo220@lemmy.ml 33 points 1 year ago

Is that a pedestrian symbol or the chalk outline of a pedestrian who got hit?

[-] Sarcasmo220@lemmy.ml 22 points 1 year ago

Firefox is installed by default on my Linux distro, though

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