There haven't been any issues, so I don't see why development is needed.

You say that as if I don't already know it. But what am I supposed to do, abandon every friend who prefers it?

Similar to Silence, a Signal fork that worked over SMS that I used to use. Glad to see the idea is still alive.

Absolutely this. The first half of his first book in any given series always feels like it's going to lead to something amazing, then nothing. I feel like another writer could take his unique ideas and do something really cool with them, but I won't ever read Sanderson again.

Sometimes I wonder if he managed to wrap up Wheel of Time satisfyingly for its fans.

I've always wondered why they don't put at least an 8mb camera in feature phones these days. The components are small enough and cheap enough that it would be simple to do.

You can get a 4G feature phone for less than $50 in the US apparently. Up here they go for closer to $150, but the model I'm thinking of is definitely not a trash product. With a bit if research, you can probably find something decent.

Because 3G still works here, I have been using something from ~2009 when I want to unplug.

I think one of your keys is upside down? Right split, second row, third from the left.

Or maybe it's just the font

Just don't watch video on data.

You're incorrectly assuming that something has to be incorrect to be chauvinistic.

Honestly, fuck the economy. Areas dependent on fossil fuels should have h started diversifying decades ago, but they stubbornly refused to — and continue to do so — to their own detriment. We've known for a long time that being entirely dependent on a single natural resource for the bulk of our jobs and trade was a bad idea: just look at the mill towns in BC when their mills closed. At how devastating the softwood lumber disputes were. It was pure hubris for provincial and local governments to push forward with continued dependence on single resource economies.

I agree that we'll never entirely end fossil fuel use because plastics are an amazing material, but I absolutely do not agree that we need to continue fossil fuel extraction for the sake of the "economy." This is shortsighted thinking: the "economy" will be destroyed in the longterm by climate change. Natural disasters, human displacement, crop failures, water shortages, wildfires, the list goes on and on.

If you don't believe in consumer actions at all, you are in the wrong community. This community is specifically dedicated to actions individuals can take.

I typed a response to this yesterday, but my phone ate it. 🙃 For anyone else trying to comment here, you need to explicitly set the language of your comment to "English" when responding to Kbin users (which OP is.)

I started out in spaces related to minimalism before I found the simple living movement. It definitely felt like a good fit in some ways, but a very bad one in others. For example, I definitely prefer to own less stuff than the average person, but I would say that for me this comes from a rejection of consumerism. Whereas many "minimalists" are very driven by consumerism: opting for buy very few items, but only those of the best brands or with the right "aesthetic."

There is also a tendency for grifting in those spaces. People become microcelebrities and put out blogs, videos, and even documentaries all rehashing the same, meaningless message. "My life was so terrible, and then I discovered minimalism and discarded all my possessions, and now my life is great." The epitome of this is "The Minimalists," two guys who somehow ended up with a Netflix documentary. This content has a great aesthetic, but lacks substance of any kind. They fail to dig into the things that explain why shopping doesn't make us happy (the hedonic treadmill,) or provide a meaningful critique of consumerism.

So, compared to the average person, I would say that I am a minimalist. But it isn't an identity I would tout in front of self-professed "minimalists," because we have fundamentally different values.