Chicken and egg. The tuitions have been able to reach the insane heights due to the ready availability of these loans.

It was a lot harder to get loans thirty years ago. Almost on par with the criteria for any other personal loan. A four year CompSci degree that could be had for under $25K, in total, opened the door to a $45K to $60K entry level position for a typical graduate.

Availability of loans broke wide open, under the guise of providing opportunity, and now the same degree costs 5-10x with yet the typical entry level salary remains more or less the same, give or take a few inflation points.

Not to discount or diminish your experience but I’ve had the polar opposite with Aetna/CVS.

Due to unfortunate circumstances my family has had nearly 300 claims via Aetna over the past 24 months with only one hitch that required any legwork on my side. We pick up all our ad hoc prescriptions at the local Walgreens and all of our maintenance meds shipped via an independent provider. Only one script has ever been mandated to go through Caremark and it’s was a specialty drug that ran about $1000 US per daily dose.

Problem is, it IS hosted here. That's the nature of the Fediverse. It doesn't just create links to other instances, it creates distinct copies of content on each instance. I am neither viewing this post on lemmy.world nor responding to it via lemmy.world. I am interacting with a distinct copy hosted on a completely unaffiliated instance, in a completely different country.

You’re so wrapped up you don’t even realizing that you’re speaking to a completely different person.

Theoretically, yes. Practically, maybe not so much as a ton of these smaller instances are consolidated on a just a handful of hosting providers.

Biggest issue I have with this edition is the Strange New Worlds tag.

Should be just... Star Trek.

A true descendant of the show I grew up with.

I can see wanting to run your own DNS to serve personal clients for privacy purposes but for self-hosting class stuff I can think of plenty of downsides and zero upsides to privatizing this.

Definitely a “yeah, you could” vs. “yeah, you should” situation.

My Miata shipped without CarPlay. When Mazda added support it later they had to replace one USB port ($12 part) and an hour of labor.

They charged $350. I didn’t hesitate for a second. I haven’t met an OEM interface that didn’t make me want to stab myself in the eye.

This is probably the best upside of running a semi-private/personal instance. While I’ve taken steps to overpopulate /all it’s still doesn’t contain any garbage communities. If one happens to slip through it’s a quick fix to eradicate it.

I was thrilled with Apple's hide my email when it was announced. Then I went through the process and abandoned it.

It was much less friction to just register a new domain and have anything that arrives there forwarded to my main email box. Need a new email, just generate a random string of characters and add the domain at the end, done.

While not as "private" it mitigates my primary concerns. Every website that uses email address for login now has a completely unique one, no email address ever gets used twice. If an email leaks in a breach and starts getting spammed, (a) I know exactly who leaked my email address, (b) I simply create a rule to blacklist any email to that address avoiding the spam problem.

I’m very excited to see what comes next week.

Five nines.