No, it relies on massive automation. Similary their solar industry etc

For example

https://www.theenergymix.com/automation-not-cheap-labour-drives-chinas-solar-and-battery-edge-ritchie/

Molly i think ?

https://molly.im/

I did, a decade ago, all my must have contacts have long ago added Signal or switched. Those that cant be botherd mehhhh i cant be bothered with them either.

The car.

Had endlesss issues with 2x Nexus phones, eschewed google, gave them another chance with a Pixel 6Pro, sold it after a month it was so shitty and grabbed a Samsung S22u that i still use. I use the pen so often its shitty not having one and goodlock does along looottts of customisation. I also mostly prefer their apps to googles, alas googles cant be deleted :(

Fair point, the other issue though is the many billions in US subsidies that made Tesla profitable have just been taken away with the OBBBA

Plenty of time yet, Virgin Galatic was as high as $1200 from memory, now at 25c.

Thay said, they still sell a shit load of cars.

https://lemmy.world/post/32466629

Thank you for your service :)

Did this but 28 weeks is garbage and I gave up

Or he’s stripped of citizenship and deported by Trump

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jul/01/trump-zohran-mamdani-citizenship

Dual booting with Ubutu a couple tiimes over the last decade, then tried dual booting with Mint 3 years ago on W10, thenW11 is annouced, seems the enshitifaction would be worse but, didn’t use Mint, same reasn I’d not used Ubuntu, fell back on the familiar.

Purchased a new NVME 2 years ago, instilled Mint on it and took the dual boot NVME physically out, 3 months later formated it and use it for Timeshift :) Then.went to LMDE.

Eventually got sick of the nagging on my infrequently used Surface Pro 7 about going to W11 and did the same thing there, wiped it and installed LMDE, a few hiccups but used the Surface Pro drivers from Github and got it sorted eventually, touch works etc

The main reason i stayed was Adobe Lighroom but that was enshitifying as well. I still haven’t wrapped my head around Darktable properly but less time spent on photography these days as well

Thoreau’s Civil Disobedience was my “gateway” many decades ago.

Onky real dislike is communities disparate across instances. /c/linux here /c/linux there /c/linix every fucking where. There should be some way for communities who want to federate, to federate?

niche hobbies

Like toaster fucking ?

I’d not really paid attnetion until this thread and assumed it was an Arch derivative becase of Steam OS. TIL

The tiny bit of gaming I do is in my main install is LMDE using Steam, it works fine.

I mean i actually used Wordperfect for DOS back in the day, so why ? Liber Office is a thing and works.

I went with Linux Mint Debian Edition. Couple hiccups over the last 18 months but queries in the Mint help forum fixed those problems. I use Flatpacs when I can.

I have zero idea what I’m doing :)

To answer the OP I went the other way, Obsidian to Joplin. Very mich not a heavy user

I am poor and chose the latter. Own a small cheap cottage on the edge of a tiny rural village at the arse end of Australia (Tasmania) live simply and have a like minded parter. I quit work at 35 and am now 59, don’t get any goverment pensions etc have a small investment portfolio of shares i purchased back in the 1990s from working and live off the dividends.

I don’t want to be rich, as to even try to do so I’d have to compromise all of my morals to get there. I’m rich enough. I quit paid work as it wasnt for me. My only regret in life was not quitting work earlier, thats time I cant get back.