Check out Anubis. If you have a reverse proxy it is very easy to add, and for the bots stopped spamming after I added it to mine

We’ll take that thing you love and run it into the fucking ground for our profit!

So they killed ChromeOS to… Do this?

This looks great! Thank you for the recommendation!

Interesting, had no idea!

Because we were all so ready to ruin it for our friends who hadn’t read it

And fucking ruined one of the best plot twists. Marketers are so fucking stupid

My mind went to this one

That’s not enshittification, that’s just a price increase. I’d hardly say it’s the same as this change to arduino

Mass Effect 1? Trash, not enough weapons

It’s a good idea. I have family who insist on calling without messaging first and I feel like this helps bridge that gap a bit. This can tell me “walk out of your meeting a family member is dying” when I get a random call. A text could do the same thing but some people are just incapable of grasping that the person in the other end of the phone also has a completely separate life from theirs and may be busy.

If it gets abused then that also will be an ignored call.

Some would say weapons aren’t the only thing that makes a game good

Best we continue to change nothing because what’s the point! Here’s my credit card fill 'er up please and thanks!

We love to blame the big corporations and governments for where we are, but both are products of our society and people. George Carlin said it best, selfish ignorant people vote for selfish ignorant leaders. All of this is a product of a society who allows it. Big tech and corporations exist because we as a society give them money. Social media algorithms and ads and everything exist because they work. We sit here and preach linux, and preach getting off of it, but we are the minority. The majority don’t care and happily go along with whatever is given to them, and they vote and purchase just like it.

Climate change is a big one for me. I see people every day saying we need to hold companies accountable - and we do, but goddamn if we all stopped using oil every day, natural gas for cooking, choosing to bike or take a train over driving or flying you know what? Those companies would be forced to change because they wouldn’t be making money off of us. If even just 40% of Americans stopped using Oil the “big oil” companies would be looking at bankruptcy or minimum desperately trying to modernize to stay on top. We can’t shift all of the blame on them, we continue to purchase their products because it’s easier. Everything in the end is a consumer good, and if we voted/purchased differently as a society then things would change. The fact is is that people either don’t care, or worse don’t want to change.

Once there people will view moving as a hassle, but I understand what you’re thinking. Mastodon I think did it better with “suggesting” an instance to you, and Lemmy has gotten better about it. For friends and family I think the best way is basically telling them which server to use. Go here, sign up

It’s your CPU. The FX line came out a very, very long time ago, the first real quad cores. You need an upgrade to play games that came out last year. (Edit, I thought you meant Cities Skylines 2. Still, if you’re hoping for good framerates you can’t have a CPU that is that old)

It’s the exact same with 55+ communities and when social security goes up. Sure they can tie it to rent, but the problem is that the landlords will just siphon more out. It’s a very short sighted solution.

The next problem is corporate landlords charging so much for apartments.

It’s out of date, and in desperate need of a rewrite. PHP might have been an okay choice 15 years ago, but no one in their right mind should be using PHP for modern server development. (Yes I’m calling out Pixelfed too). With so many languages and frameworks, that’s probably one of the worst right now.

Then it was proven that they don’t really get modern infrastructure either, as their docker containers depend on stateful code, with combinations of environment variables and php files that need to be stored in volumes, and then plugins which are also stateful - meaning that on new updates they need to go through an “update” process. This is directly opposite of good practice as docker containers should be 100% immutable and be able to run just by using docker run. They also have required volume mounts scattered throughout the OS, it was just never designed with containers in mind.

I can’t recommend nextcloud right now, it’s incredibly brittle and slow.

No, you argued and shot down every idea. Let’s take the bar one, you said:

A. There only to drink. B. Are not comfortable knowing new people and only there with their friends or family. C. Very self focused, that they are uninterested into pursuing other activities

So going into this you had a very negative outlook and ignored that you gave a very narrow view. Obviously you assumed a lot about people and what they thinking, and you shut yourself out before ever saying hello. I know this one to be false because I am someone who loves going to a bar, sitting down at the bar, and starting small talk. Sure if you walk up to a group of people you’re going to get weird looks, but I’ve met some very interesting people while sitting on a barstool and just chatting.

This is just one example. I could go to all of the others too, but the point is is that you have a very negative outlook. I go back to what I said, the first step is to find your own personal joy, what gives you enjoyment. I say it’s not that you’re lonely, it’s that you don’t know yourself. You start by looking inward, and learning who you are.

You already posted this on another thread and I like what they said.

Find something you like doing, then join a local group that does it. Can be anything.

And another said volunteering.

You replied:

Bro, I need a starting point. And I don’t like chess and people at the gym seem to be only there to exercise and leave as soon as possible. I need a effective solution.

The first step is an inward journey, figuring out who you are and what you enjoy/like. First you need to be comfortable with yourself, and then other people will come around.

Your starting point is you. What do you like, what do you enjoy doing, and if you don’t know, well there’s the problem right there. There are 8 billion people on this planet right now, the people are there. If you don’t know what you enjoy, how are you supposed to find enjoyment?