[-] el_abuelo@lemmy.ml 34 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

That sounds sensible on first thought...but it's easy to find slurs that are for non-oppressed people's.

The French, for example.

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submitted 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) by el_abuelo@lemmy.ml to c/degoogle@lemmy.ml

I am currently attempting to degoogle and at the same time move to an entirely self hosted ecosystem.

I've set up a NAS and have syncthing to deal with the dropbox/gdrive type things and have backup on a raid disk. What I am looking for now is a backup solution that can backup to my nas and in the future a remote device - probably to another nas at a family member's hous

Can anyone recommend a backup solution for this?

Technically I am not looking to degoogle as I don't gave a Google solution for this- but I guess I'm looking for a self hosted alternative to GCP backup.

[-] el_abuelo@lemmy.ml 74 points 3 months ago

This is despicable. What specific service was this? So I know how to avoid it if it should resurface.

[-] el_abuelo@lemmy.ml 35 points 3 months ago

I think you need to be intentionally naive, or just an absolute shitbag, to want to vote for lower gas prices at the cost of increased human suffering. Let alone whether it's something Trump could even deliver.

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

I don't mean this in a bad or critical way: I genuinely do not understand this thought. As humans we are born shit at EVERYTHING. Literally. We can't even fucking walk.

In the developed world we spend the first 16-18yrs learning. And then some of us spend some more time learning.

I learned a new sport when I joined uni. Then I learned to programme. Then I learned a martial art.

I have spent my entire life being shit at things. Because I've also spent my entire life learning.

If you refuse to be shit at something, then you also refuse to learn, and to me that makes no sense - I think I'll only stop learning when I die.

This is just my unfiltered thoughts - I am not trying to be critical, I am just trying to explain how I cannot comprehend this kind of thinking because it is the literal antithesis of me.

[-] el_abuelo@lemmy.ml 54 points 4 months ago

Why is 2x2 meant to be 1.5x1.5 and not 2x2?

[-] el_abuelo@lemmy.ml 46 points 4 months ago

To be fair they did make a great game, and the current drama has little to do with the actual game.

I am not defending them, I understand why people are cheesed off, I just don't think it affects how good or bad a game is.

[-] el_abuelo@lemmy.ml 28 points 5 months ago

What happened to Xitter being a paragon of free speech? You can't even say "twitter.com" without them censoring you.

How unfortunate they can't deal with the spam bots quite so effectively.

[-] el_abuelo@lemmy.ml 73 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

I took a promotion without a pay rise on the agreement it would come when pay was reviewed annually. A shit deal, but one I was prepared to accept on the balance of things. I made clear that if they didn't follow through then I would immediately demote myself and start looking for a new job.

Pay review came around and it was below inflation. I immediately demoted myself and started looking for a new job. I even requested an internal transfer that was denied (made them too much money where I was).

I handed in my notice a short while later and everyone was, to my surprise, surprised. I really didn't understand why the shock....until I learned in due course that most people don't follow through.

Funnier still, I returned 6 months later (due to a quirk in contracts) at double the salary in the dept I requested a transfer to.

Anyway my point is - do what is to your benefit, always. Companies can play games - as can you.

[-] el_abuelo@lemmy.ml 55 points 6 months ago

True...and you don't need to live in a house, or use the Internet, or have a bank account, or have a computer/mobile...all things that have caused catastrophic damage to the environment and killed countless animals.

One has to draw a line somewhere- perhaps you shouldn't be holier than though just because you draw the line at "I don't want to see the evidence of the death"

[-] el_abuelo@lemmy.ml 31 points 8 months ago

What an odd context to use the word "popular"

[-] el_abuelo@lemmy.ml 33 points 9 months ago

If only there was some kind of universal communication technology that didn't require line of sight, worked over distances out to say 100m and was reasonably inexpensive to implement...then we wouldn't need to communicate using the modern equivalent of semaphore.

[-] el_abuelo@lemmy.ml 41 points 10 months ago

Starting a new business is hard enough as it is - please do not complicated it by adding in something that brings limited tangible benefits to the company, whilst making it unnecessarily harder than what it will be anyway.

Either get fluent now, and then start your business - or start your business with Windows and move on when you're profitable and can afford the reduction in productively while you learn the ropes.

Do not go anywhere near MacOS - you can't afford it.

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