Although why you would not like or want the latest stable or your app, for example, is beyond me. It's a stable version, you should want the new features.

Call me an old man. But I like when things are stable. I don't like starting my computer, and the software was updated to a new version, and some features disappeared or changed in behavior. This is why I hate the web where people update software right under my nose! With no control from my side.

These repo contains thousands of orphan packages which are not maintained and will never get any update ever again (proceed to show a list of obscure go modules)

Have ever checked if you checked how maintained are the dependencies/libraries of your favorite software? It's a nightmare as well. The distro is not making anything worse.

You get the duplicated work of maintainers, packaging the same app, multiple times, for multiple supported version of the distro.

First, the work is not often duplicated. The first maintainer to package will usually upstream patches which make packaging easy. Packagers will look how other distros packagers packaged the app they're trying to package.

Also the duplication only happen a few time. Ubuntu just pulled almost all of their packages from Debian Sid. Same with RHEL/CentOS and Fedora. And so on, and so on

Also you're overestimating how hard packaging is, most of the time, it's scripted. (golang modules in debian, are imported in an almost fully automated way)

You know what distros bring?

• Security. (My packages were vetted by packagers)
• Uniformity. (All my software works coherently)
• Stability. (My software doesn't break at the will of some third party developer)

Hosting a mail server is really easy. Making sure Hotmail, Gmail and others accept your emails is a nightmare.

I don't host my own email, I just delegate my email management to a small provider.

By mail: This seemed like a possible option. However I found that Slovak Post forbids sending banknotes or coins of any value via regular mail (for which shipping would cost €1.60) and instead only allows them in insured packages in which case the shipping would be €20.50 💀

I'm not aware of Slovakian law. But every other postal service in western Europe bans sending cash by mail for insurance reason. They don't want you to ask for the money back if it doesn't reach the destination. But they actually don't track down people sending money. I've sent cash by mail many times without any issue. Hide it in a folded A4 paper, so that it's not visible when looking through the envelope, and it should be fine, it has a 99.99% of arriving like any other letter.

That's my 2 cents.

Calling whataboutism is a logical fallacy used to justify having different standards for yourself and your adversaries. Anybody using whataboutism in place of an actual can be safely dismissed as a troll. Meanwhile, western media is certainly no less biased than CGTN and has been caught lying about China repeatedly.

What are you on? Whataboutism is not a logical fallacy. We are talking about the bias of CGTN, and you say "what about western media?" Yeah western media are also biased, but it doesn't take away the fact that CGTN is a heavily biased media outlet, highly biased towards positive chinese news. I never mentioned any western media or said they were superior, but to avoid talking about this difficult topic, you change the narrative. Did I mention anything about western media? No! Because that's not the topic.

Whataboutism is not a logical fallacy. Far from it. Whataboutism has been heavily documented as a propaganda technique by many sociologists and rhetoric scientists:

• https://bibliotekanauki.pl/articles/1196123.pdf
• https://files.eric.ed.gov/fulltext/EJ1317315.pdf

Small remark instead of /u/.... you should use the at-sign @ to mention somebody. For example: Hey @Ghostalmedia@lemmy.world.

This is just whataboutism. Talking about the US doesn't remove any critique of china. We were talking about China here. And CGTN (the news source which was linked) has a documented bias towards china

OP is a CCP-chill:

On lemmy? No. The devs decided to do a single page app with a REST API, which leads to the sluggishness and slow load-time. kbin (which is compatible with lemmy's content) is your best bet, IMHO. https://kbin.fediverse.observer/list

I'm too used to lemmy unfortunately, and kbin is far from perfect.

The issue is the compatibility. You can follow Lemmy from Mastondon, but not vis-versa.

Lemmy is pretty dismissive of the rest of the fediverse.

mullvad for movies, and spotify for music.

The issue with streaming companies is the exclusivity. I would happily pay for Netfix if I could watch Ted Lasso (= Apple+) and Halo (= Paramount+) on it.

But if you want access to original series you have to buy the platform. I pay around €45 total in VPNs, Seedboxes, Usenet indexers... per month. I would happily pay for Netfix if I had access to everything in the world for up to €50/month. But with netflix you get access to a shitty catalogue on only one device for €8/month... That's not okay for me.