she later told me that I was anti-authoritarian and more likely to do what I thought was right rather than what I had been instructed to do. I am still baffled to this day about how that is an undesirable attribute

It isn’t unless you’re a corporation trying to keep employees down.

What the fuck. I used to go there for tabs all the time when I picked up guitar. Sadly I stopped playing but to hear that that website is all pay walled now is disgusting.

Nah. Report it as spam. Still gets moved to your spam folder and if enough people do it, they’ll be flagged by default.

Simple answer is we don’t really live. We just kinda suffer day after day until someone breaks then a new policy is out in place to legally cover the corps ass. It’s a miserable system and most of us are at a breaking point.

Same. I had to stop because of them.

I won’t be forced to work 6 days again and actually a good 3 days off so I can recharge for once.

I used to browse it about 15-20 years ago.It used to be a good place to learn tricks about all sorts of electronics. I’m not sure exactly what happened but it was like a switch flipped and they got awful almost overnight. Probably bought out.

Sorry it was meant for the other guy. I fully agree with you.

Whatever isp your shilling for is overpaying. You’re not convincing anybody.

What is a new person supposed to do to learn then? I’ve been stuck trying to figure out what the 5-8 different services, frameworks, libraries, and IDEs all do and I feel very overwhelmed.

Yes I feel that some context with a linked post is mandatory. Besides risking malware or scams, a bare minimum should be required when posting. Just a link isn’t enough.

At one of my old jobs I remember getting a 9.2 out of 10 on a performance report. When they called me in for a meeting I was thinking I was getting a pat on the back. Nope. It was “you could’ve done better”. That was the day I learned to stop trying and just say fuck it at any job since then.

They. Do. Not. Care. So if I’m going to be treated the same regardless if I put in 110% or 50%, then why bother?

Got a Brother laser printer when I was still at home because I got tired of using the cheapo inkjet. Because everytime we needed something printed we’d have to run to the store and buy $50+ in black and color cartridges for 1 or 2 pages. I took my printer with me when I moved out and helped my parents pick out an identical printer because they liked mine so much lol.

Yes. I once was using an old laptop for travel and didn’t care if it got lost. It hadn’t been updated years but I got a nasty virus from visiting Spotify once that embedded itself into the tcp/ip stack. Not that I cared much for the laptop but it was a wakeup call that ads contain viruses. I’ve ran adblockers before that incident on my main computers but since it was old I didn’t I have everything up to date. Since then I’ve made sure to install ublock origin on any computer I touch. Even friends and family with their permission.

I could write an essay on why I block ads but the other comments sum it up pretty well.

They never directly said what their criticisms were, but I can only assume they’re the types you wouldn’t elaborate on when trying to get people to side with you over “censorship”.

Which to me is funny because they know they’re wrong.

No one wants to admit they ate 9 cans of ravioli.

And politicians wonder why they have to try and force people to have kids. Nobody can fucking afford them, let alone daycare or even get time off to take care of them themselves.

I deleted my reddit account years ago and lurked only because trying to interact there was a cesspool. Learning about the alternatives and seeing how well behaved it is over here on lemmy is a breath of fresh air. Sure there isn’t as much content yet but it’ll come. Reddit wasn’t an overnight success either.

I feel after the 3rd party apps get killed off we’ll start seeing a slow trickle of users after the initial flood once the ones that stuck around start realizing the content that’s left in reddit has become low effort bot posts and spam.

Unfortunately from what I’ve seen on big gaming subs is that enough users simply don’t care. Take a look at /r/rocketleague for example. Mods made a post saying they can’t permanently black out the sub due to it being owned by psyonix and the top comment on that thread has hundreds of up votes and comments saying they don’t care about the API changes. It’s really that mentality of “I don’t care unless I’m personally affected” is why we’re in this mess to begin with!

Sounds like you should stay there. You know, to trigger them.