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Absolutely. However, relational or financial status shouldn’t enter into the equation if someone says the attention is unwanted.

I had a friend whose parents would literally cross continents to show up unannounced at their doorstep, demanding to meet with grandchildren and make decisions in my friend’s life. A lot of people would just go “aww it’s because they care” but these are people that physically and mentally abused my friend during their entire childhood. They’re estranged for a reason.

I have a very similar relationship with my mother. She views me less as an individual person and more as property to be controlled and used. When we moved for the first time, I’d managed to upset her one way or another, and her response was to strike me down, straddle me, choke me, and slam me repeatedly in the floor. I was around seven or eight years old at the time. Her showing up and sitting outside of my doorstep for hours on end, demanding that I see her, isn’t a cutesy way of showing her dedication to being in my life, it’s unhinged and completely unacceptable.

Who do? You do, with the power of voodoo.

I always saw orz

Same thing with family members. If you have an estranged parent or so, then harassing and stalking you is somehow always turned into your fault.

“She just cares about you, she’s your mother!”

I hope you’ll be rid your stalker soon. I remember how oppressive it was having one, and I can’t imagine how doubly awful it must be to have one that has financial means to do whatever they want. Absolute nightmare.

Ah, I see. I’ve not tried Snaps, been avoiding Ubuntu because of Canonical’s weirdly corporate angle. Once they baked in Amazon into Ubuntu I was out.

I like the bundling of deps. Sure it’s inefficient, but it runs, and storage comes cheap nowadays anyway.

What do people have against flatpaks? I like them.

Of course it’s not fucking fair use. Libraries also have to pay for the materials they let you borrow. Any corporation that thinks it’s okay to steal and otherwise break the law should just be fucking destroyed. The shit these corporations get away with would put a regular person in jail for several lifetimes, but these clonkers just get a smack on the wrist. Fucking end them!

I’m curious how Kagi would hold up, but the AI BS is entirely opt-in there so maybe they didn’t include it because of that.

Edit: lmao Perplexity is gross. Who would use this instead of an actual search engine?

I’m confused. These are large language models, not search engines?

Same energy so I get the mix up, honestly.

I think it’s more bizarre that you think “same corpo bullshit that Twitter is” is some kind of praise.

I’m wondering this too People are hyped about bluesky but it is the same corpo bullshit that Twitter is. I mean it is literally by the same dude. Why fold?,

“What would happen if Facebook, twitter, and YouTube cooperated with one another?”

That sounds like a fucking dystopian nightmare, is what it does. Though I know this is about the software, and not the companies.

I mean unlike housing, you don’t actually need to pay for a domain name. There are plenty of free alternatives if you ill like paying for a TLD, and in lieu of that you could just memorise the IP, or even instruct people to change their hosts file.

He donated to Trump right from his pockets. He’s a traitor.

Oh my gods, the mess that is Teams. When I first started working at my current company I was kind of excited because all of the software just works together. It felt novel, and I was enchanted by it. That quickly died when I realised that it makes finding anything a nightmare. There’s a billion different tabs and solutions for every single individual thing, and even multiple things within the same project. I think the main project I work on has like fifteen different test documents, and good luck trying to find the documentation for pushing stuff live! The only real way to find things is to ask someone who knows. There’s half a billion different search bars and finding the right one is just way too time consuming.

Yeah, forums please. I hate the idea of troubleshooting information being locked behind some stupid software we can’t easily index and search. Forums can be put on archive.org, you can literally print a page, or save it as a PDF for reviewing later. You can make use of bookmark software like Linkwarden to archive things.

Discord? Not so much. You can use third party software to scrape it and save information, but no search engine can index it. Community building is great, but I loathe having to trawl through tonnes of blithering blathering conversation BS just to figure out where to find firmware for a particular chip I have is.

Makes me want to projectile vomit all over the place, throw my computer out the window, and move to convent.

Depending on what you aim to do, Matrix works well enough. Reminds me a lot of Discord back in 2017 or so.

I was brushing my teeth when reading this comment and inadvertently ended up swallowing all my toothpaste.

I love the idea of a fancy autocomplete trained on Reddit and 4-chan deciding whether or not someone should be murdered or not. Sounds like a fantastic idea.