My office’s IT helpdesk guy had a similar comic in his office. 3 panels of a guy at his work computer miserable, and the last panel he’s at home on his own computer happy as a clam. So true

My iphone is almost 7 years old and still runs great. No problems with the battery, speed is just fine, everything is fine. I paid about $1,000 for it and I’m determined to squeeze every last penny of life out of it. No plans to change until it breaks or becomes unusable somehow.

I vividly remember my parents cheering and crying with joy when the Berlin Wall fell in 1989. We have extended family and friends in Germany so we were all ecstatic. I’ve given it some thought and I’m pretty sure that is my oldest memory. Pretty neat as far as those things go i guess.

Not just voting but having that blot on the record FOREVER puts a scarlet letter on their forehead. Good luck getting a good job and having a future when you’ve been in prison a few years for a nonviolent drug crime that should’ve been solved with a few weeks/months of inpatient rehab. Our entire criminal justice system in the US just breeds more crime and generational cyclical poverty. Hooray.

So it is accounting software, got it.

What is plain text accounting and how does it differ from real accounting? My initial response is shock and horror because I’m picturing lots of financials in .txt and pdf files instead of excel like god intended…

I respect other people’s hobbies and try not to take anything away from them. But I completely agree with you, it’s like, hey look at that really heavy rock, I think I’m gonna lift it up and put it down 100 times, yeah that sounds really fun wooooh! I just don’t get it.

I find gyms insufferably boring.

I play an intense competitive sport which burns easily 5000 calories a week, keep a reasonable diet, and do stretches/cooldowns according to my Dr and physio. Then at home I do a pretty basic routine of squats, push-ups, sit-ups, and stretch band exercises. I don’t smoke and barely drink anymore either.

I’m 38 and that keeps me in great physical condition, healthy weight, nice muscle tone; plus I’m energetic, and mostly injury free. I’ve also noticed I’m aging significantly better than my stagnant friends and colleagues.

Find a sport you enjoy and go all in on that.

I used to have strong opinions about operating systems. Installed various Linux builds and boot loaders to run different OS’s. Etc

Now I use windows. I can’t even tell you what version without looking. 10 I guess? Windows finally “just works” and I haven’t had a BSOD in forever so I really don’t care.

It’s an iphone 8, almost six years old now, running iOS 16.4.1. I emailed the dev team at signal and corresponded a bit; basically they said they looked at it but can’t spare the resources to do any real troubleshooting. Apparently it’s a really small company which is fair enough. A new phone would probably fix the issue but I dropped a thousand bucks on this phone and I plan on using it until it dies or until I lose it, whichever comes first so…

I am a fan of Signal but mine has been broken for like six months now. Anyone else getting this bug? I try to open it and get an error ‘Couldn’t open Signal, send a bug report to troubleshoot’ etc. I sent the bug report to the developer team at the address provided but they couldn’t really figure it out. I’ve tried deleting the app and reinstalling and all that to no avail.

It’ll come and go like all the rest. AOL, AIM, IRC, message boards, myspace, livejournal, digg, fark, slashdot, reddit, lemmy…???

What is it taking you to that baseball thread specifically or to a different thread? Was it always the same?

For me it is frequent and random, but it always takes me to that one thread about the Padres.

I really don’t care about baseball or who’s having a good season. I want to actually go to the link I click not the same baseball thread over and over. I understand there’s going to be bugs but the specific question was why some people don’t want to leave Reddit. Bugs aren’t a good look and scare people off.

I’m still kind of weirded out by some of the bugs and differences. For example, quite frequently, I’ll click a lemmy link, and for whatever reason it keeps taking me to some weird baseball game thread about the Padres or something. I don’t know why, like wtf, so random.

I was a redditor for 15 fucking years before they suspended all of my accounts after a mod permabanned me from /politics and I accidentally posted from another account weeks later.

I posted A LOT over those years, from a ton of various accounts. (One of my biggest fears was getting doxxed so I had a bunch of burners and accounts for specific niche interests and such.)

Just requested full data history for all ~10 of my accounts. Fuck reddit.

Only if you know no government has ever lasted forever, and think humans are capable of great evil. Even if not…it’s just best practices…think about targeted attacks, corporate espionage, vengeance, things like that.

Yeah it’s weird, 10+ years ago or so I feel like I had SO MUCH DATA and it was always an issue. Now I really don’t have anything. A few gigs of photos I guess, some various files, but that’s it. I guess I used to have a lot more media like movies and porn, which I don’t really need anymore.

If you ever get raided by the Feds they’ll probably raid your friends and family’s houses too so it is generally advisable to avoid using friends and family for offsite storage.