thawed_caveman

I do have a backup laptop, which does come in handy for the rare case of, for example, making a new install.

But yeah, i feel like a laptop is an awkward middle ground between a phone and a desktop. It's not as powerful and has a small screen, but it's also not as portable as my phone.

Granted if i travelled more i would need a laptop, and then i would have a dock of some kind at home to extend its capabilities (USB hub, second monitor, etc)

This makes complete sense as getting you to pay more for less is what private businesses are all about.

See the thing is i'm not worldly enough to know what common animals in my country are uncommon in other countries. I mean there's some mallards here and there, the ones with the green head just like the meme, are those exotic and surprising? Oh, my old hometown has swans. They're surprisingly aggressive.

What i will say though is that i definitely feel that way about architecture. I quite like the winding medieval back alley leading to a church built in 980 (as in the year), it's cool; but Americans will have a spiritual experience over it because no building in the US is that old.

i don't give a fuck what anal feels like i want this image of goth nick wilde

what? i was quoting rihanna

WORK, WORK, WORK

Yeah, my answer to "has the Reddit exodus killed the former Lemmy culture" is "what culture lmao"

Not that i was on Lemmy before, but i was on Mastodon before Elon bought Twitter and it was a ghost town.

This is why you keep spare pads or tampons or we.

The one day you don't have them, that's when the worse will happen

Oh yeah, power in a corporation goes top down, and it figures that top management likes it that way.

There's definitely safety to be found in the familiar, i do it a lot, whenever i have to do something unfamiliar i will often let myself get overwhelmed trying to consider all the tiny implications. Eventually though the experience from early adopters will enlighten other companies. It's a lot easier to take a decision like this when other people have done it and you have data to see what the results were. In the case of work from home, this process is already well underway, it's been three years since covid and there's already a lot of data that you can point to.

Ah, i see, so it's conspiracy theories.

You know, the tech just being fundamentally flawed is a lot simpler an explanation than this, and it has the distinct advantage of actually having any evidence to back it up.

Quoting from the article:

the majority voted to do away with crypto contributions 234 to 94. Some of the main arguments concerned the environmental implications of Bitcoin, the risk of scams, as well as the fact that the WMF gets such a low amount of donations in cryptocurrency compared to other forms of payment

The environmental part is arguably mitigated by other cryptos than Bitcoin, but the others are true for pretty much all of crypto. The low volume of donations in particular is notable to me: people buy cryptocurrencies to hold as a speculative asset, and not to use as a currency.

I do see the mention that Mozilla stopped accepting crypto after backlash, but i don't think you're going to be able to pain that backlash as reactionary. And they would have run into the same issues as Wikipedia did regardless of backlash of any kind.

I wanna dig into this point: i find it really weird how you tie rejection of crypto into politics at all, let alone reactionary politics. I always saw it as just the fact that the product doesn't fit most people's needs as a currency.