love tuta so far. i never realized how much email in general has been enshittified and bloated with useless extra unnecessary crap until i started using this product that stripped all that crap away. tuta = everything you need, nothing you don’t

https://www.libreoffice.org/

in case you haven’t caught on: the objective is NOT to save money, be more “efficient,” improve anything…the objective is to reduce the functionality of the government to zero

nicotine by itself isn’t the killer. it’s the method of delivery that makes you sick. yea nicotine is horribly addictive, but caffeine is too. though not nearly as much.

i went from smoking to vaping to nicotine pouches–basically nicotine and plant cellulose, and it’s hard to even put into words how much every aspect of my life has improved

same. been using MS shit since DOS 3.0 command line interface. now in the process of moving to linux. got a tuta mail account with my own custom domains in order to de-google. moving from dropbox to pcloud. switching from US vpn to european vpn

it’ll never be enough, but i will loudly contribute to the message. even if a US company is good (LMAOOOOO), all the data anyone ever had or has pretty much belongs to trump’s NSA/FBI/CIA/etc now. fuck that shit

i noticed a similar benefit to my mental state regarding the rat race. i’d been living in city/urban areas pretty much my whole life ~40 years. when i moved to a rural area and could travel 25 miles in 20 minutes instead of 10 miles in 45 minutes, the difference was indescribable. like 3 traffic lights instead of 12, people know what driving etiquette is, no road rage, etc.

now, even when i occasionally approach the nearest “city,” which is tiny by city standards, i feel the stress and irritability level rising right when i start to see more tail lights than road. it’s insane. and people do this all day every day. fuck. all. that.

yea, “unpopular” because we’re all indoctrinated from preschool onward that it’s “natural” to be yanked out of sleep by an alarm, bust our asses to show up at work, move on to things at the sound of a bell for all the daylight hours, then get minimal, if any, sleep in order to do it all over again tomorrow. god forbid you get an opportunity for a nap in the middle of the day

thank the industrial revolution: slavery dressed up in “freedom and opportunity” – same as the other familiar phrase “arbeit macht frei”

you exist to generate value for your owners. that’s it.

believe it or not, there is such a thing as looking “good enough” in any situation. spending this much time comparing yourself to everyone else-- you’re in for an exhausting life

they’re all con artists. they actually believe about 0% of the bullshit they spew 24/7. it doesn’t matter because their cultist followers believe 100% and provide money and votes, in exchange for being told that jesus loves racism and sexism, and hates brown people and gays

that’s why maga incels, who whine about not being able to get a date, love the trumpistan cult

i use it exclusively to condense 1000 word text blocks down to 100 words, and it’s good enough at that that the time it saves me is worth the (sometimes) slightly lower quality than i could have done myself

hilarious. just the other day i had a whole conversation with it about how to send feedback to openai, and it was giving me bogus wrong instructions the whole time before it finally said something like they keep changing everything, just email them

i say thanks to chatgpt when it does my job for me. but i also don’t hesitate to point out when its answers are hilariously wrong

while you’re at it, switch to a search engine that lets you completely and permanently disable AI bullshit so it never even shows up again

nope. they might be counting dumptruckloads of cash, but $0.00 of it will have come from me

people who don’t really do tech besides the very basics

i’ve been building my own PCs since the 90s and have basic hardware and network certs, and want to try linux, but it seems daunting to me

all they have to do is point at a exploded tesla (which could likely have blown up on its own) and say you did it. now you’re a terrorist. no need for charges. no habeas corpus. no due process. they just didn’t like you

that’s why

whatever level of difficulty you’re defining as “not that difficult” – remove that, and now it’s zero.

that’s why

holy shit i was thinking exactly that…i wonder how many other people are

i can think of much more exciting things to do if i had a death wish tbh