Right, I see. Thank you for the insight!

I saw that you’re actually investing more into your nuclear capabilities tho, like that submarine that was launched earlier this year. Besides that, there’s a lot of stuff that changed in warfare since everyone was spending 2%. And now others have increased their spending as well. It does suck, indeed, but it is what it is.

Good luck lowering the GDP spending for defence while leaving NATO at the same time. I understand France is a nuclear power, but it’s less strong than US, Russia or China. Also, how are they gonna maintain all the nuclear arsenal?

Scuze, nu am primit notificare că ai scris. Dacă nu ai prieteni e mai complicat. Într-adevăr, și pe mine m-a ajutat faptul că am avut prieteni care mi-au fost aproape când mi-a fost mai greu. Îți recomand să te apuci de tot felul de cursuri, dacă poți, și așa o să găsești oameni care nu te urăsc așa cum fac oamenii existenți. În fond, nici cei pe care îi cunoști tu nu cred că te urăsc, însă nu știu cum să te ajute să te descurci cum trebuie. E greu, într-adevăr, însă la un moment dat o să găsești oamenii potriviți pentru tine. E important să comunici cu cei din jur, să te deschizi atunci când te simți în siguranță și să vezi ce ți-ar fi ție nevoie cel mai mult.

De partea cu relația ce-i drept, nici eu nu m-am prins cum merge 😁 apucă-te de ceva hobby și ține-te de el. Personal eu în asta îmi găsesc satisfacția la momentul actual. Poți încerca și să te apuci de cursuri de teatru ca să încerci să îți mai șlefuiești un pic skill-urile sociale. Eu până în liceu când m-am apucat am fost super introvertit. Nu am continuat la UNATC sau altundeva profesional, dar m-a ajutat să înțeleg un pic mai bine lumea și să și ies din cutia mea, m-a ajutat și că am făcut ceva exerciții de dicție etc.

Sau poate ai putea să te apuci de vreun sport, ceva de echipă, din nou, poate poți găsi oameni noi și așa.

Poate mai ai contactele vechi din liceu, din facultate - dacă da, nu strică să mai dai din când în când câte un mesaj pe WhatsApp ceva (știu că e WhatsApp și Meta, dar folosim ce are lumea, csf), să-i mai întrebi ce mai fac, dacă sunt bine, sănătoși, fără să aștepți ceva de la oamenii ăia. Probabil ai mai avut pe cineva cu care te-ai înțeles bine pe acolo.

Și nu, nu ești singurul de pe lumea asta care se simte așa izolat. Ai fi surprins să vezi cât de multă lume caută pe cineva (nou sau oricine) cu care să mai și vorbească. E unul din perk-urile mai nasoale ale lumii moderne din păcate - am ajuns să fim însingurați rău de tot. Caută filme, cărți, jocuri, orice care să îți poată lua din timp atunci când te simți cel mai singur. Sunt o grămadă de chestii. Și poți așa și să ai subiecte de discuție când găsești pe cineva cu care să vorbești.

Tl;dr: nu te urăște nimeni, ești doar neînțeles de toți cei pe care îi știi. Apucă-te de niște hobby-uri, ia legătura cu oameni pe care chiar îi cunoști personal (sau i-ai cunoscut până acum) și întreabă-i ce mai fac. Încearcă să lucrezi la tine, fă ce îți place și nu te mai gândi la chestii negative. Știi vorba aia - că Roma nu s-a construit într-o zi.

Also, dacă mai ești pe aici și îmi vezi comentariul ăsta, să dai direct reply aici. Eventual pe web. Nu știu ce s-a întâmplat dar nu am văzut nici tag-ul și dacă nu mă întorceam random la postarea asta s-ar fi pierdut în analele internetului. Dacă vrei poți să îmi dai și mesaj privat să mă întrebi și pe mine de una sau alta, dar eventual de pe Mastodon sau Friendica, că cică între Lemmy și Friendica (unde sunt eu) nu merg DM-urile. Sau dacă ai XMPP poți să-mi dai mesaj la aceeași adresă ca aici.

If the email service is free, it is likely that you are the product

That’s true about many things, but the reality is that you can only pay for so much online stuff. And the product not being free is not a guarantee that it doesn’t do some shenanigans as well (take Netflix for example, which has ad-supported paid tiers).

I’m not saying that the three ones do it, but still.

Disroot

They’re currently recovering from a server outage, but as I said, it is not a problem for me to have a single personal email (I don’t really need more per provider anyway), as I plan to use an email aliasing service in the future.

I’ll be moving to the UK soon for study (where they do operate!)

Cool!

Damn. Any alternatives to Briar you would recommend? It seems very good as an idea (sending messages through Bluetooth and WiFi and only using Tor when sending messages via the internet)

Yay, another person using the Fediverse! That is always nice, it’s so amazing that people from different services hosted in so many places can communicate almost seamlessly!

Indeed. I started using it since 2022 or something? I remember not so long after me joining this place, Musk bought Twitter and the first migration wave happened. It’s a cool place and Friendica is a totally underrated platform. You can do so much with it.

As for communication stuff, Signal is quite good. Don’t let perfection become the enemy of good, it’s a hell of a lot better than WhatsApp and has the security audits to show for it.

Yeah, I don’t. But there’s always hope I guess. I am using whatever I have available for now 😁

Yay for the Firefox-based browsers! LibreWolf is awesome, though I personally am currently using Floorp.

Yeah. Too bad Firefox is so reliant on Google, still, but it is still good to have more privacy-focused alternative. Right now, whenever there’s a website that doesn’t work properly on LibreWolf, my flow is: also check in Firefox => also check in Chrome.

I’ll be checking Floorp as well.

Huh, I never knew that DeepL and SoundCloud were German! The more you know. I do prefer doing both translation (“Offline Translator” on F-Droid and the built-in translation feature on Firefox based browsers is very good!) and music (headphone jack forever!) locally though.

Yep, they’re German. I’d love for the Jolla phone to come with a headphone jack as well, but it doesn’t have, so I’ve switched for the first time in my life to Bluetooth headset (yes, I know USB-C wired headphones exist, but you still cannot use them while your phone is charging, so a 3.5mm jack would have made sense). My ideal would be to keep everything local (yes, that is possible with Syncthing), but I’m glad there are some usable and great online services.

I’ll check your recommendations too regarding email. Afaik mailbox.org was offering too little storage on their free plan.

The KeePass ecosystem is truly awesome, as is AntennaPod!

Yeah. Wish AntennaPod was available natively for Sailfish

Have not heard of Bolt, will look into it, looks very cool (and Estonian 🇪🇪!)

Not sure how good it is or if it is that present in Australia too, but in my city Uber and Bolt are the two biggest ride-sharing companies operating, so it was an easy pick. My main grievance with Bolt is that they have no web interface. But there’s that.

Linux is the GOAT, and wish you all the best on mobile Linux! It’s so cool that Linux phones actually becoming a feasible alternative for many people (desktop Linux has been amazing for ages, especially with Proton making gaming awesome too).

Thank you! And yeah, they quite nailed it with the Jolla Phone. There is much improvement to be done software-side in order for Sailfish to be fully usable as a daily driver, and I am still quite dependent on Android apps. But I’m glad that this option exists on this phone at all, as it’s making the phone really usable (not for everyone, but for a larger part of the population I find this phone actually usable - if they had it).

And yay for supporting local businesses!

Thank you!

This looks exactly as I created it (and yes, I am on Friendica rn). And I have checked it on the web on the Lemmy side, there are no formatting problems whatsoever, so what the hell?!?

I’ve used bullet points for every entry there.

Maybe there’s an issue with your specific app? I don’t know

edit: I also checked it from your side, on your server. It even seems better formatted than here, with proper spacing between the list elements, even. I really don’t know why you’re seeing it like you say.

True. I wish more people would jump to decentralized services

You’re right, but who created Linux in the 1st place 😛

I’m rather more into using the Fediverse to meet new people. Chat apps feel more personal imo. So while I do agree that there is activity on the groups, I haven’t managed to bring people over, at least not permanently.

Also, the percentage doesn’t tell anything about the activity on a certain platform or on a certain app. It’s more about how much time I personally spend using that specific alternative compared to how I was spending on the previous one. For example, check out how many people there are on moviebuff.social.

I personally hope Quicksy will get more regular people over.

You’re right, my bad. It is the more private and open source alternative though.

Fantastic shot! 🙂

Why would you commit to such a downgrade, ewwww!

Mikhail Klimarev, executive director of the Internet Protection Society, told Ekho Moskvy that the Federal Tax Service operates two duplicate data centers: one in Dubna, in the Moscow region, and another in the Nizhny Novgorod region.

Sadly, their data is okay.

And trust me, losing land registry info is really a pain too. That means that there’s no way you can prove that the house you live in is yours or that you own a certain property. This summer it happened to us as well - and during peace time.

Also, Jabra which is from Denmark if I’m not mistaken (for headsets and microphones). And we have Meze as well from Romania

@Sunshine There’s also Logitech for mice, keyboard and headphones

@scallisto@retrofed.com wrote:

From my understanding, there is not much freedom of speech + lots of censorship in Vietnam, at least compared to the EU and that sort, but not as bad as the PRC.

Yeah, as I expected 😁 I hope the situation improves in this regard. I heard about the governance and the economy, and I’m glad about it.

I hate that Vietnam is a dictatorship (not sure how repressive it is), but after all, getting an ally in the South-East Asia, especially one like Vietnam who borders China, may be a good thing.

@Sunshine online shopping maybe? Not sure if the European platforms sell to Canada too though.