Goddamn.

I thought about replying to the wall of text that was entirely lies but just got tired at mere thought.

Well done.

I’m a system admin who self hosts a bunch of shit off of a 48 Ru rack in his washroom.

The internet used to be run off of the collective will of a bunch of people like me. I was there, back when it was FIDOnet and pirate bbs’s.

P.S. while I disagree with your viewpoint, this was a hilarious read, and I didn’t down vote you.

Spoken like someone that is too young to remember what the internet was like before everything got sucked up into google.

The clients are a bit under developed by progressing quickly, and are all open source.

Gajim can, but you have to create it yourself.

Nah, xmpp is better.

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I’m a sys admin/devops engineer, and yes, storage is far more expensive then people realize.

This is the very definition of enshittification.

To those downvoting:

Do you actually know what the definition of enshittification is? Apparently not.

Enshittification (alternately, crapification and platform decay) is a pattern in which online products and services decline in quality. Initially, vendors create high-quality offerings to attract users, then they degrade those offerings to better serve business customers, and finally degrade their services to users and business customers to maximize profits for shareholders.

It doesn’t matter that the cost of storage is a real thing. They gave things of value away for free to grow their user base and to try and capture network effects. Now that they think they have that they are taking away ( or decreasing ) the free stuff of value they gave away.

The fact that storage has value is literally an important part of enshitification.

It wouldn’t be enshitification if they gave away free stuff that wasn’t valuable.

There was a recent blind taste test for chicken nuggets (not chicken strips/tenders) and all the plant based nuggets, even the cheap ones, beat out the actual chicken ones.

Now, chicken strips, I agree with you, sadly.

I’ve been self-hosting a bunch of stuff for over a decade now, and have not had that issue.

Except for a matrix server with open registration for a community that others not in the community started to use.

That needs to be the British empire.

Is there a source for a genocide in China that doesn’t trace back to the apocalyptic christian Adrian Zen?

Legal definitions in the end are trying to turn a hammer into a scalpel.

They don’t fucking matter for moral judgments.

Israel is committing a genocide to anyone with even a highschool level knowledge of history. Want a simple definition that is very effective?

Any government that intentionally withholds food, medicine, and potable water from a population it considers undesirable is intentionally committing genocide.

Starvation is historically the most effective method and most used method of committing genocide. Everyone knows what the outcome is. Anyone trying to use legal definitions at this point is an asshole genocide denier trying to pretend they’re not.

Like you.

What about balatro, stardew valley, half-life?

This can do a lot more than phones. Take a look at port master.games

The reason I recommend the m is the longevity. The quality is unreal. The case is metal, the joysticks are magnetic so no grapheme drift.

If it is going to live in a front pocket, it should be durable.

Get yourself an Ambernic RG353M, install ArkOS on it, use Postmaster to install Space Cadet pinball.

Congratulations, now you can play this whenever you want on a device that fits in your front pocket.

Checkout http://portmaster.games for a list of computer games you can have in your front pocket.

A meme that could only be made by someone not living in Argentina.

Any government that blocks access to food, medicine, and potable water to a population it considers undesirable is a government committing genocide.

Tell me, genocide defender, do the Palestinians deserve genocide?

Are all Palestinians Hamas?

Did Israel back apartheid South Africa when everyone else was sanctioning them?

Did Israel provide weapons to Azerbaijan for their recent ethnic cleansing?

Did Israel help launder $150 million for the Sinaloa cartel?

HP printers are literally why we have Linux.

Well, GNU, at least.

Linux in the same way as we wouldn’t have had Obama without 7 of 9’s husband trying to take her to a swingers club.

This is explicitly not horse shoe theory.