Hahahaha. He’s saying he doesn’t approve of my tastes in phones.

The whole workflow and philosophy of sourcehut is so different than GitHub though. I think a lot more people would be interested in GitHub, but federated.

There’s also this which some people may care about.

Forgejo is implementing federation

Interesting!

I don need it… I don need it… I definitely don need it…

Uh… I wonder what the reviews will be like… this is definitely up my ally… Dang it, Lemmy.

Hold strong!

You’ll never fail anything if you don’t try! This guys figured it out!

Semi-manual tracking with YNAB. My bank doesn’t offer an OAuth2 API and there’s no way in hell I’m giving Plaid my bank credentials. So, I just download a transactions file and upload that to YNAB.

I know people here will probably recommend https://actualbudget.org/ which seems like a YNAB-clone (in a good way). But the reason I went with YNAB is because they have a ton of docs and videos about how YNAB works and budgeting in general. ActualBudget seems to be targeted at people who already know what they’re doing (not me).

YNAB/Actual might be different than Mint, though. YNAB is based on envelope budgeting, as opposed to just collecting spending metrics. I haven’t used Mint in a very long time, not sure if it’s changed since.

My new years resolution is to spend less money and spend more deliberately.

January is wrapping up and I’m kinda shocked. I discovered that the estimate in my head of how much monthly house bills are is… off… by… a lot… I was just thinking about the monthly bills like water, electricity, internet, but failed to account for gas, groceries, restaurants, and repairs.

Now that I’m actually budgeting and tracking, I’m seeing what’s really going on.

My neighbor told me I was gonna die in 1year after getting the first round of COVID vaccines. Pff. I wish! Still here unfortunately.

macOS Lexus 🔜

Can we make Matrix not suck first?

Technologically, very cool, much wow. But UI/UX wise, it’s pretty terrible. I managed to convince 5 friends to move to Matrix from Discord. They lasted like 3 days before going back to Discord. One guy couldn’t even figure out how to post a message and have it be decrypted by everyone in the group. We just kept seeing “Message could not be decrypted” or whatever over and over again. We had to fall back to Discord to reach him.

They probably won’t be taking recommendations from me anymore. :|

(We used Element X clients.)

Yeah, I wouldn’t mind a newsletter once a month with about 5 bullet points summarizing the most important events.

means you are now uninformed and unable to stop it from sucking

This seems better than being informed and unable to stop it from sucking, which was what I was doing previously.

closing down your visibility to, for example, news and politics that are negative puts you in a bad place to vote

I mean, I kiiinda agree, but not totally. I definitely do vote. I usually block out a few days to research candidates and propositions before filling out my ballot. So I am making an informed vote.

However, I don’t see how getting a play-by-play of the world falling apart is helpful. I get the summary when it’s time to vote, then I put it away. I can’t stop Trump from doing stupid shit. I can’t stop the war in Ukraine. I can’t stop Elon from befriending Nazis.

put on your big girl panties and let’s get past the worldwide push for authoritarian take overs

How?? All I can do is vote in my own country. And I did that. I’ve tried talking to friends and family, but I have yet to convince a Trumper of anything. They don’t care about reality. It doesn’t matter if I have all my facts straight. They don’t want to listen.

I can donate to Ukraine for the war, donate to orgs suing the government, or go to a protest, but all of that seems orthogonal to watching daily/weekly news.

It seems like being “informed” is just a way to “feel” like you’re doing something? Am I missing something here? I don’t get it.

Good questions!

But problem is, all my email address would be @mydomainname.com instead of @protonmail which millions of people use. Isn’t that just linking all your account together.

I mean, yeah. You can’t setup sockpuppets on the same service. It’ll be obvious it’s the same person. And if someone is tracking you across services, it’ll be way easier to find you. This is a con.

I would recommend not picking a domain with your real name, like smith.com or john.com. Even though it does seem popular to have me@johnsmith.com. It won’t solve the issue you noticed, but it’ll mitigate it a tiny bit.

its hard to even pick a name that sound good

Also, true. Ideally, you pick a common word with normal spelling that doesn’t have a homophone that’s not embarrassing to say to random people on the street. It would be awkward to be applying to a job or a loan and have to say your email is “john@piggy.park”. Also, you will have to speak your email over the phone at some point, the shorter and easier it is the better.

I would also recommend picking a domain with either .com or .net TLDs. Some companies blanket destroy your email if it comes from some weird TLD like “.party” or “.xyz”. Omg, specifically, .xyz I think has been linked to tons of spam. Bigger companies will handle this more gracefully (put it in spam). But smaller companies, like my local garbage company run by normies, will just not deliver the email. (And debugging why emails don’t get received is really hard and annoying.)

Unfortunately, a lot of people squat domains, so finding a short, simple, easy domain is really hard. I’m curious what other people do. Maybe other people just have me@reallylongdomainthaticanactuallyget.com? Or maybe other people have had better experience with john@mail.club? Or maybe some people don’t care that their domain is john@boss.baby?

Ultimately though, having email independence is valuable enough for some folks to be OK with the downsides.

Fresh install.

My experience with my friends and family:

I left Facebook a long time ago and never looked back.

I just got a pop-up about this today… It would have been nice to get this at the beginning of the month…

I’ve been blocking as many news/political communities as possible. Also, this helped: https://lemmy.today/post/22524765

This was my failure.

Did you notice if it seemed to improve a bit with time?

Mmm… no. I just more violently drag across the trackpad until it works and then resume what I was doing. 😅