When Windows started getting pre installed bloatware is around the time I made my full switch to Linux. When Samsung phones started doing the same, I switched away from them too. Srsly, I will become a luddite before I use any devices that force apps I don’t want on me. It’s abusive and shouldn’t be legal.

Therein lies the problem. A lot of people already get decision fatigue trying to choose a server and don’t get past the sign up. Assuming that they are still willing to try and use a third party app, you get to layer finding a good app that works reliably on top of that and learning how to use the app which will be significantly different from the website. There comes a point where it’s not tech illiteracy but a lack of time and interest spending hours how to use a service that is much harder to get into than its competitors.

I know it’s hard for tech literate people to understand but choosing a server is daunting. Most people chose their email because it was linked to a service they were already familiar with like Google and Microsoft. There’s no familiarity with the Lemmy or mastodon instances and there are so many of them that people who already have trouble learning new technologies get to deal with decision fatigue on top of that. People like what is familiar and having a service that mostly works the same is still very confusing for them.

As the youngest child in my family, I was most definitely not “The favorite” but I was able to get away with the most.

I don’t know where this quote originated. I first heard it from my future SO and it goes something like this

“It is human nature to assume that once we have found the answer, we will find peace. Instead, one must find peace first, then the answer will come.”

I think another lie is money = success. Money really just means security.

It would be more accurate if they showed a picture of Russell M Nelson. I grew up Mormon and if you didn’t pay your 10%, it didn’t matter how little you made. You could be barred from taking the sacrament, participating in blessings, and prevented from going to the temple.

Why does this comic hurt?

There are some crazies out there. Cough Yedolf cough

If he is in the US, I suspect he also didn’t want to pay out the nose for an ambulance.