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Wishful thinking, and a little out of touch. Outside of North America and western Europe, email never became a "forever" technology, because most people got online after its heyday. Here in Europe, social email (along with social SMS) is now almost fully a thing of the past. And even for work and admin, the email address has now been dethroned as primary ID by the phone number. It's not clear where this ends but the direction of travel is unmistakable.
A FOSS alternative is WhoBird, available on F-Droid and pretty good.
This is a silly debate you're both having. Money is not real, and a price is whatever a buyer is willing to pay. Emotions are best spent elsewhere.
>the motivation for people to believe certain things
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motivated_reasoning
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confirmation_bias (a cousin)
Nothing to disagree with particularly in what you say. I tend to frame this as divergent values.
Example. 100 illegal immigrants crash a border fence. Someone whose values makes them unbothered by immigration will think: Big deal, it's only 100 people, anyone who worries about that must be racist. The other person will get worked up because even 1 illegal immigrant is an affront to the sanctity of nations and borders. Both sides agree it was 100 people, yet somehow neither can imagine that the other side is sincere in their convictions. This seems quite common.
>There's a term for the phenomenon that I don't recall but there's a trap people fall into where they see themselves as the only one who can see through the lies and everyone else is falling for it.
Possibly "naive realism", which I agree is a major problem, but I don't think I'm guilty of it here. The only premise of my argument, namely that democracy requires a shared understanding of facts, is widely accepted.
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naïve_realism_(psychology)
Seems more likely the Lego would get crushed and the tortoise would be none the wiser.
These are thoughts that occur to me too when a safetyist progressive (for want of a better term other than "woke") suggests shutting down information to prevent people seeing the wrong ideas.
But you must see that it is a genuine conundrum. In a free-for-all information landscape (something which did not exist until yesterday), people need to be able to distinguish good information from bad for democracy to survive.
If those countries are in the EU, you have the right to use a bank based in another EU country. The traditional incumbents will likely demand an in-country residential address (in direct contradiction of EU law). Which leaves the internet-only neobanks. I believe the only FOSS-compatible option is Wise, which has a modern web offering and does not even require that you install a native app. I understand N26 does, but it may work with Graphene. By contrast Revolut is a privacy-invading walled garden and should be avoided at all costs.
"Universal" is a massive stretch. What seems more certain is that the many countries where your take is widely shared are less successful than the few countries where it is not.
Dynadot. Over a decade without issues.
Indeed. Personally I would never pay for any service whose name includes the word "cheap" (it's literally why I gave this one a wide berth despite all the breathless recommendations here and elsewhere). Cheapness should never be the declared mission of a business, it should be the incidental by-product.
>Generation [...] Their
Hope for grammar is fast fading, anyway.
Indeed. That video made a impact on me too. Obviously people are trying to "debunk" it, but we can clearly see the challenge the chimp was set and how it aces it. Even gaming out scenarios of intense preparation (i.e. cheating) it's hard to imagine most humans matching the performance shown.
>You can be a strict prescriptionist about it
*prescriptivist
Oh. Misunderstanding. I thought I was replying to a comment about IRC.
>I bet soon
With this attitude it's almost inevitable. Politics can stop the corporate-OS attestation apocalypse. If it happens, it's on us.
>information-dense
In other words, designed by IT guys. And a reason (among many others) normies would never get on board. Not saying I disagree personally.
At that's the point. People are not choosing to use anything, they're using what they have to in order to communicate with people.
Presumably the risk is mitigated somewhat with the Flatpak version (`org.telegram.desktop`)?
>the company starts falling apart.
This site will start falling apart if we don't keep things civil.
>desktop/laptop with a mouse is the only way to interact with this site
Lamentable if true. Speaking personally, I haven't touched a mouse in well over a decade.
You're both wrong. It only becomes a meteorite once embedded in the rock. Until then it's a meteor.
Obviously you're wading into hot water by even outlining this analysis. Personally I'm tempted to buy it (if it's true, it's true!) but recently I saw an interesting argument that softened me up a bit to the feminist line. It's that the traditional deal between the sexes has been broken. Before, women would suffer the hardship and danger of childbirth, and in return men would take on the physical perils of war. In modern society, of course, conflict mostly means playing video games in an armchair. And yet bearing children remains a stubbornly physical chore. Hence a latent feeling of injustice that may balance out the real one you describe.
>Meetup got enshittified years ago already
Citation needed. Not my experience at all. And it has the major benefit of being independent of the tech giants, who already know too much about your social graph.
My (controversial) view is that a psychologist is to a friend what a prostitute is to a lover. In a truly healthy society there would be no need for psychologists and prostitutes because everyone would have a handful of good friends and at least one lover. Back in messy reality, psychologists and prostitutes are a decent fix to keep society on the rails.
So. I think I agree with you.
This whole debate is such a chestnut. Of course, you will do as you please, it's your right. But these choices do reveal values and priorities. Speaking personally (and, I suppose you will say, sanctimoniously), I choose to use Firefox despite its flaws because I don't want the internet to be privatized. I know what I'm missing out on. It's less important.
More likely you're living in a bubble unrepresentative of the rest of the world. I just did some research, inconclusive because nobody is tracking this data. Personal-computer ownership in rich countries (i.e. "OECD") is indeed high. But only 12% of the world's population lives in Europe and North America combined. The figure is much
much lower elsewhere in the world, where everyone lives. For example, 16 computers per 100 people in Brazil in the 2010s. [1] Most people in the world have never touched a laptop or desktop. Now that computing has gone mobile-first, the figure is only going to keep dropping.
[1] https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/computers...
Surely useful if only to see the list of apps you can trust.
It was true then and it is true now. Outside businesspeople and students and the middle class of OECD countries (all amounting to a low single-digit percentage of the world population), ordinary people never bought desktop or laptop computers. By contrast, everyone has a mobile one in their pocket today.