Yep, strongly shares that sentiment too for those who refuse to put shopping cart back.

I want you to at least consider stepping away from the news if you can. Focus on what make you happy, what make you enjoy life. Do you have a hobby? Is it something we can play with sometime?

“You will find that if you look for the light, you can often find it. But if you look for the dark, that will be all you will ever see.” - Uncle Iroh in Legend of Korra

I am not going to deny that those topics you brought up are serious topics indeed, but it requires balanced mind to be able to confront such challenges and to ward off those who prey upon your vulnerability, so don’t neglect yourself.

Definitely, one of the thing I noticed is that I brought up a rather contentious topic in open source related to the licensing and people engage in it very thoughtfully and diplomatically. If you tried the same thing on Reddit, it often become a toxic squabbles almost every time.

I salute you!

deleted by creator

Making college education free is what I was thinking. We already funded public education, what one more for college/universities? Our country is mostly operated on high skill workforce, so why not make it a policy in this country?

And that I agree.

In that case, you would likely need a bachelor degree anyway, and I would suggest getting a degree in “backup” career that have a solid forecast for wages and employ-ability, the programming industry are getting flooded now that everyone is trying to get good money in IT.

Yeah, you could get that in USA as well, it was more a convenience to have driver license in the USA.

Notice how 90% of that are rich people causing or amplifying those situations to happen?

COVID - Trump sabotage any effort made to prevent the spread and we lost 1 million people due to that.

Climate Crisis - Oil Giants/Automobile industry sabotage the public transportation which would have a long term ramification to reduce oil consumption overall.

Nazis/Fascism - Rich People fund/outright purchase mass media to create chaos in public perspectives and polarize the political parties. Koch Brothers are funding far right politic and pushing hard for nazism. And of course, don’t forget about Sinclair broadcast.

Ukraine - Putin and the Oligarch

I could go on. Almost all of the problems begin and end with the rich people. #EatTheRich

I do not advise going to college for programming degree, it could easily be the worst financial decision especially now that the jobs and pays are not guaranteed anymore, programming positions are getting flooded and wage are tanking. More often than not, college does not teach you standard practices in the industry, the tech stacks that we use, and so forth.

My advice instead is to instead get some certifications for programming or system administration and save up for like a $7000 classroom course for some of those certifications, it’s expensive, but helluva a lot cheaper than college at least. Once you have the certification and some basic understanding, do some projects like:

If you’re system admin, try and set up a whole new office network by configuring the routers, firewall, group policies, ADAP, RADIUS, and so go on and so forth.

if you’re programmer, try and develop some common web applications since that is easily 90% of the job in programming nowaday, it almost always going to be web application everywhere you go.

What comes after the blackout is the exodus. So in time, Reddit will decline and people would hear more about Lemmy as the network effect grows, Lemmy can come out pretty strong.

The driver license isn’t always necessarily for driving, but it can also be used for identification and verification. I would still get a driver license for that reason though you could probably do fine with a passport.

Only lurk there for Goonswarm thing back in the day when I was playing on Eve Online.

Honestly, I want Reddit to fail altogether and have people flood into Lemmy by hosting their own instances. It’s like ripping off the band-aid, it’s just better to get on with it.

Meshnet is definitely one of the hidden corner of the internet, because it’s essentially an invite-only network. One of the network I was from was solely for archiving documentations and sharing projects, it had it’s own search engine, email system, reddit clone, and more.

Just a symptom of your curious and adventurous spirit, my friend.

If we have used it everywhere on the Internet, advertisers would get booted off of it so fast. Meshnet is basically friend to friend network, so it is self regulating in a sense that if someone abuses the network, they can get depeered.

And that would definitely be a warm welcome.

It was on a CJDNS meshnet program where it connects to note/router via UDP on public internet but when you are connected, you can connect to computers via IPv6 addresses that basically tunnel your connection through end to end encrypted meshnet protocol.

Originally, we had Hyperboria network (it also have a reddit clone that is used to be called Uppit.us) and eventually there were a splinter group that set out to create an archivist meshnet where we can share and distribute academic papers and documentations. It basically stagnant as alternatives crop up for archiving documents and people peruse that network less and less.