Just be aware their newer phones are hot shit. It’s the older phones that got the reputation for durability.

Most people, however, are not that careful about partitioning their accounts (myself included, frankly).

Lol.

I’m pretty damn terrible at this, so I can’t give you any real advice, but Imma try dammit:

I’ve had a pretty rough life myself thus far, I’ve had serious struggles with suicide, depression, addiction, being abandoned by my family, being homeless, and so on, and one thing I can tell you is this: the absolute simultaneous curse as well as blessing that is & always has been absolutely central to human motherfucking existence is the phenomenon of hope. It always exists, even when you think it doesn’t. Even when you don’t want it to. Hell, especially when you don’t want it to.

Keep going.

That’s all I can say on that. I have no fucking clue what advice to give nor frankly do I have any right to. I’m not in your shoes. But you are a human, which sounds innocuous and obvious but in my experience that automatically means you’re stronger than you think you are. You’ve survived this long, haven’t you? You may feel like a shell of a human being but you’ve still persisted. I don’t care what anyone tells you, I don’t care what you tell yourself. That’s your proof of your strength right fucking there.

Just keep going.

Feel free to complain the whole fucking time—hell, I do every goddamn day—but keep going. Even if it’s just to spite existence, keep. going.

I don’t know you, I’ve not met you, but just from what you say, I can tell you one thing: I do believe in you. I mean that, dammit.

• ProtonVPN – VPN
• LibreWolf – Browser
  • uBlock Origin
  • Skip Redirect
  • NoScript
  • Decentraleyes
  • CookieAutoDelete
  • DuckDuckGo Privacy Essentials (tbh I’m not sure if this isn’t redundant frankly what with the others I have installed; might get rid of it…)
• KeePassXC – Passwords
• FreeTube – YouTube

I’m the same here as I too use the Fediverse and LibreWolf, but we shouldn’t kid ourselves about the former: by the very nature of how the Fediverse works, it is honestly pretty damn terrible for the purposes of privacy. Unless I’m missing something, which mind you is certainly a possibility.

Exactly. That’s my situation too. I’ve found great furniture at Goodwills and (at the time) had the money to buy it, but I didn’t have the room in my car for it, nor did I know anyone who did.

Young people seem to prefer particle board style furniture.

As a young(-ish) person myself, I can assure you that it’s not that we prefer particle board, but rather that that’s the majority of what’s affordable out there. As I’m sure you’re probably aware, unless you go thrifting like you just said, real wood stuff in general, let alone furniture, is usually very expensive.

Ah, George Carlin. Rip the homey.

very thick-ribbed

For her pleasure. ;)

I feel like that’s kind of a case of circular reasoning though: we move away from it because it’s legacy, and it’s legacy because we’re moving away from it… Mind you, I’m no expert on VPNs; this is just something I thought I’d bring to attention here.

I’m trans. If I went to Florida, I’d die, at worst (just kidding; that’s not the worst that would happen), and be sent to prison at best, where I would then probably be killed one way or the other.

I don’t know if you’re trans (nor is it my business). But if not, then you might have better luck. Maybe.

Hawaii meanwhile is a far more LGBT-friendly locale. So, yeah, Hawaii it is bitches!

WOW. RUDE.

(Them, not you.)

That costs money.

Keep firing, assholes!

Friendly reminder: many people on Lemmy, let alone the Fediverse as a whole, are not American.

With that being said, no, no, I haven’t voted. But I plan to on Election Day! :)

Down with fascism! °o°i

Ah, fair enough. Lol. I was hoping you were making a Fallout: New Vegas reference. Haha.

Ave, true to Caesar.

Yes, it saddens me greatly to see how far Reddit had degraded. It was an amazing place back then. Then, again, I suppose the whole Web has changed. It’s much more compartmentalized now, and even worse, much more corporatized. Walled gardens, echo chambers, the whole nine yards.

Yes, there were echo chambers even back then, but it wasn’t as...well, I guess the word I would choose is “sanitized”. It was free-er, whatever that word have meant. Honestly, I feel sad when I hear people say the Internet is magical. Because yes it can be from time to time, but they don’t know or remember or care that it used to be so much MORE magical.

The Internet used to be Leeroy Jenkins; now’s Leeroy’s gone and it’s just a rich executive in a suit trying to peddle the newest software as a service. :(

This.

It’s something that I had to learn, coming from Reddit, too, and is a difficult paradigm shift to process: the fact that there is no “Lemmy” more than there are, rather, “Lemmys”.

Also, as a (now former) Reddit user for the longest time (>10 years), I daresay that the diversity of opinions is honestly more similar to how Reddit used to be, in terms of there being VASTLY different communities and therefore VASTLY different sets of beliefs from community to community. Reddit may be a lot more homogenized now, but back in, say, 2010? It was way more diverse. Closer to how Lemmy is now.