That’s actually a good idea. Well I think tankies are beyond reparation, they’ll confidently think that my grandma is being paid by the CIA or something similar… But just for having recorded her experience of how it was living under the USSR dictatorship could be worth.
Peaceful liberation, you have to be kidding.
I’d love you to talk with my still alive 90 years old Polish grandma who happened to directly experience all the bullshit when Stalin and Hitler were best friends forever and later the 50 years of post war “liberation” of Poland by the Soviets. I can ask her questions on your behalf if you want. Direct experience no propaganda books.
It’s crazy how their propaganda extended so much brain rot.
Their marketing strategy isn’t just blaming the consumer, it is to sell that their product is “sustainable and green”, and people instead of not buying, they buy their “sustainable and green” product that shouldn’t even exist in the first place. So no, they are not wasting money on marketing, they just changed the strategy.
Coming back to people, have you tried convince someone to change their preferred message app even knowing that belongs to an evil company and making the change being a literal 5 minute task?
In my experience people aren’t even trying. Just blaming the same way companies and politicians do. If we really tried our best many things would have changed already. I believe that everything we have now is just a mirror of our collective greed, and we are doomed if we expect the other (companies and politicians) to change anything.
I follow Tibetan Buddhism, more specifically the Gelug tradition.
Okay so I checked your profile and found that from what you’ve said in other posts seems that you’re already an experienced meditator. A bit weird now, can I ask what is the purpose of this post?
I mean it requires some effort and can be a very boring task that your mind could go crazy if there is not some proper motivation to convince the mind to sit instead of watching Netflix or to do whatever you like most.
Seculars would take another approach on why they meditate but since we are in the Buddhist sub, in my tradition the reason to meditate is to achieve a very high degree of mental stability which will be used for other more advanced things, at least in this context there is definitely a “why”.
What I wanted to communicate from the start is that you either take it seriously or don’t even try, because the only thing that it will do for you is waste your time.
Depends a lot on your motivation, the “why are you meditating” and how serious you are on your practice. And also how serious you want to learn.
Based on this your result will vary a lot. Nobody here can promise you anything without knowing you. I could tell you that it will make you “calmer” but if you go with some expectations and doing minimum effort it could make you actually more nervous, and be one of those who later tell everyone “I tried but it didn’t work, it’s just a scam” :')
Maybe better tell us why do you want to meditate?
Yes seems that it is true, Tuta then I think they support custom domains.
Posteo is cool as an alternative to Proton for mail, they are bunch of nice Germans going to the office on bike, you can’t go evil on that.
Oh yes it is there, I didn’t know that. Thank you!
For the login issue it is easy to fix, you make an exception in the privacy settings for whatever website you visit.
It’s on Settings -> Privacy and Security -> Manage Exceptions (And make sure you add and Save the Changes).
It’s a bit of nuisance at first to do but you only have to do it once, and this way you also have control which websites install their crap on your browser. For the render issues I don’t know, it is not my experience but maybe it is related too to make an exception for these websites.
We may have to just accept that it won’t ever be a big platform for this very reason and just have fun there as a niche site.
I don’t have experience myself with affinity software specifically but here I found a step to step guide on how to run it on Linux:
Like the other person said, Wine is the way to go to run Windows specific software on Linux.
The cool thing about Linux is that you always find a guide for whatever problem you may have and also the community is huge and super nice to help you with any issue.
Also you can always have Linux + Windows with dual boot and try out things until you are comfortable to do the change, or just abandon Linux if it is not your cup of tea, but at least you have tried.
Everybody seems to hate Windows but then…
Come on! It’s good, it’s free, without ads nor legal corporate spywares, if you want to resurrect your 10 years old computer it will work, if you want gaming on your super PC it will work too, what else can you ask for?
If someone needs help to do the change just tell me :)
I liked Reddit but I couldn’t ignore what’s happening there anymore. Anyway Lemmy is cool too, not missing it that much.
And nothing will happen, nobody cares enough anymore, the worst is that many people bought the Chinese propaganda and the genocide will continue until their extinction (in Tibet at least).
After reading how Graphene an Murena are fighting over social medial like schoolgirls fighting for a boyfriend, I felt like coming back to Stock OS lol
Yes at this point I think I can agree with all you are saying and I don’t feel there is anything I can add. Actually the symptom of a lack of a social need being met is something you gave me to think about.
Thank you for debate, have a nice day :)
First of all thanks for the correction, English is not my first language, I appreciate it.
So… Yesterday in my country in a local forum someone asked regarding the tariffs, what should we do? Are we going to boycott the US? The general consensus more or less was that yes, that’s what we should do. Then the excuses arrived, but I’m not going to give up Amazon, nor Google, nor Meta, how am I going to give up this or that? Then other person gave them good alternatives and he was totally ignored. I didn’t feel that this was a social need, more like convenience, laziness and apathy. I mean, yeah I can kind of agree with you, there are some things I can’t give up exactly because a social need, if I give up one service I get isolated, and yeah when I get depressed I eat sweets when I shouldn’t… But what about the rest?
Anyway I am no one to tell you how you should live, nor I do have the absolute truth whatever that is, all I am saying is that if we buy into the bullshit (not a little, I wish it was just a little) then bullshit is what we have, and yeah we can bitch all you want about the bullshit we are in, we change or nothing will change. What did you mean when you said “change from within”? Isn’t exactly what I am talking about?
And to be honest I didn’t understand what you meant by this social need. Do we really need to buy all the services the rich offer us as a bait to be happy and content? I am aware that we have some needs to function in society, I’m using them all the time, but I couldn’t use it as an excuse to the extreme bullshit we are in, my colleagues in my last job complained all the time about the stress and long hours in the job and then they spent all their money in “stuff”. Is this the social need? They could work in a low stress job for less money if they didn’t spend so much money in Amazon for things that nobody really needs. But instead they were working harder to get more money to get more stuff to buy, it was madness from my point of view not a social need.
Just in case you didn’t know this, here is a program that lets you mass edit and delete all your comments on Reddit:
https://redact.dev/services/reddit
The free version only edits all your comments with random words, but for me was good enough just to delete my main account asap.