Running your own email server is easy.

Getting your email accepted by other servers is hard.

Hosting anything publicly requires a significant amount of hardening.

Neither of those two tasks are easy or low maintenance. I self host almost everything and I’ve run my own mail server (with occasional rejection). It’s not worth it for me; I now use a commercial, paid provider for email.

Myeah but it’s just a server - the clients just use Matrix.

Plex has clients for every single device there is. I arrive to some 2018 smart tv in a holiday cottage and the absolutely dreadful, measly App Store, now long abandoned, has a plex client.

Also I have a very old life time pass so current pricing means nothing to me.

I run Nextcloud all-in-one containers and I literally have to do nothing, ever, to manage it.

Ah there’s definitely attention on this, through the attention on screen time.

I’m sorry for your loss.

I would feel the same way if I lost my wife.

My first computer was an Amstrad 664, with a green screen. I’m old. And I’ve been around Vim and EMacs from time to time and I love the console but for the love of god, since GUIs became the normal way to interact with computers, I just install micro now and have the same hotkeys across all the modes of interaction.

Speed of typing really isn’t the defining productivity measure for code.

Now I use VS Code in a GUI and micro on the console and that provides a reasonably consistent way of interacting with text.

Yes I get the point but I guess it depends on you considering a car a luxury or a requirement. Where I live, it’s definitely a luxury - we’ve got great public transport.

They are definitely proof that alternatives exist. Whether they can scale to governing a state of disperate cultures and peoples is a different question.

But you did answer with some real alternatives, which I’ll look into more. Thank you.

Show me a working alternative that’s actually been implemented in the real and I’ll happily shift.

Until then I’ll happily stick with a well-regulated, Nordic-style market economy.

Some places are worse for this than others. London, for example, chews up 20-somethings in shitty accommodation, underpaid jobs and plenty of places to spend the few pennies you’ve got left. Eventually, 95% leave the city to actually build a life after they’ve realised that London will never deliver a suitable lifestyle for them.

Car finance. It’s so prevalent, I think I’m literally the only one on our road that doesn’t drive a 1 year old, brand new, financed car. Literally everyone is like “but it’s only $499/month and I can just hand it back when I want a new one”. Well shit, yes, but try tallying up what you’ve paid for running all these new cars every three years.

Save up instead and continue saving after you bought the car. Then you can afford a different car later.

They only cause inflation by lending if nothing of value is created by the money they lend out, though.

Lending just shifts the value creation to after the money is created, with some risk in that some value isn’t created after the money has been created to represent the outcome. If we didn’t expand the money supply, we would have severe deflation.

They’re charging but they’re burning cash by the truck load.

I’m guessing they’d need to charge north of $1000/month to get in the black.

Short answer: If you don’t know if you’re using it, you’re very likely not using it.

Npm is a package manager for node.js, a programming framework for JavaScript.

A good watch, like a Citizen Exceed or a Casio G-Shock Square. Price/performance out of this world and will last you a lifetime.

No no, I know. I was just laughing at our reverse-Godwin law.

Ah yes. A point about socialism within 2 comments. You know you’re on Lemmy when…

I dont know why, but Sean Lock, a U.K. stand-up comedian who was the backbone of a couple of U.K. panel shows. He never spoke about his illness, but lost a lot of weight and then suddenly gone. I still watch and laugh out loud from the many, many laugh out loud moments of his career.

I love how a specific question was being asked and then you get downvotes for answering it.