My family photos from the 90’s disagree. There’s even one of my uncles with a mustache in them, and he was like 20 or 30.

So we’re responsible for netflix not meeting their profit target? I feel honored.

Just like companies embracing ai and messing up to the point of catastrophic failures

Your computer very likely doesn’t need a special distro for low end devices yet. A common distro like linux mint will do fine, and that’s probably the best choice if you’re new to linux.

Edit: if you only want to host stuff on it, and nothing else, maybe that yunohost people recommended can be a better choice

My mind has been much more peaceful since I started to get rid of consumerism in my life, that I wish everyone could do and feel the same, but it’s one of the hardest things to convince people to, because the peace of mind only comes in the long term, but the extremely brief consumption satisfaction comes instantly. It’s like a drug in so many aspects.

We can just use an AI to describe the images /s

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I only make happy little accidents

By reading the comments, TIL that some people wash clothes with warm water. I have never even seen a washing machine that warms water.

Yes, Brazil was growing in 2005. People were getting out from poverty and gaining access to a lot of things they thought were only accessible in richer places. GDP started to grow fast, unemployment was going down, etc. Basically, all economic and social indicators were moving in a good direction. In 2008 there was an iconic news with the title “We have never been so happy”, talking about those indicators and a research about perception of happiness. Things peaked somewhere in early 2010s, but then got worse, and fast, with political instability, attacks to our democracy and the pandemic pushing it even harder. Now we’re slowly trying to recover, but still too unstable.

I mean, one of the biggest innovations of the last twenty years has been in retail logistics. That’s why Amazon is chewing through the labor pool of every American small town.

You’re right, and that’s where the nuance is. I don’t know how it’s happening in the USA, but in here, those improvements are coming at the high expense of the middle and lower classes losing purchase power while seeing the cost of living going up, and people losing job opportunities. Also, those improvements often mask some things we’re losing. For example, uber availability is masking the deterioration of public transportation in many places, people doing everything from home and avoiding going out is masking the rising in criminality in the streets, etc.

I find it too complex to say that things are improving when the cost of living grows faster than people’s income, and everyone is so desperate, with a constant feeling of anxiety and tiredness, to make the ends meet.

A century ago? My city was just pasture and nothing else. But what about 20 years ago? Higher education was already free and highly accessible in here. People would jump straight from graduation to a high paying job. Nowadays, only 10% of graduated people find jobs in their area, while most are becoming uber drivers and deliverers. But hey, we can buy stuff without getting out of our houses, so this is progress, right?

Unfortunately, it’s not that simple. I’m in the developing world, and there are a few improvements in some areas, but still, some bad trends are more generalized and also happen around here. Even some good things, like more accessible communications, come with their bad sides. To make things even more complicated, some of the progress we’re having comes at the expense of some aspects of our culture that have been giving us resilience, and it makes me fear for our future.

I know I was too vague, but to be specific, it would require to write a really, really long text.

You go to the stores to buy [item]
Short-term memory gets erased when passing through the magic entrance door
Can’t remember what you needed to buy
You buy everything you can think of, everything that will be needed at home
Finally arrive at home, tired and carrying a lot of stuff
Spouse: did you buy the [item]?
You: …

It’s hard for me to understand how people in movements like repairability, anti obsolescence, open source, open hardware, and similar causes, can have such views. It seems so contradictory… and yet, so common.

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In the first image, legend says that Jesus is about to perform the miracle of hair restoration

Communist grandmas need more love <3

You got a good point here.

My mom always said when she had to see unavoidable ads:
“The money they spent making those ads, they could have used to reduce the prices instead!”

It’s funny to see her getting angry and reacting like that every time

Here in Brazil, banks require you to install a literal spyware and go physically to the bank to allow it, if you want to do banking on your pc, while some banks don’t even support it. Meanwhile, the same banks will allow you to just download the mobile app and use it with minimal requirements and no need to go physically anywhere. Then they say that people just don’t want to do banking on pcs anymore.

If so, that sounds nightmarish

It is