I’ve heard the trick is never looking back. The moment you get in touch with your old life they can find you.

Take note OP. If you’re gonna do an exit scam you get everything in cash (somehow, it’s sometimes hard for this reason) and shed old technology and connections like a snake skin.

There’s was nothing off the cuff about that dude’s actions, though. He was very smart, and if he’s caught because he could only afford a hostel it’ll feel unfair.

All the ones that are bad ideas. My impulse filter is thin and the harmless but weird ones just happen.

Anyway, thanks for being my only friends, Lemmy.

The acronym works both ways.

This is fully better than “go be a farmer”, at least. Not because nobody wants to be a farmer, but because software developers actually grasp what’s involved in bartending, and not just a fictional themepark version.

What about a seabird? Albatross would probably be the pick for travel, gannet for extensive swimming.

Animal-wise, something simple with slow lifestyle. Man, I just want to chill and be left alone. Maybe a swimming sea cucumber, because echinoderms are cool and wide-open expanses of deep sea are cool.

There may or may not be some kind of human equivalent, depending on the rules of how souls work in this hypothetical.

I had heard of it way back when, and basically thought it was going to be another dead OSS project. Years later Reddit was enshittifying and to my surprise it came back as the main alternative. Now I’m here and not leaving.

Centalised as in not federated. Which means we’ve basically set a timer until it starts acting like Google or Facebook, or even “X” if a crazy person buys it out.

That being said, I welcome any kind of actual competition.

Well, actually, the JWST…

TBF in the Y2K era JavaScript was less of a suspect choice of scripting language. And it’s a commercial variant called Nombas ScriptEase which is not better, and it’s unsupported since 2003, but there you go.

Define “healthy”, OP. Like, mentally healthy? That’s pretty dependent on what your personal tastes are - the game is to find the things you can tolerate that most people can’t as well, and to save on whatever those may be. Medically healthy? Aside from food most unhealthy habits are expensive anyway. If food, canned veggies are underrated, at least where I live.

One pretty universal thing, I guess, is not spending on the first thing put in front of you, metaphorically or physically. The entire surveillance capitalism and marketing economy is set up to part idiots from their money that way.

I hadn’t heard that, but it makes total sense given how they’re manufactured.

Fucking minimalist logo fonts…

IIRC software development, including games, was a pretty gritty industry last century too.

It’s more a matter of having the luxury of space for bloat. (Most of the anti-user features are new, though)

Yeah, I’d much prefer micropayments in crypto (I swear that’s not just a string of buzzwords). HTTP even has codes built in for it, it just never took off because crypto and even paypal didn’t exist yet back then.

If you have nothing you, you get a dead internet space. There’s simply no reason for the mentioned people to not make endless sockpuppet accounts. That’s why the meatspace -> phone -> email chain arose in the first place, without anyone ever designing it as far as I’m aware.

On here? I haven’t noticed, but with the lax admission procedures on some instances spammers, scammers and bots are kind of inevitable.

In the really long term you’ll probably need an email address that needs a phone number that needs a physical address like everything else.

Ah, and you’re the author. That kind of changes the whole context here.

It doesn’t mean much, but have your upvote back.

Few people at 45 feel like they’re ancient and just need to hurry up and die, OP. Hell, actual seniors think of that as young and virile.

That aside, I’ve given up on having a proper career at this point. I’m not sure how much I want to go into what happened on my main, but I was pretty much obsessed with making a modest legacy in high school, and I fully expect to just hustle to survive now.

Yeah, it’s like OP is imagining cigarette deaths happen suddenly. They don’t; unless you end it fast yourself you’ll be like the pictures they put on the packages where I live.

Everybody nowadays knows you leave the phone at home to be off grid, right… right?