I self-host a federated Matrix server and got my family and close friends using it. They actually took to it pretty easy, and although the initial setup was a bit of a headache it’s been running smoothly for years now.

I don’t really get most of the criticisms of it. I love it.

The cut to the audience always gets me

“Yeah, but can you look like her?”

Such a waste of life. Who might he have been if his government wasn’t rotten?

For me at least it’s not “looking down”, I just feel pity when I’m watching someone bust their ass working while I’m in vacation-mode sipping my 4th Pina colada in a bathrobe. I’m ashamed.

A genie would have fun with this one

Kagi Protonmail/VPN Namecheap (custom domains) Nabu Casa (I could route subdomain myself but I love Home Assistant and want to support them) PBS Passport Consumer Reports Nebula PDF-XChange Editor Tidal ServRica VPS (for Urbackup)

My company is an ESOP and shares don’t give us a voting rights or any actual control, it’s just a monetary incentive. The C-suite/board still control everything and unilaterally makes all the executive decisions.

It’s human meat.

The Richard Scarry universe is actually set in a twisted dystopian future where animals gained sentience and overthrew the humans. We are the farm animals. I won’t go into where their milk comes from.