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Cake day: July 31st, 2023

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  • Against voting:

    • feels like it doesn’t matter
    • the choices often suck

    For voting:

    • it evidently does matter
    • it’s the most efficient way to give your political opinion some weight

    Also I assume the down votes are for the following reasons:

    • not voting only serves unpopular politicians and parties
    • not voting being promoted through a post like this one would exacerbate this issue
    • the science is pretty settled that voting matters, even if it feels like it doesn’t, so making this topic debatable seems disingenuous

    I assume you are being honest, so let me make this clear once again: a voting populus is what stands between a democracy and a dictatorship. Not only do dictators dismantle voting rights wherever they can, but it’s also the best tool to keep them away.

    “You are but a cog in the machine yet it is your decision to turn.” - me, high off my ass


  • My first thought is contact police because only they have the resources to start an investigation, looking into phone data and thoroughly searching.

    My second thought is if you know someone with knowledge or if you have time to read up on OSINT skills, these could help if you need to do your own search.

    Maybe someone has better ideas though.













  • Hateful is always a weird word imo because it describes that the Internet is full of hate, and I’m sure there’s lots of it. However, the Internet is vast and you will find too much of everything everywhere. So theres platforms with abnormal amounts of positivity and hate, but there’s also platforms for weird niches, platforms for scientific discourse and everything.

    So generally I would say no to both. Lemmy tends to skew a bit towards Europe and towards elitist but that’s a very light skew and I’m still trying to assess tropes you find lots of on here. Well except for reddit hate. But that’s historical.


  • Did both. Setting up your own VPN is a bit annoying but when it works it works. Tailscale is really easy and solid. For folder syncing I can recommend using tailscale and syncthing. Install both on both devices, then connect the devices in sync thing (it will reciprocate) and then you can add a folder and share it with the other device. Latency for syncing can be 10s-3min, plus the actual file transfer speed.

    Knowledge level: configuring software and setting up software. Maybe some basic network troubleshooting if it comes up.

    It’s never gonna be as easy as paying for a service that does it for you but this setup is also not that hard.

    If you have questions feel free to ask me or other nerds on here, I’m sure they can help you ^^~