A sizeable group of us don’t have a meaningful second place either anymore. I work remote and there is really no social aspect to it in any meaningful sense, just pointless meetings and an endless Jira backlog. My home and my work are one and the same.
In the last three years the closest I came to a viable third place was VRChat, it was the best social experience I’ve ever had. I don’t think I need to say much more about that, it speaks for itself.
People are increasingly angry and disillusioned with how society is, or isn’t working. It’s not really a surprise there’s been an increase in such opinions and thus posts when one looks at the general state of things.
My issue with the TLS requirement is the artificial limit it places on systems which can access Gemini. It's blocks small systems, anything really DIY, vintage computers, etc.
Gemini could have a really cool niche as a protocol which supports a lot of weird and wonderful systems, allowing them to be more useful and fostering a community interested in that stuff, but the TLS requirement completely prevents that.
I'd love to write a Gemini client for System 6 for example, but that just isn't feasible.
I guess my problem is partly that Gemini isn't useful to me, but even more broadly I don't understand who it's really useful for at all.
I wasn’t aware of this, but I’m glad I am now. If that’s the case it’s time to look elsewhere or self host, VC funds and acquisitions are rarely good for users so I’ll assume the worst.
> I still see personal websites that are almost unreadable on small phones, for instance.
My personal website is like that and I’ve made no effort to improve the phone experience. I really don’t care if phone users have access or not, on every other device it looks fine.
It’s a personal website, if it looks good on my machine that’s enough for me.
I love them, but don’t think they’ve held up over time. This is subjective, but they just don’t feel right on modern, wide, high resolution displays.
The acceleration always feels wrong and UI elements have gotten smaller or nearly vanished. Trying to position a trackpoint to resize a window is maddening these days.
Back on the old Toshiba Satellites in the Win 9x days though? They felt just right, a solution that truly fit the computer and UI of the era.
That all said I still prefer them over virtually every touchpad.
Yes, but it’s probably not a landline in the way most people think. Almost all those services use voip backends now with only the last mile being copper.
Due to where I live I have to maintain a wired phone as I can’t get a reliable cell signal.
I just have a voip phone adapter connected to a random old phone and I use voip.ms for the actual service. It costs effectively nothing to run. It’s not a landline in the transitional sense, but those largely don’t exist anymore.
Fair enough, I wasn’t aware they’d made so much progress. I was under the impression it was still a proof of concept and people were glossing over a lot of issues.
I guess that’s the benefit of only having to target a very small amount of hardware, it saves time for improving other things.
I remember preferring Linux on PPC to Linux on intel laptops years ago. Apple PPC laptops tended to “just work” with Linux in my experience.
I hate this quote/pop advice. For some people location really, truly does matter.
There are irredeemable places, and places that just don’t work for an individual. They key is knowing when it’s a problem instead of just running somewhere random and hoping it’ll fix all your issues.
Personally? I feel way better in sunny, dry climates. My mood improves a ton and I legitimately feel healthier. Right now I live in the exact opposite and I don’t like it.