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I installed YunoHost and then Lemmy through yunohost. someone else already did this and i decided to try it too. my domain, cutecafe.nohost.me, doesn't show as the lemmy instance? what do i do? why?

I prefer web over app. I tried a site which was said to be free. signup was fine so i started to use the site only to realise to see my matches or start chats i had to pay for a "premium" account or something. that really annoys me and it's a waste of my time so does anyone know any good dating sites which are actually free, as in i don't have to pay to use the site for what it should be used for? thx in advance 👍

Or the one?

I would be curious what Lemmings think the results of a survey would be, if that question were asked in a non-political setting?

This became relevant specially after 2023

It’s like feeling as if you’re in the Always Sunny episode “The Gang Broke Dee”, wherein the gang go to great lengths to trick Dee into thinking that she is a successful and respected comedienne, only for them to reveal that it was all a charade to belittle her more.

I don't get this, the only argument is the like Austrian school taxation is theft argument but in that case all the taxes that income tax haters like are also just as much theft.

You see a new article every week about why we need to get rid of income tax and replace it with some asinine "progressive consumption tax" that allows for poor people to write some stuff off but not other stuff its a mess.

every inane over complicated solution always runs into either not making enough, being to expensive to enforce and calculate or being regressive

even in Europe which comes the closest to this with the use of vats but income tax is still their main cash cow

this is a solution in search of a problem income tax works, economist agree when done right (as in you don't raise income tax 50% in a day)it has the least distortion, it's easy to collect and raises massive revenue

I’m visiting a rural part of the southern US, and I have noticed that about 2/3 of the houses outside the town have yards full of cars and tractors in various states of disrepair, as well as tons of other miscellaneous stuff. Why is that? Is it kind of a culture of self-reliance and a supply of spare parts? Some other reason?

I don't know enough about the evidence but I've read they charged him with crimes that didn't fit? Was evidence weak? Any ideas?

Hi

I am looking to broaden my youtube subscriptions for other female channel.

The reason I am specifically looking for female channels is that of most of my subscriptions are to male channels like:

• @3blue1brown
• @CptSnuggles07
• @BenEater
• @BPSspace
• @BlacktailStudio
• @CuttingEdgeEngineering
• @CuriousDroid

but I only have few female channel that I like:

• @SloanStowe
• @susi_vidal
• @Vvanedwards
• @whitneyhanson_poetry
• @SarahnTuned
• @xylafoxlin

If you are a male, what are some of your female channel that you like?

What happened to 50501? They were very active up until the parade.

I want to create apk files for the games I've purchased on Google Play. If I use the Google Files apps, it won't compress the whole game into apk (for example, APK file size for ‘Bendy and the Ink Machine’ is only ~2mB.) For now, only local backup seems to be the functional method.

I worked for a shady evil company, and when they illegally fired me, I never ended up returning a laptop - thinkpad running windoze.

Let’s say I wanted to put Win 8 or similar on it so I can play some video games. What would potentially be barriers to doing this? Said evil company is hopefully going out of business soon, and is a clusterfuck anyway, so they might not end up asking for it back.

I was talking to one of my friends and he mentioned staying home on July 4, citing how there are a lot of really ugly things going on in the US.

After thinking about this myself, I'm starting to feel the same way. Instead of being proud of the country, I'm feeling like I'm just another wallet that companies and the government are trying to suck all the money out of.

The cost of living is going up, the housing market is a nightmare, I don't feel very confident in our government at all, the job market is a nightmare...

I think I'll be staying home this year too... anyone else?

On one hand many countries will invest in heavy industry, manufacturing, and fall back to fossil fuels.

On the other hand, economy overall should slow down and consumption of non-essential goods and services will drop.

I'm not expecting any definite answers or numbers, of course, just some food for thought.

If they think your potential mate or potential rival for mating. Is it too much of a waste of their time and effort?

I really don't know what's going on with me. I was laid off rather suddenly and unexpectedly. I spent the next 5 months looking for a job. I spent the day searching for jobs and networking and applying, then taking weekends off. Additionally, I'm already diagnosed with anxiety and take meds. It's semi controlled.

I've had a job for 3 months now. (So it's 8 months since I was laid off.) I'm completely drained by the time I get home and NOTHING is fun. I've quit all my hobbies. I want tot WANT my hobbies, but I just don't. I want to just lay down and do nothing. I think I should be back to where I was before the layoff. My previous jobs never drained me this much. This job isn't that far off from my last job.

Can it take months to get over being laid off or could there be something else going on?

I mean, amateur radio was illegal to encrypt. That encryption ban could have theoretically also happened to the internet with just a few changes in legislation in a different timeline.

If, say the US and rest of North America, and the European Countries, along with Japan, South Korea, Australia, New Zealand, basically if most of the democratic world somehow in an alternate timeline just went batshit crazy and become authoritarian. What would the internet even look like. Would the internet even exist?

I mean, the US was supposedly a liberal democracy tried to ban PGP. A full fledged authoritarian US would've imprisoned many of those PGP and Free Software authors. HTTPS would've have a government root certificate on every computer, phone, tablet, smartwatch. Signal would've been illegal...

Is this alt-timeline too far fetched?

I mean its not even too late for this to happen starting like right now 2025, right?

I've realized that the display size, in inches, is sometimes in the name or model number of electronics that are sold not just in the US. Do people outside the US also talk about buying 55-inch TVs, 14-inch laptops, and 27-inch monitors? Does it naturally roll off the tongue or does it seem strange to anyone?

If it's all inches, why didn't measuring screens in centimeters take off?

I heard a high pitched noise coming from the area the container was in, then a bubbly noise. Smelled like hand sanitizer and I saw that at the bottom of the container is this thick clear goo. I breathed in the fumes of whatever this stuff is. Any idea WTF it is? I threw away the container

Dont say Prometheus

Just got offered a gig, 2months pays what id earn in nearly 8 months.

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