Try to budget as best you can, and contribute what you can afford, if anything, to broad, market-cap weighted index funds that focus on the entire global economy, not just the US.
If you want to read more, don’t listen to others with recommendations. Find something that you like and find books about it. Don’t like it, find another and sell or giveaway your first one. Everyone can read, but not everyone is made to read heavy tomes and they also don’t need too!
If you’re going to have one service, the last one to get is Netflix. Hulu and Disney are $20 ad-free in a package right now. That’s probably the best value out there.
T-Mobile offers the basic edition (with ads) for free on my plan at least. knowing Netflix though, that probably won’t last much longer. oh well, I’ll still have the high seas.
I would have some choice words for my past self if given an opportunity to say anything to them.
Buy stock in Apple, and pick up any stock you can in an little startup called Tesla when it is founded.
That Bitcoin thing that will come along? Yeah, it’s dumb, just mine a couple of Bitcoin for the fun of it, put it in a safe place and document everything you need to know to access it, then forget about it for about a decade.
Houses, they’re expensive right? Ha. Ok. Buy one anyways. Like, as soon as you can. Just do it.
Don’t buy that, or that, or that, or that, or that either. It will only lead you down a path towards lifelong debt. Just don’t do it man.
Oh, and the girl isn’t worth it, stay living at home for a while longer, don’t get kicked out because of some broad. Dump her, and go spend your money on a house.
Go play this Geo game in (nearby city), you’ll meet an awesome girl you’ll want to marry, on that app. Just trust me on that one.
1984 is still a work of fiction, and one that is not really making suggestions on how to combat dystopia. It’s a warning, sure, but reading leftist theory that actually makes analysis and provides suggestions on what to practically do is more useful.
1984 doesn’t have a happy ending, unless your idea of a happy ending is a man going insane. Oceania was always a lost cause. The point of warnings is that you’re supposed to avoid the thing they’re warning you against.
The Oceania itself could not be reformed from the inside, it had to be dismantled, and ultimately isn’t by the end of the book, yes. Orwell never tries to show how to fix the problem, nor does he explain the mechanisms or forces that led to Oceania. Thus, 1984 is a depiction of what could be, in order to say “avoid this,” without recommending a course of action.
Leftist theory on the other hand does focus on mechanisms, existing material conditions, frames of analysis, and propositions to enact change and what change to enact.
1984 is a fine book to read for enjoyment, but not for changing society.
The only rebellion shown in the book is Goldstein’s manifesto and even that turns out to be a lie. The State invented Goldstein’s rebellion to weed out Thought criminals. And Winston fell for it.
The point (which I guess I needed to point out) is that this isn’t a work of fiction, anymore. Government has been granted unprecedented power to conduct surveillance on innocent people with no warrants or accountability. Companies carry out data harvesting and location tracking in nearly every consumer product connected to the Internet. Microsoft has literally incorporated spyware into Windows 11 (CoPilot / Recall). We are living in a real life surveillance state right NOW and our government and corporations are clearly fine with it. And that’s where the “how-to” guide comes into it. That’s the BAD THING. I really didn’t think I needed to spell it out, but damn.
Orwell literally fought on the side of anarcho-communists in the Spanish civil war though. Doesn’t that tell you a bit about what type of system he was criticising with the book?
JPEG-XL is better, for one, if we are talking still images, and for two, webp is just one more instance of Google forcing a preference for their own technology over others.
They refuse to implement JPEG-XL support similar to how they stripped Miracast out of Pixel devices so you can only cast to Chromecast devices unless you root your phone and put on LineageOS, which has brought back Miracast.
Things like webp are Google trying to do an end-run around web standards with the intent of allowing Google, the company, to be the final arbiter of web standards instead of the W3C (World Wide Web Consortium).
People who hate webp are most likely people who hate Google’s quest to dominate the web and be the arbiter of standards.
Ah well that’s certainly fair enough, I had no idea it’s a Google-encumbered format.
Not sure I’ve ever “voluntarily” converted something to webp. Many Lemmy instances’ pict-rs setups seem to use it, my home instance sopuli.xyz obviously being one of them, which I guess is a sort of a funny choice considering
In September 2023, two critical vulnerabilities[108] relating to WebP images were discovered by Apple Security Engineering and Architecture (SEAR) and the Citizen Lab, potentially affecting Google Chrome, Chromium-based browsers and the Google’s libwebp project, among any application implementing libwebp. Among these vulnerabilities, CVE-2023-4863 was an actively exploited vulnerability with a high risk rating of CVSS 8.8. This could lead to an out of bounds/overflow condition in applications using the affected libwebp library, upon exploitation of a maliciously crafted .webp lossless file. This could result in a denial of service (DoS), or worse, enabling malicious remote code execution (RCE). The extensive use of libwebp packages across hundreds of applications, including all categories from web browsers to mobile apps, posed a major patching challenge to mitigate the vulnerability due to the demanding testing requirements before release, highlighting the implications of this vulnerability on a wide scale.
It’s just the typical Lemmy hivemind hating anything made by a large tech company, purely because it’s made by a large tech company, even when it’s actually really good
Only on bisq.network via a Monero swap for some pricy “donation” torrent site once in a while. Like I’m some stupid sucker who gonna broadcast my financial status to everyone, everywhere, for all the future.
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