If you have a budget, I highly recommend getting a Synology NAS. Synology are a Taiwanese company with decent reliable enthusiast and SME software.
They have a bit of a reputation for overcharging for hard drives with their logos on it, but otherwise it can do all the things you need, pretty much turn key solutions for cloud services like mail server, office collaboration suite, cloud drive, team chat and so much more.
We’re all going to hell for joking about this when the actual video comes out.
I came here to say something similar. It’s not merely tech that’s to blame but the kind of tech we have today. Kids are being raised to be consumers of tech and tech services. They don’t have basic fundamentals that millenials had to learn to access porn on dialup.
Much easier to blame the individuals for their choices than to look at the system abusing them.
Great, another article that blames the young and poor for their misbehaving but completely ignores what caused those in the first place. Seems like sound and legitimate science done in good faith…
I’m guessing he grabbed a pussy and pulled it out Mortal Kombat style.
I have been thinking this for some time, why not just have a certified burner phone or tablet and then a free phone as your main?
Realistically most of us have to install shitty insecure apps to survive in this modern world, but that doesn’t mean all our personal data and stuff has to be on the same device.
For the cost of one brand new top model phone, you could probably get a low-mid certified device and a decent Fairphone or equivcalent.
So you’re saying aliens are treating Earth the way wealthy countries treat poorer countries…
Makes more sense to me than the truth that pedophiles are in charge and so greedy for more wealth they’d risk everything they own and the planet with it to gain some intangible number on paper!
Plot twist: Trump outs all the worlds billionaires as aliens. It turns out that’s why there like that.
Lived in WA most of my life, never had a problem with WA police.
Last time I visited Sydney in 2019 it began to feel like a city from another country and the police presence was a large part of that.
One thing I’ll never shake is the guards stationed outside the AFP building in the CBD with automatic weapons. Only places I’ve ever seen a sight like that are places like Mindanao in the Philippines, where insurgent terrorists are a real threat.
It feels like law enforcement is increasingly willing to incite and provoke violence so they can claim credit for, or otherwise politicise, their response.
Well for your sake I hope you find some choice places you can enjoy and be yourself online <3
If you’re into sharing pics of Furryosa, Pixelfed could be a good one to check out.
This is my second attempt at re-joining Lemmy after experiencing the same brother.
It sucks having to moderate yourself online so hard when you’re passionate, genuinely care and want to share the uncomfortable truths of the world, but the consequence of a 24/7 deluge of negativity when you have a life to live is just not worth it hey.
I’ve been a bit of a hermit online and offline since the pandemic, 2026 is my year to try to strategically begin getting back out there!
All my email addresses are perma-banned for replying to right wingers. I had death threats, people questioning my sanity and calling me slurs. When I tried to respond with even an iota of the same energy - banned. On Reddit, the right wing is king.
George called me on the Joe Pesci line to say this is fucked up.
Zed! Fastest GUI editor out there other than Sublime Text.
I get what you’re saying, and you’re right that a lot of early tech was janky. But it was also built to solve problems for the user, not to self destruct within 5 years so they buy another one. Engineers and experts in companies used to have more sway when they put their hand up, now there are professionally designed mechanisms in companies to silence and undermine them.
I grew up in the 1990s, and there genuinely was a shared belief that technology could make life better, that systems could become more humane, more efficient, and more empowering over time. Even when the solutions were rough, they were often built by people who cared deeply about understanding the problem and improving things incrementally. Not to boost their share price or go viral on social media.
What feels different now isn’t that the tech is imperfect, but that large parts of the tech industry have deprioritised understanding and craftsmanship in favour of growth, optics, and financial engineering. The jank used to come from constraints; today it often comes from misaligned incentives. I am weary of attending ‘tech’ events because the focus isn’t science, innovation or improving peoples lives - it’s about fundraising and networking.
It feels like we’re at the endgame of the corporate mentality in technology. “Tech” used to imply expertise, craft, and a commitment to quality; now it’s mostly a buzzword for raising capital and PR.
Real progress these days mostly comes from enthusiasts and small teams, not hierarchical, ego-driven organisations that prioritise the share price over their human talent. Not “startup bros” racing to get another Node.js app funded, but the freaks and weirdoes staying up until sunrise reading obscure 1990s whitepapers and translating them into Python to fix a random Blender ticket because they actually care.
I often wonder what would happen if we funded those passionate weirdoes who just want to help. Pay them an income to go around the neighbourhood, setting up cloud backups for everyone, organising systems, and building solutions that actually work. This rigid adherence to a classist, centralised society built around wealth isn’t just obscene and inhuman, it’s making us dumber and blocking the kinds of solutions that should already exist.
Is that why the company is becoming more thuggish? Desperately searching for scapegoats?
Yes, but it often works the other way. I’ve gone to school in Asia, Europe and Australia. IME lunch ladies will let some kids tick food up when they lack the funds.
Some kids pay it back, but I know for a fact many come from families who lack the means and they let it slide.
Ironic seeing a country like the USA so obsessed with Jesus being as far from his teachings as you can go.