Governments fear mongering people into doing what they say. Shutting down people’s lives from fear of death from Covid, a government sanctioned and authorized “pandemic”. Now, it’s normal for governments to dictate people’s lives. Lame.

Unfortunately, people keep swallowing garbage changes on cell phones. Before, phones had removable batteries, cheap screen replacements, sturdier bodies, etc. since upgrading your phone from a 512 MB RAM to a 1GB RAM cell phone actually made a difference in performance. Now, my almost 5 year old pixel 3a can do everything my pixel 7 does. Companies saw the writing on the wall and started forcing customers to upgrade by crippling phones. Again, unfortunately, many just don’t notice that their iPhone 6S, Samsung S6, Pixel 3 XL, insert_4yr_phone was the peak in needed performance and didn’t need to be replaced. By then, removable batteries are phased out, micro SD are phased out, headphone jacks are started to be phased out, etc.

I like containerization for server applications, especially when running different services on one box. For desktop use, native libraries are stable and usually the applications being used are single instance. I don’t see a point in running desktop apps in containers.

Aren’t Reddit moderators already volunteer admins? Still, Lemmy has the same issue as Reddit when considering server costs, if not worse. On Reddit, if a post brings in high volume of traffic, their server (farm?) needs to be strong to handle the influx. On Lemmy, the server instance can go down… theoretically. Not sure how much load a post can cause. But, compared to Reddit, Lemmy federated design means high load situations are suboptimal.

Humans will come and go. The earth will continue doing it’s thing. I’m more concerned with the crazies throwing trash out of their cars or not bringing their shopping cart to the shopping cart areas.