I’m not even the least bit surprised.
I’m not even the least bit surprised.
You forgot to mention you use Arch, btw.
Video games. Streamers, YouTubers, and other ”content creators” have had a massive negative effect on the hobby as a whole.
The bandwagons driven by these people can destroyed games that should have had a mediocre reception, but instead were panned by a couple creators then that criticism was parroted loud and wide. Where a game could have had a nice little niche audience, instead it was shut down a year after launch due to the shitty bandwagons.
These people also drive companies to make horrible balancing and content decisions. Since these people play games as their jobs, and play them daily for 8-10-12+ hours, they have wildly different desires and perspectives on games. These perspectives again get parroted loudly, the game companies hear it, and make changes/decisions based on people that play all day every day. This destroys gaming for not only casual gamers, but all gamers that don’t play one game for 8+ hours a day every day.
I could go on and on, but these trash reality TV stars for nerds have done so much damage to the industry.
Water freezes from the bottom up instead of top down.
Sponsorblock, ublock origin(don’t use chrome), and Unhook are nice browser extensions to help remove much of the bullshit.
Not depressed nor are most people around me.
Sorry. I hope you find someone to talk to or some other way to cope.
Self diagnosed != real
I have good insurance. I pay $20 per paycheck for my wife’s coverage. Our typical visit costs 20-35 depending. Our medications cost 10-20 per 3 month supply.
Most people don’t have insurance this good.
It is #1.
I say this having traveled around the world to experience everything from extreme poverty to extreme wealth.
By most measures, the US is still the best place to live for a vast majority of everyone.
I’ll say the same thing I say at the airport.
“I would like to opt-out please”
This is the answer.
Don’t buy a phone made by an advertising company if you don’t want everything you use it for to feed ads data.
Ignorance is bliss in respect to this question.
Random streamer that is popular. That’s it. Ignore and move one.
I’d say this strongly depends on the industry.
In an entertainment or ad sales product, I’d completely agree with you.
In a medical or financial product, the bug will take precedence.
The alternative is much worse. I don’t want to be poor and/or homeless. I want to be able to take vacations and not worry about surprise expenses. I want to actually be able to retire someday.
The alternative is a much harder life to live, in my opinion. For me, giving up 40ish hours a week for the peace of mind it worth it. Yes, work is not how I’d prefer to spend my time, but it allows me to spend the rest of my time doing as I’d please.
Similar to you, but I also hate the advertising industry with a burning passion and want to deprive them of any and all data possible.