![](/static/66c60d9f/assets/icons/icon-96x96.png)
![](https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/44bf11eb-4336-40eb-9778-e96fc5223124.png)
I used to be a residential building safety inspector. One of the houses that I screened looked very average but the garden had a huge collection of bonsai. Some of them were nearly 100 years old. Central Europe. Crazy.
I used to be a residential building safety inspector. One of the houses that I screened looked very average but the garden had a huge collection of bonsai. Some of them were nearly 100 years old. Central Europe. Crazy.
And they’ve made Bing your standard browser and activated Copilot.
Yeah, that happened to me too.
I’ve found the instance that I chose to be very unreasonably hostile.
I chose lemmy.ml when creating my account and apparently that instance is quite hostile if you don’t buy into CCP propaganda.
I was working in a restaurant and one day a regular invited us to his place for after work drinks. He opened the front door into a monumental hallway with beautiful winding stairs and a large mosaic monogram with his initials on the floor.
We went into the main living area with a professionally decked out open kitchen, a 20 person dining table and a seating area with 4 large Chesterfields. The whole room is filled with art and antiques.
He asked me if I wanted to pick a few bottles of wine because of my good taste ( I’m a trained sommelier). He then guided me to his library and opened a secret door that led into the wine cellar.
Every large winehouse in the world was represented and he insisted on picking whatever I wanted. The sheer amount of stacks of Mouton Rotschild premier Cru, Tenuta Dan Guido - Sassicaia… We opened 4 bottles that would’ve cost about 10.000 euros together. No sweat.
He told us that despite the nice kitchen he never cooks. He goes to restaurants every day and on the weekends he hires top chefs to cook for his guests.
Then he asked us if we would like to go and have lunch in Milan, the next day (I’m from Belgium). He chartered a heli and had extra space for 3 persons.
He’s a modest guy. Rides his bike everywhere and makes his money selling real estate. He only sells high value property like castles and works one day a week. He’s not extremely talented but admitted he’s just lucky.
I realized that to become rich, you need money. Whether it’s your own or someone else’s doesn’t matter, you just need a lot.
True, I have one page with a few folders and gestures added to several icons. I’ve been using this setup for a few years so switching to different apps goes crazy fast.
I’m on the waiting list. I hope they get e2ee sorted out.
I get it. That’s why I use Plus messenger. It’s a better, more customisable UI. Private chats, groups and channels are on a different page, if you want it.
Unfortunately I use Discord, WhatsApp, Signal, Element (Matrix) and SimpleX all combined because my contacts are spread out. Looking forward to secure interoperability.
I could go on.
It’s the best app when it comes to functionality. It has it all.
Jup, I’m a high functioning autist and especially in written discussions I tend to get misinterpreted. I doesn’t help that English is my 4th language either.
Tried to follow the link but it’s not working.
Oh yeah. I’m pretty new to all of this but just mentioning the fact that the CCP is doing raunchy stuff got me downvoted to hell. Even when those replies were provided with links to articles and facts I am being called racist.
Opinions. People seem to hate opinions, whether they’re provided with an explanation or not. Facts are also downvoted on a regular base.
It was all over the news and years ago. Should we continue talking about it?
So, implement it in cars… Lethal machines that need to be limited.
The problem that I see is that if they one day decide to use that domain, they can force you into handing it over. Either legally or by extortion and suing you into the sky.
Both are unlikely but there is a chance.