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Scuze, nu am primit notificare că ai scris. Dacă nu ai prieteni e mai complicat. Într-adevăr, și pe mine m-a ajutat faptul că am avut prieteni care mi-au fost aproape când mi-a fost mai greu. Îți recomand să te apuci de tot felul de cursuri, dacă poți, și așa o să găsești oameni care nu te urăsc așa cum fac oamenii existenți. În fond, nici cei pe care îi cunoști tu nu cred că te urăsc, însă nu știu cum să te ajute să te descurci cum trebuie. E greu, într-adevăr, însă la un moment dat o să găsești oamenii potriviți pentru tine. E important să comunici cu cei din jur, să te deschizi atunci când te simți în siguranță și să vezi ce ți-ar fi ție nevoie cel mai mult.De partea cu relația ce-i drept, nici eu nu m-am prins cum merge 😁 apucă-te de ceva hobby și ține-te de el. Personal eu în asta îmi găsesc satisfacția la momentul actual. Poți încerca și să te apuci de cursuri de teatru ca să încerci să îți mai șlefuiești un pic skill-urile sociale. Eu până în liceu când m-am apucat am fost super introvertit. Nu am continuat la UNATC sau altundeva profesional, dar m-a ajutat să înțeleg un pic mai bine lumea și să și ies din cutia mea, m-a ajutat și că am făcut ceva exerciții de dicție etc.Sau poate ai putea să te apuci de vreun sport, ceva de echipă, din nou, poate poți găsi oameni noi și așa.Poate mai ai contactele vechi din liceu, din facultate - dacă da, nu strică să mai dai din când în când câte un mesaj pe WhatsApp ceva (știu că e WhatsApp și Meta, dar folosim ce are lumea, csf), să-i mai întrebi ce mai fac, dacă sunt bine, sănătoși, fără să aștepți ceva de la oamenii ăia. Probabil ai mai avut pe cineva cu care te-ai înțeles bine pe acolo.Și nu, nu ești singurul de pe lumea asta care se simte așa izolat. Ai fi surprins să vezi cât de multă lume caută pe cineva (nou sau oricine) cu care să mai și vorbească. E unul din perk-urile mai nasoale ale lumii moderne din păcate - am ajuns să fim însingurați rău de tot. Caută filme, cărți, jocuri, orice care să îți poată lua din timp atunci când te simți cel mai singur. Sunt o grămadă de chestii. Și poți așa și să ai subiecte de discuție când găsești pe cineva cu care să vorbești.Tl;dr: Also, dacă mai ești pe aici și îmi vezi comentariul ăsta, să dai direct reply aici. Eventual pe web. Nu știu ce s-a întâmplat dar nu am văzut nici tag-ul și dacă nu mă întorceam random la postarea asta s-ar fi pierdut în analele internetului. Dacă vrei poți să îmi dai și mesaj privat să mă întrebi și pe mine de una sau alta, dar eventual de pe Mastodon sau Friendica, că cică între Lemmy și Friendica (unde sunt eu) nu merg DM-urile. Sau dacă ai XMPP poți să-mi dai mesaj la aceeași adresă ca aici.

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    Just in case someone is still skeptical that the Commodore Callback won't happen, it looks that Jolla is actually working on porting their OS to ""Here's some hilights from their "fortnight newsletter" of today (for those who don't know, Jolla publishes on their forum a bi-weekly update on their work regarding Sailfish OS, the devices they're manufacturing, apps in their store and whatever else concerning Sailfish as a platform):Jolla wrote: sailfish-components-gallery, QML components to handle the image and video gallery, perttupoh added an highlight on the current thumbnail, for devices with a keypad. He also modified the video playing, so the play / pause button can be controlled by a keypad, if any. tt9, a keypad layout and dictionaries, a new repository to handle keypad and provides T9 text typing (with word prediction).nemo-qml-plugin-systemsettings, the QML bindings for global settings, direc85 added settings for keypads, like backlight handling. Tomin1 added a setting to choose the lid tone level. [...]jolla-camera, the application to shoot pictures, perttupoh added access to basic camera functions with a keypad. The preview is also set to fill up the screen on small factor devices. [...]sailfish-browser, the browser itself, abranson added a caller-owned portal flow with optional headings, completion/cancellation handling and return to the requesting app. perttupoh fixed rendering issues for devices with a keypad (note: the Callback phone is advertised with having no user-accessible browser, so my guess is that they are using this to open webpages when needed - i.e.: captive portal logins - correct me if I'm wrong). [...]libsidplayfp, a SID playback library, a new repository to handle music files created for the Commodore64.gst-siddecfp, GStreamer SID playback element, another new repository in Sailfish OS to provide support for SID music files in GStreamer.localsearch, desktop-neutral metadata database and search tool, mal added a patch to allow to track SID music files. [...]ssu-sysinfo, tools and libraries for getting ssu information, pvuorela exposed the information that a device has a keypad or not.Quite some Commodore Callback related updates imo. I'm curious how the phone will turn out.

    [–] [S] 1 point 2 days ago

    If the email service is free, it is likely that you are the productThat's true about many things, but the reality is that you can only pay for so much online stuff. And the product not being free is not a guarantee that it doesn't do some shenanigans as well (take Netflix for example, which has ad-supported paid tiers).I'm not saying that the three ones do it, but still.DisrootThey're currently recovering from a server outage, but as I said, it is not a problem for me to have a single personal email (I don't really need more per provider anyway), as I plan to use an email aliasing service in the future.I'll be moving to the UK soon for study (where they do operate!)Cool!

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  • [–] [S] 3 points 2 days ago (2 children)

    Yay, another person using the Fediverse! That is always nice, it's so amazing that people from different services hosted in so many places can communicate almost seamlessly!Indeed. I started using it since 2022 or something? I remember not so long after me joining this place, Musk bought Twitter and the first migration wave happened. It's a cool place and Friendica is a totally underrated platform. You can do so much with it.As for communication stuff, Signal is quite good. Don't let perfection become the enemy of good, it's a hell of a lot better than WhatsApp and has the security audits to show for it.Yeah, I don't. But there's always hope I guess. I am using whatever I have available for now 😁Yay for the Firefox-based browsers! LibreWolf is awesome, though I personally am currently using Floorp.Yeah. Too bad Firefox is so reliant on Google, still, but it is still good to have more privacy-focused alternative. Right now, whenever there's a website that doesn't work properly on LibreWolf, my flow is: also check in Firefox => also check in Chrome.I'll be checking Floorp as well.Huh, I never knew that DeepL and SoundCloud were German! The more you know. I do prefer doing both translation ("Offline Translator" on F-Droid and the built-in translation feature on Firefox based browsers is very good!) and music (headphone jack forever!) locally though.Yep, they're German. I'd love for the Jolla phone to come with a headphone jack as well, but it doesn't have, so I've switched for the first time in my life to Bluetooth headset (yes, I know USB-C wired headphones exist, but you still cannot use them while your phone is charging, so a 3.5mm jack would have made sense). My ideal would be to keep everything local (yes, that is possible with Syncthing), but I'm glad there are some usable and great online services.I'll check your recommendations too regarding email. Afaik mailbox.org was offering too little storage on their free plan.The KeePass ecosystem is truly awesome, as is AntennaPod!Yeah. Wish AntennaPod was available natively for SailfishHave not heard of Bolt, will look into it, looks very cool (and Estonian 🇪🇪!)Not sure how good it is or if it is that present in Australia too, but in my city Uber and Bolt are the two biggest ride-sharing companies operating, so it was an easy pick. My main grievance with Bolt is that they have no web interface. But there's that.Linux is the GOAT, and wish you all the best on mobile Linux! It's so cool that Linux phones actually becoming a feasible alternative for many people (desktop Linux has been amazing for ages, especially with Proton making gaming awesome too).Thank you! And yeah, they quite nailed it with the Jolla Phone. There is much improvement to be done software-side in order for Sailfish to be fully usable as a daily driver, and I am still quite dependent on Android apps. But I'm glad that this option exists on this phone at all, as it's making the phone really usable (not for everyone, but for a larger part of the population I find this phone actually usable - if they had it).And yay for supporting local businesses!Thank you!

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  • [–] [S] 3 points 3 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 child)

    This looks exactly as I created it (and yes, I am on Friendica rn). And I have checked it on the web on the Lemmy side, there are no formatting problems whatsoever, so what the hell?!?I've used bullet points for every entry there.Maybe there's an issue with your specific app? I don't knowedit: I also checked it from your side, on your server. It even seems better formatted than here, with proper spacing between the list elements, even. I really don't know why you're seeing it like you say.

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  • [–] [S] 1 point 3 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

    I'm rather more into using the Fediverse to meet new people. Chat apps feel more personal imo. So while I do agree that there is activity on the groups, I haven't managed to bring people over, at least not permanently.Also, the percentage doesn't tell anything about the activity on a certain platform or on a certain app. It's more about how much time I personally spend using that specific alternative compared to how I was spending on the previous one. For example, check out how many people there are on moviebuff.social.I personally hope Quicksy will get more regular people over.

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    Hello, people. I managed to settle on a few alternatives hosted/created in Europe, and I decided to make this post to serve as an inspiration for others into picking European alternatives to American Big Tech. I will also mention how close I am to fully commit using them completely. Here we go:Facebook ------> Friendica (99% of the time - I noticed it's been weeks since I last accessed Facebook. Down from pretty much all the time at its peak)Instagram -------> Friendica and the Fediverse, via Friendica (75% of the time - I still have friends sending me reels and stuff, and nowadays, it looks like new people are more likely to connect with you on Instagram. However, I am aware of who owns that thing and how addicting it is, so I am trying to limit its usage as best as I can. I did create a pictures-only circle to compensate)Reddit -------> The Fediverse, via Friendica (70% of the time - Reddit still has native content for my own language and the old Reddit interface which makes it sane enough to use - even though the content gets more and more garbage. I created a circle called "Frontpage" on Friendica that I seldomly visit)YouTube -------> PeerTube, via Friendica (5% of the time I guess - YouTube has this talent of getting you through rabbit holes, and the content creators are paid, unlike on the Fediverse, where some PeerTube instances actually charge you to put their videos there, so probably not that enticing for them. Shout-out to some of the YouTubers I do follow who moved here though).WhatsApp --------> Signal (5% of the time, some friends are really starting to use that), XMPP (0.5% - seldomly enter for some groups, but no one is using this, sadly), Briar (0% of the time - literally not a single soul there. The concept is nice, since that's why I'm still having that installed, but that's the only reason I keep it. Getting people on XMPP seems easier than this imo)Goodreads --------> Bookwyrm (100% - fuck that shithole Bezos who owns Amazon and doesn't give a crap on this platform)IMDB ----------> Moviebuff (100% - yes, that is a federated alternative to IMDB and Letterboxd; also fuck that shithole Bezos who owns Amazon and doesn't give a crap on this platform)Last.fm --------> Libre.fm (40-50% I guess - great platform. Not so good when it comes to certain features, but shout-out to Matt Lee for keeping the lights on for so long, and for continuing to do so)Geocaching.com -------> opencaching.ro (0% of the time - sadly had no time to look for caches anymore. Bummer. I'd love to log something)Google Maps ---------> Organic Maps (60% of the time - in process of changing for CoMaps - the clanker-free version of Organic Maps, sorry), InfoTB (40% of the time - this is the local transit app. It is proprietary as fuck but since it is made by my local transit agency I can be 100% sure it's gonna work properly and be more up-to-date than even Google Maps. And there are plenty of missing features from Google Maps itself compared to this afaik)Google Drive, OneDrive, Dropbox, Box ---------> Nextcloud (99.9% of the time - I still have data there, but I seldomly use these. Also there's no Linux client, so eff them), pCloud and Filen (whenever I want to transfer something larger - haven't committed to storing all the stuff there. Will need to do some cleanup through my cloud storage accounts too), Mega (50% of the time - larger stuff goes there; got my account when they offered 50 GB for free)Google Contacts, also on Microsoft and Yahoo -------> Nextcloud contacts (65% let's say - new contacts go there. Need to do some purge on the others whenever I have the time)Google Calendar ---------> Nextcloud calendar (10% of the time - have to move some recurring events there, which are 90% of how I use that service tbh; also need to do some cleanup)Gmail, Outlook, Yahoo -------> Eclipso mail (0% of the time - feature-wise seems good enough for me, but just like in the other cases, I need to do some cleanup - need some time to spare; I am thinking of leaving yahoo for good out of the other 3; I may leave the other two as well if I find a good aliasing service. IDK, thinking how to move things forward)Keepass (100% of the time - never used another password manager; used one of my cloud providers for syncing)Google Photos -------> My own laptop, backed up to an external hard drive (100% of the time - cannot get any more European than that) - I use Shotwell for organizing stuffGoogle Keep ---------> Nextcloud Notes (100% of the time); in the past I used Zettel Notes on Android, now I am only keeping it to read articles offlineMicrosoft OneNote --------> Nextcloud Notes (0% of the time - I need to move out some of the notes from there)Google Translate --------> DeepL Translate (100% of the time - never seen another product that was literally on par with the American product - even better); also I am looking for some dictionaries to use locally with Goldendict; I do have some, but not enoughChrome --------> Librewolf (100% of the time)Microsoft Office ---------> LibreOffice (100% of the time when I'm opening any document)AntennaPod (100% of the time - never used anything else for podcasting; currently syncing my podcasts with Nextcloud)Spotify --------> SoundCloud (0% of the time currently, have used it extensively in the past; this is pretty much the only service that I accept as streaming), I also currently mostly buy music, so most of the time I am listening offline (let's say 100% of the time); there's also Nextcloud music installed on one of the servers I'm on.Netflix ---------> local cinema (100% of the time - yes, I do have such a thing. Better to support your local business).Uber ---------> Bolt (100% of the time), I'm also using the public transport, and I've started riding my bike more.Windows --------> Linux (100% of the time - switched since almost 10 years ago; that shit belongs to the dumpster).Android ----------> Sailfish OS (90% of the time - wow, that's such a fantastic system if you manage to around some of its shortcomings; can't wait for the 5.3 version, that will have broader support for Android banking apps such as Revolut. Can't wait for it!).Of course, I am using the new Jolla Phone, so another point for a European smartphone.Mastercard, Visa ---------> RoPay (0% of the time - it's a recently launched thing in my country. How the hell does that shit even work?!? I tried to use it twice at a self-checkout in Auchan, and it was just not working), Wero, other European solutions (???% - the idea behind them is good, but those are not even available in my country, what the hell?!?).Amazon -------> eMag (30% of the time - Amazon is not even present in my country. But we fortunately have the same shitty version of it that tries to sell everything called eMag), brick&mortar stores (70% of the time I guess), I'm aware that I'm privileged to live in a big city, so I have plenty of options available, but if you do have the opportunity as well, why not go take a breath of fresh air on your way there.McDonald's, KFC, other fast food chains -----> Hesburger (10% of the time - meh food but at more affordable prices), shawarma places (5% of the time - yes, there's plenty of them here, but don't want to spoil myself too much), pastry shops (are they called like this in English) such as Luca or the local mom&pop ones (10% of the time, Luca expanded into Poland too, that shit is good for a snack), regular restaurants (50% of the time).And that's pretty much it, I guess? If there's anything missing it means I have found no alternative to it or haven't thought of it. By any chance, did I miss something though? And how do you fare with your usage on European alternatives? Did you find your own Euro-Stack? Do you miss something yourself from it?

    [–] [S] 5 points 2 weeks ago

    Mikhail Klimarev, executive director of the Internet Protection Society, told Ekho Moskvy that the Federal Tax Service operates two duplicate data centers: one in Dubna, in the Moscow region, and another in the Nizhny Novgorod region.Sadly, their data is okay.And trust me, losing land registry info is really a pain too. That means that there's no way you can prove that the house you live in is yours or that you own a certain property. This summer it happened to us as well - and during peace time.

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