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.

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.

Hell yeah bro.

George called me on the Joe Pesci line to say this is fucked up.

Zed! Fastest GUI editor out there other than Sublime Text.

Go back to IBM OS/2 Warp 4! Back when there was still actual choices in desktop computing…

Correct. Even if the guillotine took out every billionaire tonight the next lot would pop up and and carry on the same evil work unless we fix the system.

The way we think about economics and finance is completely rotten from the inside - notably the two speed economy that separates the “investor” class from the “worker” class.

In Australia we spend more on tax breaks for land lords than all government programs for affordable housing combined.

It was never about efficiency or merit, the financial system has had enough to cater for everyone’s needs through much of the 20th century, let alone the 21st. Now we just need people to wake up and fight back. Change one problem at a time.

It’s gonna take generations to fix.

MAGA are busy creating and watching Child Sexual Abuse Material on Elon Musks X.

I wish it were merely that. I think Y Combinator, and the culture it promotes, is part of a much deeper problem in the IT industry: digital colonisation (or astroturfing, if you will). Vast amounts of capital are used to blitzkrieg entire markets, not to build better services but to erase alternatives and own the only platform.

That’s how companies like Uber Eats gained dominance. They didn’t become market leaders by being better, they swung enormous capital at every problem, undercut local business until they were driven out, then jacked up prices and degraded service once competition was gone. Uber Eats is just one example of this pattern.

This astroturfing phenomenon has spread everywhere: business directories, event planning, community platforms, even the ways people in a local area connect and share prosperity. What looks like “innovation” is often just foreign investors capital overwhelming local ecosystems that were working just fine.

Google is the clearest case study. They gave us genuinely useful tools, Gmail, Maps, Android, and wrapped it all in “Don’t be evil.” Once everyone was locked in, the mask was removed. Surveillance, enclosure, rent-seeking, supporting a fascist government regime. The evil didn’t suddenly appear, it was always there. That’s where the initial capital came from in the first place!

Y Combinator didn’t invent this, but it systematized it: scale first, destroy competition, extract later. The startup business model of tech bros seeking capital was exported overseas and countless idiots today try to ape it at fake tech conferences that are about seeking investor funding, not innovation or a brighter future. The damage isn’t just economic, it’s cultural and social, and it hollowed out entire local and digital communities in the process.

Oh no, exploitative capitalists don’t wanna fuck over Canadians. Must suck for them…