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This is very normal. Especially if you don't have kids and some of your friends do, or if your work schedule isn't a standard 9 to 5 and all your friends are on that. Once your group gets bigger than 5 or 6 people, coordinating schedules is basically impossible.
Don't take it personally. It's likely nothing about trying to change your plans, but rather just trying to find some middle ground in the plans that works for everyone. Don't set your own expectations so high that anything that isn't perfect leaves you miserable.
You have 2 options: 1) As mentioned, just say at this time in this day you're doing something and anyone who wants to join is free to do so, knowing full well that some people will feel FOMO. 2) Try and do something and be fine with the plans changing to get the larger group, because that's the point, not the activity itself.
Both comments are references to the movie The Fifth Element
I never confirmed this, but I noticed that in parts of West Africa, people wouldn't say "afternoon" until after 1:00pm. Since greetings were important, I started noticing it more and more when peoe would say "good morning" during lunch at 12:30pm. As if the 12 noon hour is still part of the time segment.
Hold up. You mean this guy?
Heli is my default for swipe, but Simple has a specific language I can't get on any other keyboard. But the Fdroid store version I have is just some dude's FOSS keyboard.
Sorry, correct response was "Leeloo Dallas Multipass."
Evolution? Don't you know that humans were created by the Annunaki? The entire Babylonian creation myth is clear as day, with the alien scientist Enki using DNA from his own sperm spliced with pre-modern humans 6 million years ago. Our pattern-seeking hybrid brains made us good workers, just like ChatGPT we were smart enough to do some of the jobs without getting too full of ourselves. We make mistakes and weren't good enough to operate their starships, just mine gold. They selected for some intelligence traits, but elements of our ape ancestors remain as well, for example, your mom.
I agree 1000000% with this. Light duty pickups are amazing.
Nissan used to have a light duty pickup everywhere, even the US, called the NP300 Hardbody that slowly morphed into the bloated "Navara" - except for South Africa. Nissan used to have this very Africa-appropriate tiny light duty truck, the Champ. Stellar vehicle. They made the same exact model from 1971 to 2008, and then replaced it with the Nissan NP300 Hardbody. Both are solid metal deathtraps, can be fixed with wire and string, but they're donkeys as well. Modestly sized and will just go forward (not too fast!) forever. Nissan never stopped making a light duty pickup because the Africa market demands it - something cheap and simple that carries and goes. No frills, not even good for a drive more than 4 hours because the seats are terrible.
And don't get me started on the way Toyota ruined the Hilux. The only entity in the known universe that could destroy a Hilux was Toyota itself. Damn shame.
Everyone driving these giant monsters wouldn't know a good economical work vehicle if it drove up to them and dumped a cubic meter of sand on them.
No misconceptions - it's a word that has more than one meaning, especially in this context. That's why I said I was unsure which version you meant. I'm not attacking you or doubting you, there's just not enough information here. Not just about what you mean, but also to ensure you have fundamentals reasonably covered to the point where worrying about where Signal's servers are should be a sticking point for you.
Free as in no money needed to install? Free as in freedom from proprietary software? Free as in free from specific geographic snooping? Free from centralization under a single entity? When the start and end of FOSS are "Free" and "Software," I am free as well to see 2 words next to each other and understand there's ambiguity left to sort out and just ask what you mean. Seems like you mean all of those things - correct me if that's not accurate.
I'm also not having a disagreement with you, at least not that I'm aware of. I'm trying to get you to take a step back and see if your concerns really bare themselves out, and if the balance you note in the title is actually a search for balance at all. Your post title is about balancing convenience and privacy, but the point of the post is to just ask "What is an E2EE messaging app that doesn't touch any equipment in the US?" Which is an entirely different question.
Also, there's no balance if you have a "spyware phone" and find some unicorn app that uses quantum entanglement to send the messages if your keyboard on that spyware phone is giving up what you're typing anyway. Which is a very real possibility and I'm not seeing indication or not that you're using non-default keyboards. Or even what phone you're using as we might say "spyware" but what and how deep Apple and Google track users are fairly different. Balance can't be found if a vulnerability undoes all your security improvements. If I have a rootkit on my laptop, virus scans of incoming PDFs doesn't undo the rootkit, right?
Also, if you're on Android do you have Whatapp sandboxed in a separate profile? If not, then you're already giving up enough that Signal's servers are the least of your concerns. Anything that you do where that's a concern shouldn't be done on your phone in the first place. Your device isn't trustworthy enough, and changing one app isn't going to fix that. And that's OK - my phone does things I can't change and so I have to ultimately just know that it's rated for no conversation more sensitive than what's for dinner and what time do we meet for someone's birthday. It's something I just have to accept.
Look, you're asking for help and I'm trying to provide some based on partial information. So you can either help us all in this community with information to help you, or not and come away frustrated and angry with no results.
OK, so based on what you've posted here I think you might have a lot of misconceptions about what works and what doesn't and what's "good" and what isn't. It's not even clear what you mean by "Free." I assume this means FOSS, but it's hard to tell.
Edit: Speaking of Signal - it is FOSS, it's the equipment that the network uses that isn't because someone has to take care of it. That's how every FOSS project works. You can, if you like, fork your own version of Signal if there's something about you don't like. But the thing about E2EE is that once the message leaves your device, it's encrypted, so worrying about server location isn't worth it. Otherwise go see what ISIS or Russia uses and go use that. Remember how they all used Telegram, which wasn't secure at all and the EU is about to try and pass a law making Signal and other E2EE positions illegal because they can't see the messages?
This is a much larger conversation, but I would expect that you're placing far too much emphasis on big-picture labels and geography without understanding where nuance exists that might make something worth using. So you're possibly trying to balance very unbalanced notions.
Not really - have you looked at the F-droid shop? I use Heliboard and Simple keyboard on android which are both FOSS and cover all my language needs. Neither is spyware as far as anyone seems to know.
Negative, I am a meat popsicle.
I get you, but my friend, the guy that started Signal gave up $850 million from Meta to go start Signal.
What's more likely is your phone to get spyware on it that renders any E2EE worthless, regardless of what app you use.
Yeah, this was sort of the "corporate-ish" color scheme and web design template back then for websites. Tons of things looked like this. Facebook looked like this for a decade or more. Large banner images took too long to load and this looked "professional" because it looked like corporate letterhead.
Xerox used red, but similar layout to some degree.
Thanks for your response. I have a little corner of the internet with a couple projects that require full access to the HTML for the site, so neocities of all things works great. I tried wordpress first, and I just couldn't get something I wanted worked out. For a blog, I've used it before. Blogs I'm kind of wavering about.
Friendica seems great and then...I can't find anything. I actually did find a Lemmy.world group on there that for some reason I couldn't see when searching globally for communities by the same name, so it did help me with Lemmy's jankiness... but for example looking for anyone I might possibly know (unlikely) seems to get me nothing close. I'll give misskey a look, I checked it out a while ago but was a Fediverse newb.
Short of being a proficient and innovative coder (which I am not), is there any way to help the Fediverse not suck like this?
Cool, cool cool cool. I get you.
As for having a "stake" in anything, you're just making a lot of fancy excuses for parents making an educated guess, which is what some parents have done forever. Ultimately, it's projection and hope that parents can manage resources appropriately. They don't always do that. Maybe they end up succumbing to alcoholism or dying in a car accident or anything else that frustrates best-laid plans. Everyone simply not having children isn't the solution, though. For starters, generational gluts and booms can be debilitating to a culture and economy even in good times. Humans are animals, and we live on this earth not much above animals in terms of being subject to natural disasters that can wipe us away in moments. We only barely survived as a species about 900,000 years ago, with genetics research suggesting we withered to as few as 1,280 individuals. And it wasn't the conscientious objectors and resource managers with no offspring that let us survive. It was the foolish horndogs who passed on the genes of being foolish horndogs and from which we are all descended by virtue of nearly a million years of horndogging. Which is not a suggestion to "be fruitful and multiply." Simply that things balance themselves out or they don't until they do. Let people do whatever they want and my DINK self will educate and divert resources to my nephews nieces and cousins, and my friend's kids. And so it shall be until I have no more resources left to apply because disease and famine and climate change will boil this place until it's all either desert or rain forest.
As for your brand of Gnosticism, I'm not exactly too far off, just with different labels. So we might be able to meet in the middle that if consciousness is a form of energy as self, that we're "trapped" in order to experience - to have gnosis - of the world, and which carries costs that must be paid before freeing one's self from the trap. That is, we can't deny any being gnosis of any part, be that the gnosis of living a life filled with fear, like the parent that is an anti-natalist or a pro-natalist, or as the child born into a wondrous life of privilege, or as the child born into a dystopian hellscape. Who are we to likewise deny consciousness a chance to experience the chaos and possibly of thriving in it? Some humans just do. So why assume that every human, and human society, is frail and weak by default? Humans have survived worse. The Younger Dryas cataclysm, for example.
Which is all to say, both absolutes are silly because they're impractical, untenable, and wholly a disservice to individuals and to the collective consciousness to some degree.
It's Lemmy. There are literally dozens of us!
I can get mine to speak to my shitberg printer, but I went and bought bootleg ink cartridges and I have a half-day printer battle on my to do list to reset the ink levels and force the printer to accept non-HP ink into its heart.