Lots of us in Gen X had another leg up: technology jobs.

This path is still available for Millennials even if a bit harder. Long term there’s a lot of job safety to be had because Gen Alpha can’t use computers beyond phones and tablets. I do worry that by the time I’m really old I’ll be like a watchmaker, logging people into their bank accounts when biometrics fail or things like that.

One challenge that Gen X has appeared to be facing more than prior generations is generational squeeze. Adult Gen X’ers having to care their own now adult children that are struggling to survive on their own outside of the home as well as caring for Boomer parents (many of whom didn’t save enough themselves).

Having children is a terrifying thought given where the world is and is going. I feel like Gen X got really screwed on that end, reproducing in the last hurrah of western optimism.

It’s not isolated to Gen X. Wealth is largely transferred as early inheritance, always has been, therefore it’s just rich keeping getting richer. The only thing that changed after we got rid of monarchy was that social status was determined by wealth and not by birth. Given that the wealth of upper class was not redistributed - nothing could really change. There was a brief moment in time after WWII where high taxation of the rich changed things but it was quickly resolved in 70/80s when we went back to tried and true exploitation of the masses.

This is your reminder to join your local socialists, whoever they might be.

D’oh!

~~They’re here: https://github.com/ImranR98/Obtainium/releases~~

It’s supposed to be multiplatform but I’m seeing APKs only?

Tell me what changed between one year ago and today without mentioning that there’s someone else in charge. Go ahead.

You’re not allowed to notice that. You have to applaud that they’re pro-EU, centre-left, well dressed and smile with their perfectly white teeth. Democracy was restored with no legislation and EU loves us now.

…PiS is going to win the next parliamentary elections and I’m not even sorry for my fellow Poles.

There is no civilisation there.

True Blood!

It’s the common spaces / topic-based communities that are mostly affected by this so there’s no escaping this if you’re here for the news etc

Even on gaming subs it seems like every other post results in a discussion about the evils of capitalism.

I think it depends on community, I avoid all .ml ones for that reason. Don’t get me wrong, I could go on about evils of capitalism for hours if prompted but the real issue is that most of the user base is 13 years old either in their actual age or mentally so you’re seeing same performative cynicism over and over again. I’m also getting a feeling that over last 3-4 months it got much worse.

No catch-up needed, got first prototypes already!

Kbin support in Lunar is very rudimentary and read only. The app itself hasn’t been updated in 2 months so I wouldn’t get my hopes up.

Ernest is still posting devlogs:

https://kbin.social/u/ernest

I’m fairly sure Lemmy image embeds won’t be visible in Mastodon since it doesn’t have rich text formatting / markdown.

You might have had a point if the guy released this to the public and not to a direct competitor.

Yes, it was a good alternative, and it remains good alternative now although Matrix seems way more popular these days. Nothing really changed regardless of adopting XMPP because with a hindsight we know that for tech giants it’s the platform and not protocol that captures mainstream popularity:

The article lacks some details that are inconvenient to the point it makes. What was the state of XMPP before being adopted by tech giants and after they dropped it / walled it off? What could be done to prevent it?

TIL Ada Spark is a whole different thing from Apache Spark and I can’t even complain about Ada one because it predates Apache one by 15 years.

Long history would imply continuity, not “so long ago that nobody in the comment section is old enough to have lived through it”.