mrspaz

@mrspaz@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Discord Alternatives, Ranked⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  Pidgin was good; it did what needed to be done and wasn’t that bad at it.

  The last service I was using it for was a self-hosted XMPP server for a small group of friends that were all refugees of other defunct services. We ended up finally moving to Slack or Discord (the group bifurcated along game-playing lines).

  Now I’ve got to find something new yet again!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft Windows 365 goes down the day after Microsoft celebrates 'reimagining the PC as a cloud service that streams a Cloud PC'⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Little guy. :( I feel you, buddy.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨This 81-year-old still works at Home Depot to support herself and her 90-year-old husband⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  According to this article, average payment is $745 new / $521 used on a 6 year note. So they either have a nicer used car or slightly below average new car.

  $1,400 for rent in a managed apartment complex in a US suburban area also doesn’t raise an eyebrow, especially in a northeast state like Connecticut.

  So yeah, this is “normal” in America.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Amazon tech workers leaving for other jobs in response to return to office mandate⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  They have a name for it: Dead Sea Effect.