They aren’t only using the value of their assets. Their assets grow there are dividends, there are payouts.

There’s income. They don’t have their money in checking account with no interest paid.

If your wealth increased, you have income.

2^12?

I rather like mine, but would love to know it will last over a decade. There’s so much going on out there with AI and all of that, it’s hard to know what to expect.

Autowrong fixed my “typo…”

Meme is a lie. Linux is tofu. It absorbs whatever flavor you hope, but only after performing tasks and you still want the other thing sometimes.

Cool Meaney (O’Brien) reversed the polarity on the inertial dampener.

Type 2, fast walker here. I walk for my health and I enjoy the cardio and feeling.

You know who’s really unhappy?

People in sports cars.

I mean… Think about it. Walking fast is still slower than almost all other means of transport. People in cars must always be grumpy as hell.

Speaking of ad misfires, South Dakota had their own set of… ideas.

No… no sync users donate. They used ALL THEIR MONEYZ to buy the app.

/s just to be sure

You’re misrepresenting that post.

Par for the course.

The only moral “obligations” I’ve drawn are: Treat people civilly or be ready for incivility Have enough sense to mind your own fucking business.

I’m not going to tell you you’re wrong for shopping around the free stuff. And you shouldn’t tell me I shouldn’t be happy having found something I’ve liked for years. Or call me a sucker. Or be derisive.

But arguing with fools is a fool’s errand. Have the last word. Just don’t embarrass yourself.

I haven’t seen 1 person tell someone that they should get Sync and act like it’s a moral obligation to do that one thing.

I’ve seen people say they’ve felt that they felt happy or obliged to support the dev, but that’s not the same.

What I have seen on Lemmy, repeatedly, is stunted little “adults” waltzing around moralizing about things that they feel they should feel about.

It’s like watching left leaning fundies worry about “the wrong gender” using a restroom. It’s just not something worth spending hours telling people they’re doing it wrong.

It is, however, worth telling the arbitrary gatekeepers that they’re not going to be successful.

To return to point: I’m not hung up on downvotes, but they are an objective metric. That comment of mine got 3 downvotes. 3. That’s not in anyway indicative of a lack of cogency or being in left field.

Bro, you make lemmy look like the average IQ can only go up. As can the discourse.

Ohh and i don’t care about downvote, this isn’t reddit anymore, time to grow up.

Finding out who you’re talking to is actually… kind of a lot more mature than, “Wat?”

Apt name.

My post had 3 downvotes (meh), so I’m taking that to mean it made sense.

What part of it didn’t make sense to you? The part where I indicate you’re playing innocent while throwing shade? People can see your post history.

What I’ve generally seen is if you say you like x then it flies and may even collect upvotes nicely.

Couch it in fanboi and it goes differently. Myaterious.

Just own the hate. It’s more honest.

All the self righteousness of lemmy is strange.

There’s not just better opinions, even small decisions are morally imbued and if someone steps out of line…

Wait, does using sync cause hurricanes? Earthquakes? Will the four big ponies of the lempocalypse arrive and snort angrily?

Otherwise, I get that a surge of people elated they have something you don’t/can’t have is off putting. FOMO is real.

But it doesn’t need all the meme-shade.

FOSS = principled free software without obligation because the labor was “donated.”

That’s what I’m learning on lemmy. It’s blowing my mind.

Edit: exiting to make sure I’m understood. I get FOSS. I understand it’s role. What I’m learning is there is a while corner of the internet determined not to spend money on software.

And feeling significant moral outrage if someone else does. It’s bizarre. I’ve seen religious people less zealous.

This reads a bit like, “I support both sides but one side is kinda on thin ice and a slippery slope.” Or, “respect your elders.”

The hand wringing belies your neutrality.

No one, that I’ve seen, has said FOSS has no place nor have I seen it disrespected except that people grow tired of the gate keeping.