Jamie

When I was a kid in the 00s, my friends and I rode our bikes all over the place. Our parents didn't know where we were, and unless they wanted to go out searching or calling people, they didn't have any way of knowing. None of us had cell phones.

Now, people are too scared to let their kids out of their sight for too long, or they might have a neighbor that can't mind their own business and call CPS over it.

I've done it, and I do not recommend it if you actually plan for people to receive your emails.

Reminds me of Obsidian, which is what I use for notes. But obsidian isn't selfhosted. I might actually host a copy of that because it's cool

You could probably ask this question of most things and get the same answer.

You can host a webmail like roundcube or similar. I don't know if they can be turned into PWAs with phone notifications though.

The thing that sucks about that is the sheer amount of stuff that a modern web browser is expected to do.

Level 0:

• Parse and correctly display the contents of simple HTML documents in a manner consistent with other browsers
• Figure out what to do if somebody gives you mangled HTML in a way consistent with other browsers, because the page will just about always try to show the user something.

Level 1:

• Implement who knows how many CSS properties in a way consistent with other browsers

Level 3:

• Now write a JavaScript engine to manipulate all of the above, making sure that everything works like it does elsewhere no matter how non-sensical it is, because pages rely on that stuff to function sometimes.

Level 4:

• Don't forget to implement media codecs so you can display video, play audio, and let the user control those via JavaScript APIs, and you have to render/play that in whatever way the webpage specifies.

Basically, writing a browser engine from scratch in a way that is in any way competitive is probably on par for scale on writing your own operating system. You might even accomplish the latter faster, depending on where you'd call your OS "complete"

I always found the tracking chip conspiracy stuff to be particularly funny. Unfortunately, I never personally met any whackos that believed it.

The best method for very accurately tracking them was the thing they likely used to post about the COVID vaccine tracking you.

Lemmy has cut out my doomscrolling more than I estimated. I knew it would decrease, but usually I don't scroll for more than 5 or 10 minutes at a time, and it never interrupts me doing anything else. Makes me look back and realize how unhealthy those algorithms really are.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Fundraising_statistics

they could run an extra year on $0 of donations. Whether one considers that enough or not might be down to personal viewpoint.

I often grab a pirated copy to see if I like it first, and if I do, I'll buy it. If I play it once or twice and don't really get much out of it, I'm not out anything but some download time.

Bad thing about the shire is, in the books particularly, I get the feeling that the Hobbits are super judgy and talk shit about each other constantly behind their backs.

Which, given that the shire is so small and insular, checks out. What else are they talking about after they finish up about the weather or wondering when Gandalf will show up with fireworks again.