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For sure. Though if you make 350k, you should be able to pay back 200k loans in 2 or 3 years easy.

Consumer spending in general is actually still quite strong, but the growth has slowed a bit.

Do you mean other instances of kbin, or other fediverse sites?

AI summary:

• Brave Browser has marketed itself as a privacy-preserving web browser and has gained attention from cryptocurrency enthusiasts.
• The company behind Brave, founded by Brendan Eich, faced backlash due to Eich’s previous donation in support of California’s Proposition 8, which aimed to ban same-sex marriage.
• Brave initially planned to replace ads with its own ad units and split revenue with publishers, but this idea was met with legal issues and criticism from both inside and outside the company.
• Brave introduced Basic Attention Tokens (BAT) as a way to reward users for viewing ads and content, but the rewards are minimal and the value of BAT is volatile.
• Brave has incorporated various cryptocurrency-related features, including a full crypto wallet, but many of its crypto partners have faced controversies and scandals.
• Brave was involved in a privacy scandal in which affiliate codes were added to URLs typed into the address bar, allowing the company to collect revenue from user signups or purchases.
• The article concludes that Brave is a flawed software project and should not be used, recommending Firefox or Vivaldi as privacy-focused alternatives.

Agreed. Travel if you can when you’re young, or just make sure to not have kids or put it off a while so you can get to a more money-making part of your career and can afford it more without being tied down by children.

Something in IT is great, I think, and will be applicable to such a variety of fields and allow you to pivot in your career. Once you’re progressing in your career, well, I’ve seen or heard of people making surprising shifts. So much learning for various jobs is really institutional anyways and will happen on the job. Just make sure you learn to well, learn. Always be playing with and learning new tools and processes and be adaptable. For instance, you could start out a developer and find out you like managing projects on your team and finding ways to make things more efficient and wind up a project manager who also understands what your team is talking about and working on.

Yeah, particularly chat in a meeting, it feels so barebones.

Curious – not saying it’s great, but I don’t think the Zoom UX is much better, personally. What bothers you about Teams, if I might ask?

Pretty much exactly the same here. There’s no denying the existing collection of knowledge on Reddit, but it is no longer a browse randomly app for me.

I’ll admit I do. And I won’t like, I’ll still append “Reddit” to my searches as needed. I’m just not really actively contributing or anything there anymore, which is sad

Interesting. For some reason kbin sounds better than lemmy to me, but don’t super love either.

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Hey y’all, we’re headin’ down ‘er to m’k’bin on the bayou this weeken’ if ya wanna tagalong

Pretty cool, especially considering how it’s been shown that WiFi can be used to pretty accurately determine the position and number of people in a room with AI.

Indeed, hence I think kbin is the best sorta in-between. It’s designed to deal with both threads and microblogs.

@NormalTownLeader Hmm – doesn’t seem to me. They compare themselves to Reddit on their about page. I think it’s just the fact that it is an app and has a similar layout to Discord that gives those vibes. The actual communities and posting style seem more Reddit/forum to me, or perhaps a hybrid of sorts.

@ikantolol

@NudelnAlDente Not sure there’s really any set ways, but I’d personally use a microblog with hashtags if I wanted some reach beyond kbin or the community I’m posting to. That said, it seems like folks on kbin might favor threads in general, perhaps because it’s most similar the posts on Reddit where many of us have come from.

Designer here. You could try searching for communities on the fediverse dedicated to design/web design/3D/etc and contacting someone if you like their work or just making a post about it if allowed, or a mastodon/microblog post with lots of related hashtags. Or if you really wanna widen the net, you can try looking on Twitter/Threads/Dribbble/etc. for people you like and contacting them.

You can also hit ⊞ Win + . and go to the emoticons section.

Nah, it’s pretty clear when you open Threads and it says literally “Log in with Instagram”. It’s like logging into YouTube with your Google account and then being mad that deleting your “YouTube account” deletes your Google account. You can always disable your YouTube or Threads profile.

Yep, this is just pure sensationalism, problems with Meta/Threads aside.