That’s exactly the kind of thing a chump would say about it

No, I simply do not spend hundreds of hours on any phone app. Social media is not very important to me, and I would always rather use a web browser on one of my nice computers for a superior Internet browsing experience.

Nope, I don’t need another one. I’m fully capable of buying any app I want but I do not buy mobile apps.

Hell naw. Paid social media apps are for chumps

PowerDeleteSuite was a good tool for overwriting your comments and deleting them. Now you need a rate-limited fork of it. It still works, but I don’t have the link handy.

Edit all of your comments and posts to some useless text, then delete them.

What the fuck are you talking about “Stay mad tho” ? It sounds like you agreed with what I said mostly. This shit is all bad, and that was my point.

That lines up with everything I’ve read about TikTok being the worst of the spyware social media apps. Unfortunately most online discussion about that subject gets filled with “Whatabout America spying?” posts trying to normalize the acceptance of everybody doing it. The discussions should be about how TikTok is the worst AND Facebook is close on their tails for the race of spying. All of the spyware social media apps are a bad thing.

Have you seen this code though? Every time I hear a statement like that, I have to wonder if you’re all just taking their word for it.

I don’t take their word for it, unless they show me that code and prove that it is the code running on all the devices in use.

Being upset about that small benefit going to people who already have some money is nothing but crabs in a bucket mentality.

Do you complainers not want to have income security when you get old too? This is a good thing for those old people. There are plenty of other more serious issues to be concerned about.

I bought it when I was making about $40k salary actually

Whatever, I’m the one who’s out of touch but I have a very good budget and all my bills are paid. Do you own a house? Because I do and I manage all the household bills and I do know how to make ends meet on a budget.

You are free to ignore my info at your own risk.

Her utilities are higher than my 3 bedroom house’s. Phone bill is a bit high, Internet bill is double what it should be, property tax and insurance are high, haircuts, cosmetics, shopping all could be reduced. The cat bill is ridiculous, unless those are some sick pets with long term illnesses or she has about 30 normal ones.

Bottom line is that is not the budget of someone who’s “Struggling” in life. Struggling would be not having the money to do half the things on that budget.

Really? What do her bills look like? Is she ordering DoorDash for every meal?

Give me a free house and car, and I could easily live on half that much money.

EDIT: Here’s what the article says. This looks like a pretty random budget, and the house was not free as the headline suggests.

Her typical monthly expenses:

Investments: $0

Savings: $0

Pensions: $0

Taxes: $415 in monthly tax deductions

Household: $2,175

Mortgage: $1,162.70

Utilities: $233

Hydro: $165

Internet: $135

Property tax: $216

Property insurance: $184

Phone bill: $80

Transportation: $384

Car repairs: $50

Car insurance: $184

Gas: $150

Food and drink (total): $520

Groceries: $400

Eating out: $60

Coffee/tea: $20

Alcohol: $40

Miscellaneous (dental, clothing, other shopping, nails, hair, spa etc) - $680

Her cats: $350 (food, meds and litter)

Haircuts/cosmetics: $150

Prescriptions: $100

Dental: $0 this year

Clothing: $50

Apps: $30

Vacations: $0

Hobbies/recreation: $0

Haha!

The parent domain was apparently well known to be a common host of phishing domains and scam sites. Free domains tend to attract those types, so that’s a good reason from the start not to use that if you want your site to be reliably accessible and findable on search engines.

I found a workaround to that problem, just do a page refresh after going back from a post to the list of posts.

This perfectly illustrates the problem with the Internet as a whole in the age of smartphones.

Your idea of the “first step” is always “open app” but the Internet is not apps. The Internet is servers, and a web browser is the client app for most of it.

Since I know how to use the Internet, it was simple AF to get a Lemmy account going. I went to https://lemmy.world and signed up. Now I’m on Lemmy.

If all you know of the Internet is “open app” on your phone, you have a lot more to learn about the Internet as a whole.