Yes, I don't think I have another app but more features on some apps I use (Smartdock, Joplin, Librera, Rimusic) would be slightly life-changing.

But I have no reason to believe Discord is even an iota less evil than Facebook.

I wish I could loosen up and enjoy malicious tech but like I said, I just can't unring that bell, even though it makes my life meaningfully worse. Iykyk

he knows nothing and genuinely thinks he’s doing a good job.

seems like the first step to improving is being given information on how you're doing, and the second is being mentored/trained?

One of the recent Facebook whistleblowers said her version of social media was her & her friends sharing news articles in a Signal group chat. That's, like, my wet dream.

Sorry, I can't hear you over my sitting down and standing back up repeatedly xD

How integrated are you into the local community? How well do you speak the local language? I'm a foreigner living abroad and I would never trust either my own perception of this place nor 99% of other foreigners' perceptions.

Jesus, why the downvotes? Someone give this man a dragonfruit. So much for friendly, casual discussion

Not too good. I had a half hour long conversation with a friend on the phone recently & I realised it's the first time I've had a phone conversation with somebody I actually wanted to talk to in months, except for that time I called another friend freaked out bc I was scared of my neighbour harrassing me. Not exactly the same giddy energy. This phone friend and I tried to meet up and got foiled multiple times. Shit's exhausting.

My first edit to this post was "maybe I should take up gardening or sth but where to start" bc I want to be able to interact with and get feedback from just about anything besides my coworkers once in a while.

Antidepressants can have serious side effects that can persist even after stopping. Look up the Surviving Antidepressants forum. That doesn't mean don't use them, but it's just a truism that all pharmacological intervention has risks. To see randos diagnosing & medicalising someone for a lemmy post that isn't an obvious cry for help is...objectionable, and in poor taste, and imo diagnostic of some much larger problems, but I don't have the time to spare to argue that point. But people promoting what could be life-altering compounds as no biggie demands a response. (Again, my position isn't 'don't use antidepressants,' it's 'messing with your brain chemistry demonstrably can have serious consequences and is a serious decision.')

edit: rephrased

I've done this and still only gotten lucky like 1/20th of the time. Very hard to tell when they're ripe and flavourful

Surprised by how hiɡh up Mexico is!

I disagree. I've only ever had luck with the white ones.

What do you use for TTS? I'm interested in both a service that'll turn a PDF into an audiobook and that reads a document line-by-line. I use Librera for the latter but the FOSS voices available on F-Droid leave a lot to be desired.

Lol no doxxing but in broad terms which lemmy communities did y'all meet in? Interest-based?

Good bot.

I've always wanted to learn to sing, ever since I was a kid. I even started taking lessons before I went through a major life change that pushed all of that aside. I meant to come back to it but I realised recently it just doesn't matter to me enough to pursue it compared to other things I want to achieve. And it really never became fun for me: it seems like the only way to improve is to 1) make it a team sport, which isn't an option for me, 2) start improving from when you're young enough that you're not self-conscious, or 3) painfully just listen to yourself be awful until you improve as an adult. Which is totally 100% doable, but pretty joyless & not worth the time investment for me rn.

Can I ask how you ended up there in the first place? I can scarcely think of a more interesting place on earth.