They never fell out of style amongst people who work on their feet all day. I'm guessing you don't need them while riding a desk, try walking 10mi a day through a warehouse and see how your loafers do.

We really need to get a search function so this post can stop being asked 1x daily by some new refugee.

Don't get me wrong, I'm glad y'all are here and it moves a lot faster than 2y ago, but every day with this question, and no consensus has been reached. We should all just stop "asking" and let time tell us what we call ourselves, some word will win eventually.

Or a club to the fucking head.

(For legal and animal cruelty reasons this is a joke.)

A guy like who? This random girl's random friend's "boyf?" That's not specific enough for me to believe your claim.

Honestly I'm not even sure if it's specific enough for me to believe her claim, but if either is true good on "Boyf."

Because before it my ADHD made it functionally impossible to sleep, since when I'm not on the meds my mind runs too hard and when I am on the meds I can't sleep either because they're prescription meth, but weed solves that problem and I enjoy sleeping.

It's easy! Just :!reboot!

"Why should I care about my privacy? I don't do anything illegal."

Hmm? Do we now acknowledge that laws and public perceptions of your actions can change with time, and that you may one day become a "criminal" for continuing behaviors that were once legal?

To preempt the "but it should just be legal" whataboutists: Of course it should just be legal, but "criminal charges" suggests that it isn't, and privacy helps you not get caught. Furthermore, this issue contains but is not limited to abortion. It's time that "normal" people wake the fuck up and get on board with privacy rights.

.. its a website run by the US Government. Why does it have such large downtimes in this day and age?

In case you were unaware, the US government sucks at everything but killing people, and sometimes they take 20yr to do that. They just flat out suck, there's your "why."

The fucking bane of my existence I swear, all my homies hate filesize limits.

Fortunately we have a few options, some better than others, and if it helps one person Imma talk about it now.

Magic-wormhole: My favorite, CLI client that shares files from your computer to a server to be downloaded with a password you send through your normal means of communication. No filesize limit, files stay on the server for 1h unless downloaded (deleted after download.) For sensitive information I would PGP it before I upload but I have trust issues.

Warp: Magic wormhole, but GUI. Second favorite, only because I love my terminal so much. It's literally just a GUI wrapper for magic wormhole though so no complaints from me. Works on windows too iirc, and the android wrapper for it is called just "wormhole" alone, no "magic."

Onionshare: Sends files directly from your pc to theirs, works through Tor. I have gotten it to work before, but sometimes it hates me and refuses to connect, usually when I try to DL from mobile.

Soulseek: Not exactly private, but it works if you can forward a port. If you need privacy you'll have to mark the files as private, probably name them something nondescript like "file1," and set it so only your trusted buddies can download it, then whitelist the buddy you want to share it with for that time (would have to remove trust for buddies by default, only enabling the ones for the current file to be shared, then swap that again next time. Like I said it "works" but it's far from ideal. Would also PGP them files to be safe.)

Torrents: well we all know this one, it's the classic!

I'm probably forgetting some/don't know some, so anyone else feel free to add!

Sorry, as an arachnophobe, Kevin better stay out of my house or have a faster draw than I do or he's toast. Castle doctrine applies to spiders that large lmao.

Old man time

Weeellll I just migrated here from lemmy.ml but that acct is probably 2y old by now. There's graybeards here older than me that I still bump into every so often too! Back then it was so slow the most populated communities (well, I avoided the communist ones, so the most popular "normal" ones like c/linux or c/memes) had like 30 users a month, most communities like c/books had much less. One single dude posted almost all of the stuff in c/worldnews and a few other communities lol. Shit was kinda wild, but I'm definitely glad for the reddit exodus bringing new life in! You dern kids stay on my lawn!

Lol yeah this place was nuts before the exodus. It was mostly marxists simping for Mao and Stalin and you'd regularly find 2yo posts at the top. Couldn't convince anyone else to join either because they'd go check it out, see people claiming that the holodomor, tienanmen square, and the armenian genocide never happened, and support for "the Z warriors" who are "fighting ukranian nazis and western imperialism," and understandably they'd nope right the fuck out.

I'm so fucking glad all of you came to this platform to make it usable. Seriously, thank each and every one of you.