The world is such a depressing inhumane shit show at the moment. And I'm tired of being gaslit by every government from my local borough administration all the way to the federal government.

Capitalism and fascism had taken a hold on the world's nations the likes of which we have never seen in the history of humankind.

And the worst part is I feel people have been indoctrinated to as point where we're never gong to collectively get out of it. I don't even think a violent revolution is possible because people are too fucking dumb to notice what's wrong.

And the "fuck you, I got mine" attitude that capitalism has brought has ruined any chance of salvation. Empathy and solidarity are ridiculed as being some woke mind virus.

The world's climate is beyond fucked. There's wars and crimes against humanity being perpetrated by the Epstein class in our name. We keep electing wolves in sheep's clothing who win our votes on fake promises to help us then turn against us and double down on policies that make life more difficult and increase our level of misery. Unless you're a billionaire CEO or a politician, your life is absolutely worthless. You're nothing more than a low value resource. And you don't have freedom. Neither of speech or otherwise. Not as long as what you say or do goes against what the elites want.

We're fucked. I don't foresee any future worth living in.

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[–] Reannlegge@lemmy.ca 8 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

I feel your pain, know Capitalism cannot last forever and it is coming to a tipping point. Why are you posting this on Lemmy and not something like facebook, reddit, or glob forbid X? You are taking a stand by not using those services. I am in the process of writing a letter to my MLA (like an MPP, MNA, or MHA I am in Saskatchewan so it is MLA), because last night my power was having difficulties staying on for a good hour SaskPower’s webpage just said it was down nothing more. Because my power was out my searXNG was not working so I was forced to use Google to search what others where saying. SaskPower has an X account that I guess they post notices to so I am going to firmly suggest they stop using the Nazi app and transition to Mastodon.

I realize I am in a unique position being in a province that is trying to hold on to its crown corps, so my MLA may have some power to push the power company off of X and try and introduce people to mastodon, this is true but maybe you can take up something like that. When something happens take a stand push for change.

Sasktel recently sent all their customers in my condo complex a letter via registered mail saying our service was going to be cut off because the condo board and/or property manager was not letting them in. I knew this line was a flat out lie, as soon as I found out I called my property manager to confirm it was a lie then I called Sasktel to ask customer support about it and they had no idea that this letter ever went out, there where no notes on the file nothing. A few days later when I was able to pick up my letter I scanned it and wrote a complaint to the CCTS, from my understanding the CCTS would file the complaint with Sasktel and than I would get notified within 20 days about what was going to happen then I would decide if I were going to do anything about it. Sasktel got back to the the CCTS a few days later saying this issue has been resolved we are installing the fibre soon so their dsl lines will not be cut citing some things as to how the CCTS had no authority to do anything. Whoever at the CCTS must not have been to happy with that response because I got no choice as to if I was going further with the complaint it was going to happen. I would have moved forward with this complaint even if the CCTS had asked me because I do not want to be pushed around, but that is not the point. Sasktel went from we are cutting your internet to we will not be cutting your internet in less than a week, they went from we do not know when you are getting fibre to you are getting fibre sometime between June 1 to 5th, in a matter of 2 weeks.

I am not saying pat me on the head and say good girl, what I am saying is there are things I do to push back, to keep my sanity. Maybe you can find something you want and push for it, do not let anyone say no keep pushing!

With my mortgage I do not have lots of extra money, so when Tim Cook started praising Trump all I could do was not use Apple services anymore I am stuck with my iphone and ipad, but luckily I was already getting into the hobby of homelabbing but again little money so I was using raspberry pi’s. The number of pi’s I have and the services I run on them has increased because of the boycott the US movement starting. If you want to start sticking it to the big capitalists may I suggest you start with one raspberry pi and install pihole and block a lot of ads and trackers! If you want to do that you could use a pi zero 2, if you want to go a little further you could get a pi 5 with 8gb ram and run searXNG and stick it to the big search engines. You could get by with less ram for just searXNG and pihole but once you get started you will want to push for more. I went from a couple pi’s to a few more pi’s, with goals for more. I am using these to push big tech out of my home providing less money to those who already have to much, I am but a small potato but the more people do it the more money the big rich do not get. Maybe you could do that? If you use Windows or MacOS, maybe look into switching to a Linux distro that appeals to you most of the things you can do from the paid for OS’s you can do from the open source OS’s. Take a stand with what you are using, and how you are using it.

[–] Aralakh@lemmy.ca 7 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

Is there a good resource/space to learning about messing with a raspberry pi? I'm a compete noob, however you've piqued my interest. o7

[–] Reannlegge@lemmy.ca 2 points 2 hours ago

Depends on what you are looking for, there are raspberry (or other flavour) pi communities/forms. The services I use daily are two pihole installs (across two pi’s one acts as a secondary DNS), Nextcloud (I have a 1TB NVMe drive on a hat with it not all of it is for Nextcloud but I think 1TB may have been overkill, the medium link is just an example), Vaultwarden (With Vaultwarden you get all the pay extra things for free with Bitwarden, pimylifeup.com maybe a bit dated but it is still a good resource for ideas), Immich (I used it to replace Apple photos), Wireguard (to access my services away from home), CUPS (because I really do not need my printer calling Samsung HQ), Scanserjs (Again Samsung HQ), paperless-ngx (I have just started it in the past month or so but it OCR’s PDFs and I can forward email to it so that it gets saved as a pdf), SearXNG (you will have to look for the pi instructions as I could not easily find them, which is funny as it is my self hosted search engine), on my second pi 5 I have Jellyfin (I would suggest Jellyfin be on a second pi as it can be demanding, I like Jellyfin because it is FOSS were Plex and Enby are not), on my Jellyfin pi I also run the *arr srack, Caddy Because I own a couple of domains and some of the services I have listed want https). Those are most if not all the services I have running on 2 of my pi 5’s.

On a pi 4 I have HAOS (it replaced homebridge, which helped bring things into the apple eco system and Home Assistant is helping me get out). That being said there are a few things that I am having troubles with breaking them out of the Apple ecosystem and into the HA platform so I may install Homebridge again on one of the first 2 pi 5’s I mentioned so that those Homekit devices can be brought into HA.

I have another Pi 5 that I plan on setting up as my blog host, using software I do not know about yet as I have not done all that much looking around yet maybe I could do that tonight and/or tomorrow night? I am wanting to post more on Mastodon and as I understand it Ghost which I may use to self host my blog will allow me to cross post. I am hoping to try and get it to also be my email server, my current setup is rather expensive because I have unlimited email address as I use a different email address for everything (service name+random word+three random digits) so that I do not get spam, if I do I look at the address and decide if I need the service and close the address.

I have a fourth pi 5 in the mail and it should be at my place on Thursday I am going to use it as my OpenWRT firewall, so that I can use my static IP addresses to self host my domains. I plan on using LuCI with it like I use webpages for my other services. Today I just could not hold my excitement in for knowing I am getting Fibre next week and my firewall is coming on Thursday that I flashed a SD card with the OpenWRT OS on a new file system I was unfamiliar with, I have experience with ext3 and ext4 (FAT32, FAT64, HFS, HFS+, ZFS, AFS, and I am sure other ones before I knew anything about file systems) so I was just going to stick with the ext4 image, but thought I have time I can learn about SquashFS so glad that I did as I decided that is what I was going to use as it fits so much better for a firewall.