*banned 4 MarkDown love* @design_RG@qoto.org

@susi123 Someone is a lucky guy. ❤️

@Massick There are too many distractions nowadays, along with huge access to information.

People getting lost and not focusing is a real problem. A serious one.

Sometimes disconnecting is the best thing to do, although I already don't have TV in my life, other than BBC documentaries and news that I haven't even been watching lately.

And thankfully I remembered where that BLESSED Mute Conversation control was.

Ever handy when a thread gets out of hand.

Below the post, click on DOTs menu '...' and... Of we go. 😉

#newusers, #quiet the noise when needed! #fediverse #mastotips

@stux @Javier
Nice photo, Javier.

Came to visit since you just followed me, are you a Robot as claimed in your profile?

Turing test. 😉

@freemo
It showed the account right after I created it and made a first test post. It hasn't changed since, I was assuming it was broken at the other end. Looks like not.

I had tried other Write.freely instances and gave up on them since I dd not see them in Fedi space; maybe they were working after all.

@shibaprasad @rgx

@jahnke Architecture and Urban Planning, with a nice shake of Industrial Design from my own enjoyment of building things, furniture, bicycles and such.

USP was wonderful. I have also attended another Uni here in Canada, for Technological Education certification.

@Massick I attended a prestigious public uni in home country, USP, and had no tutition.

But housing was not provided, the Military government at the time saw Uni student body as a subversives nest, and blocked the Uni from operating their existing campus residence buldings.

I struggled as well, walked, took long bus rides to go from school to home or work. Nothing came easy for me too it seems.

Am in peace now, and appreciating it, thankfully.

@shibaprasad @rgx

An update, happy now!

Added all my following list to another new instance account just now, and that one shows my posts in the Blog account at Tedomum.net as it should.

Saves me having to write to them and inquire.

Somehow QOTO only shows 1 post, which is off by 5 currently.

Screenshot below, taken 5 min ago.

Second taken 5 seconds ago, here at QOTO. @freemo , why is it off synch here?

@realcaseyrollins
Thank you, Casey!!

Would love to learn too, maybe you can share your experience and pointers.

@freemo

@Massick Ah, ok, now it's clear.

The Universities here in Canada are all paid for, there's no free tuition anywhere (except if you qualify for some special bursary or athletic freebie).

The cost varies, higher prestige Uni costs more. Two of my son's examples;

- one took Comp Sci degree from a local uni; no room and boarding costs, as he stayed home, as he wanted to. Tuition for him, a few years, maybe 10 years back, was about $5000 CAD, circa 4,000 USD, per year. Half of that per semester.

- second attended prestiguious Uni, away from home. Costly room and board, at time was $2200 CAD when he started. Plus another $3200 or so for his first semester.

He was in Engineering programme, and since that is seen as a professional path career, tutition is higher than Humanities or arts.

First year cost for him, 10 years ago, was about $18,000 CAD, or 14,000 USD more or less. I was shocked.

Middle class families save for years to fund Uni education, but this is nothing if compared to American college costs - often USD$40,000 or more per year.

@Massick I cna understand you, and if you feel the need to use occassional Spanish phrases, I can follow too. Just not local slang. 😜

Where you asking about career and salaries for a person like yourself, in that toot?

@realcaseyrollins @freemo

Sorry but I wouldnt consider those two advantages.

#fediverse belongs to us.

Decent twitter users are welcome to find out and join, hopefully they find an instance where they fit well

(we need to work on documenting and evaluating instances, to help users find better matches - and avoid annoying current user bases)

Politicians, I don't want to see our feedlines become another noise channel like TV for their incessant effort to attract attention and support (apparently essential to do anything, right or wrong).

So, see no need for them here.

We need new networks and new leaderships. They can develop here.

This is much like earlier networks I participated in, and the earlier internet, up to 1996 or so, before commercial usage washed over.

@Massick How much does health care cost here, you mean?

We have a publicly funded service, run by each province. We pay for it by general texes, Income tax primarily.

No charges for doctor or hospital visits, although there's some wait sometimes for specialist appointment.

I am happy with that model, and that's what Europe supports too.

Sister in another country has to buy private policy and pays USD$500 a month for herself alone. (Brasil)

@Massick It is relevant, there is a lot of functional technology that is being trashed by comsumption and bloated software.

I have two tablets - one has Gingerbread, a cyanogenMod port developed by a XDA friend.

The other is an HP touchpad, which still has it's original webOS (I love that system!) and also dual boots into Kit Kat cyanogenMod by J Rollins, also a capable XDA developer.

Both are nice, good hardware, beutiful screens.

Many newer apps won't install, requiring higher android versions, but they should be kept and enjoyed as long as they are funtional and have good apps installed.

@realcaseyrollins

Would you want to federate with Twitter? #fediverse is alight with this.

Most say No way, José. Me included, stay away please.

@Massick You said it very well - and there are people in developed countries who don't have access to public health services, like you do. Education, specially post secondary, after high school - the cost is mind blowing in US.

A simpler life, but I think many people would realize there is a lot of unhappiness in other richer countries. UK, USA, Canada even.

Two of those three have public health systems, which the other one envies, sees as a dangerous threat to their own profit based one, and works to undermine and exterminate if possible.

@Massick I picked up 3 Dell rack servers, couldn't resist the low price.

Dual Xeons, hot swap drives, 4 GB of ram and many open slots for more. For $30 CAD each?

Load them up.

@Massick I hope it doesn't act up on you. You are still in the island, right?

We have so much gear and stuff here that people are givign it away for free to thrift stores, etc.

Home wifi routers, printers, lcd monitors, even laptops. You can get great business class machines. off lease, for a low price. That's the kind of machines I like.

Got spares I could donate, maybe in the island schools could use older hardware that here in CA nobody wants - and often is perfectly functional.

I know there is a programme for recycling bicycles from here, shipping them there, and it's great. I hate to see them go to the dump, so sad.

And then we discover new and cool places... When looking for cool and old software.

Adobe PageMill in my case. Now abandoned, FREE, used to be their web dev solution around 1999.

"WinWorld is an online museum dedicated to the preservation and sharing of vintage, abandoned, and pre-release software. We offer information, media and downloads for a wide variety of computers and operating systems.

Our entire library is free, open and available to everyone. "

#retro #computing is alive and well.

* apps library : https://winworldpc.com/library/applications

* op systems library : https://winworldpc.com/library/operating-systems

@Massick LOL, I will look for you when I visit there next.

Went looking to learn and tried out, it's interesting, but I am busy with various projects now. So it's on #backburner mode.

https://nerdica.de is cool