guismo

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Norway! Yes, sorry!

Like I said my memory is hazy with the research I did many years ago. I just remember it's not in the 9 eyes.

The last part was also important. Back then it didn't even need javascript. I think runbox6 still doesn't.

Anyway, I like them and I hope they got more users. My only concern is of them going bankrupt. But many years later they are still here.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago

Good to see another user. I hope there are many of us!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (3 children)

https://runbox.com/

https://runbox.com/price-plans/

The cheapest option is like 20 dollars a year. I think I have the middle one. Not sure, it's been on that for years. I'm pretty sure it's the cheapest privacy oriented one. I tried several since then but I always end up back on runbox.

Server location is Sweden. Which was a major reason for me, outside of 9 eyes (I don't remember, I researched a lot before getting it but the details are forgotten).

I think they don't encrypt? Not sure. This was never that important to me. It was more about server location, privacy respecting and open source friendly.

I don't like their runbox7 though. Luckily it doesn't seem like they will ever disable runbox6. It's old school but reliable and fast. Runbox 7 is too full of feature and issues for me. You can easily toggle which email system you're seeing or loging into.

Oh yeah, and runbox6 is super user friendly. It's old style with just what you expect. Runbox 7 may be more depending on who you're asking. It's not for me, since it's too many icons and too little text.

Oh, and about trustworthy, it's more than I thought it could be. Every issue I had was quickly answered by one of the founders, who was super helpful and honest, even where it doesn't help them. When my domain expire I'm going to let them handle it. I didn't want to leave all eggs in one basket, but I even told him, they are the only company I would trust with this.

After all interactions I had wit them, they are literally the only company I trust. But that took years.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 weeks ago (7 children)

I've been using Runbox for many years and it's weird i don't see recommendations.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago

Blocked in Australia, which is even more expected. I'm amazed Aljazeera isn't blocked here. Or anything the us and israel doesn't like.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

If you know the people in jail, maybe you could make a post about it? Though I don't know if that's invasion of privacy. But you posting about it here already kind of makes you like a celebrity to me. Stuff I read about but I would not think I would actually talk to someone who was in the news. I don't know anyone who was involved in that. I don't even think I know people who ended up in prison.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

Eheheh that's a nice idea. Most places have a switch on the connection on the wall. I just turn that off if I can.

Headphones are not enough. I need to get blind. Or I should just learn to ignore it. I just can't.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago (1 children)

You have such a positive point of view. It's interesting seeing how different people can be. I would focus obsessively on the part of that money that goes to those fossil fuel billionaires. You are focusing on the part where it goes to community programs.

Though I don't know where it goes. I just assumed it goes to them, like a big part of my taxes that also go to fund the military.

About activism, I've done a fair bit and it affected my life a lot. I'm an old pessimist guy. I just try not to help to make the problem worse now (making sure I don't fund them as much as I can). These things affect me too much. If I had to pay a fine for the activism I did in the past I could end up doing something really bad like destroying my life or someone else's. I'm a little too radical and I end up turning people away from my causes because of it. Nowadays I try (and fail) to not even talk about to people because I end up making them hate the cause.

I posted it here because I think most of the community agrees with it. Circlejerk you could say. If it was on reddit it would just lead to endless meaningless fights and abuses.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago (2 children)

It's not activism. It just drives me crazy. I can't ignore the stuff I'm seeing and i can't concentrate on anything. If i want to promote some changes that would not be the way to do it. It's just that's it's like someone putting alcohol in my eyes. I have to turn it off or leave. When i can't i just leave.

I thought that could be him but i didn't see on wikipedia that he owns channel 9. I heard much about him but I've rarely seen his face.

I wouldn't doubt he is sad. To be that evil you have to have something wrong going on in your brain or life.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (3 children)

I hope it works out ok for you and others. I really admire that. Not only are you fighting for us for free but you're actually paying a massive price.

You guys are the veterans this country should have statues about. Instead we have statues of people who would shoot you.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago (4 children)

So it's the same channel i see everywhere that makes me want to throw up. I keep changing channel in places i see that on and people change back, like in gyms. People around here actually like to feel their neurons melting. It doesn't just happen to be the default, it's what they want to see. They go after it.

I don't see much hope for this population.

And who's that guy? He looks like a sad villain. I hope he is very sad. But that might be why he does this. He wants to spread his misery.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 months ago (3 children)

22k? Holy shit. I would be so crazy angry. You're being force to financially reward the people destroying your future. That would eat me up inside even if that amount didn't hurt.

So they get rich destroying your future and you have to give them more money for it.

You guys are heroes. I couldn't take that. I'm glad there are people not like me. I would think non stop about a justice I can't make happen. Like some people's heads on a guillotine.

 

I never paid attention to the newspapers, so I don’t know if it’s always like this.

All defending maximum murder or suffering (through genocide or global warming). What the hell is wrong with this country?

If these are the sources of information of a population it’s not hard to imagine the result. I am really hoping it’s just the rich playing with their toys (the newspapers) the way they like, but that it is not really effective in brainwashing the population. That they question what is fed to them.

Anyway, I just thought it amazing and to share my depression with more people. Maybe that’s just every day news and nothing unusual. I imagine it’s probably all owned by the same zionist or super villain or something.

Since the image can’t be read, the one on the left says that if Australia doesn’t support the international court on netanyahuhaha the country becomes terrorist. The second is the typical “people are not supporting my genocide, I’m being holocausted”. The third is asking for harsher punishment for those “fools” destroying the economy and wasting people’s time with imaginary environment issues that could lead to human extinction.

edit. I posted to lemmy.world by mistake. Lemmy is so confusing... edit2. Is the image showing? It didn't show the first try.

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Final edit: Sorry guys, this got out of hand as I feared and it would take too long to answer everything properly and it would just offend more people.

I got some nice tips for finding places and learned more about Australian's views on the subject. I should have been more careful with what I said. It changed my opinion somewhat but people here would still not like it, so I'll keep it to myself.

Thanks for the very civilized and nice answers and I'm sorry if I didn't answer. I would like to, but in private, or this could become a witch hunt. I do not wish to offend anyone or be attacked because of that. As someone commented, I am the problem here.


Hi everyone, I’ve been lurking for a long time and decided to try to ask something I can’t find out.

First, please be tolerant about the question. I am an Australian citizen, but from a foreign background, so cultural things that seem sacred and unquestionable here are not the same to me. I wouldn’t be crazy to post this on reddit (though I deleted my account ages ago) because I know all the posts would just be attacking me (if you don’t like it, leave, are you defending terrorists?, and so on), instead of helpful comments. Hopefully it will be different here.

The question is: is there any Australian town free from military worship? I mean monuments everywhere, pools and parks named after it and so on. Somewhere I can forget and pretend that this is not how the rest of Australia is.

I’ve been traveling around trying to find a place I would like to settle. I found many small towns I liked, but it seems that the smaller the town, the higher the military worship. They may not even have a public toilet, but they will have a military worship statue that seemed to have cost more than all the town to build.

I love Australia, specially the outback, but the military worship issue is so big that makes me think of looking for another country. I know my taxes are being used to send people to kill whoever the US doesn’t like, and the country prides itself with this history. But if I can ignore that, I can pretend to myself that it’s not true and live happy. I tried to fight the issue for a long time but it makes no difference except to me, sacrificing my well being for nothing. But if I keep being reminded every time I go to do groceries trough the park “invasion of foreign country divine pride park”, it will be impossible. I already try to avoid news and ABC, so it should be possible.

I’m sending a picture of some of the places I’ve been to, without much luck. Funny enough, the town I liked the most, Roma, is the worst, with military trees every 10 meters.

Anyway, that’s it. Maybe I’ll get downvoted to oblivion, but let’s try…

By the way, I don’t know if I am posting this correctly, on the right place and everything. It’s my first lemmy post as well. It's very confusing to know the community to post. It shows everything everwhere!

Edit- I posted this before, thought it was in the wrong place, deleted and posted again. Now I see 2 of the posts and the deleted one has 2 upvotes. This is so confusing...

Edit2 - Before I get any comment, I dislike military worship from any country, not just Australia. Military may or not be necessary in modern societies, but worship and praise should never be acceptable and is specially dangerous when applied to a group with power. Citizens should always be skeptical of their military group, its uses, powers and permissions. It should be like owning a gun. You may be allowed to have one but should be constantly proving you are not doing anything wrong with it. The definition of what is "wrong" or "right" should be constantly questioned as well.

Edit3 - just a reminder, that I do not wish to change anyone's point of view. It's your tradition and culture and I respect, but I don't have to like it and I would like to figure out how to avoid it. It is all. I would like to stop Australian involvment in American wars, but besides that I don't mind if Australians like military or not, but I would like to avoid being exposed to that, assuming that is possible, which is the reason for the post, so I can find out.

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