The meaninglessness is still there. What I suspect is the biggest difference is the headspace surrounding it. If there's not inherent meaning to life, then that frees you to create your own with your own goals and desires and whatnot. If there's no inherent meaning, then any meaning we as humans come up with for ourselves is the meaning. For some people, that's religion. For some, it's taking care of their loved ones. For a few of my friends, it's to play as many video games as possible. For others, it's to work as much as possible. The beauty of it is that they're all right, the meaning of their life is what they make of it. You are what you repeatedly do.

Single person instance hoster here! I love that I know what service I'm interacting with, I control what that instance does and chooses who to federated with, and I'm unlikely to get defederated due to some other idiots bad comments or brigading.

For me, the biggest benefit is the mental load I no longer have. I used to have to think about maintenance, MOT schedule, road tax scheduling, insurance scheduling, renewing my parking certificate, how much I drink, where I'm going to park, did I run out of time on the parking meter, is there traffic on my route, where are the road works...

The mental energy I'd waste just to deal with a car was massive. There's still mental energy with public transit, like what is the schedule and which bus do I need to be on to make it in time, and what do I do if a stop isn't near my destination, but it's a lot less mental load than having a car.

I made it.

Box + peanut butter is top

https://youtu.be/vsthDhOodDs

This is also similar reasoning and why I went with a mikrotik router. All the functionality I need, none of the bullshit, solid performance for price. Only downside is the setup isn't trivial, but if you're comfortable on the command line, it's a breeze.

Lol love the downvotes on the most NCD response in the thread

Just like the old public email lists or Google groups or something, I just wish discord was searchable and indexable so badly

I've been getting into Fava, it has a plugin called fava-envelopes that mimics the envelope style budgeting of my one true love, YNAB4, but with the strength of double entry accounting as well. All docker composable as well.

That was my experience using robo advisors too, like betterment. I had so many buy and sells I had to mail my return in on paper, it sucked.