I think that sounds like a really good idea, if you want to get corporate- and government hosted instances on board. What keeps most of them away from free software is that they can’t write a contract with anyone with clear boundaries and guarantees. If Mastodon offers these types of contracts, it would help the adoption rate.

The UK is fucked when it comes to voting. Their elections are one of the least representative in the western world.

That is true, but we aren’t talking about an established party. Cobyrn is looking to start a new party left of Labour and that field is wide open. Instead of condemning Cobyrn and his new party, you should join it and pull it left from within. At the very least you should give it a chance. They won’t do everything you want, but you have the opportunity to shift the political discourse to the left.

And the leftist urge to fracture strikes once again.

Personally, I am a fan of the Fairphone, but it’s hard to come by in the US and the price is definitely not competitive. But what you’ll get is long software support and easy repairability. But does not offer everything you ask for.

If you only ever had white bread to eat, try other sorts of bread.

In terms of culture, as a German it seems German culture is similar to American culture, just less extreme. Also less small talk with strangers, if that is indeed a thing in America.

The video makes mention of a change.org petition calling on Visa, Mastercard and the like to ignore that sect trying to create moral outrage. I know Change.org petitions are pretty worthless, but this one already has over 100k signatures: https://www.change.org/p/tell-mastercard-visa-activist-groups-stop-controlling-what-we-can-watch-read-or-play/

And I will absolutely be watching it.

The give reason must be procedual, but the real reason is that the Epstein files undoubtedly also contain the names of democrats or democratic backers. They were more than happy doing nothing with those files.

Ireland speaks mostly English as far as I know.

He is right, but most will choose convenience. And I do believe that people in the future will suffer for it. The brain is like a muscle; you have to use it to keep your mind sharp. I fear that in the future will lack critical thinking or frustration tolerance because AI makes it so easy.

That will happen to most “artforms” or jobs that require research. I notice that on myself as well. I now ask an AI for regex stringsor when I want to implement a function I’m unsure about, I ask an AI to see what they are doing first. Critical thinking is still involved, but less than it used to.

Two more months to go and more than 50% left to reach 1 million signatures. It’s sad to see that with how many people game, this petition has so little reach. I guess we’ll have to wait till Fortnite is shut down, then suddenly many more will care that their childhood game is gone forever.

What’s good for the goose is good for the gander. You all probably cheered when the US’s power was used against Russia.

It’s called being for good things and against bad things. Using the US’ power to push back against Russia’s invasion is a good thing. Using the US’ power to aid Israel’s invasion is a bad thing.

In 20 years then. All the custom-built software that is alteady 10 years out of date is built with Microsoft ptoducts as a hard requirement. Replacing that costs money. And if conservative governments hate one thing it’s spending money on something that won’t benefit their lobbyists.

This is exactly the reason why I won’t play gacha games. First everyone complains about loot boxes and microtransactions and then a game-genre where that’s the core of the game takes off.

Just goes to show that the people that (rightly) complain about microtransactions cheapening gaming experiences were always in the minority and most will just keep spending like headless chickens.

Most people I know aren’t or don’t see themselves as gambling addicts. They’re “proud” about how much they spent.

Last I checked, Beehaw wanted to switch platforms entirely, so tgey don’t bother keeping up with Lemmy updates.

It absolutely is malware. The Text you see is a comment appended to the end of a command that’ll download malicious software. The comment is placed in such a way that the command is out of frame.

Something something he could’ve ended world hunger, but chose not to.

It didn’t keep her away, so I guess she must be a keeper.