All they have to do is to stop maintaining the mobile app that controls the robot. Sure, you can still start it manually, but it won’t do anything smart.

On top of that, people have families, jobs, and other commitments that hinder their plans. Moving to another town is already hard enough as it is, but relocating to another country is even harder.

While it’s certainly possible and perhaps even advisable, it’s not a realistic option for most people. If your life is in danger, remaining isn’t really an option, so any associated difficulties with moving and starting anew are the lesser evil. However, for everyone else, the situation gets complicated.

I’ve tried reading my local and federated feeds but found little value in them. Most posts are either too niche, too uninteresting or just fly straight over my head. Consequently, I prefer to stick with the subscribed feed almost exclusively. That’s where I can reliably find stuff worth my time.

Haven’t asked the admins, but here’s my guess.
Being the most well known instance means that you get a lot of traffic. Let’s say that 1% of the people using your instance are annoying morons. In a smaller instance that 1% translates to maybe one ban a month or whatever. In a bigger place, it becomes a constant onslaught stupid idiot bullshit nobody has the time or energy to deal with. Either you get a bunch of admins and mods to deal with that nonsense or you start banning users more aggressively. If that doesn’t help, you may need to look at the instance where those troublemakers come from. If you notice that a particular instance pops up disproportionately often, you might want to consider defederating from it.

However, some part of that drama is public on fediseer. Have a look. Just scroll down to censures given and read the reasons why lemmy.world has defederated from so many instances.

I took a look at those stats a while back, and the defederation procedure totally goes both ways.

As far as I can tell, bigger instances have bumped into issues that were resolved through defederation. Smaller instances haven’t faced those kinds of problems, so they haven’t defederated with any instances yet.

If all the big instances have defederated your instance, that’s clear sign that there might be something wrong with that place. If your instance has defederated from a bunch of other instances, take a look at the size of that instance before drawing conclusions. For example lemmy.world is a special case and a clear outlier.

That is a good point. Some instances have special rules and settings like that. Sounds a bit rare though. I haven’t heard of many instances that put the extra effort into customizing the experience on that level

Just a side note
The instance you’re on doesn’t really matter very much if you never read the local feed. If you do, you’ll definitely notice the local vibe sooner or later.

If you’re on an instance that is widely defederated, you may also notice that it’s difficult to find communities. Also, people may comment on your instance if it happens to be particularly notorious. The server hardware and bandwidth may also matter in some extreme cases.

Other than that, instances don’t really matter that much.

It’s 1285813 in hexadecimal, which was a disappointment. I was hoping to see at least one letter to increase the search space a little. You can totally brute force this in no time.

I’m assuming RAM factories are investing in new production lines to meet the increased demand. This means there should be ample capacity to spare when demand decreases. That’s the ideal time to purchase those 500 GB of RAM for all your Chrome tabs.

The plan is that when interest rates rise again, investors won’t have access to cheap loans and AI companies won’t be able to build more data centres. This should lead to a demand collapse and manufacturers being left with surplus capacity. I doubt they can reduce production quickly enough, so they’ll likely push cheap products onto the market for a while.

It’s a place where you need to build your own ship from local materials. Maybe consider using stone…

How about drawing a grid on the entire country, and labelling each new square state in chessboard style? American streets try to be sensible and consistent like that, so why not just apply the same idea on a federal level too? If you’re in the state D5, you’ll know that D4 right next door.

Also the client situation is confusing to normies. Search for Lemmy on the spyware cancer store and you’ll see what I mean.

Pixelfed and Mastodon have already figured that out.

After hearing so many recommendations for Sidebery, I finally had the perfect chance to test it out. I was searching for a specific YouTube video I’d seen almost a year ago. Zero idea who made it or the exact title was, just the general topic and a few probable keywords. Even with Gemini’s fancy AI crap and Google integrations, it was a dead end.

I tried various search terms and ended up with a mountain of tabs. That’s when I realized I needed to organize the chaos, and Sidebery was a lifesaver. RAM usage hit about 14 GB, but I finally found the video.

I created three tab panels: one for the main topic, another for interesting but unrelated finds, and a third for random stuff to revisit later today. Sidebery can close duplicates and move tabs between panels, and that made it much easier to manage everything. Regular tabs just can’t handle this kind of workflow.

This experience really drove home why people use dedicated tab managers. Keeping everything in a single row still feels bizarre to me, but with the right tools, having a 100 tabs open is completely understandable.

When I visited Oslo, I bumped into some pakistani lads, and we had a nice long chat about the history of immigration in Norway.

Back in the 70s, Norway imported lots of workers for the oil industry. At the time, most of them imagined that they would go back home sooner or later. if you live like your mind is in Pakistan, but your body is in Norway, it’s just not going to work long term.

In the next 30 years, more and more of them realized that they actually quite like it in Norway, since they have a job, house, car, family, children and so on. In the 00s they also started acting like it. Now, the immigrants and their children have been living like regular people for about 20+ years.

However, that applies to the fraction of immigrants who have already spent about 30 years in that country. Contrast that with the Afghani, Iraqi and Syrian immigrants in Sweden. They haven’t been there for 30 years yet, which means that they haven’t fully come to terms with the fact that they’ve left their home country behind and they aren’t going back. Once they cross that mental threshold, they begin to act like this is their new home country. Before that though, you can expect to see all sorts of nasty side effects.

LOL, spot on!

Long ago, I stumbled upon something similar. A chemist ordered some “organic salt” from amazon, and analysed it at work. He was very disappointed to find that it had only inorganic components, so left a negative review where he explained his discoveries.

Yeah, it’s cool to colonise a new place, but what about the day when the colonists bite the hand that feeds them? In many sci-fi stories, Mars eventually rises against Earth.

History repeats itself, like the episodes of Power Rangers. The writers had only one script, and hardly any creativity, so they just made minor tweaks here and there and turned that napkin into a series.

Why China tough? They would just be walking in the footsteps of England at that point? Totally lame!

Would be way cooler if you built a chain of rebellions: Rome -> Britannia*/England -> America -> Mars. That’s like next level independenception or something.

*caveats: Britannia did rebel, but independence came when Rome just couldn’t afford to rule Britannia any more. They weren’t kicked out.

But I have seen some offices with enormous stacks of books and papers reaching all the way to the ceiling. I don’t know how that system works, but these people claim they can somehow find everything in there.

Same. Having a logical subfolder structure and maybe even tags just makes it so much nicer IMO.

However, that’s not the only way to roll. Lots of people here prefer to use tabs instead.

In other words, that’s the kind of stuff you need to reference frequently, so having those tabs constantly open is quite useful for the task at hand.

Other people seem to just neglect and abandon a bunch of tab. That’s a very different crowd though.