I think chaotic instances without a clear focus are superior in terms of a stable fediverse. If you have a ‘main’ instance for programming stuff, queer topics, German content etc. you’re always at risk that the instance goes down and all content and communities die along.

Instances going down is a realistic scenario. Hacking / DDOS attacks, government takedown requests, copyright issues, hosting issues, admins losing interest… The more distributed certain topics are across instances, the more resilent they are against all these vectors.

In before all life going extinct due to a massive drought.

I don’t know if that"s indeed the origin, but Gnu is the German name for a wildebeest. So my assumption is that the logo does not depict a goat but a wildebeest.

https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gnus

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wildebeest

You only listed things she doesn’t wan’t to do with you. Are there other activities she enjoys doing together and do you enjoy these things as well? Like do you hang out with each other in person / at home or is she avoiding contact in general? Would you both enjoy to intensify these kind of activities? Are you both intested to find new activities that you can both find fulfillment together in like hiking, sewing, reading etc.?

IMO there are sufficient search engines to find products in online shops, to check availability, compare prices etc.

I see the main selling point of Amazon in the huge assortment (you can get everything in one place without shipping fees), the user ratings (although the quality massively declined during the last years) and the fast delivery. I’m boycotting them for around one year now and everytime I need to order a strange combination of things I’m getting reminded how convenient it used to be. I don’t intend to order there again, but I definitely need much longer to buy stuff now.

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Wild memories! As a child I had a PC, but no internet connection and played that song quite often!

I didn’t even know that Firefox allows changing PDFs, so I can’t comment on this, sorry.

I use LibreOffice to change PDF files. I’m not a heavy user, but for my needs that worked like a charm so far.

Total Commander is pretty solid although unfortunately not FOSS. Even allows you to share files via WiFi etc.

Custom roms is your best bed

Didn’t know they come with sleeping facilities. They’re so versatile nowadays! SCNR

Hang / Hand pan and Hurdy Gurdy!

Building muscles is more effective than cardio to burn fat. The more you have, the more calories you burn passively just by having them. Kind of like compounding interest. Cardio is healthy and good, but will ‘only’ burn fat during and right after the workout.

Aisle 7 being window cleaning accessoires while living in the basement without windows.

Yes, I think women face more inquality than men. And queer people face even more discrimination than women. But also cis-men that don’t fit well into the traditional gender roles, can face discrimation. I do not object the ideology behind femism. I just don’t like the term.

I’m not OP, but many people associate feminism with strengthening women specifically. If you look up the definition it actually does focus gender equality, no matter what gender you have. So from my perspective the term isn’t really intuitive.

Another thing I don’t like about the definition (at least the one on Wikipedia) is…

Feminism holds the position that modern societies are patriarchal—they prioritize the male point of view—and that women are treated unjustly in these societies.

While I sure get what they mean, I personally don’t like to classify one’s point of view as ‘male’. I agree that there are far more toxic men that seek more and more power. But i don’t dislike such people because they are men. I’d dislike their behavior just as much if they were women, non-binaries or any other gender. Classifying a character trait male IMHO is similar to calling a skirt or dress ‘women clothes’.

So yes, to me personally, anti-sexism / anti-discrimination or even better pro-equality are more appealing.

As Google no longer shares the source code of the Pixel-specific adaptions to AOSP and thus massively sabotages custom ROM development, I am no longer interested in buying new Pixel phones.

Some time ago I tried InvoiceNinja as an invoicing and expense management tool and kind of liked it. It also has some CRM functionalities which I never used myself but maybe it could be a fit for you. It’s available as paid SaaS or free self-hosted.

https://www.invoiceninja.org/

Lemmy loves artists who have their income threatened by AI because AI can make what they make at a substantially lower cost with an acceptable quality in a fraction of the time.

AI depends on being trained on the artistic works of others, essentially intellectual and artistic property theft, so that you can make an image of a fat anime JD Vance. Calling it plagiarism is a bit far, but it edges so hard that it leaks onto the balls and could cum with a soft breeze.

While I mostly agree with all your arguments, I think the ‘intellectual property’ part - from my perspective - is a bit ambivalent on Lemmy. When someone uses an AI that is trained on pirated art to create a meme, that’s seen as a sin. Meanwhile, using regular artists’ or photographers’ work in memes without paying the author is really common. More or less every news article comes with a link to Archive.is to bypass paywalls and there are also special communities subject to (digital) piracy which are far more polular than AI content.

While I get why people have an anti-AI-sentiment, I don’t get at all why people downvote this thread. If someone is asking a legitimate question in an open and polite way, why downvote the question?