Technology isn't to enable users to do what they want, but to let corporations do what they can get away with.

Having the same sence of humor proved crucial for me, next to loving pets. I dated someone once and when she asked why I asked her I told her I liked older women. She was 3 days older. (And not amused)

I felt totally comfortable with a girl I met at a forum meeting we started seeing each other more. She had pets and the same sence of humor. She's my wife for 14y now, we have loads of pets. On my birthday I get gifted a younger wife, on her birthday she's rescued from an old man. She's 6 months younger.

As long as there are people playing a game, there will be cheats. However, I decide what happens on my device, not a game or software developer. When the developer thinks he can set requirements, he is barred.

Not a single piece of software is worth risking my device for.

GPG signatures are set by the sender to prove the message is originating from the sender and is unchanged. It's signed with the private key and verified with the public key.

It is in no way a method to verify if the information is correct or rubbish. I can tell you the earth is flat and sign it, but all you know on verifying the signature is that the info was unaltered, not if it's correct or not.

Sell them and buy low budget low power consumption disks that would fit my purpose.

Enterprise-grade usually has enterprise-grade power consumption. From the power saving alone you can buy nice stuff.

Humans totally ignore that they are part of nature. Most think that reduced biodiversity won't include them.

"Survival of the fittest" when used to indicate the stongest should survive. Instead of the one best suited for (fitting) the situation.

We can only hope that this year finally opens the eyes of the deniers. (Before nature decides to finally solve the issue)

And we have liftoff. ;)

Sorry, couldn't resist.

Welcome and have fun.

They can, when they limit CO2 emissions as much as possible and compensatw for the remaining emissions by planting trees and other tricks.

Also, 'being carbon neutral' can mean several things:

• ensure the company doesn't produce CO2 (net)
• ensure the company and the commute of the employees doesn't produce CO2 (net)
• ... plus suppliers
• ... plus transport of the goods produced
• ...

And so on,... it all is just how you define it.

My house is the greenest in the neighbourhood and probably in the country. That it has nothing to do with being eco friendly but more with the paint on it is just a minor detail. ;)

people won’t be addicted to it anymore

Wishful thinking. I'm wasting more time on Lemmy then I ever did on Reddit/Facebook/Twitter/...

However, the biggest advantage to me is that I can filter out what I don't want to see, not be forced to accept what is thrown at me or leav. (I did the latter on all) I now have the option to hide away from 'normals' again.

When you look at the world and see what is considered 'normal', who in their right mind would want to be like that?

Now I'm curious how far they'll get before the poster either:

1. is fed up with posting about posts being removed as they were about posts being removed,...
2. gets banned.

And I'm curious how many facebook users have the chat app. (and how many just walked away)

Bad control over the hardware. Android is 100% open source, but alas, not all drivers are. To be honest, it's by design of some manufacturers (Samsung for one, Mediatek is another) to keep drivers of hardware closed source so updating the OS of your particular Android based mobile OS lags hugely behind Android.

Android gets monthly security updates, which need to be included in the OS of the phone manufacturer. Lineage has weekly builds for their code which include the monthly security updates. Phone manufacturers are only required to 'supply updates for 2y after introduction of the model (not after end of sale), which requires them to give 1 upgrade (major version).

Alas, support for the wide variety of Android phones hinges now for 100% on the effort of the custom rom developers. For example: The 2011 Samsung Galaxy S2 has an unofficial Lineage 20 (Android 13).

To many devices running the same opensource software without the requirement to make the drivers open source.

Apple is completely closed, Microsoft has it's Windows closed with the option for hardware suppliers to supply the drivers (which need to be conform to their specs) Android is based on the Linux kernel, which would require hardware manufacturers that make drivers for the kernel to supply the drivers, but alas, as it's not a company, no methods to enforce this is available.

When you want consistent ANdroid updates, you need to either:

1. buy Google Pixel (Google is pretty consistent in updates)
2. buy a nice brand that offers 5y+ guarantee (include updates)
3. buy a device with active custom rom support, for example Lineage (worst case, you can update the device yourself as the code is available)

Doesn't surprise me a bit, before you know it they'll block the site completely when they detect an adblocker. (I already found an app that refuses to start when you block ads, so the techniques are out there)

Depends for who.

For the users, !...

For the software c/...

When you want to link to a community in a post via the webinterface, once you start typing the !... notation it offers suggestions and when you select one, it'll insert the display name !... and set the url to the c/... format.

Searching for a community accepts both notations, you can even subscribe to kbin magazines via their m/... notations ( complete url )

Because to find the needle in the haystack, you first need a haystack. Until you know which needle you want to use, you need loads of haystacks which could have the needle in it you need.

Also, hoarders gotta hoard. (and bastards collect all they can get away with, and more, lots more)

Nice, forced spying on customers...

My sewing machine. I (m) wanted curtains, my wife didn't want to sow them (no sewing machine didn't help).

Bought it last year (€270), made curtains troughout the house, monthly energy bill went from €630 to €230 a month due to savings on heating. (And I learned something new, always fun)