"Piracy can't be stealing if paying for it isn't owning"

• Flatness. UI controls need to be recognizable.
• Theming/styling. A button should look like button.
• Lack of menus. Discoverability is poor if you don't have a list of things in an obvious place.
• Gestures. Lack of discoverability.
• Information density. I don't care about huge margins and filler pictures. Content shouldn't be crammed, but space should be used efficiently.
• Mobile first. Especially if mobile use is only a fraction of actual use. Or maybe even if it is the majority of users, but not majority of use (operations, hours).
• Simplicity. Make simple things simple, but hard things possible. Removing features can make your software useless.

• https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/120.0/releasenotes/
• https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/120.0beta/releasenotes/
• https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/Firefox/Releases/120

I welcome an European alternative to Visa/Mastercard/Amex. I think it could have some at-cost fees, especially to make shops that benefit from the system pay for it instead of all taxpayers. I hope it will respect privacy, and not just at first and then start on a slippery slope. Maybe this would then allow shopkeepers to price the different payment options. I think there is legislation now that price cannot depend on payment method.

what about an actually free alternative, like matrix + element?

Electricity vs. energy. Electricity is only part of energy.

Put a superlinear tax on car size / weight. Big cars must be much more expensive than small ones. https://slate.com/business/2023/01/electric-cars-hummer-ev-tax-fees-weight-joe-biden.html

https://publiccode.eu/en/

"Eldest, that's what I am... Tom remembers the first raindrop and the first acorn... He knew the dark under the stars when it was fearless - before the Dark Lord came from Outside."

https://tolkiengateway.net/wiki/Tom_Bombadil

https://cryptpad.fr/

Will the components still come from China?

Tämähän on hyvä, pitäisi tasata piikkejä kummastakin päästä, eli tuskin tulee myöskään aivan yhtä kovia jättilaskuja sähkön ollessa kallista

Run it on some free or cheap cloud instance https://paul.totterman.name/posts/free-clouds/

Gandi is no longer a good choice

Linux is quite lightweight. Pick a distro that doesn't run a lot of stuff by default. OpenBSD only runs sshd exposed to the network, AFAIR. Debian probably does the same. But really, the lightness comes from what isn't running. NixOS, fedora, rocky, alpine are all decent alternatives.

• https://www.semanticscholar.org/
• https://www.base-search.net/
• https://core.ac.uk/
• https://science.gov/
• https://www.refseek.com/

How full is your ZFS? ZFS doesn't handle disk filling and fragmentation well.

1. Matrix is viable. There are https://view.matrix.org and soon https://archive.matrix.org/ for indexing by crawlers
2. https://servers.joinmatrix.org/ isn't quite the same as https://discord.com/servers. Joinmatrix lists matrix home servers, like gmail, hotmail, yahoo, ... for email. But once you have an account on a home server, you can use the "explore" feature to browse rooms known to that server (or another that has public room directory). There is not central place to list all, since there is not single central matrix server. Same with lemmy. You need to use https://lemmyverse.net/communities

multitronic, datatronic, cruz broker, mikromafia, ...

I'm waiting for hetzner object storage (they were hiring some people for this a couple of months ago)

What are the current alternatives?

• Idrive e2 $4/TB/month
• Backblaze B2 6$/TB/month
• Wasabi $7/TB/month
• Cloudflare R2 $15/TB/month
• AWS S3 $21/TB/month (tricky, cheaper profiles available)
• GCP $20/TB/month (tricky, cheaper profiles available)
• Oracle $25/TB/month
• Azure $18.4/TB/month
• DigitalOcean / Linode / Vultr ~ $20/TB/month