Which is also quite interesting that you haven’t heard of that country. The american military has been bombing it in the 90s.

You really should not derail this discussion here.

Another great alternative is Geoactivity Playground if you use Strava to get overall statistics for your rides. You can import a Strava export or simply put some GPX files in a folder. It’s great:

https://github.com/martin-ueding/geo-activity-playground

And even if you do not: It’s better for the environment to not grow corn and just have some grass underneath the solar panels.

Strava has the unique position that it is the de facto provider nearly everything does sync to. Even some chinese bicycle computer will sync to Strava, your obscure fitness tracker will too and that nice little app will also grab your data and display it. This nice ecosystem will end with these changes.

Roofs are actually not that great. Installation is expensive because you are working at height. Roof angles and directions are also not ideal on many houses. Compare it to a simple installation on a field: You just take some corn field, stop growing corn there and can put your panels on some cheap holders and you’re good. You can access and service them without the danger of falling from a roof. You can install them on an industrial scale instead of a few square meters on every single roof. You need only one electrical installation.

People love to cry about the loss of agricultural space, but currently we are growing a lot of corn to convert it to fuel or to put it into biogas installations. If you convert those field to solar, you will get more energy from them. And the loss of a big monoculture that is using a lot of pesticides is also great.

Mastodon was founded a decade ago, and since then has roughly 1 million monthly active users. That is 0.25% of the MAU of twitter/X currently (which has itself seen declines over the years). Pixelfed has 250k monthly active users, which is 0.008% of Instagrams 3 billion MAU. Friendica has 5000 MAU which is essentially 0% of the 3.1 billion MAU that Facebook has.

You’re confusing those metrics. When fediverse apps show you active users, they really are showing you users that are doing anything on the app. Here on Lemmy, to be included in that number, you need to upvote, downvote, comment or post.

The commercial networks, however, are also including not-logged in users in their numbers. So if you’ve been on the X page this month or have been linked to an Instagram video or have watched something on YouTube, you are included in that metric. If you have some sensible data protection on your computer, delete your cookies and maybe change your fingerprint automatically, you can be included several times in that number.

The fediverse doesn’t track those numbers (and can’t TBH), but it is bigger than you are thinking. There are several users reading stuff for every user posting.

And in my opinion: It is ok that we are smaller than Facebook. We do not need to be a network that includes everyone on the planet. We do not need to have billions of users. Smaller communities are nicer. Smaller communities are more manageable. Not everything needs to grow like cancer. It’s ok if your little pub on the corner is there and there are so many regulars there that everybody has a good time and the owner can live from it. If the whole city and people from neighboring towns start coming, it will lose its character.

Not sure about this exact locality, but there totally are places and areas where you are not permitted to carry knifes. The USA is really an exemption that people are allowed to carry assault rifles, grenade launchers and flamethrowers in the subway. Other countries have knife bans in place so that you are not allowed knifes in public transport or in other places

It also does work without those sticker by just putting every document chronologically in a folder. New ones come on the top and if you need a document, you can get the date from paperless. Since most documents have a date printed on them and most people are not getting thousands of letters every year, you will find the document

Isn’t that the goal here? Exclude people from toilets. They have to pee elsewhere. Arrest them for public urination or “indecent exposure”. Maybe put them on some kind of sex offender list like the Americans are doing for people caught urinating in public. Spread fear about “trans sex offenders”.

So … maybe we should reduce the number of flights right now? And maybe check which flights are serving a real purpose and which are just flying people around who want to shop or get wasted.

on the other hand, there was no AI vibecoding back then, so thats a plus

:D

It’s actually kind of crazy what amount of tech people have to use just to save a webpage for later reading.

I’m running Onlyoffice on Ubuntu and it has been nice so far. Great software - so where is this “highly criticized” coming from and should I be concerned? Switch to the fork?

Thank you - that sound good :)

How can someone get his data out of the system? I’m always hesitant to try software like these - I have been burned by software where it is easy to put in your data and hard or impossible to get out.

What sources is this searching for books?

It’s too complicated to explain in one post here. If you want to know, you might want to read the Wikipedia articles on the middle east conflict, the founding of Israel and all those wars. It might take a while, that conflict doesn’t have easy answers for you

We all knew that electing Trump would be bad, but I’m still shocked at how bad it’s becoming. His actions are plunging multiple countries all over the world into emergency situations? Disrupting the lives of billions of people? Really great job, Americans. Please do something about it

But what is the purpose of this? So people are setting up bots that are sending PRs to open source projects, but why?