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metaltoilet

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I’m Henry

I do some stuff sometimes

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That was awesome!

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No. Mars is an inhospitable wasteland that will never be truly suited for humans due to the differences in size. Our planet is currently turning into a fucking wasteland and anyone who thinks that they can just create a new planet is delusional. Our planet is also still viable for many more billions of people if we could just take care of it! Things like permaculture are far more sustainable for larger populations. In a few hundred years, once Elon is long dead and forgotten, and if we can somehow be living in a form of a sustainable society, fine. (Also as far as terraforming planets go, if we were thinking about ever doing something like this we should be looking at venus, not earth. It's so similar to earth in terms of size that it's often called our sister planet. It also may have supported life sometime in the past.)

TL;DR: Hell no, for the next 500-1000 years and until our planet is livable.

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True. Maybe I'll make a more realistic one at some point. (I just found this somewhere and bookmarked it)

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This title is a little misleading. No, Trump has not been arrested but he did appear in court. He is not in any form of jail (yet).

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Kind of like the Japanese vending machines. I think those kind of thing are awesome (and practical if you need a fast bite) and would love to see them in America more.

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Of course we would have to fix that major issue with all of America. Car centric cities are simply terrible.

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How different is that than buying 100% fruit juice from the supermarket? Like does it really taste different.

Help create a self governing lemmy community (cryptpad.disroot.org)

Looking for collaborators to create a new instance of Lemmy (current technology plan, subject to change). Among other things, this instance will differ from existing ones by having a self-governing structure. Check out the rough draft linked below to learn about our vision for this community. No specific skills needed, but...

What do you think about Apple and its ecosystem? (And a little conversation I had with a colleague)

I want to talk about this because of a conversation I had with a colleague on a lunch break a few days ago. I am a doctor, and I was talking to him about how angry I was (and still am) about the fact that the COVID vaccines, when they were first invented, were not made public, but instead were patented and sold. This basic fact...

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Guy was just converted into a FOSS nerd. Give it a few months and he'll own a thinkpad with a custom i3 rice and be saying "I use arch btw".

Jokes aside, I think apple is a terrible company. Sure, their products are amazing but they're grossly overpriced and not FOSS or compatible with anything else.

The iphone 14 pro max costs $464 to make and retails for $2000. That's not innovation, that's grifting. Besides, the main difference between the Iphone 11 and 14 is the price (no, the camera is not that much better, i don't care what you say).

Apple also intentionally gatekeeps their products (Vender Lock-in) making the experience worse for everyone who doesn't own Apple products. They could adopt the open standard that all other phones use for texting (MMS I think it's called) but instead they use imessage to make your experience worse when texting people with Androids. This also makes it hard to switch to an Android even if it's better. And don't even get me started on the charger situation.

Also, they use privacy as a branding statement but we have no way to verify that claim. They could be selling all our data and be well within their rights. If they were open source we would be able to verify that claim.

I can't really talk though because I own a (refurbished) Iphone. I do this because a) the messaging system and b) my whole family is in the apple ecosystem (with no way out) so I get benefits of our family plan like tons of storage.

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Can we refrain from using the R slur please?

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Just FYI vanillaOS is an awesome system to suggest to both new users and experienced ones. None of the snap BS but still based on Ubuntu. It also makes it really hard to mess up your system. Vanilla Gnome too. Check it out.

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True, but they are 100% still grifting us. (IMO)

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I know, I misquoted the article. Sorry!

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I mean... yeah

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I'd love if you were to join me. I've left everything intentionally vague so that i'm not the one making all the decisions. That doc is meant to be a very rough draft to ensure that the main aspect (the self governance) is truly realized. If I were to precisely lay out how i wanted it to be it would be my community not the community's community. That's also the reason I'm searching for others and not just setting it up myself.

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Try a notebook! It works great for me. I take bullet points in one with ideas and then write a “wiki” page when I’ve finalized ideas.

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