VanillaOS. Perhaps not quite ready for prime time, but in a sea of distros where the only difference is a slightly different default config, VanillaOS is doing something distinct and different.
Of course, it’s better to emit less carbon, and support systems and policies that emit less carbon. That said, carbon emission is unavoidable, and I’d like to minimize that portion of my impact as much as possible....
Individual action cannot be a solution for the climate crisis. The whole idea of individual responsibility for climate impact is the divide and conquer strategy of big business as ultimate form of the collective action problem.
Nope. Global action is more than sum of individual action. It is meta action that only the collective humanity can do, and not just the time when everyone is doing the same thing, as if that was possible.
And no, you should not behave as if you can solve the climate crisis yourself, because you cannot. Time, money, attention, willpower and empathy are limited resources in people. Of you spend all your personal resources just mitigating your own impact, you will convince yourself that you’ve done enough when the job is not to curb your personal impact, but to drive cultural and political change that results in global policy that solves the problem. Changing one politicians mind to support pro-climate legislation is far more valuable and impactful than any amount recycling you could ever do.
Further than that, there are emissions done on your behalf that you have no say in; emissions spent on building and maintaining the government that provides services (whether you use them or want them or not), infrastructure that you cannot help but utilise to live your life or military that “protects” (or destroys brown people’s homes, it’s really a toss up).
Big business has been telling us to recycle for approximately 40 years, and recycling is at an all time low as proportion of total waste produced. Advocating away from meaningful legislation and towards individual action is the ultimate weapon of big business. Recycling, and individual action more broadly, are effectively the same as being stabbed in the abdomen and bleeding to death, and then confidentially pulling out a band aid and putting it onto the gaping wound. I mean, yeah, sure, put it on, it’ll absorb some blood, but you, and our planet, are still dying. More decisive collective action, such as calling the ambulance and seeing a team of trauma surgeons asap is necessary.
It’s because interest rates went up and the free VC money tap was turned off so all these companies have to actually turn a profit, so they’re squeezing us with every lever they control.
Like the title states looking for E2EE apps (Android and iOS) without going into much details or needs to be robust enough and easy to use for anyone and stable for operations that are susceptible to constant electronic warfare. I did some research and thought about replacing Signal with Molly and wondering if it will still work...
Yup. At most, Signal gets removed from the Play Store. There’s no meaningful way to block Signal, especially now that big CDN providers are starting to rollout Encrypted Client Hello.
Well, everybody born in the american continent is technically “american” too, including Central and South America. Is there a specific term in english for these people?...
EU used to provide almost all the funding for preserving, teaching and promotion of Cornish. After Brexit, Cornwall is now getting less than half the funding that EU would have provided.
I've recently found that big (mostly open world) games tend to overwhelm or even intimidate me. I'm a big fan of the Rockstar games and absolutely adored Breath of the Wild, but my playthrough of Tears of the Kingdom has been a bit rocky from the get-go....
I've gotten to the point where if somebody tells me that a game is 100+ hours, I consider it a con. I don't want to dedicate the next 3 months of my gaming to a single game. And in my 20+ years of gaming, I've learned that no game truly has 100+ hours of content. Rather, they have 20 - 40 hours of content, stretched over the remainder of the filler in bullshit ways. These days, I'm ecstatic when I find a game like Guardians of the Galaxy. Tight, well written 20 hour experience that know what it is an what it wants to be. One and done. Love that game.
The first site I ever used for getting e-books was the-eye.eu's World Tracker Library. When the-eye went down and came back it looked like most of that section was gone, but just recently I discovered that there's still an enormous collection of links at...
I hear what they're saying, but I've just never heard of anyone trying to dismiss a game for being a JRPG. Sure, they have their style and tropes, and they aren't for everyone, but I've yet to meet anyone who seriously claims that a particular game is bad because it is a JRPG, as opposed to a game simply being a bad JRPG.
It seems to me that between Sony, Nintendo, From Soft, Bandai Namco, Square Enix, and even, yes, Konami, Japanese gaming culture has had a huge influence on so-called Western gaming culture.
Australia has pretty brutal anti-defamation laws. Just look at what YouTuber Jordan Shanks aka FriendlyJordies went though. A politician basically admitted to corruption, Jordan essentially quoted him in the video, but then Jordan was found to be guilty of defamation because what the politician said was covered by parliamentary privilege. So, basically, even an absolute truth is not always a defence.
That being said, the dude in question is long dead, so I'm not sure who exactly could claim to have been damaged by the assertion that the dude in question was a traitor.
As an Australian, I think this is all just performative. The body would be consultative only, meaning no real power. Meanwhile, the right wing Liberal government have let virtually all the closing the gap objectives go unaddressed. If I remember correctly, only 2 out of 7 objectives are on track.
Interesting writings at intersection of technology, privacy and surveillance capitalism mainly. Doctorow coined the term 'enshittification' in this essay which perfectly explains what's happening at reddit right now, and how all profit driven social media is bound to end the same way.
Which distro do you believe deserves more recognition?
For me it’s PeppermintOS....
Do any of you pay for carbon offsets?
Of course, it’s better to emit less carbon, and support systems and policies that emit less carbon. That said, carbon emission is unavoidable, and I’d like to minimize that portion of my impact as much as possible....
Google Decides To Pull Up The Ladder On The Open Internet, Pushes For Unconstitutional Regulatory Proposals (www.techdirt.com)
is Zorin OS any good?
I wanna try out Linux for the first time with no clue what I’m doing and this seemed like a good starter for what I need it for what do you all think?
(Please see comments) Alternatives to Signal if they exit EU due to ending E2EE
Like the title states looking for E2EE apps (Android and iOS) without going into much details or needs to be robust enough and easy to use for anyone and stable for operations that are susceptible to constant electronic warfare. I did some research and thought about replacing Signal with Molly and wondering if it will still work...
How do you call someone born in the US besides "American"?
Well, everybody born in the american continent is technically “american” too, including Central and South America. Is there a specific term in english for these people?...
YouTube cracking on ad blockers. (lemmy.world)
The Welsh disagree. (lemmy.world)
T-thank you, ma'am... 🥺
Sync for Lemmy Google Play Link (play.google.com)
Iran's morality police to resume headscarf patrols (www.bbc.co.uk)
Does anyone else sometimes feel overwhelmed by (big) games?
I've recently found that big (mostly open world) games tend to overwhelm or even intimidate me. I'm a big fan of the Rockstar games and absolutely adored Breath of the Wild, but my playthrough of Tears of the Kingdom has been a bit rocky from the get-go....
Is the-eye safe?
The first site I ever used for getting e-books was the-eye.eu's World Tracker Library. When the-eye went down and came back it looked like most of that section was gone, but just recently I discovered that there's still an enormous collection of links at...
qBittorrent settings for seeding on a 150mpbs connection
Currently using, based on an average of 5 torrents at a time (fairly arbitrary but the default limits were too restricting)...
The ‘JRPG’ label has always been othering (www.polygon.com)
interesting article for consideration from Polygon writer Kazuma Hashimoto. here's the opening:...
The name of the 'traitor' who sold Australia's secrets to the Russians revealed (www.abc.net.au)
The untold spy story of a mole in ASIO's ranks who sold the Soviets highly classified intelligence and got away with it.
Australia set for landmark Indigenous rights referendum (www.france24.com)
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