Following the abduction of three police officers by Serbia, the conflict with Kosovo continues to escalate. The EU invited the two heads of state to a crisis summit....
Nine survivors from a migrant boat that sank were arrested Thursday on suspicion of smuggling as hope faded for hundreds of missing passengers and attention turned to Greece’s failure to act before the…
yeah, the Americans went to sleep, lmao
I've noticed that when it's like 9/10/11 PM for me and 2/3/4PM for Americans the server starts to throw errors.
That schedule works for me tho, lol. Whenever the site starts becoming slow I know its time for me to go to sleep.
Afrikanische Delegation in der Ukraine: Auf der Suche nach Frieden
Eine afrikanische Delegation besucht derzeit die Ukraine und Russland, um bei der Suche nach einem Ende von Moskaus Angriffskrieg zu helfen. Der ukrainische Präsident Selenskyj lehnte Verhandlungen bis zu einem Abzug ab. Von Peter Sawicki.
The spokesperson to the President of South Africa 🇿🇦 lied. His delegation spent more than an hour in a bomb shelter in Kyiv while the sirens were ringing, this was confirmed by Reuters and the Economist
@maynarkh
Romanian here: correct, but not in a way that Americans might think of.
Here's how it went. When I was young (in the late 90s - early 2000) computers were becoming more and more of a thing. We were poor as shit so we got really crappy ones, Pentium 486, 586, I, II, that sorta stuff.
Now, being dirt poor meant that we could barely convince our parents to get us computers, there was no way in hell they would be convinced to pay for an expensive internet connection.
So what we did instead was we chipped in and bought network gear and then drew cables from one apartment to another, from one bloc to another and form tiny local networks in between us so we can share pirated movies/games/music/porn and also play network games.
Then we chipped in money so that one of us got an internet connection and share it in our tiny little local network (unless you had a rich neighbor who could afford it by himself and you could beg him to let you use his internet connection).
Of course, the primary motivator for that was: piracy, gaming and porn.
These local networks happened in every city, all over the entire country. Lucky for us, the government didn't intervene at all, they just completely ignored everything that was happening.
Gradually those tiny networks started communicating with one another and some entrepreneurial people saw that as an opportunity. All sorts of neighborhood companies sprung up and started offering cheaper internet connection using as a base the existing infrastructure that we created with those tiny little networks.
The competition between these companies was so fierce that it became ingrained in the culture, cheap and good became such an expectation that people had that it carried over to mobile phone services too. And even though nowadays we no longer have small companies competing with each other, but a handful of large companies, that expectation for cheap and good services is there.
That's how you get 1Gbps internet connection for $9 (tax included) - the idea of a data cap on a broadband connection is not even a thing, doesn't exist.
You'll get data caps for mobile internet, for example Orange's current offer is for $6.6 you'll get unlimited calls/sms + 20GB internet or for $9.7 you'll get unlimited calls/sms/internet. But if you want something really cheap, there's other available for example Digi's connection: for $2.2 you get unlimited network calls/sms, 200 minutes with other networks and 50GB internet.
The EU Parliament has passed a new battery directive that contains requirements with a view to greater sustainability. On the one hand, batteries are to be increasingly collected and the materials they contain are to be recycled. Secondly, portable batteries must be easily replaceable in the future....
not entirely sure about the difference, but as far as I know built-in batteries basically mean glued ones/hard to remove. The terms seem to be used interchangeably
Union Square, Oradea, Romania
US Representative Demands Release of Kosovo Police Officers (www.zeit.de)
Following the abduction of three police officers by Serbia, the conflict with Kosovo continues to escalate. The EU invited the two heads of state to a crisis summit....
Hope fades for missing migrants in deadly shipwreck in Greece (www.france24.com)
Nine survivors from a migrant boat that sank were arrested Thursday on suspicion of smuggling as hope faded for hundreds of missing passengers and attention turned to Greece’s failure to act before the…
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Me, trying to get used to Lemmy (media.discordapp.net)
c/w (lemmy.world)
::: spoiler spoiler it's a fatburger :::
FCC chair to investigate exactly how much everyone hates data caps (arstechnica.com)
New battery regulation: EU bans built-in batteries in laptops or notebooks (www.computerbase.de)
The EU Parliament has passed a new battery directive that contains requirements with a view to greater sustainability. On the one hand, batteries are to be increasingly collected and the materials they contain are to be recycled. Secondly, portable batteries must be easily replaceable in the future....