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Hopefully things like PineTime, Bangle.js, and the return of Pebble can shake up the market. There’s always neat DIY hacks like the SensorWatch too that can still make the space fun even if the major players get enshittified.

At least more salaried workers will be paid overtime with the new rules thus week in the US.

You can’t turn pictrs off as a configuration setting?

Can CSAM distributors use it as a test suite for workarounds?

Edit: first draft was too declarative where I meant to pose the thought as a question.

Frendica and Pixelfed.

Hydrogen is interesting for remote use cases, but the 10-15 year old used Leaf and Volt market argue against your second point. Most battery issues will be discovered in the first few years and after that it’s minimal (1-10%) loss after a decade, using far older tech than today’s models. The industry does need some standardization on battery modules to ensure less e-waste, more mechanics, and better pricing.

A giant electric “luxury” truck is still a giant “luxury” truck. Buying one over the other is like buying a cruelty free synthetic beaver cap over a cap made from an actual beaver. Yes it probably is better, but you are still wearing an ass on your head.

It’s 2023, most people live in urbanized areas where a truck is similarly ridiculous, especially the modern “luxury” models. Those that actually use their vehicles for hauling things at a farm want real work trucks and tractors (regardless of engine type) with lower and longer beds.

Credit cards have better identity protection and handle disputes more favorably than a bank debit card here.

Your post reminded me there is a playlist on the NATO channel of members of the varying armies sharing each other’s field rations. https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL_vlwQEsZAbzA5OikUd8nZlu3YtiPQC0S

Aren’t these archives protected explicitly under several points in US Title 17 Section 108? https://www.copyright.gov/title17/92chap1.html#108

It’s not like the land wouldn’t be viable for high end housing if the corps could push for rezoning. It doesn’t have to stay only office space.

I’m lost on this one.

One of the new weekly special creations at my local ice cream shop. It changes every week, but I like trying the new flavors they create.

I think masto and indie/fedi microblogging makes sense for seeing the empherial now that you are interested not topic based content. (Especially on small niche instances via the local feed) its a also great way to meet like minded people and build longer lasting connections as you see more of a person via their stream than only seeing them in niche spaces. Granted many people single topic their accounts, but masto is way more personal and less influencer type accounts than Twitter was, though those accounts exist too. You can still follow topics, but that’s a way of finding new people with shared interests not necessarily only deep diving in a topic.

Lemmy and topic forums in general are great at deep diving in a topic, but since you stay in the niche while you might see people frequent in that niche you really don’t have those longer interactions. Some forum communities try to mitigate this by having general chat posts or chat rooms on the side.

Different kinds of social media have their strengths.

This shouldn’t be this funny.

IndieWeb and the Fediverse really cover the social aspects quite well, and far better than Twitter ever did. I had to do almost as much work setting up my curation on the Fediverse as I did on Twitter, and I had to block far less since I wasn’t getting fed crap for “engagement” stats like on Twitter. You can still follow Twitter personas there too via tools like bird.makeup, though its a one way feed.

An RSS feed reader?

It’s not so much the instances but the communities that are important on Lemmy, unlike most of the fediverse. If your community’s instance is federated with the big instances, it helps get people to your community either way if the post shows as a link on the bigger instance or the host instance. Hopefully crawlers will eventually add some smarts so we link the host instances eventually too.

Reminds me of an old viral video “Cows With Guns”

More accurately someone who knows nothing about German, writing, or carpentry but learns German and carpentry by reading hundreds of thousands of books and then decides to write a book about carpentry in German.