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by jiofj 3y ago
As far as I know you don't need to pay half a million dollars to read your mentions.
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by jiofj 3y ago
I read it as... 20 years ago we were the ones being censored so we created a free speech hosting. But now that it's our side doing the censorship, we're not so sure anymore.
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by jiofj 3y ago
Low emission zones already exist and have existed for years. "Airplane tickets are too cheap" is a talking point of French politicians recently. It's likely they will do something about it. The EU already has a law in place s
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by jiofj 3y ago
People aren't going to "degrow" by themselves, so governments turned authoritarian will force them, but will do so in a way that won't affect the rich. For example, low emission zones for cars - you have to have a new ca
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by jiofj 3y ago
"Degrowth" is code for "poor people should have fewer things"
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by jiofj 3y ago
You probably don't have a slow hard disk
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by jiofj 3y ago
I understand the thermometer analogy but it would read much better if the post was reversed. >2030: The market share of ARM-based Windows machines overtakes x86_64. Yeah, they wish...
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by jiofj 3y ago
LibreOffice doesn't come preinstalled with Windows. It also is very bloated compared to WordPad.
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by jiofj 3y ago
>There’s no reason to be outraged by this decision, as WordPad has been out-of-date for years and is barely usable for its intended purpose, which was to replace to view and edit rich text files (RTF, or *.rtf). It can open and edit docx
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by jiofj 3y ago
Dunno why everybody is using this thread to compare the EU to the US, as if I cared about how it is in the US. I'm telling you I pay over half my salary in taxes and get little in return. Whatever happens in the US is not my problem.
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by jiofj 3y ago
Taxes on your salary, + VAT, + rest of taxes you pay for owning a car, a house, + taxes on petrol, etc amounts to at least half your salary in most European countries.
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by jiofj 3y ago
It's more like we pay half our salary in taxes and then we get terrible education and a healthcare system where you can't even get an appointment.
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This is done usually so you can sideload apps.
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Low-hanging fruit: make article names clickable!
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Which is good, since votes shouldn't be worth more depending on where you live.
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Canada is a fully democratic country where citizens are allowed to vote for whomever they see fit. They have the politicians they voted for.
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by jiofj 3y ago
Seeing bugs is one thing (I stopped using twitter like 5 years ago or so and it was always a bug fest so I can believe it got even worse) but we are talking about a single specific bug here with important privacy consequences. Some reliable
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by jiofj 3y ago
Let me take this opportunity to recommend this recipe from my country - https://www.thespruceeats.com/galician-style-octopus-recipe-...
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by jiofj 3y ago
You don't know how to use twitter but you know how to use mastodon? Aren't they basically the same thing?
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Filling up in 10 minutes instead of hours is worse because... it's so convenient and quick that you may forget to fill up the previous day? This is not a very good argument. You can solve this by leaving the house ten minutes later, wh