Yeah I’m interested in the topic but am not up for watching an almost 2 hour documentary.

So, I’m sticking with Lemmy. It’s not perfect, but at least it’s real. Maybe we’ll get the true decentralization we’ve been promised one day

I thought we had Usenet since the 1970s.

If you have a hard drive, replace it with an SSD? And, can you add more memory?

/me laughs in Unihertz Tank 3.

https://www.unihertz.com/products/tank-3-pro

Added: non-google link to OP article:

https://wccftech.com/oneplus-working-on-snapdragon-8-elite-flagship-with-7800mah-battery/

People deleting their own posts, it looks like. There are not that many deletions by mods.

https://lemmy.world/modlog/4230?page=1&actionType=ModRemovePost

no end in sight

Can it actually go below zero? I’m new at this.

A friend of mine used Wegovy to lose 100+ lb. You might talk to your Dr about it.

https://mathbabe.org/2024/02/04/why-people-hate-wegovy/

Lem-bin pie?

Thanks for the good thoughts and it’s interesting (I guess not that surprisng) to hear that Trump and MAGA are, for now, even worse than the AfD if I understand what you’re saying. I’m pessimistic about local activism here being good for anything at the moment. Changes have to made at the federal level, which for me mostly means kicking out the Democrat establishment. The idea of AOC running against Chuck Schumer in a primary would be an example of that, though I don’t know if she would have a good chance of beating him. I’d say she has no serious chance of being elected president in 2028. Of course I’m open to being surprised.

It buys us time to elect a party capable of making good changes.

That’s a nice thought and obviously you know more about the AfD and German politics than I do, but on the US side I can say that the Democrats have learned absolutely nothing. Even after two terms of G.W. Bush (2000-2008), one of Trump (2016-2020), one lucky escape* (Biden 2020), and Trump now in a 2nd term, the Democrats make the same mistakes that they always have. It’s a safe bet that 2028 in the US won’t be any better.

It would be great to hear what kinds of remedies are under way in Europe to fix the status quo as you describe. If anything like that is happening, it doesn’t make the news over here. I can say that nothing seems to be happening in the US beyond some meaningless posturing.

What does it mean if a democracy bans a party that the voters want to elect? Better to ask what failure of the system made that party popular in the first place. We have a similar situation in the US fwiw.

This looks kind of cool. It’s written in Go. License is LGPL3, kind of a weird choice, but whatever. I’m not crazy about the name “Sriracha” but I guess you’ve got call it something. I might give it a try. I haven’t understood why so many forums are written in PHP.

I’m happy with say 3 hz, fast enough to not be too annoying when flipping pages while reading. It’s fine to not be good for video. What I really want is a 16 inch or so e-reader though.

That is a video of a much smaller monitor. It does show reasonably responsive refresh. Do you have one of the 25.3 inch monitor described in the article?

What is the refresh time? They carefully avoid mentioning that. There’s a comparable Pimoroni monitor whose refresh takes 14 seconds so I’d call it a static display rather than a computer monitor.

governments

Be careful what you ask for :(.

Maybe “The Hacker Ethic” by Pekka Himanen, though I looked at it and didn’t see much new.

Card payment terminals use the network for card authorization, but depending on the merchant agreement with its card processor, authorization (at least back in my day) was typically only needed for charges above say $50. Otherwise the bank would pay up and eat the loss if something went wrong.

If you’re old enough to remember cards with raised numbers on them, those existed so the merchant could make an imprint of the card number on carbonless paper using a hand operated gizmo with rollers and carbonless forms. That used no electricity at all. You’d sign the piece of paper and the merchant would turn it in to the bank. That was simply how credit cards worked for quite a long time. Electronic terminals, and especially portable electronic terminals came along later.

Contract workers for Meta, TikTok, Google, and more are forming a global group to fight for better working conditions.

Try Reddit also, the moderators there don’t even get paid :(.

p2p solution for opensource projects

That’s called Git and it’s been around longer than GitHub. There is also Usenet which by now is mostly dead. People fell for centralized alternatives. Oops :)