Can you share the STL please? And is it a print in place or does it require glue for assembly? 😋

You may have a look at GrapheneOS or other custom firmwares for your Pixel 4A to get an extended period of security patches.

https://grapheneos.org/releases

Sorry man but I have to side with your wife here. We have even one such junk drawer per room.

• In the kitchen with scissors, jar opener, potato peeler, nut cracker, sticks, tooth picks…
• In the living room with matches, candles, coasters, birthday decoration, fertilizer for house plants, …
• In the bedroom we even have one per person with protective gear for sports, single socks that have their partner missing, scarves, baseball cap, luggage straps, …

Could go on with bathroom, laundry room etc. Junk drawers for the win!

I see your point with moderstion policy (hexbear etc.).

The aspect of local topics (aussie.zone), I see very critical for the fediverse. I see the same pattern here with the German-speaking communities on Lemmy. A huge part of them was historically hosted on feddit.de. The administrator of that instance lost interest in the project, downtimes soared and the instance is basically dead now. As an alternative, people founded feddit.org. Feddit.org is actively maintained right now but still the majority of the German content is focused on that instance. The communities AFAIK never grew again to the old size. If Feddit.org goes down as well one day (for whatever reason), I think chances are high that the German communities simply get lost as the frustratration grows everytime you start over again. Similarly, it would be a bad idea if every German was using the same German provider for their e-mails.

Personally, I’d prefer if Australian, German and every other ‘bubble’ (Solarpunk, Veganism, …) would be more distrubuted across various instances. That makes the fediverse more resistent against outside attacks, internal conflicts, downtimes and less dependent on single instance administrators.

I guess the instance doesn’t matter too much as you can interact with any content and people independent from your home instance. Personally, I’d recommend a medium-sized all-purpuse instance. Medium-sized because I think it’s important for the fediverse not to concentrate everything on one or twp major hosts and very small hobby projects are probably more likely to just disappear out of a sudden.

Are there piracy related websites with a domain from the EU or any western country? I thought for this very reason they always go for .to, .cc, .in and so on…

Personally, I’d consider myself rich. I live in Germany which is already among the richer countries in the world giving me access to an insane amount of infrastructure and opportunities. Furthermore, I work for an IT company and make more money than average and more than I need to satisfy my immediate needs (shelter, food, transportation etc.) and pay for my hobbies (mostly outdoor stuff). I might not be a millionaire and I can’t just retire tomorrow but still I’m very aware of what a huge privilege I have compared to a vast part of humanity.

Personally, I think already my taxes are too low. Not to start about millionaires or billionaires.

Then, I think your best chances of survival would be being as invisible as possible. Only react to urgent issues, don’t address systematic issues and if you’re forced to give a statement, remain vague and unclear. It’s not great for society in the longterm but I think any disruptive change will make people confused, annoyed, insecure or angry. Even though they get used to the change quickly or even like it, instant voting will be your death sentence.

Another strategy may be to distract people from issues. Sport events, drugs, parties, censorship. Keep up the illusion of everything going well while the world goes down the drain.

How often do these vote cycles occur? I would argue that most distuptive changes will make things worse before they change to the better.

Ending capitalism, forgiving all debt etc. will lead to huge chaos in the short and medium term. Even thought in the long term, it might turn into a much better system, you’d need a lot of time to rebuild society and people to see the positive in it.

I think that’s also an issue of today’s democracies. If you’re elected, you have just a relatively short period of time before the next election. If you aim for big reforms, you might be still in the ‘make things worse’ phase after the first legislation period and people will vote for an opposing party. They undo everything you did, again making things worse without ever achieving their own vision.

Cool idea, thanks for sharing the video!

Nothing for people with… https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trypophobia

From my perspective you can’t bet both sides and still expect gains on average. Sure you can be lucky that the one bet wins more than the other loses but typically that doesn’t work if you bet on two opposite outcomes. There are no magical and safe ways to multiply money other than maybe being super rich and already too big to fail.

Oh, where is that? As an inspiration in case I decide to emigrate one day. 😄

The smell of coffee. I don’t know what’s wrong with me (or alternatively the vast majority of people) but it smells as disgusting to me as a steaming pile of dog poop. I learned to ignore it to some extend but I still hate it in all its variations: The powder, freshly roasted beans, freshly brewed coffee, cold coffee, coffee breath, …

I think all we need is a clear communication and strategy. We still have politicians that want to prolong the production of ICE cars and/or large scale use e-fuels. If we had these decisions way ealier, it would have been better, sure but every additional year that goes by will worsen the effects on economy.

Back-up/failover instances for communities and users.

Every user and every admin of a community should be able to assign a failover instance in case the main instance goes down temporarily or permanently. All relevant data (posts, upvotes, settings, password hashes, mod log) would be permanently syched so you could just switch over in case of a downtime and most importantly, no content would be lost.

If you implement a feature to set the failover instance as your new main instance, that would also implicitly allow you to migrate users and communities elsewhere.

That works with Boost for Lemmy, so apparantly the data is already there in the backend (and at least one frontend).

I think you got to start somewhere and then scale it up over time. If we wait until we have piles of batteries at hand, people will criticise that no one addressed the issue early enough. Furthermore, I see a potential feedback loop. If we start deconstructing and recycling the batteries now, we learn early what the biggest issues are and can potentially tweak the next generation of cells to make them easier recycable.

Their mymic is anyhow way too positive for Halloween. Separate them to get two villains full of bitterness und anger!

I agree. Many companies have shady practices but very few of them have CEOs that show their shitty character as open as Elon Musk. One important reason of buying an electric car instead of a ICE car is causing less harm / negative impact to the world. And people who make their buying decision based on that in many cases don’t appreciate people constantly lying and promoting fachism. I personally won’t buy a Tesla as long as he is involved.