the regime offers us two choices:

• organize and fight in the civil war they’re so thirsty for
• get genocided

“XMPP is too hard” i hear all the time. i don’t get it at all. it’s no harder than matrix and it’s much lighter to host

i have yet to meet a 3.5mm socket that’s gone bad. like. i get gutting the €0.50 or whatever, but it’s weird how many people defend this decision as pro-consumer when a lot of people would get a lot of utility out of it.

if the presence or absence of a headphone jack isn’t a factor in your decision making process, that’s fine, but for some people it is. they’re not attacking your decision. they’re just disappointed that something they’d otherwise want doesn’t meet some of their criteria for what they’re looking for

Graphene only supports pixel devices

yes. the most sexually unnattractive demographic of all. checks notes porn stars

It’s my favorite. Interacting with it is just a thought and then you’re in your app. There’s no browsing trying to remember where in the list the app is, forgetting on the way which app you were looking for, opening one of the 3 apps you’re addicted to. It’s great

Could someone smarter than me about mastodon and lemmy federation explain to me what it is about this mastodon status that federates into a lemmy community? From @JazzyKindaFella@zirk.us 's profile it just looks like a normal status but then here it is in a specific community that’s not even tagged

1. the people set up local solar collection grids
2. the state gets mad as the state ultimately represents the interests of the petrochemical industry (the state is almost universally a petrostate)
3. the state implements a system of taxes and subsidies to reduce the economic efficacy of solar panels
4. when enough people maintain their solar panels, the state resorts to its usual mechanism for enforcement: violence
5. the people, confronted with the violence of the state must either submit to the power of the state or respond to the violence of the state with violence of their own

idk if i succeeded or failed

ah! a duck foot friend! i’ve had my best luck with vivobarefoot for closed toe options

Niagara and KISS are IMO the best launchers out. Niagara is more polished, KISS is open source, requires few permissions, and has an almost pathological dedication to supporting low power hardware

i’ve had really good luck with Klean Kanteen’s TKWide line. highly recommend. they’re also the only one i know who has any ethical certifications. the others as far as all i know are run ethically, the board of directors promises

you name a way to divide a people in a harmful way, they’re doing it

• racism
• Islamophobia
• homophobia
• sexism
• transphobia
• ablism
• shit you ain’t never even thought of hating on

they’re hating on it

the biggest hurdle i see right now to expanding the threadiverse is how often people here are just absolute assholes to each other.

i beg of everyone to keep an open mind and to try to remember that while this might seem like racist bullshit upon first glance, that upon further inspection you will find that the reasons for these things are also racist bullshit

i think bicameralism has a place IF we actually learn from the Haudenosaunee Confederacy instead of just half ass copy their homework like we did last time. we gotta do it right and actually build anti-authoritarian systems into our ways of being. our founding fathers were a bunch of oligarchs who were still pretty sure an enlightened autocrat might be the way

i am Appalachian. when i moved to DC for work people asked in full earnesty if i had to buy shoes before taking the train

he’s changed his act pretty drastically

glad people are learning! the most densely populated city in the entire world is in africa

appeasement has never, and will never, work(ed)

that’s… what? other than like… tigers most animals have highly complicated social structures

even bees and ants have complicated social structures that “they’re enslaving eachother” is an incredibly reductive human-centric view of how a eusocial colony works.