As much I love the idea of Lemmy, I’ve noticed myself I was drawn back to Reddit. Why? Because it has a larger community, of course, but (and please don’t shoot me for this), Reddit’s algo and rewards. Yes, the achievements gallery is stupid, but it works.

The folks building Lemmy investigating how to increase engagement, this is one factor.

Yes, I concur. Have been coming to the US since 1992, no more. The last time was 2023 and I don’t forsee anytime soon I’ll be returning.

lol

He does have a wife? That’s the news here…

Hope he has to sell twatter at some point. Not that any good would come from that, but just the thought of him finally eating some shit makes me giggle.

It’s an unpopular opinion here, but I agree with you. I’ve been running a single disk Synology for a decade or so, replaced the original one about 4 years ago.

The software is pretty sleek and it would fit OPs requirements perfectly. I don’t care for some power hungty Intel based PC sucking kWhs of power each day, just to host some media.

Mine boots up at 19:00 and shuts down at 01:00. It has a built in Torrent client that even my partner can use.

Congrats. You just explained the problem of the West using a food analogy.

I’m pretty sure the forces that are hijacking our political systems have very deep connections to the fossil fuel industry. These mofos have been running our society form over 200 years, and renewables and batteries are threatening their existence. Did we really believe they were going without a fight after the Paris Agreement in 2015?

Stop burning stuff. Cut of their oxigen. So we can save our world.

My wife’s HP Spectre something laptop became twice as fast when I reinstalled it and removed all the cruft.

Lol, folks don’t ‘need’ SUVs. When I was in NYC 2 years back, after not having been there for a few years, I couldn’t believe my eyes. The number of sheer gardensheds on wheels is hilarious. SUVs and ‘trucks’ are an American car manufacturers invention that have little to no basis in real world needs. All of you have been told you need it. That’s something different.

Personally, being from Europe, I’m not sure why we would need a pickup truck. I get it, insane tax reasons somehow are making those monstrosities quite popular in the Netherlands for example, but you never see the beds used.

When they’re up for renewal, they won’t be replaced with Teslas.

My LG OLED has never seen an internet connection and intend to keep it that way for a very long time: indefinitely.

Bingo. Slowly turn them onto each other…

Your opinion is not really appreciated here with the nuclear industry trying to capitalise on the renaissance that seems to be fashionable these days. But I fully agree with your assessment, China is of course building nuclear plants, but have also seen the light in the sense that they are building more renewable generation capacity than all other generation sources combined.

Nuclear will not make a full ‘come back’, literally no one in their right mind is going to invest in 15 year projects when grid connected battery capacity is tripling every 6 months.

Except nuclear does not scale, especially not downward. Because any safety measures that have become standard, are required also on the smaller reactors. Except there, they cost relatively more per kWh output when compared to large plants.

I don’t really see this going to work, renewables are continuing to become cheaper and cheaper, and do scale.

But, I’d like to be pleasantly surprised.

Will probably get flamed to death for this, but… a few months ago I’ve decided to try Ubuntu on an older Intel MacBook Pro, just to try it out after many attempts in the past. (Mac user here)

Then I tried to use the trackpad. After 30 minutes of fiddling I gave up. Say what you want about Apple’s UX choices, esthetics and business practices. But boy do they know how to produce a computer and UX combo that fits like a glove.

In comparison, the Ubuntu experience was like eating nails.

And before y’all go off; I would like to switch. I’m getting tired of Apple’s business practices.

Also, the Murdochs are known to fan out the EV bullshit that is being sold these days via their channels.

It’s only a matter of time before driving an EV is considered woke.

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True, but that you can also largely influence by defensive driving. When I rode 80 tkm a year for 15 years I’ve literally seen everything but was never part of it.