I’m contemplating making the same move. Google killing sideloading also kills the last reason for me to stick with Android, so I may as well go with the phone by the company that hasn’t based literally its entire business model around harvesting user data for targeted advertising.

That’s far from the only issue. Of course all of the things I’d name (systemic racism, horrible prison conditions, gaps in our “universal” healthcare, dismantling of the social state) are also things the current US administration would be in favour of.

Not giving the Babylon Bee clicks is a good thing.

Football.

I’d argue that Lemmy and the wider fediverse aren’t simple and effortless enough as they are right now. There’s a reason that Bluesky took off when Mastodon didn’t.

It’s very much not. There are plenty of people who do not only not have the knowledge (and the time, interest or even ability to learn) to self-host anything, but who also don’t know anyone who does. That’s probably a majority of people, actually. We need privacy-respecting, open alternatives that function as drop-in replacements and that are just as intuitive and easy to use as corporate offerings. Otherwise the future is corporate shit.

Und ehrlich gesagt, so richtig gut hat Abschreckung rückblickend bisher auch nicht funktioniert.

Abschreckung funktioniert eindeutig. Der einzige Grund aus dem die NATO Russlands Angriffskrieg toleriert ist die Abschreckungswirkung von Russlands Atomwaffen.

Anschlag

Nette Terrorismus-Konnotation, liebe Tagesschau. Brücken und andere Infrastruktur sind legitime Ziele. Es war ein Angriff.

Hasn’t been an issue in years thanks to 2.4GHz dongles.

I’m not denying that Israel is committing genocide in Gaza. I think that suggesting that the answer to genocide should be more genocide is absolutely vile.

“I oppose genocide. Unless it’s a group I dislike.”

We don’t have one. Running a search engine is expensive and you can no longer just run on endless amounts of VC. You need a way to make money somehow. Kagi might be the closest (I haven’t tried it because Google is still generally usable for me, but I’ve heard good things), but it’s not free.

And most people prefer content algorithms. Or maybe a better way of phrasing it would be they’re used to and expect content algorithms. Having to actively search for and follow topics is not only yet another hoop users have to jump through (good UX has as few steps as possible to get you where you want, a good chunk of users jumps ship at every step) it also requires that they know which hashtags are being used for the content they want to see beforehand, which might be difficult for you if you relied on content algorithms before.

Because even his idiotic voters wouldn’t intentionally drive up their power bill. Well, some might, but most wouldn’t. But if it’s harder for consumers to make that informed choice his friends in industry can flood the American market with inefficient crap and his voters will probably blame Biden or immigrants or Jewish space lasers for their increased power bill.

Prinzipiell ja, aber die grundlegende und trotzdem sozialverträgliche Überarbeitung des Rentensystems die wir brauchen kommt mit dieser Koalition sowieso nicht. Kein Fortschritt ist immerhin besser als aktiver Rückschritt.

You might think that’s no excuse but I’m not fucking with anything running on mains electricity. Thanks, but I like living and not setting the house on fire.

It’s not delusional if he doesn’t believe that. It’s just a fucking lie because he’s a Nazi trying to defend other Nazis.

That’s just how you eat rice with chopsticks? How else are you supposed to do it without making a giant mess?

Nice victim-blaming, creep.

A ladder. If it’s famous there’s bound to be a good chunk of change down there.