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Note: The following is what I heard from a friend who lived there for decades. I have visited Taiwan but I don't have roots there, as such this is all I have to go on.

But as far as I'm told the drive for Status Quo is mainly because the Taiwanese people don't want to pull out the red flag. They'd love to have independence and be recognised as a state but the status quo is good enough (because it de facto offers them independence in all but name) and less likely to lead to a major war. So basically right now they already have what they want and trying to formalise it will only put more pressure on the situation.

Perhaps China will offer them "One Country, Two Systems". Because they respected this so amazingly well with Hong Kong.

Yes, or paying the $100 fee for a free FOSS app, or publishing an app that is too 'spicy' like an app for fetlife, or 'possibly embarassing' like emulators that can be used to play pirated content. There's only positives here IMO.

Edit: Oh yes or full-featured browsers like Firefox of course, like @Inxtx mentions. Good point. I always use Firefox on Android because it blocks many trackers by default and has uBlock Origin and Dark Reader.

I doubt it. Apple will make the process scary enough that users won't get tricked into this.

Well Google sucks but at least they opened the door to sideloading and open-sourced Android so things like Graphene and LineageOS exist. You don't have to put up with the spying. Apple spies less, but whatever is there is unavoidable right now. Same with controlling what you're allowed to put on your phone.

I have to say I thought that was kinda a pipe dream, but Samsung DeX is surprisingly useful and I use it a lot when I don't have my personal laptop around but I do have a docking station (which happens a LOT in today's hotdesking environment).

Just plug it in and access to all my personal computing stuff is there <3

Nice! I hope this will create a similarly great FOSS privacy-first ecosystem as F-Droid has done for Android. Some of the apps on there are really high quality. And amazingly small and efficient. It's really cool how much you can do if you don't waste 90% of your time spying on the user. Which goes for Android and iOS store apps almost equally.

Yeah it was really cool when it started. But when people started running airBnBs as a business it turned into shit, and started ruining city centers too.

When will people stop setting the bar for usability at “can be used be old people”? I’m 53, and I guess that makes me an old person, but I suspect I know more about computers than many so-called digital natives.

It is a bit silly indeed. Unix is actually older than you.

And I'm pretty sure that "digital natives" have much more problems understanding the technical depths of an OS because they've simply never had to deal with them. Instead they prefer the fuzzy feeling that having a megacorporation decide your every need provides.

It's because a good translation is not (always) literal.

In the German version it says taglich in hamburg. In English you would indeed put an adverb (like daily) at the end. It works the other way around but it's not really what a native English speaker would say.

Well language is a fluid thing. If more and more people get taught shit language, the language will change to match. We have far worse problems on this planet :)

I do think these AI companies grabbing what they can without giving anything back is a problem though. In my view content creators are a bit hypocritical too though. When Google scraped the internet verbatim (viewable in google cache) they didn't mind because it gave them discoverability. Now they suddenly do care because they don't benefit directly. Really, the stance should have been made earlier. But I do agree it should be stopped. Or content creators compensated.

I never liked Duolingo anyway. It's a bit stupid, it just teaches you some basic phrases without explaining the grammar behind it. So you're not really learning anything.

And I really hate 'gamification' in general. I love computer games but not gamified learning or exercising etc. It just puts me off.

Why? It's just Spanish for "free". And it's become pretty much of a standard to represent FOSS.

Is it fortunate? It'd be better to press the issue and have all serious media abandon Twitter for good. Now it will keep simmering for longer. Why keep up the pretense?

The PP that leads Galicia was very slow in asking for help.

They're direct descendents of the military Franco dictatorship: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/People%27s_Party_(Spain) so I'm not surprised. They don't care about the environment.

No, it's the Mozilla foundation: https://donate.mozilla.org/en-US/ . Not the firefox foundation.

They do a lot of stuff but Firefox is not part of that, that's under the corporation: https://foundation.mozilla.org/en/what-we-do/

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It's free speech Jim, just not as we know it.

Maybe because it makes global warming much worse, shipping refridgerated ice through the air to the desert?

Yes exactly, that's what I mean. Firefox is from the for-profit and you can't donate to that. I think they did that because of the google deal but it also means they locked themselves out of a sustainable donation model.

The non-profit is just running some BS side-projects now.

I used to love reddit. Especially because it was so diverse. So many communities living side by side generally pretty well (except the well-known toxic communities of course that we all knew to stay away from). And the everything-goes attitude, like people discussing religion on the same site as people exhibiting their sex lives :P I used to love seeing that kind of diversity (ok and the exhibitionism too, I admit 🤭, I'm just into that.). I just loved the everything-goes feeling about it.

But two things went wrong as I see it. One was that US society got more and more polarised and toxic due to Trump and most of reddit's users are from the US. Even the people who used to be pretty nice are so triggered by anything you say "wrong", they always think you're trying to pull them into an argument for the "other side". It's like they have PTSD from being constantly attacked by the other side and it causes that knee-jerk reaction on anything that doesn't fall 100% into their narrative. I got so sick and tired of that hostility especially because I was not used to it locally. That thing you mention, where you say something and someone always claims you're making it up to make a point or karma or whatever is so familiar and tiring.

And the other thing was of course that idiot spez. Trying to clean up reddit for his precious investors by removing (or locking away) anything not above the belt, killing third-party apps, etc. I still go there once in a while to gather some information but I stay away from discussions and I rotate my accounts every couple of months. So I don't give a crap about karma because I kill my accounts anyway. In fact even when I did have a long-term account I used to "shreddit" it every couple of months so karma was not something I ever cared about.

The sad thing is that this Trump toxicity has now even blown over to my country (Holland). They elected a total fascist 2 months ago and the same thing is happening there now, there are lots of people claiming they were never heard and now their hero is going to drain the swamp and kick out all the refugees and all that same old blahblah. Several of my "friends" were caught up in this BS and I've had to break off all contact with them. 😡

Even Lemmy is not free from this, I joined lemmy.ml for a while but I found it pretty toxic too. Lemmy.world looked similar. This is why I came here and it's been great so far.