The split keyboard and better posture were the biggest wins for me. The whole mechanical keyboard fad has been terrible for people's wrists.
Other things I've heard worked for some people that are worth trying: warm gloves or compression gloves. Apparently some people get pain in their wrists from typing in cold environments (like an office). Taking breaks, doing wrist stretches, and having hobbies that use your hands differently can certainly help.
average monthly active recipients of their service in the Union, calculated as an average over the period of the past six months
And the definition of active recipient:
(p) ‘active recipient of an online platform’ means a recipient of the service that has engaged with an online platform by either requesting the online platform to host information or being exposed to information hosted by the online platform and disseminated through its online interface;
So you just need 45 million EU citizens looking at a platform to qualify as a VLOP. Amazon probably qualifies, but it would be easy for them to prove they were unfairly discriminated against as well.
Did the EU even define the term "Very Large Online Platforms"? I think this is the bill, but it doesn't ever define the term. Amazon may be right, purely because the legislators are incompetent idiots.
It's not any battery. They just didn't do the original manufacturing, so you can find compatible replacements elsewhere.
I bought the System76 Kudu laptop back in 2016, but it is actually a W670RZ model laptop manufactured by Clevo Co. in China (unlike my previous laptop which was a MacBook Pro manufactured by Apple in China). System76 wasn't the only company selling the W670RZ, so they're not the only ones you can go to for replacement parts.
The main thing I like is the hardware support. I knew before purchasing that everything would work, and that helped me feel okay dropping a pretty penny on a new laptop. Besides that, I'd say they're fine. They aren't designing and manufacturing their own hardware (at least not back when I bought one); the laptops are pretty standard off-the-shelf stuff. System76 just promises that it'll all work out-of-the-box. I've never used Pop!_OS, so I can't speak to that. Arch and Debian work great, though.
The only negative I can think of is: once the battery started to go after several years, they didn't have a replacement in their store, but because it's a generic laptop, there were new ones available on Amazon. It just would've been nice to get it from System76.
All-in-all, I'm a happy customer. I'm keeping my eye on Framework, though. The MNT Reform is also interesting. I don't like how thick it is, but that's because it uses 18650s for the battery, which would solve the problem of buying a new battery just to find that all the batteries were manufactured at the same time, so there are no working replacements.
I can't find the page that lists blocked instances on kbin, but lemmy.ml may be blocked. lemmy.ml (and lemmy in general) are controversial to some people, and those that dislike lemmy for those reasons have gravitated to kbin.
In short, the lemmy devs and lemmy.ml admins are considered "tankies", so they don't want anything to do with them. Thought-stopping newspeak to me, but I'm a strict "separate the artist from the art" person, especially if you're not paying them.
With full knowledge that OP is unlikely to check the comments from a non-ml instance, so they'll likely never see this, I think in light of this sustained situation, we need to discuss whether or not we actually do defederate from lemmy.ml.
Some people over there do know about the dev's weird scummy coding. Some, like OP, don't. Either way, neither of the devs have said a word about it in over a week despite being repeatedly asked and the topic repeatedly coming up even on their own instance. They may be bogged, but I sense they would have by now and it's likely to stay like this.
I think I'm going to give them a little more time, and then (maybe over the weekend?) I'm going to raise the question if someone else doesn't, about how their contributions to the apparent activity of kbin feeds weighs against our wholesale inability to fully interact with any of it. We can talk with each other there, certainly, but I don't think that's enough and it gives a false impression.
I dig it; a lot of this rings true with The Perennial Philosophy. This part is a little radical:
Mankind can be divided into two races, or groups. Those who are furnished with the immortal soul, like Judas, can come to know the God within and enter the imperishable realm when they die. Those among the same group as the other eleven disciples cannot enter the realm of God and will die both spiritually and physically at the end of their lives.
Agreed. This has nothing to do with UBI or its goals. This is what socialism looks like in an exceptionally wealthy society.
I don't even think UBI is practical; just take a look at inflation today to see what businesses do when they hear people have a bit of spending change.
If the government wants to guarantee that people have food and shelter, they should do it directly.
I've always hated 555 numbers, because they immediately dispel the illusion. They should just use invalid numbers that have an area code that starts with 1 or, better yet, an exchange code that starts with 1.
I fully support this. You do you. It's your computer; you can do what you want with it. Whether you're using it for work or play, if it's the way you like it, then it's not wrong.
I don't think it's capitalist, because the means of production were purchased by the tribe as a whole and are the property of the tribe. Definitely socialism.
They would never have needed to ask Disney for permission without copyright, and they could put whatever they want on the headstone whether Disney liked it or not.
I also don't buy blaming a dead dude for the policy, or that Walt didn't consider how copyright law works when making the decision.
