1.2 million active lemmy users

There’s no way that’s true. I’d guess there are ~30000 active users on the entire threadiverse. 1.2 million is total registered users ever, across all servers, including spambots and such.

The effect is similar. It allows OSM-based software to easily pull in timetables from operators.

Signal is at least e2e encrypted, so they can’t read your messages. But also, I do complain and refuse to use it for important stuff. Matrix/XMPP are much better.

I use https://f-droid.org/packages/xyz.apiote.bimba.czwek . It uses GTFS data from transit operators and is pretty good

Public transport timetables are out of scope of OSM, there is no good way to enter them, they raise copyright concerns, they would quickly be outdated. So OSM is just the wrong tool for the job…

This is not true. See https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/GTFS#Tags

It probably has worse privacy than e-mail or IRC, because it has the same level of encryption (transport encryption only, i.e. Telegram LLC can read your messages), but it also requires a phone number to use, linking your account to your real identity. In short, do not use it for communications if you desire them to be private.

Even if we ignore the blatant “chinaman bad”, this doesn’t make any sense. Why would they disappear people? This would still be a great outcome for them even with 80% success rate or something. The only difference between 80% and 100% is a tiny bit of nerd cred in recreational science communities. Even the logistical effort of “disappearing” people, while keeping everyone quiet about it, is clearly not worth the benefit here, let alone the potential international scandal.

Wasn’t this the main selling point of the cybertruck, almost verbatim?

This is a really cool photo. Thanks for sharing!

To me, it’s simple.

Crash out in the evening, be gone in the morning? A bed in a dormitory will do fine.

Stay for a few nights, go out every day to see the city/hike/etc? Gimme a cheap hotel room with a shared bathroom.

A longer stay for a workation/etc? Get a cheap apartment (at least a studio with a bathroom and a kitchen), because going out to eat fucking sucks.

Most jobs on the planet can’t be done with WFH, because they require doing stuff with your hands.

The actual solution to traffic is: viable alternatives to driving, such as rapid, comfortable, accessible transit and cycling infrastructure. (once that’s done, let’s ban private cars in cities altogether, they’re the worst thing to ever happen to cities).

While I agree with you that art will be there for as long as humans exist (since it’s something a lot of us like to do), access to other’s art might be severely diminished, especially in atomized societies.

Let’s be real, for a lot of people, internet is the source for most of their art enjoyment. As more and more of the internet is filled with soulless AI slop, it might be more and more difficult to find real art here.

I also don’t anticipate that AI will fully replace art on the internet - if you look hard enough, you will always be able to find niche communities of people doing their thing. E.g. I am quite fond of art communities here on lemmy, which seem to be mostly AI-free for now (since there’s no monetary incentive to posting here).

But I can see how someone who loves art and finds all their life’s meaning in it can be concerned with all the slop filling up mainstream artsy social media like instagram/pinterest/music streaming/etc.

BTW this is also the case for most network printers. You can just print to them by sending a pdf/postscript file with netcat. CUPS is rarely needed nowadays.

In my experience:

1. All printers are pain. This is a sad fact of computers.
2. If it detects&gets recognized in CUPS, you can usually fiddle with it and make it work eventually.
3. If it works on one distro, there will be some way to hack it enough for it to work on all distros.

F**k. You added two, so I have to censor one to keep the world balanced.

I’m afraid european carmakers are also catering to the overcompensating crowd.

Ban private cars in cities. It’s the only sustainable solution.

Honestly, “shopping lists, calendars, the weather” can be (much better) done by an e-ink tablet stuck on the door of the fridge with a magnet. There could be other interesting info only the fridge itself knows (electricity consumption, temperatures in the fridge and freezer, humidity, etc) but then all that info could also be shared via a bluetooth API or something.

hey, this is not a fair comparison, some graffiti looks nice and has artistic value

I think if you have some use-case that Wayland doesn’t fulfill, it’s totally fine to just pin some version of Plasma and stick with it. Maybe even switch to Trinity. Chances are it will keep working for like a decade or more.

I still use kdenlive 18.08, because I know how to use that version, and it does what I need it to do perfectly well. They broke something I needed in 19.whatever (I don’t remember what it was anymore), so I just pinned it and kept using it ever since. Maybe one day I’ll try to figure out the latest version, but there’s no real incentive for me to do so.

Nah, social division of labour is almost as old as civilization itself. It’s not possible to do everything by yourself, if you’re lucky enough not to die of hunger in a few weeks, you’ll die of a preventable disease within a few years.

Capitalist exploitation of it (combined with faux individualism) is the issue.

Translating to this scenario, there would be no issue if we had community kitchens with cheap/free food and well-paid workers. The issue is the capitalists extracting surplus value from a basic necessity, partly by convincing everyone to hate their neighbours and eat alone.