Hans-Christoph Steiner @eighthave@librem.one

Riding on the Slovak national railways, I'm fascinated by the choice of an Australian accent for their English announcements. It makes my head spin a bit being in this very European context with an official Aussie telling us the local information 😉

Judge #Donato does a #UX review of #GooglePlay in #EpicVGoogle 😂

https://www.theverge.com/policy/979852/that-is-not-acceptable-judge-orders-google-to-make-rival-app-store-installs-easier

That is highly entertaining to read. Let's see if #Google actually follows the direct orders from the judge. They are so lawyered up paid for with those sweet sweet #monopoly #profits, I imagine they'll still fight.

For me, there is still a big open question: should @fdroidorg add itself to Google Play? On one hand, we don't support anything proprietary, on the other, it makes it easy to install safely

As far as #nature is concerned, a lawn is a desert. A ploughed field is a desert. Pavement is a desert. Europe has converted its landscape from forests, marshlands and lush greenery to ploughed fields, pavement, lawns, etc. So it is really no wonder that #Europe is now heating up and drying up so fast. We are forcing the #climate to become a #desert.

I really love to see #rewilding taking hold in big ways and in small. We can stop killing #nature where we live. It doesn't need to something we travel to see. It can be part of daily life in #urban environments

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/aug/20/biodiversity-gardens-wildlife-lawns-grass-ecosystems-native-plants-america-aoe

It works in even smaller than a #suburban garden. Songbirds, crickets and butterflies have come back to my bit of central #Vienna because we planted native plants in tree pits and window boxes. I pick #wild strawberries from my window in my 4th floor apartment😋

I can imagine a #dystopian #climate movie where the #rain disappears and everything dries up in a epic #drought, then the only rain that ever comes is gianormous thunderstorms that only drop big hailstorms, further destroying the beleaguered plant life. Oh wait, that's reality right now in Vienna!