keverets @keverets@librem.one
Joined Jun 2019
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The auto industry has almost completely abandoned the idea of selling affordable cars in the U.S. https://www.motor1.com/features/710453/cheap-cars-dead/
China is plainly planning to fill the gap, as Japan did some decades ago.
This will -- guaranteed -- lead to a furious response, but that won't include US carmakers actually competing. The response will be protectionism, because one thing history has shown us is that American companies facing foreign competition are terrified of actual competition.
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Everyone said get a Brother printer so I bought a 3-in-1 scanner and printer. There seems to be something wrong with it though. I plugged it into a Linux laptop, opened a document, pressed print, selected the printer, and it printed. Then I opened simple-scan, pressed scan, and it scanned.
This isn't how printers and scanners are supposed to work. Where do install the drivers that don't work properly etc? This was no fun. I demand a refund.
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Some of you know today as π-day.
But the real insiders know that today is the 30th anniversary of the 1.0 release of Linux.
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After being kneecapped by a #patents troll years ago, #Mozilla Location Services, the only somewhat trusted (non-Google/Apple) "Wi-Fi positioning system" (geolocation based on triangulating collected #WiFi SSIDs), is now shutting down: https://github.com/mozilla/ichnaea/issues/2065
MLS was how #GeoClue could get a meters-accurate location without a #GPS receiver / sky line-of-sight.
It was used by many #GNOME / #KDE apps to get instantaneous neighborhood-level location (for maps, local weather…) on #Linux laptops.
@gvwilson it's weird, but close. We *are* that species. On a daily basis we steal the daylight from our past selves and place it gingerly in offering to our future selves, to try to extend our exposure to the precious yellow ball.
There are high transaction costs. Twice annually we pay with heart attacks and car crashes and death and dismemberment. But the sweet nectar of an extra hour of basking means we don't have to revert to the dark times of being as much at the whim of that damnable ball
@timbray might be worth looking at the solutions that @murena are doing with https://e.foundation ... They're using a lot of Free & Open Source (and a few proprietary bits) to provide replacements to Google software & infrastructure. I don't agree with all of their choices, but there are at least decent starting points for several of the items on your list (office, data sharing as OnlyOffice, Nextcloud, Rainloop; search with their hosted spot/searxng, etc). They have self hostable images, too
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> Canada Post offered banking services via its Post Office Savings Bank, created by the Post Office Act in April 1868, less than a year following the nation's confederation. A century later, the Post Office Savings Bank was shut down in 1968–69. Since at least the early 2010s, postal banking has been discussed and studied periodically, with postal unions backing the idea. Canada Post began rolling out postal banking services in late 2022, in partnership with TD
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Postal_savings_system#Canada
@timbray oh, zunior may fail at:
> you must be able to purchase music track-by-track or as full albums
Usually sell only full albums
@timbray also, zunior.com in Canada
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🚨Ford got caught. For months, his government claimed there was nothing wrong with their Greenbelt grab. Through @OntarioNDP FOI requests we see that Ford's staff repeatedly hid in emails using code names (G*) to replace "Greenbelt" to evade FOI request. https://thenarwhal.ca/ontario-greenbelt-code-words/
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Over many years, I have been gradually replacing all of the paragraphs in the Ship of Theseus Wikipedia article.
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'Places across the U.S. are testing no-strings cash as part of the social safety net' - @NPR
We should expand UBI programs.
https://www.npr.org/2024/03/05/1233440910/cash-aid-guaranteed-basic-income-social-safety-net-poverty
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If one simply must monger, might I suggest fish or cheese, as opposed to…say…fear or war.
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Immediately tosses all my existing subpar teapots out the window… 😢
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I've read a lot online about how "Y2K was overblown". As an engineer who worked like crazy in 1999 to correct our systems this drives me crazy.
Today I read about games going offline, watches getting frozen and airline tickets showing the wrong date.
Because of a leap year. Which happens every FOUR years (give or take).
Yeah Y2K was a once every 1000 year issue.
Isn't 2038 going to be fun.
Joined Jun 2019
