This is just right. Massive amounts of corporations have a complete dependency on Microsoft Office. In a way that cannot be substituted by Libreoffice or similar.

Change need to happen. But there need to be a viable alternative before it.

I think is promoted by hispasat. But I don’t know if they use their satellites or they hire others.

You can download a collection of thousands (maybe a million I don’t even know) of books in Spanish in epub format, from the “secret library”. It’s like a 100Gb torrent, but way worth it.

Ebooks tens to have long lasting battery. I spent a few hours reading on monday.

Just now I’m on my phone, but if you are interested let me know and I’ll try to find the link and will mp it to you if you want.

And just now I’ve been thinking that epubs being so small size maybe there’s a way to transmit them over this radio mesh networks on demand, like some sort of radio library. I’ve have to look into that. Maybe they are too big for that as radio bandwidth for data transfer tends to be incredibly small.

Just in case you ever met someone who lives in a place with no cable internet (strange case in Spain as we have great coverage). Just let them know that in Spain they fund satellite internet that is not owned by elon musk. Is slower but way cheaper specially because the government funds a part of it afaik.

Duck tape it. Because every single product have decided that blinding blue leds is the way to go.

I miss my dim red leds.

That’s one of the reasons I stopped using YouTube. I don’t want to see people’s stupid face, it adds nothing and it detracts from the video.

This statement have the following fallacies:

Straw man.

Appeal to emotion.

Ad hominem.

Cherry picking.

Not true Scotsman.

Hasty generalization.

Begging the question.

False dilemma.

I don’t think Lemmy accepts pump-dump or nazi cryptos.

More likely they would accept some of the most famous and established ones. Like them more or like them less, but I don’t see reason to ban them. It’s not like paypal or any bank are angels.

Too vague of a description. I would need a more detailed explanation on what happened to define someone as evil.

As some people may perceive things certain way and other people may perceive them other way.

Even when trauma is implied, I have seem people create their own trauma and blame it on others.

So, there’s that. I would need more information before calling anyone evil or good.

If given all info I could conclude that the person purposely or by negligence of a responsibility caused harm to other person then yes, they would be evil.

Henry Cavill, seems like a nice guy, and I think we would have a lot of common interests to talk about.

China will be the best country in the world the same day fusion reactors will be available. Always in ten years. No matter when you read this.

What phone os do you have?

For me android automatically blocks 90% of spam calls nowadays. I can see them in the phone history, but my phone don’t ring for them.

“I hope you collapse” is my new go to insult.

I agree. Straight up fascist out. Nobody need a fascist. But I do miss liberals (in the european sense) or conservatives /republicans (from US perspective).

It gives little more variety to a place.

For instance it would be nice to have people defending tariffs and getting some discussion on those, see different points of view and such. I like to be intellectually challenged, and it’s hard sometimes when I agree with most people here in most topics and in the ones I don’t agree people tends to be very hostile. I think that when most people think the same way that leads to some feral behavior to those who write any different opinion.

I don’t mean fascist or nazis, obviously ban those. But, you know, the real ones. Not the “everyone who is slightly more right wing than myself is a nazi”. I’m not right wing but I do enjoy the company of normal right wingers. And here sometimes it gets a little boring knowing that for most things everyone has the same opinion on most issues.

While nice to have and good for people who need it. I won’t think it would have an impact of very high statistical relevance in userbase growth.

As people with visual disabilities (the most common disability that needs adaptations for a social media service) is not a massive demographic group.

Userbase being more friendly towards different ideologies.

People don’t want to admit it. But this is a very toxic place for people who are not of a very specific ideology.

And when confronted about it the usual response is “I don’t want people thinking like that here” which is a rephrase of “I just want people like me here”. Which is ok, but inconsistent with a wish for growth as the idea of people turning your ideology because you think you are so convincing it’s a fantasy.

Here goes gossip from my job.

• There was this janitor guy that used to be around and we haven’t seen him in a while turns out he was stealing from people’s desks.

• You know our ex boss, who was suddenly degraded? Turns out he committed a crime, and he is going to jail in a few months, if you see him happy lately it’s because he is full of drugs to cope with the anxiety.

• This woman who just came out from her wedding, all the office know she hooked up with the guy from accounting a few months ago.

• These two guys who used to be friends and don’t talk anymore? You know the reason, this pretty new girl both of them fall for her. She had nothing with either of them, but they stopped talking regardless because both think the other one is the reason she don’t hook up with them.

Normal day.

Some things made me nervous because I need to make a big decision soon. But I also got this afternoon (CET here) free when I was expecting to have it occupied so that’s nice.

Probably another big tech would fill the gap before. Sad, but that’s the most likely outcome.

I would say (and I know that is a controversial opinion this one) that the fediverse itself is a little to blame here. Not because the technical difficulties to join in that are not that bad, but because most people in the fediverse want everyone here to have a very characteristic political ideology and to be very passionate about it. Like 90% (exaggerating here)of what I read here and in mastodon are politics (more so politics from a very specific pov), even after I made a big effort to get away from political communities.

Most people have not that particular ideology or are not that passionate about it, so they take a look of what’s going on here and take the sane decision of not joining in.

I actually think that’s the bigger impediment for the fediverse to become mainstream.