Lately, I’ve been in a bunch of electric cars, including the Tesla (which was a Bolt or an Uber). I must say, I was impressed. Beyond the main purpose of saving the environment, there are plenty of other perks that they have:

• You can barely feel and hear it. On an ICE car, you always hear the engine running and feeling the vibration of it. Even if it’s largely unnoticeable, it’s basically still there. And whenever you rev the engine, it’s getting even more noticeable. On an electric car, there’s no such thing as engine noise. It’s basically either working or not working. And when it’s working, there are fewer moving parts making this noise and shaking the car around.
• They always come with an automatic transmission, so they’re easier to drive. I know that might not be an advantage out there in the US, since you also have ICE cars with automatic transmission, but here in the rest of the world it does make a difference, since almost all cars are manual.
• A way better acceleration. I know some of the cars I’ve been in were basically sport cars, but I never felt like being stuck to the seat in a car before.

I honestly don’t even know why would anyone oppose the switch, tbh. Okay, I know it takes more to fill it up than just sticking the pump in and pressing the handle, but the capacities that modern batteries have, make it feasible to just time your trips in a way that you can even charge them at home overnight or something.

I only got an account because Friendica can connect to it this way. Otherwise, no need for another corporate silo, but with federation as a buzzword slapped to it.

yea, looks like the closer you get to Russia, the more you get to know it better 😁 also see how the Baltics and Poland are so staunchly anti-Russian - even the Polish conservative president is like that!!!

Hope you’ll gonna get out of this looming autocracy soon. The world still needs you! 😁

They did spend the equivalent of 1% of Moldova’s GDP on propaganda tbh.

@alyaza I always wondered whether the betting industry could be used to influence elections once it becomes more popular…

He likely decapitated himself in the middle of the field or something.

@remington was about time. Thankfully, no one died despite the far right triad’s efforts (AUR, SOS and POT parties) to slow things down. Fuck Russian aggression and Putler in particular.

@remington The way it should be

It was unreliable on my potato computer and with the speeds of back then for me, but I remember that pretty much all of my friends used it. I had to use my mum’s computer to join in lol.

*sigh* I was woried

Jokes aside, I am quite afraid though.

Damn, only the 2nd? There’s room for improvement /s

@jagged_circle You don’t install a Bluesky instance, rather you host your own PDS, or your own web client, or the feed part. It’s all a mess and the latter has very high system requirements for one to self-host from what I understood. Basically, it’s impossible if you’re not a company with the willing and the money to do it.

If decentralization actually happens on Bluesky, it will be more confusing for the average person than with something like Mastodon.

@remington

@remington Gee, I wonder which nazi politician is on that list again. Place your bids before you dig in! 😁

@remington All I hope for the world after this is to get its shit together and form some world trade system with as little US as possible in it (no offense to you or anyone living in the US); or that the next presidents will realize what shitshow this makes

for Windows 10

Thank God. I was afraid because I use OneNote for work.

tHiS wAr WouLd NeVeR hAvE sTaRtEd HaD I bEeN a PrEsIdEnT

I actually messed up two Firefox installations because I kinda synced everything 💀 So I get what you’re talking about. I don’t expect it to be massively adopted. Hope not everyone who moved jumped ship to Chrome or another Chromium clone after the whole Mozilla fiasco.

If defaults are sane enough, then explain this: you log into a website, tell the website to remember your credentials, then after you reopen the browser you’re logged out of that website.

Yes, I know it’s cookies, but regular people know so little about it that they’re most likely to not stay after that incident.

Even I did not notice first, as there was no warning about cookies being deleted upon browser closure, so I spent an entire evening reconfiguring it from scratch after I’ve initially set it up. I didn’t mind getting through all the settings, so not a big deal (I would have done this anyway at a later time), but, at least for me, there were still not sane defaults.

@kooltechlord I was just looking into this, as I just changed following the whole Mozilla fiasco. Wonderful!

@Sauerkraut true 🙁 forgot about that. I feel bad about you, really!