I remember cities moving onto open source and than thanks for lobbyists moving back to proprietary software again.

What you remember is the news cycle covering the City of Munich switching from Windows to Linux, then another news cycle about how they’re moving back to Windows.

What didn’t get much coverage though, is that Microsoft did a (suspected under-table) deal with the outgoing government to switch back to Windows if Microsoft built an office in Munich.

What then happened is the new government came in, looked at the situation, and cancelled it (although MS may have built that office always). Right now Munich is still using Linux and still actively rolling it out.

Last I’d heard other options either didn’t have infrastructure to charge vehicles on long trips

Literally isn’t an issue going forward. Other EVs can use Tesla chargers.

I think I side with the people saying use it anyway. Video hosting is hard, and YouTube is more enshittified every day.

Ya, I’ve been trying out YouTube alternatives, because YouTube/Google are just awful. I just have no idea where to land, but the Greyjay app is really helping with that.

Odysee and Rumble are the platforms that wackjobs (like flat earthers) have flocked to in the past year or so.

Those platforms aren’t promoting that content per se, it’s just that such content isn’t moderated like on YouTube and Facebook. And before you say “but there’s tons of that stuff on YouTube and Facebook already!” it doesn’t compare.

http://greyjay.app/

+1 for Greyjay

http://greyjay.app/

Install GreyJay

http://greyjay.app/

They’re already talking about breaking up Google/Alphabet

https://youtu.be/OAJ5enTb0vo

Nothing official. Mostly speculation, but not illogical idle ones.

But it could also be for legal reasons, like websites where you can post stuff for everybody to see, in case you post something highly illegal and the authorities need to find you. Another example is where a webshop is required to keep a copy of your data for their bookkeeping.

None of these require your account to “exist”. There could simply be an acknowledgement stating those reasons with “after X days the data will be deleted, and xyz will be archived for legal reasons”.

Mostly it’s 30-90 days where they keep your data, just in case somebody else decided to delete your account or you were drunk or something

This is the only valid reason. But even then this could be stated so that the user is fully aware. Then an email one week and another one day before deletion as a reminder, and a final confirmation after the fact. I’ve used services before that do this. It’s done well and appreciated.

This pseudo-deletion shadow account stuff is annoying.

What the user was doing is that they don’t trust that the system truly deleted the account, and they worry it was just deactivated (while claiming it was “deleted”). So they tried to do a password recovery which often reactivates a falsely “deleted” account.

I’ve done this before and had to message the company and have them confirm the account is entirely deleted.

I don’t glow in the dark, I’m just pretty much see-through. I also burn in a matter of minutes in the sun.

The level of inaccuracy in a regular clock resulting in drift is orders of magnitude greater than any amount of time dilation you would experience.

This is the reason we use extremely high precision clocks (like atomic clocks) and then synchronize everything else with them. Even your phone’s clock would drift noticeably over a period of a few months if it never synced with some network server.

The NTP protocol exists precisely for this. There are entire companies that specialize in providing and maintaining synchronized wall clocks for facilities like hospitals, schools, and other organizations.

I don’t like btrfs, cause you still sometimes read about people loosing their data.

That was only on RAID setups. So if you have only a singular disk, as opposed to an array, you’re fine. And that issue has been fixed for a while now anyways.

I’ve been running btrfs on my laptop’s root partition for well over a year now and it’s fine.

It’s a “currency” you can’t spend anywhere

Lol

It’s only purpose is a pump and dump scheme for early adopters.

This is exactly what many alt-coins are but Bitcoin is decidedly not.

You’re confusing “easy to mine” with “early adopter scam”.

I wouldn’t argue with that. I was mostly generalizing.

Bitcoin isn’t a scam. All non-bitcoin cryptocurrencies are scams.

People often hear about stuff like coins that are pre-mined, or proof-of-stake and the schemes and scans that come out of those, and immediately associate Bitcoin with the same thing.

I feel like nowadays there’s less forums or places people can ask help with

I’m sorry, what??

There are more places than ever to find support. The Ubuntu forums, EndeavourOS forums, Manjaro forums, NixOS forums, SUSE forums, etc. Just about every larger distro has it’s own forum and they’re all very active. Then there are general Linux, Linux “newbie”, Linux help communities on the various Lemmy servers and (whether you like it or not) on Reddit also. Then there’s Mastodon. General tech forums like Level1Tech, Hacker News, etc.

Why should Amazon be liable for stuff sold by third parties?

Even when proven dangerous products are reported to Amazon they continue to sell it.

Louis Rossman talks about it a lot.

https://youtu.be/eS698R-bxuc

It’s not a movie. It’s prophecy.