Tried that many times. It has given me the exact same place for slightly cheaper than AirBnB once. Other times it was more expensive but most often of simply had worse choices.
I guess: great concept, shitty company.
Like with so many "tech giants", they had a great idea but greed is spoiling it. I wish we had more "public infrastructure" for this. I'd love to have OSS, tax-funded or at least heavily regulated SoMe, video sharing, home swapping/renting, local marketplace, ... Those should not be industries, they should be part of our society's fabric like the fire department or trash pick-up.
I share a lot of of the criticism towards AirBnB. However, I've often ended up using them either way. We travel with a dog and a toddler. They need to be allowed in the first place. And ideally we get a kitchen, a separate room so we can still have normal noise and light when the kid sleeps. Often we even find Airbnbs with toys, kids books, dog beds, treats on the table when we arrive, ...
You simply don't get that in hotels. At least not in a price range I've considered so far
Car drivers kill a lot more people than terrorists in Germany. Yet the latter get all the lawmakers rile up for more surveillance
Username checks out
Does anyone have that slide deck? Asking for a friend
So you clearly haven't tried it. I suggest you grab e.g. Cursor and give it a shot for an hour. It's really impressive.
Believe me, I've been pointing at the failed promises of NoCode hundreds of times, don't like Bitcoin and think UML knowledge is a useful academic starting point but irrelevant in the industry. I have always advocated for writing real code. But I have to admit I think that we're at a point where naysayers will left behind. Pure vibe coders won't get far for a while but those that know their craft will need to augment their work with AI to stay relevant.
I don't know which AI you are using, but the improvements even within the last year have been huge. Iam starting to think that people who sont use AI will become obsolete soon. AI won't replace people. But people that don't leverage AI ...
Thanks! But I could easily read the full article without seeing a paywall in this case
Arrrr!
I think we all lose by supporting Amazon 😜
I get it though, I used to use it too a few years back. Honestly never played anything I claimed through it
I get so triggered by people just using the external screen as a mirror. With wrong aspect ratio and resolution. With maximized windows.
There's a reason I need tiling shortcuts and an ultrawide screen.
Same.
I have several niche interests which are discussed heavily on the respective subreddits but basically don't exist on Lemmy. I use Lemmy far more than Reddit by now but I cannot do without Reddit. I am a lot better at avoiding Meta services.
TL;DR: Don't enter the US, it's a fascist oligarchy with zero respect for human rights or privacy.
I mean we're not buying this stuff any longer but I'm surprised coke seems to be more expensive in the US than it is in Denmark?!?
Did they photoshop his hands bigger?
That was quite the read! May you find the vehicle that suits you when the time comes. I hope to buy one more EV and for society to figure things out so I won't need another one after that. Managed until my 30s without a car and starting a family made it necessary. I hope that will end eventually.
Did you see the Hyundai Ioniq 6? Or the very new Kia EV4? They look very "modern" but then again I'd say ICE cars are constantly changing design too.
Well, out Kona is a weird crossover-y thing but otherwise literally identical to its ICE brothers.
Maybe Peugeot, Citroen and similar are what you are after? The new Peugeot 308 electric is pretty "boring" - it's not an amazing EV but better than what they had before

Pixelfed behavior?!


I just signed up to Pixelfed, also via tchncs and apart from obviously having few users something feels off. I notice that sometimes the "followers" count is not the same as what I see when clicking into the followers. And I find hashtags that supposedly have posts but I can't find any.
Now I'm wondering: is this something about eventual consistency due to federation? Is this due to blocking of instances? Is something broken? And if so is this on the app or server side?
Running latest app on Android Android 15.

Games that work with my hardware
Is there a service or knowledge base somewhere that can help you find the highest rated games for your hardware?
Background: I don’t have much time for games and just installed Bazzite on a few years old ThinkPad. I would like to play some games on it but don’t know what I can expect to be playable. I see tons of “will it run on steam deck” info but honestly couldn’t even figure out where this computers performance lies compared to a steam deck. This should be easy. Just type in specs, maybe filter genre and say “sort by meta score” or “sort by steam rating”.

Clutter-free and cost-effective service subscriptions?
What are your thoughts on finding a good level of subscriptions for online services, such as storage, photo backup, music streaming, video streaming?
Personal situation: I don't want a ton of subscriptions. I take lots of photos. I listen to music quite a bit. I live in a household that has Android, iOS, iPadOS, MacOS, Linux, ... and a Synology NAS that is already filling up with old music and video stuff from before streaming, phone photo backups as well as the photos from the big camera (manually copied so far). I currently pay for two cloud storage thingies and have to free ones, 3/4 are full :P We also have Spotify Family and cut down to only (HBO) Max and public service for video plus sometimes getting something specific for a month or two.
Any experiences or other observations welcome as well!

Where to start?
I don’t spend much time on my desktop computer but if I do I tend to game a bit. OW II, CS, Helldivers, Tabletop Simulator mostly. And of course need Discord.
I am considering a minor upgrade to the hardware and would need a fresh install (currently Win 10). I’ve been out of the distro game for a while and currently only have one old thinkpad running Debian and an X1 Carbon gen7 I want to use for experimentating/ distro hopping.
I want a daily driver OS that can play games. I also edit photos and might to the odd “flash a CFW to an old phone” or similar light tasks. Where do I start?
I hear PopOS because “it just works” but also CachyOS because “performance, muh”.
I have experience with Ubuntu (first was 6.06) and Fedora mostly but have played around with a lot that came with at least a barebones UI (crunchbang anyone?). My life has changed so I have less time to nerd out with this than I used to. But I feel the itch to experiment now and maybe use Linux on my main desktop again a