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  • Literally his own words. About his only words that got to my feeds. I keep my feeds clear as I can of Nazi/MAGA/misogyny/toxic stuff.

  • “Sex is for making children. Any man who has sex with women because it ‘feels good’ is gay. Oh my pee pee feels good this is great!”

    Why any teenage boy would hear that and not unsubscribe is beyond me. They are the other way round. They don't want children, they just want sex with women. That's normal for a heterosexual teenage boy.

  • Ok, I accept all that, but the maps just are better to me. I grew up with the UK Ordnance Survey maps, and that's kind of what I want from my maps.

    I'll amend.

  • Not quite the same. The big thing with GrapheneOS is it can run the actual Google services, but sandboxed. Organic Maps is better than Google Maps in everyway, but it's routes are so much worse because it has no traffic into to go on. It's an anticompetitive network effect, but it's hard to fight without law makers.

    Edit: Ok, it is good, but the main thing I like about is the maps can be setup to be as good as ones you'd manually navigate by. A bit like UK's Ordnance Survey maps.

  • Even before that, who would want to be in part of America by choice? The health care horror show and massive inequality are but two reasons.

  • It's worse for the economy if people have to buy and run cars because that's money that could have spent elsewhere. It's "lost opportunity cost" to have to have cars.

    Bicycles also help reduce health costs. As does walking and good public transport.

  • I know what you mean, but it's not like Voat the last time I left Reddit. There are nutters and instances full of nutters, but it seams Lemmy can self regulated better.

  • The ones I met really don't know anything else. If you got to the point of being a Windows power user (slight oxymoron), having to start again on another platform is enraging when it seams different for the sake of it. It seams like others are cheating when achieving more using something else. They aren't playing by the same rules!

    Similarly, if you don't know anything else and don't know Windows really either, change is scary. Basically humans don't like change and will fight to keep things unchanged, rather than embrace and utilize the change.

  • Trump is basically the same as Erdogan, and Putin. Same network of "leaders".

  • Range is important, but so is cost. Teslas are too expensive for Leaf owners.

    My 7 seat EV only does at most 150 miles. But even now, two years later, there isn't anything else that comfortably fits 7 adults. Let alone not over twice the price. So 200 miles seams ok to me.

    I agree standard charger connectors are important. But CHAdeMO is standard, just not in Europe or North America. Can't blame the Leaf for not knowing that would happen.

    The Leaf is also one of the very few cars, least in the UK, which can be using bidirectionally. https://www.indra.co.uk/v2g/

    I don't own a Leaf, but I respect what they did. You see loads of them here.

  • The Leaf was cheap. It introduced many to EVs. They are super common third or fourth hand now. It was aimed at the other end of the market than the Tesla.

  • Don't know about that. Leaf has been pretty important as well.

  • Also services. Including Google, Apple, Netflix, Amazon, Microsoft, etc. Those American tech monopolies are now a problem for all to see.

  • I said this to a few people and you can suddenly see the realization that their entire digital life is completely dependent on America and is now being called in question. It should of been before because of anti-trust, not following local regs, or taxes. But it was inconvenient.

    Don't know how far it can goes. IP blocks, MAC address blocks, DNS, Root Auths? There is basic stuff that is meant to be international, but is unduly American. America going to break the internet trying to use it for dominance? If you don't want responsibility, or act responsible, you lose the power that responsible gave. If American fucks this position up, they will never have it again.

  • You could swap out the Pixel+Graphene for say a FairPhone+LineageOS. I ran misc-secondhand-phone+LineageOS for over a decade. Still selfhost everything I need. My family have all their photos upload to my nextcloud instance instead of Google.

    My switch to Pixel+Graphene is because ultimately the problem is political not technical. A banking app I needed for work refused to run without the real Google services. It also refused Custom ROMs. I tried a lot of tricks. Also GoogleMaps is the only satnav with traffic information in the route planning. There is other things, but Graphene allows you a compromise of running the Google services, but sandboxed.

    The problem is not technical, it's political. Most people don't understand the difference between a standard and a monopoly. The law makers are asleep to monopolies and the need for competition in the tech world, so have allow this tech dystopia to happen. Some that are more awake know big monopolies are easier to get things like this story from. Multinational corporation are money machines, they won't really fight for their users. But they miss the bigger picture.

    If you care about all this stuff, there is groups like:

    https://openrightsgroup.org/

    https://fsfe.org/

    Maybe also https://openuk.uk/ , though they more work with big tech.

  • You don't think it's that too big a chunk of US voters are backwards misogynists? Wish I didn't, but I do. I'm not going to get my hopes up a third time.

  • I honestly don't think it matters how great or not she is. I just don't think America will vote for a woman yet. They prefer a rapist fashist narcissist.

  • Yer, Brexit is our Trump. It hurt us badly and continues to hurt us. We have a more grown up party in power now, but they dare not question Brexit as the popularists will jump on them if they do.

  • Selfhosted @lemmy.world
    jabjoe @feddit.uk

    It too me a while to work out why my Nextcloud stuff wasn't working on my phone. It wasn't until I went to http://duckdns.org on mobile data I saw the block. I had changed ISP from one with IPv6, which I had setup, to an ISP without it, and thought it might be that. But it was just coincidence.

    I've written to O2 but I doubt they will change anything, so I'll be changing network.

    So heads up UK O2 self hosting people!

    Privacy @lemmy.ml
    jabjoe @feddit.uk

    Boxing Android

    So I've got Android as I want. LineageOS, no Google, Magisk, MicroG but with AndroidAuto with OsmAnd+.

    But the outside world of WhatsApp, Bank apps, etc is putting pressure to join. Plus not everything works properly with MicroG instead of the Google service provider. Makes me cross techno-politically, but I can't always hard life tech choices when it effects others.

    So, what do others do? At the moment, I've thinking I need a non-free phone and a free-phone! Then what, I keep swapping SIM?? I can't see a workable VM solution to run a non-free Android in a freer Android.

    The state of the phone market is pitiful.