as digitized almost all societal functions are, we really should define basic internet access as a human right.

This varies from place to place. This is handled really badly in some places and much better in others.

hotels are controlled by laws and zoning, airbnb gets around that and turns planned living space into hotel space.

Appartment hotels maybe?

hotels/hostels?

Airbnb turns potential living space into hotel space and thereby helps driving up housing prices. The whole concept is inherently problematic.

this is true, but high quality doesnt mitigate the inherent limitations

thats the old generation, nowadays you want the faster LG BlueTooth Quick+

I’m not sure what you mean with intentional, but intentional as in they have built pipes out of lead, yes.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lead_service_line

Funny how both ancient rome and modern US use lead in their water supply systems

syncthing is pretty great

There’s a really good explanation here:

https://youtu.be/QRKzA8JlYBU

no no, sure most people had adsl in the early 00’s using the pre existing phone network, but on the building new infrastructure front it was in the early 00s fiber really began picking up its stride in most places. If you started building out internet infrastructure in the early 00’s using copper you were way behind the curve.

um, gaming laptop maybe?

Honestly no idea, you have a good point.

its super nice to plug a laptop into a screen and have the cable double as a charging cable for the laptop

We’re also democratic, we should call it the free democratic coalition of states.

Its not like there is any bad precedent in using names like this, like democratic republic of korea, or just referring to USA as “land of the free”…

As a European, I don’t think we can claim exclusive ownership of those concepts.

yeah, only time will tell.

I think the word itself, italian being closeish to latin, evokes the killing of jesus.

not my greatest moment hah

well, for those of us who need stable employment, whole markets going downwards isn’t necessarily very good either

in a democracy the latter has to be preceded by the former.