Aaron Maté is a Canadian writer and journalist. […] Maté works as a reporter for The Grayzone, a far-left news website and blog, which publishes supportive coverage of the Russian, Syrian, and Chinese governments.

The title is a bit confusing at first, but good news once you understand it!

In Germany milk usually is sold in a carton or a glass bottle. I can imagine it is annoying for you.

I only buy one of those plastic bottles every two months, so that’s okay for me. The good water comes from the tap, cola or other drinks I buy in glass bottles.

If that’s what is necessary let’s go

I have to send this to the family chat, my 65 year old dad will laugh so much about this funny joke 🤣🤣🤣😂

For anyone interested, this is the Dymaxion projection, but upside down.

That community is wild, but the discussion over Gaza over there is fucking crazy. Al Jazeera is one of their more credible sources, you can find articles from websites nobody every heard of, small blogs that state IDF soldiers are eating babies. And that is no exaggeration, that was the last thing I read before I left that community…

I didn’t know either, but it seems to be an often picked ‘random’ number by people. Here is an article about it, I didn’t read it though.

You shall be blessed stranger

Cannot confirm, tested both Eternity and its nightly build, works without problems!

It hurts to see what countries like Lithuania do for the Ukraine while others cannot get their stuff together. It is probably a mix of solidarity and fear to be the next victim. It is a strong symbol, but the small baltic countries unfortunately do not have the financial power to make a big difference when the large ones are busy doing other bullshit

I haven’t seen the rate limitation issue for a couple of months now. The issue is not new, IIRC the Aurora team needs to provide more and more anonymous accounts as the user base is growing. Some months ago we had this problem for more than two weeks. I just checked and Aurora finds no connection, but until today everything worked flawlessly. And I expect it to work again soon.

I feel your pain though. I am degoogled for more than 5 years now and what I learned is that Google will always look for ways to make our life harder. More and more basic functions such as network location were seperated from the AOSP into proprietary google services. I am pretty sure this will get even worse in the future.

We must not forget that we rely on open source software and a hand full if developers, everything can break tomorrow and we are fucked.

Please update the post with the facts from the data sheet OP

I’m not sure if that is a sustainable model for the whole society. Pirating as a solution for everything feels like giving up to me. Also I can’t pirate my vacuum cleaner.

What you say is true and I can understand it is frustrating. But I really don’t know how to convince people. Convenience is king and you need to have strong political opinions to abstain. I am a nerd, but still I often need double the time to find the “alternative” way of owning things.

I recently wanted to get the Harry Potter audio books for listening on my phone. I basically had two “official” options:

1. Buying all E-books as mp3 download for 235€
2. Amazon Audible for 10€ per Month

You can clearly see that in reality, the industry gives you only one option - audible. For 235€ you can have 2 years of e-book subscriptions.

Maybe you would say “hey, 235€ may seem expensive but in exchange you will get to own the stuff you pay for!”. The thing is: you can get the whole audiobook collection on mp3-CD for just 70€ on Amazon?

In the end I bough an external CD-ROM drive and bought the mp3-CD box used for 40€.

It’s not about that stupid Audiobook or whether the price is justified. The point I want to make is that the industry makes is so hard for individuals to own things, that I almost see this as a lost battle. The way I chose, took almost 2 weeks, days of research, a frustrated lemmy post, two online orders and 2 hours time to copy the mp3s.

And the thing is, it’s the same for everything else - you want to buy a vacuum cleaner? Oh better look if it comes with special cleaner bags for 30€ per bag. Let’s not talk about printers.

Every little item needs so much research, only for the aspects of planned obsolescence and true ownership. We do not even talk about social or environmental aspects…

How the fuck should I expect others to spend so much time on energy on consumption things? Honestly, sometimes I am a bit envious of the people that just do not care. But only sometimes.

Sorry, that somehow developed into a rant

Username checks out. But yeah, ofc it is tobacco.

It speaks volumes about this lemmy community that my comment is the first in 10 hours

MozillaCoin /s