It used to be the best.

I upgraded a year ago so I’m fine on RAM. When I needed extra storage I just bought the disks. It’s more expensive but not something I can’t afford.

YSAK that editing OpenStreetMap is quite easy. If you find anything missing feel free to add it. Adding opening hours for business is also useful. If you find any errors it’s always great to correct them.

Some time ago I found entire gas station with restaurant and car charger that was missing on OSM. It’s added now!

Speciesism.

Thanks trashy cowardly Spanish government bowing down to Zionist crooks.

Have you been paying attention like… at all?

Have you seen American jails? Yes, torture.

I’ve been dealing with issues like that for around 30 years now, even since I started using Linux, so I’m used to it. You will never get 100% of features working on a alternative, open source, privacy respecting OS. If I want to share location I can copy coordinates from CoMaps or something. For live sharing there are self-hosted options.

Signal requires Google Play Services to share location so it doesn’t work for me on Graphene OS at all.

I don’t think leaving a password around for your bank account would be legal. It’s handled by inheritance laws so my family will take my death certificate to the bank/lawyer and get the money. Same with every other contract like cell phone and internet.

Everything else stays locked. Why would I give anyone access to my phone, email or laptop? My homelab will work as long as it’s plugged in and then it will just die. Who cares?

WhatsApp was also an independent company and worked really well compared with other apps. I remember checking alternatives like… 5 years ago and no other app was able to do video calls reliably. Since then Signal caught up and works great now but everyone is already on WhatsApp. EU was working interoperability requirements. That’s pretty much the only way to escape WhatsApp now.

I follow news in Poland and Spain and war in Ukraine is getting much more attention in Poland than in Spain. Why do you think is that?

What’s the difference? I’ve seen American and European movies and didn’t notice any striking differences in their approach to nudity or sex.

If it’s just for fun learn Italian, it’s a nicer language. If it’s for practical reasons go crazy and learn something completely different like Arabic or Mandarin.

Because there are no consequences for doing it. The world is full of people that will do anything that’s convenient for them as long as they can get away with it. They think categorical imperative is for suckers.

Of course industries are trying to slow down the process but I don’t think overcoming them is as easy as trying harder. As I said, they do employ a lot of people so you have to modernize them without destroying them. It’s a slow process and you have to fight lobbyist and corruption on every step.

EU is pretty much doing what you’re describing: it has some (weak but still) EV transition plan, it’s pushing hydrogen (to de-carbonize industries), it’s installing a lot of renewables. I would say they doing as much as people and industries are letting them. Push any harder and industries will move, people will lose their jobs and you will see even more discontent. And doing more would cost money which would mean higher taxes or less investment which people would also not like. We could tax the rich but this also isn’t very likely as there will always be a place for them to hide their money in (if not US than Russia or Argentina).

This is how it’s going:

This is what “best effort” gets us right now. Even if by some miracle all other countries started doing the same (and as we know US for example is doing the exact opposite) we would see 50 more years of emissions. This is obviously not going to happen so we’re pretty much fucked. Rioting will definitely not change any of that.

People hated seat belts and life jackets.

No one was rioting for or against seat belts. It was a simple policy that some people didn’t like but it wasn’t opposed by the majority. To solve climate change the people you want to riot would actually have to sacrifice something.

Sometimes the government has to operate against the will of some people for the good of all people.

“Some” people? Sure. Majority? I don’t see it. We’re seeing so little progress on climate change because ordinary people oppose most of the solutions. No one is going to riot to get something they don’t want.

You want to riot to fix climate change? Ok, let’s say you will get everyone to riot, abolish the government and kill the elites. What will you do next to solve climate change?

Ban* cars? People will be against it. Ban beef? People will be against it. Ban air travel? You guessed it, people will be against it. Majority of people support measures that they think will not affect them like carbon taxes and renewable energy but if you look at actual, consumer level changes you will see a big drop. Only 34% of drivers support ban on ICE cars.

Look how much people bitch about paper straws. You think they will agree to actually limiting CO2 emissions by using less energy, traveling less, eating less meat and buying less useless stuff? The problem are not just the the elites and the billionaires. WE are the problem.

10% richest people account for half of the emissions. To be in the top 10% you have to make over $30k a year. To stop climate change pretty much everyone on lemmy would have to agree to big sacrifices. Are you ready to significantly lower your quality of life or you just want to riot because you think it will help you save it?

*By ban I mean limit by making more expensive.

What did the French protests achieve in the last decades? Hint: nothing.

The Yellow Vests were largely ignored and the fuel tax was eventually scrapped because Covid hit, not because the government got scared of the protesters. The latest protests against pension reform were also ignored and the changes were delayed only because they couldn’t get vote of confidence in the parliament.

Totally agree. Star Wars was just a cool movie and something new for its time. I even liked the first one but personally, I think the cliffhanger ending of the second movie was a disgusting cash grab that should have ended the entire experiment and it go only worse from there.