TBH traditional journalism has similar issues, though it’s less extreme.

A lot of cellphones are unreasonably large, these days, too.

TBH I don’t like keeping stuff in my pants pockets anyway. Feels uncomfortable.

Very few animals (probably none) that rely on venom have any need for killing elephants, including those who live near elephants. What’s a spider supposed to do with a 2 ton carcass?

If you browse https://feddit.org/?dataType=Post&listingType=Local&sort=New, most posts are still in German.

The local feed looks very English to me …

If German lemmy is any indication, usually there isn’t more than one lemmy-instance per language (English being the obvious exception).

Really cool idea! Shame that none of my old devices seem to work with postmarketOS, but I’m tempted to try this with an old phone off ebay if I can find a cheap-enough one.

Measuring these uncustomized directly after booting is a pretty flawed metric, especially with something like KDE that has a lot of features that can be enabled or disabled. i.e. many features that are built into KDE might need external programs that are not included in the base install of LXQt or XFCE, and some stuff might get reused when you start opening LibreOffice, Firefox or a text editor (AFAIK this is definitely a thing if you use a lot of KDE/Qt applicatons). The desktop comparisons I saw during KDE 5.x had it at not that much more RAM use than XFCE, and I doubt this changed that much with KDE 6. Maybe something about Wayland, though? e.g. XWayland might eat additional resources. Also, the baseline RAM use seems really high when even XFCE uses 1.4GiB by default.

For the record, I use LXQt, not KDE.

Well, we aren’t manipulated by technology per se, but by the humans who control the technology. Could have been nice if Silicon Valley wasn’t so damn fascist. But I suppose that’s nitpicking, Giles definitely had the right idea.

What’s the purpose of converting an m4a file to mp4?

I think Github is a relatively simple issue. There isn’t really a shortage of european (or just selfhostable) alternatives, and the way git works means that most contributors have complete local copies of the codebase. TBH I worry more about the ability of american contributors to continue working on a project if the code is hosted in europe - basically a lot of open source developer teams could end up being split or shut down entirely. And the bigger projects like Linux and a lot of the intermediate layers between the Linux kernel and applications are majorly backed and developed by american companies and their employees.

Ever heard of cheese analogue?

And now I’ve eaten all of it slowly over the coarse of 2 months. Just fistfulls of late night cheese.

See, that’s exactly why I don’t do that! Also I don’t think my local supermarkets actually sell 3 lbs of mozzarella for $7.

In that case, the ingredients must be so cheap that the food coloring actually makes a significant price difference for them.

Yellow cheese (assuming it doesn’t use food coloring) typically takes a lot more time to make than white cheese, so yeah. Though mozzarella is also just the standard pizza cheese, it seems like most people in the know prefer mozzarella’s properties (e.g. stretchiness) over other types of cheese.

“above 24°C” seems a strangely arbitrary measure for “too hot”. It’s definitely hotter than I like, but I’m keenly aware that most people would call 24°C with sunshine a perfect summer day.

Related: I’m still running Ubuntu 20.04 (released April 2020) on my desktop. I can’t easily update to a new major version because of some technical issues I won’t get into right now, but it seems on topic. I’m basically frozen in time in terms of technology.

#degrowth

Wouldn’t labeling it beta/early access imply that they’re more honest about what the game is and is not at the time of its release into early access/beta? Not as much reason to lie if you already said that it will take a couple of years before it’s done. Of course, you can still overstate your plans …

Well, the issue with those games is that they’re already played-out by the time they hit 1.0, at least that’s how it works for me with 7 Days To Die. Maybe there’s some new stuff I haven’t seen yet, but I already saw most of what the game has to offer in terms of gameplay and I don’t feel like picking it up again. Might be a general issue with games that spend a lot of time in early access.

With No Man’s Sky the difference might be that there barely was anything to do after release, so many people probably dropped it after maybe 10 hours.