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.

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.

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

MozillaCoin /s

I’m just speculating, but I could imagine they personfied objects and maybe transfered gender to objects that way?

If I remember correctly it was always the clown Medwedew who threatened to use nuclear weapons and throw them on London or some other bullshit, but never Putin directly

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My impression is that at least in Germany it’s very rare to get a straw in a restaurant at all. It’s usually fast food places, bars and clubs where straws seem to be a thing, and these places usually don’t offer metal cutlery.

Check out the definitive Edition then which was released in 2019, the latest DLC with new civilizations was added a week ago. It’s a fantastic game with a large active community around it.

Age of Empires 2.

Handling time series with DST can be hell in data sciences or sensors

I’m on fiefox with ublock and didn’t notice any change, Germany…

I was wondering too, it’s the same guy.

In my 15 years living for myself I developed a pretty solid cooking skill, nothing too fancy but enough to supply myself with healthy, diverse food. However I never baked a bread and hate baking in general - to me it's a whole different story than cooking. This might be a regional thing, as in Germany we have great bread everywhere available so bread baking is more of a hobby thing.
I'd suggest to learn how to cook the basic things first. Learn how to cook essential things like eggs, pasta, rice, potatoes etc. Doesn't sound hard, but for people who never tried before it's a barrier. Then learn how to cut and prepare veggies, how to cook them, how to fry them. Then try out standard sauces, tomato sauce etc. Aand learn how to use salt and pepper (which is enough for the start). When you cooked your first pasta with tomato sauce just try yourself out and extend your repertoire with all the other standard things.

Of course that's the view of western kitchen.

Haha obviously, too early in the morning ;)

*of water

That’s the point. This liberal vs conservative isn’t even working for the US. In an international community like Lemmy it’s even worse, as what people from the US define as left and right does not work for western Europe for example. In Germany liberal in a modern sense is seen equal to neoliberal, what is democrats for US is right conservative for us, what is left in Europe is communism for the US and so on, you get it.

It may work for parties on a regional level, but for individuals, forget it.

As some people report the app is working on their phones without Chrome, is it possible you have installed an alternative System WebView on your phone, e.g. Bromite? Don’t what some custom OS like Graphene use as default.

Yes, I was speaking for Germany. No idea what an Eidgenosse would say