I don’t see what would be wrong with a world where businesses just satisfied themselves with providing employees with a reasonable living, contributed to the communities they were in, and provided a good or service that was needed. Sitting under a tree and reading a book sounds better than watching the world burn in your name-brand clothes and 5 bedroom 2.5 bath house.

Some of the videos of this are really frustrating to watch. Like, what are you trying to do!? You just found your spot, now you’re coming back out?? More circling, stopping, going back, going forward. Uughghhh…

I’m loving the new camera update and I don’t have anyone to tell… I think it’s awesome they’re doing this for a previous-generation phone.

Sublime?! What packages are you running with that?

I installed the Fakespot extension and then went looking through my past purchases. It seemed to work really well and called out things as shady for products that I can say, first hand, were actually kind of sketchy.

“If it’s free then you’re the product” isn’t even true when search engines are ad supported, so stick with the much better free alternatives.

This is exactly what “you’re the product” means. Google is selling your presence on their platform to advertisers - you are the product they’re selling.

A sticking point I encountered - the drop in efficiency as the weather gets colder means you need a unit sized to heat your home on the coldest days you expect to encounter. So you need to buy a heat pump that’s larger than you need for 98% of the year just so you don’t freeze that other 2%. In addition to higher cost an oversized unit is less efficient because it’s cycling more.

So this is where “heating strips” or “backup heating” come in, and then I get we’ve come full-circle.

Threads for Fairphone often fill up with “it’s not going to work if they don’t X.” Lots of people don’t seem to understand that their personal viewpoint can be quite different from other’s.

There are people who are aware of the trade-offs of a Fairphone, but still choose to get one.

It’s roughly the same size as the Fairphone 4, isn’t it? Like 1mm less thick.

Google Cloud has a free tier, as do many other large cloud providers (Oracle and AWS for sure).

Google Cloud is a little tricky because you just configure a Google Compute instance to match what they say is free, then cross your fingers you don’t get billed (at least that’s my experience).

I’m my experience, if iPhone users don’t like the way Apple messaging works with Android contacts, they bitch at the person using Android telling them to get an iPhone.

I’m wondering how the subreddit blackout is affecting things. I’ve noticed my VM has really dropped down in bandwidth used the past hour or so.