Sorry for saying this in a car-related post, but the solution to car dependency is simply the availability of other forms of thansport.

Specifically, trains, intra-city bike lanes that are 2x faster than a car, ect

If you have that, you get choice and some level of control. (P.S. not in rural areas with no trains tho.)

I’m not sure I agree. Let me explain.

One one hand, when I moved to Europe many years ago, I had one of the criteria for choosing a country as “a country that spends the least on military”. It resonated with my values, and it was important.

Things have changed since then. Many countries are now obstaining from full-on support of Ukraine, and why? Because they’re afraid to displease Putin with his nuclear arsenal.

So, as of now, do we want peace? Yes. And this is great. Sadly, we need to wake up from the pleasant days and grow some teeth if we want to continue living in peace. Russia is conducting information war, sabotage, spying and assassinations in Europe already. The war is here already. A switch of mindset is required where you want peace but you’re ready to defend it with weapons and even deaths of your own citizens such as you and me - if you want it to last. ~“A tolerant society should not tolerate the intolerant”.

My system is heating up

A small note on that. If you could live with the compilation speed but it’s annoying to have the CPU fans working all the time, you could address it by moving the CPU to a more power-efficient mode. Though that will only slow things down for you, and you’re saying it’s already slow and you’re running out of RAM, so maybe heat/fans are not your biggest concern.

Personally, I currently use intel CPUs. Old ones I could undervolt AND limit in watts, making them silent and reducing power usage by a third at the cost of ~5% performance. My current one doesn’t support undervolting sadly, and the options for wattage limits are also almost fully gone. What I use now is:

/etc/tmpfiles.d/cpu-prefer-powersafe.conf

# Possible values: default performance balance_performance balance_power power
w /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu*/cpufreq/scaling_governor - - - - powersave

Replacing “powersave” with “power” cuts the energy usage by half and makes the CPU fully silent at ~50 degrees… at the cost of 30% performance on this new CPU :(( Or keeping it as above, energy usage goes down somewhat (haven’t measured precisely), CPU mostly silent at 50-60 degrees, performance down by 15%.

OK probably I wrote waay too much 😅

I took a day off and cycled to the (snowy) dunes on Wednesday… It was quite fun actually.

Wouldn’t want it every day though.

Here, a person added GPL as a proposed alternative.

Aww, I think I just failed to read the article carefully, because how otherwise could I have missed the mention of protest laws? (It’s really there, even though once.)

Thanks for the explanation!

I’m curious about this, will also be watching how it evolves

Reddit is prone to manipulation. So what you read on Reddit is not the same as what people think if you ask them.

E.g. this: https://lemmy.ml/post/40603414?sort=Top

Two accounts on Reddit post 30%-50% of all content on r/conservative on a daily basis except one day when there happened to be a power outage in part of Moscow

(I don’t think the linked post is fully objective and has enough evidence support, but it at least clearly shows the risk.)

I don’t mean to contradict, and I’m not an AU citizen/resident. But can you please clarify, how does the article connect to “protest rights” that you mentioned?

I see that it talks about gun laws and exclusively about them. Can you in AU protest without guns? I’m an outsider, but for me an obvious “yes” comes to mind. So what’s the problem with not having a gun then?

I somehow couldn’t bear the “self-scratch self-praise” top part of the post, but starting with
"But the balance is crucial" it was really interesting to read! Contrary to my initial fears, it’s not a self-praise post, but actually useful and talks about problems too.

Yes please!

Though you can cycle for free ^^
And that’s most frequently the fastest and easiest transport between two points in a city, by a margin.
(I’m still envious about the rail prices.)

I’m envious. In the Netherlands, you can only buy a train pass for 376 Euros. And that’s just the train: no buses, no trams, not even those faster “intercity” trains.

Agreed. Besides other things like non-old games on “old games” website as you say, they were also caught not enforcing DRM, even though their biggest selling point is DRM-free games. Nevertheless, with some exceptions, you generally get good stuff, and it’s a good and reputable store overall.

Pretty biased and low-quality article TBH.

1. They’re talking about this news from GOG, yet they don’t even link the official announcement. Only their own old news. Meh.

2. What GOG really introduced is a way to financially support GOG, for various small perks. Yet the article somehow infers that GOG is doing bad financially, without providing any links to that conclusion.

3. The view is quite capitalistic to be honest. Everything is looked at from the prism of money. Money this, money that. “Epic Games … burn money … decline … purchases …” (Yes, the news is for GOG but they’re discussing Epic Games.)

Anyway, GOG remains not an ideal place, but by far the best for-profit game distribution company I think. I have 10-20 games from that store, and I’m quite happy that my games are from there and not other platforms. All DRM-free.

I’ve tried it out of curiosity, it works for me. I had a link where they recommended clicking though, to fix it and to make it work. I don’t see it on your screenshot. I think I got a (slightly different) warning with a link when I tried to open Silence as an app.

Regardless, it was essentially to open Settings > Apps > All Apps > find Silence > click somewhere (I forgot where exactly) to enable the potentially very unsafe thing of full SMS access. I think it was on the top right where I needed to click in the last step. Afterwards, Silence can be selected as the default SMS handler.

That being said, I personally mostly use Signal and Matrix nowadays. The phone lasts for… 2 days probably? IDK. I’m not really happy with either messenger BTW, but it’s the best shot for now, for me

Grok this grok that…
I’m sorry, but ***k grok. Stop posting about it.

disroot is quite decent. I like their (privacy) vibe and the set of semi-independent services they provide.

Yeah that’s a great idea! I use that too. An encrypted USB drive makes sure you can trust the data not leaking, and spaced repetition can (should) be practiced to memoize the password. Then you’re good I’d say.

Technically KeePass can “merge” and has some sort of conflict resolution, but you’re right that forgotten and unaddressed conflicts can lay around for unlimited time without you noticing. It’s the main problem with keepass + syncthing.

It’s a bit sad that you’re downvoted so hard. You obviously have good intentions, just not having a good grasp yet if I may be frank. The solutions in this post are what you should follow IMO. In short, USB thumb/hdd drives with your important data. Encrypt the whole USB if your devices are under Linux if you wish. Use a proper password manager like KeePass to secure it additionally, with a strong master password of course.