I switched from FFX to Chrome back in the day because Chrome tabs were all independent processes in task manager, and one crappy website wouldn’t kill my whole browser.

When Google started their war on addons, I switched back to Firefox.

That article is so garbage. Words missing, no real details, all the links are spam.

Good points, makes me think of how good lightweight RSS readers were at accomplishing the same kinds of content aggregation goals, and worked well even over 56k modems.

I’ve bought more 40k after owning a resin printer than before I did. Love my flgs.

My favorite kind is where you just get a scanner when you walk into the store. Scan stuff when you put it in your bag, scan the scanner at the end, pay and leave. No futzing about moving stuff from cart to bags or anything like that, and it’s way more convenient to use my own bags because I’m loading them as I go, instead of being rushed at the very end.

Think about how many bullets those old pipes can be turned into! This project would practically pay for itself with the cost of ammunition these days.

Yes, but where the carbon comes from does matter. Burning fossil fuels is bad because it reintroduces previously sequestered carbon back into the atmosphere. If we can shorten the carbon cycle and simultaneously reduce the total amount of free carbon in the atmosphere, it’s still a net positive, even though we would still be burning hydrocarbons.

Of course the less we burn, the better, and I’m sure the water resources used to make the “renewable” fuel are just as problematic and wasteful.

What does rolling release get a user if they’re not tinkering with hardware all the time?

I used to read 2-3 books a week, but between work, kids, keeping my house in order, I have so few contiguous time blocks for leisure reading that I’m lucky if I finish a book in a month or two. I do read a TON of books with my kids while putting them to bed, I just don’t count those for myself.

You own an apartment complex?

If someone wants to host something, NAT won’t stop them. IMO the bigger problem is that most folks have neither time, skill, nor interest to make p2p a reality. I’m a pretty savvy admin, host a lot of services for myself and family, but I don’t pretend to be good enough or vigilant enough to run anything public, i.e. mail server, lemmy server, etc, without major security concerns.

Well, except when cows are infecting the lettuce too: https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2023/08/16/ecoli-strain-repexh02/

That’s basically Lemmy though? Unfortunately, expecting non-technical people to host their own content and moderate their own experiences is too much work and not worth it or viable for most users. Reddit made it easy, and its user base was still tiny compared to the bigger social media platforms.

Ahh yes, the ol’ finger toaster. Great in the winter, terrible in the summer.

I disagree with that as a blanket statement. Humans have always used tools to augment our artistic capabilities, and AI is just the newest, shiniest tool. The fact that corps want to replace human artists with machines for cost cutting does not invalidate use cases like an independent singer-wongwriter from generating an album cover for themselves based on their lyrics.