Like I said, the messaging around the PRC’s imperialistic ambitions in Taiwan goes far beyond the concern around blockades. It’s just interesting from a military/strategic perspective.
Worth noting that even Russia has not been blockaded after it’s imperialistic annexation of Ukraine.
Lots of good points, but one aspect that people haven’t mentioned yet is that Taiwan is part of the “first island chain”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Island_chain_strategy
If the PRC conquers Taiwan, then it makes it much harder for the west to blockade the PRC in future conflicts.
Though technically, it is much more important to control the strait of Malacca than Taiwan.
Fork of Organic maps, both are still OSM
Some hospitals are horribly staffed like this. In Sweden I had this problem until I changed to a different (government-owned) GP.
using Linux desktop isn’t easier than using windows
(X) Doubt
also there’s a vestigial headlight, and the two wheels have different style fenders
On non-Fairphones, which tend to have larger batteries and lower power consumption batteries tend to be usable for much longer. We are talking 3-5 years there.
No way.
Get the battery replaced once in the phone’s lifetime at a local 3rd party repair shop for €100 wait for half an hour and get your phone back.
These shops only service iPhones and Samsungs, there’s only like 1-2 shops in Stockholm that repair Pixels and Xiaomis at all, let alone whatever 3 year old model you have. Not to mention things like screen and USB port repairs cost 100-200€ more than the fairphone parts.
(Fairphone tends to have availability issues with spare parts. For example, right now the FP5 battery is out of stock.)
I’ve had to wait a month for a fairphone battery before, but it’s not like they’re discontinued. I can imagine battery warehousing costs more than screens and USB ports.
A repairable phone is the most important thing. I could buy a used flagship, but the battery will be trashed. I used to buy a phone every 2 years but now I just buy a battery every 2 years. I can use my phone knowing that if anything breaks I can have a replacement part in within a week, and I don’t have to spend 100€s to ship it to some repair shop in a different part of the country.
Fairphone 4 and 5 are also the only smartphones certified by the Swedish unions: https://tcocertified.com/product-finder/index?category=Smartphones
I have a grandfathered purchase of their app on android, works very well
Why crop the timestamps? sus
Who in the US is buying midrange or flagship phones without a loan?
all home routers have NAT which functions as a firewall, but VPSes don’t cone with any firewall by default, so you’d have to set one up. Also VPS ranges seem to hotter for scanning.
Your stuff is more likely to get scanned sitting in a VPS with no firewall than behind a firewall on a home network
Have you actually met any of them at say, Fosdem?
Can we stop letting chatbots make economic and administrative decisions, thanks
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Ok, but then I’m just gonna give your car a little kick so you know you’re hurting my ears.
Kidding, but yeah it can be really annoying, and also many drivers don’t blip their horn like you’re saying, and instead give a full honk. Anybody walking nearby gets an earache, and anybody living or shopping nearby has to deal with the noisy environment created. Probably better to just flash your highbeams or be more patient. The horn is not meant to police other drivers or signal noncritical information, you don’t see people honking every time someone is texting while driving, or driving with their lights off.
Real talk, don’t honk unless there is a danger of crashing.
Yes, the driver in front of you should not have their phone out. No, that does not give you the right to take your rage out on everyone in the surrounding neighborhood because you’re mad about having to wait 10 seconds to start driving again.
Don’t drive into a city and act like you have the right to be as loud as you want.
Yeah Stalwart seems to have a lot of momentum, I’ll probably be setting up a server with my kubernetes+ceph cluster this month.
You’re just fartblind.