Centrism is okay during good times, when managing the country is all it takes and the political climate isn’t poisoned. During times of crisis, however, it’s horribly ineffective, because centrists are usually quite averse to any large-scale reforms and their ineffectiveness will only benefit (usually right-wing) radical parties.

Self hosting is great but if you want to make sure you can’t lose your data, your backup should be in a different location than your main photo storage. Otherwise, in case of a fire or similar, you’ll lose everything.

Interesting. This might actually become a good option for mobile games and apps. I’ve created a few Flutter apps that integrate Unity for their 3d content, but that always comes with drawbacks, especially performance-wise. I’ll definitely keep an eye on this.

People protesting agains the arms industry will generally focus on the bigger problem, which is all the people being killed. “Stop murdering people” is probably a more powerful message than “Stop wasting resources on murdering people”.

Indeed, but it looks like a bit of both (store-bought 3d assets, AI generated 2D art).

Worth pointing out that this isn’t one of the regular Epic giveaways, but a giveaway by the developer. Terrible asset-flip full of AI-generated content from all I’ve read and seen.

I think I’d survive. Never had a broken bone or any serious injuries really. I’d just have surface-level wounds everywhere, none with a lot of blood loss, and 2 rolled ankles. It would be unpleasant as hell, but I don’t think my life would be in danger.

They’re design-focused first and foremost. You get a Nothing phone if you want fancy LED-lighting on the backside.

They used to be about having a “minimalist”, bloatware-free Android OS as well, but since last year some of their phones come preloaded with Facebook, Tiktok etc and they even put ads on the lock screen for a while (until backlash made them revert that).

Nope, it’s on lemmings.world.

Not really, just shows the logos of 4 brands that some people may think are European (Côte D’Or, Milka, Toblerone and Häagen Dazs).

Interesting that your country blocks some Lemmy instances.

You’re correct. I have one and use it as a weather display but it’s not comparable to a tablet.

Compound words are cheating, but you got me with Präambel!

So I trust you only drink true native unsweetened Xocoatl?

Coincidentally yes, Hagen is a place name and das means “the”. In that combination it’s absolute gibberish though and Häagen Dazs’ founder probably had no idea about those meanings. He was trying to make it sound Danish. In his own words:

“The only country which saved the Jews during World War II was Denmark, so I put together a totally fictitious Danish name and had it registered,” Mattus told me. “Häagen-Dazs doesn’t mean anything. [But] it would attract attention, especially with the umlaut.” Source

Very little resemblance to German either. Words with “äa” aren’t a thing, neither are words that end in “zs”.

It’s not, Pine64EU is just a European store for Pine64 products. The Pine64 organization making the actual tablets is based in Hong Kong.

2020s, by far. 2010s were the best, but after 2020, the world order I knew pretty much became undone and everything seems to just be getting worse. I was pretty hopeful and excited for the future before, but now we seem to be on an unrelenting march towards dystopia. Much of the societal progress we’ve made in prior decades is being reverted. Also not great when it came to personal events for me, as my dad died in 2021. I guess the decade still has a few years left to redeem itself, but that seems highly unlikely right now.

I don’t know if there are currently any automated systems against it, but with Lemmy votes being public, I think that someone would notice it happening sooner or later. If it became a huge problem, automated systems could certainly be developed.

I’m aware that instances can block interaction from other instances, but if done correctly it would be easy to do it without raising much suspicion.

I don’t think it would be. A sudden influx of votes from users from a new instance who never posted or commented would be pretty obvious I’d say.

Can you be more specific on what reminds you of prisons with your schools? I don’t think any of my schools in Germany looked anything like a prison.