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9 days agoFairphone’s current line-up almost makes me wish my current phone would break, so I’d have an excuse to upgrade.
Humanius
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Cake day: June 24th, 2023
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6·11 days agoThe hobbies are photography and videography, and it depends a bit on how frugal I am being.
If I limit myself to buying new stuff? Not a whole lot. Maybe a camera body or a few lenses.
But if I shop around and get stuff second hand, then I could buy so many lenses and cameras that I’ve been meaning to try out.Usually I do the latter
Is that an AI image in the article? Could they really not find a stock photo of a street in Paris?
I have 24TB on my own server, and another 1TB (split halfway between me and my boyfriend) that comes with a Proton account I pay for.
The 24TB was about € 200 per drive, built out over several years.
3 x 8 TB + 1 x 8 TB for parity makes about € 800 total. The other hardware was leftover computer hardware I had lying around, so in total I think the server cost me about € 1000,-I pay € 180 / year for Proton for two people, which is € 7,50 per person per month. That includes a mail server, 1 TB cloud storage (500 GB per person), VPN, password manager, etc.
I’m paying €10,50 / month for unlimited calling / 500 texts / 18 GB of data. Thats is with Simpel in the Netherlands.
Texting is not relevant here since everyone uses WhatsApp (and more recently Signal), and I’ve never actually used more then 18GB of data in a month.
Wikipedia doing well is great, but that doesn’t mean people should stop donating to them.
It’s a resource of free and open information, which I believe to be increadibly important. Especially right now given everything that is going on. Democracy requires an informed populace, and having a platform like Wikipedia is an immensely important public good.
And frankly I’m not unconvinced that this “don’t donate to Wikipedia” line might have originated as a propaganda campaign meant to limit access to free and open information.
I donate sporadically to traditional charities (feed the poor, cancer research, etc) when I’m asked for a donation either at the door or in the street. Similar to how I give money to a homeless person if they ask and I have some on me.
I’ve also donated to a couple of causes that I particularly care about, such as Wikipedia. And I’m paying some money each month to the local gay rights lobby and cycling advocacy lobby.
I don’t have recurring payments to any traditional charities set up, however.
Edit: I should donate to my Lemmy instance.
I think that finally got fixed several years ago. I do remember this exact problem though…
By default both the Dutch and US International layouts would be enabled if you set up the computer to the Dutch region. And you could switch between them (accidentally) by pressing some key combination. It was highly annoying…
AZERTY is not really about being similar to QWERTY. It’s the French standard keyboard layout.
Similarly QWERTZ is the German standard keyboard layout.Most (European?) countries use some variation of QWERTY with the symbols and special characters moved around to fit their respective languages better. Over here in the Netherlands we are a bit of an outlier in the sense that we use the US layout of QWERTY, but with additional modifier keys to make special characters available (It’s called US International)
There is also niche layouts like DVORAK (optimized layout for English) and BÉPO (optimized layout for French).
What is the reason you switched to AZERTY, if I may ask? I’m quite curious.
The experiment isn’t to make weed sales legal. The experiment is to make growing weed commercially legal(-ish). The sale has been legal-ish since the 1970s already.
Technically weed is not legal, but sale, posession, and growing for personal use have been officially tolerated (gedoogbeleid) for decades. They are effectively legal in anything but name.
Growing weed for non-personal use is not tolerated. But it is tolerated that the coffeeshops which are allowed to sell weed, buys weed from these illegal growers. Its the one major hitch in our drugs policy, which many believe doesn’t make any sense.
So this experiment is meant to create a way for companies to grow weed in a way that will be officially tolerated as well. And we just reached the next stage of that experiment where coffeeshops in the participating cities are no longer allowed to buy weed from illegal sources.
This can lead to official legalization of weed. But that would effectively not change anything in practice, compared to how things are run already.
I’m just going to point out that Spotify is Swedish.
Wait… Since when does Spotify host video content?
That is fair, I was not aware of that
That may be, but shouldn’t it be up to people to decide for themselves whether they want to support Spotify or not?
Is there a specific reason why Spotify is not suggested as an alternative to YouTube Music and Apple Music?
To my knowledge they are a Swedish company.
11·3 months agoWe are past the point where this shithead can be ignored. He’s in too much of a powerful position for that to work
Added it to the list
I’ve posted this in a different post before, but I’ll copy it here.
Amazon alternatives for the NL:
General:
Computers:
Electronics:
- Mediamarkt
- AlleKabels - They sell all kinds of cables
Clothes:
Groceries:
Drugs and cosmetics:
Bikes:
Do It Yourself:
Office:
Furniture:
Second hand marketplace:
There is probably a lot I am forgetting. I’ll keep adding to the list as I think of different places
The DNS provider I went with is Vimexx.nl
I already had a .nl domain with them, and just needed another more professional sounding domain for my email (that i could realistically use on my resume)
I think both the .nl and .net domains require being registered to a person?
My server has also not been liking the heat over the past month
Though in my case it’s because drive 3 is sitting in a slot that is possibly not getting enough airflow. It’s consistently running a bit hotter than the other drives in the system.
I really should get around to moving it to a different slot.