The vast majority of Jews are Zionists (i.e. support the existence of Israel. Half of the world‘s Jews live in Israel.

This is normal on Lemmy. Mods will ban people as prevention for behavior observed elsewhere.

Every extra platform costs time to take care of.

GNOME has been going downhill since version 3. I used to be a diehard GNOME fan, but nowadays KDE is simply better in so many ways.

love of country/fellow countrymen

Germany is still far below the patriotism of France or Poland. Some adjustment towards their levels of patriotism is about time.

It could help. Mandatory service typically gets you young people straight from school. That means you need to train them. To be good at cybersecurity and cyber warfare takes years though. Not something you can teach over the course of a year of service.

For some it’s an ambition, but not a priority. Germany simply doesn’t pay skilled people enough to serve as cyber soldier.

For some it’s an ambition, but not a priority. Germany simply doesn’t pay skilled people enough to serve as cyber soldier.

no moving parts

Mechanical bells in phones were nice. If you slammed the phone on the receiver you would get a nice ring from them.

People also didn’t own the phones themselves. They were usually rented from the phone company as part of the service contract. So the phone companies had an incentive to buy sturdy equipment. Consumers buying things for themselves often buy the cheapest they can, resulting in lower quality. Yes, lots of products today are worse than they could be, consumer demand for cheap devices plays a role here as well.

microwave ovens

There are only a handful of companies making the core component magnetrons. Various brands just package it differently.

My Bosch vacuum cleaner is 11 years old and works great. The only problem it has is weaker cable retraction. My Bosch washing machine is 7 years old and works fine. My Samsung fridge is 5 years old and great. My Miele dishwasher is at least 15 years old and works great. My no name brand cheap toaster is 17 years old and works great. So from personal experience, I think this is acceptable.

Bakelite is plastic

Yes, the usability and affordances are worse.

Landline phones were mostly plastic and took lots of abuse for years just fine.

Atari and Amiga were sooooo good at the time. It’s a shame Microsoft and Apple won in the end. These machines were so much better technologically, power, and usability wise.

I plaid lots of LucasArts adventures on these

A centralized platform providing infrastructure could be financed using a tax on every internet subscription.

Someone saying transwomen exist and deserve equal rights to women is not exactly an extremely transphobic position to hold.

That’s a progressive view overall still. Take all the allies you can get. Competitions in ideological purity and playing political commissar only serve to divide.

We live in a time now where equal rights for transwomen and women are under attack.

Rights and identities are not the same thing or equally important.

What many people consider a „real woman“ or „real man“ varies and often excludes cisgender people.

That said, I totally understand that Blahaj defederated and has a more strict stance.

Enpass works well for me.

Ada‘s post contains no details or reasoning. Linking to the offending content would make this appear more deliberate.

The offending content was apparently this.

A woman is an adult female. A transwoman is an adult female who used to be male. It’s not difficult to grasp that they are different things. You can admit that and still believe that transwomen should be treated with dignity like anyone else.

Personally I don’t give a shit what bathroom people use or what they want to be referred to. I’ll go along with whatever… But a woman and a transwoman are different things, and it’s disingenuous to pretend otherwise. Always have been different things and always will be, no matter what the law states, now or in the future.

Kier’s words are still not transphobia. There is no fear, dislike, prejudice, discrimination, harassment, or violence in his statement. The scream of ‘transphobia’ is thrown around too much for anyone who disagrees with a narrow definition. Any disagreement is labelled as hate, and it’s silly.

Should a transwoman have the same rights and respect and opportunity as a woman (as per the legal definition)? Absolutely. Are they the same? No, they are not. Is that a hateful bigoted viewpoint worthy of scorn? I don’t believe so.

I don’t use the term cis. I use the term woman and you knew exactly what I meant. A blonde woman is a description of a woman’s hair colour and is a semantic-based response that is nothing to do with this point. You know this; it’s a foolish riposte that’s nothing at all to do with the clear and simple fact that a woman who used to be a man is not the same thing as a (cis) woman.

I can call it a woman who used to have a penis or a woman who used to be a man if you want me to be pedantic about it. Nothing to do with hair colour, or skin colour, or anything else except previously being a biological male and now identifying as a woman.

‘adult human female’ is not a dog whistle. It’s a legal and common-sense definition that you clearly understand but are trying to make out to be hate for some reason. I am not denying the legitimacy of transwomen; nor is Keir.

Transwomen and (cis) women are different things. And Transmen and (cis) men are different things. They have different names, which you yourself use for a reason. That reason being they are not the same thing. This is exactly the same as saying transwomen are not women, because they are not. They are transwomen.

It’s pretty simple.

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SUSE is another Linux distribution with corporate backing.

PopOS is also corporate backed and based on Ubuntu. Oracle has a commercial distribution based on RedHat. There’s lots of corporate backed Linux.

Yes, the M series CPUs are fast. Running an LLM locally or video encoding are the only time I wait.