YouTube gives me more value for free than a lot of services I actually pay for

That’s the really annoying part.

I’ve been considering swapping to other services for a long time, but to follow the creators I want to follow I’d have to subscribe to Nebula and Floatplane and I’d still miss out on quite a few creators.

Yeah, they don’t know how to make door rebates. They don’t even have that in their actual house doors leading to the road. And we over here even have them on toilet doors.

Toilets shouldn’t be high humidity environments (that’s what ventilation is there for) and gap-less doors don’t need to rub at all.

That’s what this European high tech that seems to be virtually unknown in the US is for: door rebates.

Really? That’s what I’d expect even in a run-down public toilet in a train station over here in Austria.

The issue here is that if you stay for someone else, someone else will stay for you.

My family agreed that if something were to happen in our country (be it a war or something political like in the US right now), anyone who can will make it out as fast as possible and prepares the path for the others. Because it’s much easier toget a visum if you already have family there and a place to live.

And yes, you are right, nobody wants Americans in their country, but that’s just why it would be helpful to have someone prepare the way.

“Components” means in this case the phone and the sticker.

Don’t you know, selling phones is an official presidential act, thus he has immunity.

Does this apply to smaller platforms like lemmy?

Except that Windows does it without.

It’s a broadband bang that can be heard across the whole spectrum. It becomes audible when listening to radio broadcasts.

Regular radio transmissions are comparatively narrow band, allowing lots of simultaneous transmissions in the same airspace, each on its own frequency. The spark gap transistor is very wide band, so it basically sounds as if you are sending a bang sound across all radio frequencies at the same time.

It wouldn’t destroy radio equipment, but the radio transmissions. It’s basically as if you’d use a radio jammer as a morse code transmitter.

Talking about it, which arch flavour is “btw”? /s

I guess you aren’t wrong. There are a lot of advances but stability and small but really annoying bugs remain a huge pain point.

At the same time it enforces car dependency since it arbitrarily reduces density making walking, biking and public transport unfeasible.

The original white house was burned to the ground by British/Canadian troops in 1814.

Yeah, ok, that counts as a war on US soil, but that’s still over 200 years ago.

Not to mention about 100 different American Indian Wars, though some of those were more slaughter than war.

Hard to really count them as wars for the reason you mentioned.

Pretty much the first type of commercially viable radio transmitter was the spark-gap transmitter (“Knallfunkensender” in German). It worked by charging up some capacitors to up to 100kV and then letting them spark. This spark sent a massive banging noise on the whole radio spectrum, which could then be turned into an audible noise using a very simple receiver. That was then used to send morse codes (or similar encodings).

They went into service around 1900, and by 1920 it was illegal to use these because they would disrupt any and all other radio transmissions in the area with a massive loud bang.

This.

There are often actual limits to what can be done, and there are practical limits. Especially in the early days of a technology it’s really hard to understand which limits are actual limits, practical limits or only short-term limits.

For example, in the 1800s, people thought that going faster than 30km/h would pose permanent health risks and wouldn’t be practical at all. We now know that 30km/h isn’t fast at all, but we do know that 1300km/h is pretty much the hard speed limit for land travel and that 200-300km/h is the practical limit for land travel (above that it becomes so power-inefficient and so dangerous that there’s hardly a point).

So when looking at the technology in an early state, it’s really hard to know what kind of limit you have hit.

GNOME is horrible. Looks pretty, but it’s opinionated approach means that nothing works as expected and you have to relearn how to use a stupid window manager.

I prefer Ook! Ook! over Ooga.

Are you using Arch btw?

True, but it only works if there will actually be a rebellion started by some higher-up.