Assuming you are a DS citizen, your definition of a large shopping center may vary. Also, your definition of rural :) That said, I was referring to “large junctions with shopping centers”, not “junctions with large shopping centers”. What I mean is a road crossing with 3-4 supermarkets, each of which has a parking lot around 200x100 yards
oh right - samesies :D
Less capitalism so far, more small bakeries.
I think the way most cities are organised in the divided states of southern northern america doesn’t work as well with smaller shops. You need walkable city centers for those, and especially rural areas have these large shopping center junctions with Target, Walmart etc and big parking lots - then bigger cities where living downtown is unaffordable and again you have the suburbs with these shopping areas that are almost industrialised. In most of these environments, smaller shops that could sell more or less homemade / handmade flour-based products wouldn’t stand a chance.
Having worked in a smartphone after market organisation, I can assure you that phones do break due to user error also in the first few years. Screen breaks, phones are dropped, charging ports are subject to user violence…
Having not worked in a smartphone after market organisation, I can assure you that is pretty much exactly what I wrote up there.
They deliver security updates for the pre-installed OSes they support. Those updates are no good for most users that load their own flavour of OS. What counts is hardware that has open source drivers (Also - holy fuck - the homepage almost gave me a seizure and I am not an epileptic). Where they are doing OKish, but not great.
As for “7 full years of stocking parts” - the first 3-4 years are next to useless, almost no phone breaks that fast unless physically damaged. And it only becomes relevant for most people who take care with their phone after 5+ years. And that’s exactly when the support period ends. Which is unfortunately, the opposite of the “sustainable phone” that they promise.
As said, they do have a great team, and they do do Fair Trade, and they do engage with the community - all good things. But I am quite disappointed in the “by the time you need a replacement part, it’s out of stock” lesson learned.
They have a great team, sadly they continuously aimed for a broad target audience in lack of support for degoogled OSes (only doing the bare minimum) and the headphone jack indeed. Also, sadly, the long life thingie is a joke when you are a cautious user and you don’t break your phone. 5-7 years after purchase, spare parts are no longer available :/
No it isn’t. Unless KDE has had a major debloat since KDE4. XFCE is lightning fast.
Ah, so it was IT management deciding, the ever corrupt, ever incompetent fuckers in every organisation. Okay, I feel that pain.
Why would you go to microslop?
I think that’s a global trend of humanity falling for populists, and morally back into the stone age (although I might be doing prehistoric humans injustice here). I really believe in the saying (paraphrasing because I don’t recall the exact wording) that if you want to assess the degree of civilization in a society, you should look how it treats its prison inmates.
Ouch. Glad I don’t watch TV anymore. My sympathies.
This here. My emails end up in gmail spam folders occasionally from what I am told. And I don’t self-host. I just use a good webhoster and my own domain. Fuck google.
I just read the exact same headline about prison food. Assuming that’s because 80% of food in Magastan is ultra-processed, I guess we’re gonna get the same headline for every possible institution now over the coming days.
You misspelled “fuck religions”. Because surely you are not a hypocritical sad little bitch…
or KDE. :p Did you see how they butchered kcalc over recent years?
I sincerely hope you were omitting an /s there, because I haven’t heard of people who like those.
as long as the capitalist class is subject to the peoples wishes.
Yeah I think that’s the part where you missed the news flash about the Chinese state.
definitionally
That’s not English. Maybe don’t go lecturing others about capitalism when you have to invent words for your (flawed) reasoning.
Scroll to the bottom, there’s a link to a spicier phrasing.
Also, quote from there:
I feel that, I have lost respect for people that way and don’t want to be friends anymore :(