Outside of the US here: nearly every insurance company in Belgium (that are coincidently also the banks) are 100% scamming people and literally make their entire business model off of ripping people off as much as possible.

Using any and every excuse to deny people the insurance they paid for when they have legitimate claims is literally how they are “profitable.”

Having used it in the browser, it barely works in a browser. >50% of functionality is simply missing. Pretty much only the very very basics of typing and formatting.

I also use libreoffice and actually like calc better than excel because python support ia a first class citizen for programming within the spreadsheet in Calc, but AFAIK macro spreadsheets aren’t very cross compatible, but I guess I work in engineering so every company I have worked with or for uses excel macros, probably not representative of other professions.

Eh, don’t know about that. Probably a very large portion of people would need word/PowerPoint/etc… For company document compatibility.

For sure a lot of people though could easily get by with LibreOffice.

Best typo! Hello fellow 7 year old!

I wish I could use Graphene, but the pixel’s pitifully small and expensive storage to force you into cloud storage really makes an SD card necessary. I have around 200GB on my phone + SD already(including OS), and I don’t want only 50 GB for more photos and music in the next 7 years WITH the more expensive option…

Isn’t persona the Palantir (AI powered genocide) affiliated company?

The EU is pushing very similar things…

Literally Meta has been caught paying people through shell orgs all around the world to pass this kind of legislation.

I started using Dockhand for container administration. It is pretty new, but works well.

You can view container logs, update/restart containers, and run a terminal inside of the containers, but not the host system.

You can create a new socket proxy just for the containers that you want to give them access to maybe.

But zeeschildpad doesn’t include things like box turtles that live near bodies of water but not all the time, right? I guess here in Belgium we just use “schildpad” for everything.

It also sounds cooler to translate it to shield-toad lol

And every year new open mass surveillance worse than the UK and US attempts to be passed and barely fails.

GDPR also doesn’t mean shit if it is barely enforced against large companies or the fines aren’t revenue-proportional… Then it is just a cost of doing business.

I think SimpleX is the only one that fits that.

Sadly, the developers started crypto NFTish integrations last year. It is still too early to see if their use of it will end up being good or a slippery slope into crypto scams.

FYI, there is like a 99% chance that reddit doesn’t actually delete your data if you delete your account, even the comment scramblers only help vs bot scraping. Reddit likely has comment history in their databases.

They should be the default for solar installations and grid-level storage, but are too new.

They can also replace lead-acid batteries for many applications.

Lithium will still rule microelectronics and wearables, but all lower density stuff should switch to sodium.

That being said, for cold environments like Scandinavia and the US Midwest & canada, sodium ion works better in both cold and heat swings than Lithium variants that it might be worth the tradeoff in capacity because in the long cold months, the reduced capacity and performance of lithium chemistries would completely close the gap anyways.

Going into sewage vats and breaking up solidified waste and oil clogs

Deep sea oil rig repair

Underwater dam repair

Driving public transportation (not enough to maintain a system)

Elder care (there is a worldwide lack of people willing to clean up piss and shit of often angry, sometimes aggressive people and deal with regular loss for bad pay, much less in an ideal profession freedom world, relative to the amount of people needing care)

Forensic pathology is something that very very few people enjoy also, but is very needed.

Urine farmer (hunting luring, sprays for animal repellant)

Coal miner

Any precious or rare metal or stone miner

People love intellectual jobs, creative jobs, and some public service jobs. It is much much harder to find people to do body-destroying terrible-condition manual labor jobs. Ideally those are the jobs to be replaces, but of course capitalists want to replace the former category of jobs because those cut into their profits more.

It isn’t open source hardware. It is license-free IC architecture.

The hardware will still be closed source in 99% of cases, but the architecture is “open” and can be used without licensing, lowering the barrier to entry for making CPUs (it is still very high as volume is the name of the game at fans. Tapeouts for testing a design can be €1k on the very cheap end, often more like 10K+)

A step in the right direction for sure, but open source IC designs are still quite limited.

It often gives incorrect maps simply because of update schedule and them encouraging not reporting construction <3 months or whatever.

We have construction all over in Belgium and tons of detours such that it makes open street map pretty much unusable as it will just incessantly reroute you to a blocked path even after you are well on a different route.

I dunno man, my farmer works from 6h to 23h with barely a break in between, only eats when he absolutely needs to or is going to fight ghosts alone to get sprinklers to ease the work just a little, and maybe has a couple days of talking to people or going to the arcade per season lol.

Relaxing for the player, maybe not for the farmer themselves.

Spinning up and down hard drives repeatedly drastically reduces their lifespan though. Once a day or so, fine, but if you set a 30 minute idle time or something and it spins them down a dozen times per day, you are putting acceleration forces on the drive many more times than intended.

If you have to buy a new HDD twice as often because you spin it down, any financial or environmental savings is instantly negated and in the end it is much, much worse in both respects.

CrowdSec could probably catch a moderate amount of them, but that is really geared towards bad actors and malicious probing bots.

Fial2ban also wouldn’t work at all here since they aren’t trying brute force attacks, they are just using high bandwidth stealing as much public data from everything possible.

I think cloudflare is also making an alternative (or has already), but it is a tough problem.

Yeah my favorite electronics hobby supplies website has started to take 2-10 seconds to load. Still great service and the best selection of modules in my region though. They should really throw Anubis in front of it.