Mavytan
@Mavytan@feddit.nl
- Comment on This EV Was Already Cheap, Then Dacia Knocked Off Nearly $6,000 8 hours ago:
Looks like a little, simple car that’s great for city use. The range isn’t too bad for day to day use. It’s probably only a viable option in European cities though
- Comment on This EV Was Already Cheap, Then Dacia Knocked Off Nearly $6,000 8 hours ago:
I don’t get how you come to that conclusion. If you properly read the article you would have seen that the €30k limit is for a subsidy/emission reduction scheme by a governmental organization in Italy bringing the car prize down to €3900. That’s far from pushing the people into debt…
- Comment on This EV Was Already Cheap, Then Dacia Knocked Off Nearly $6,000 8 hours ago:
I don’t know what typical ranges are for given kWh, but it’s probably worth noting that it’s quite a lightweight car and that number is for city use, i.e. low speed
- Comment on What's it going to take to truly stop the US? 3 days ago:
I’m assuming the same until shown otherwise with sufficient sources
- Comment on What's it going to take to truly stop the US? 3 days ago:
Sources? That’s a lot of claims without anything backing it up
- Comment on What's it going to take to truly stop the US? 4 days ago:
Could you elaborate on the complete control over EU parliament appointees?
- Comment on The Going Dark initiative or ProtectEU is a Chat Control 3.0 attempt 2 weeks ago:
One more: criminalize data brokers, make it hard to combine data from different sources, make it impossible for one single entity to have access to all your data and create a complete picture of your life.
- Comment on The Going Dark initiative or ProtectEU is a Chat Control 3.0 attempt 2 weeks ago:
They really keep trying to ratchet further and further to taking full control over what should be private, with all the negative consequences it has for democracy.
We should push ratcheting in the opposite direction. Start with various levels of crazy and sensible ideas. Make privacy a human right anchored in law with no exceptions, it should not even be possible to propose laws that weaken privacy. Make it a punishable crime to come even close to violaring privacy, put the CEOs and people making the technical implementations in jail. And require encryption to the point that if data is leaked, the data hoster is guilty if the data is readable. If any data is leaked, then the data of the leaker becomes public property. Etc.
If they can go crazy with the proposals to remove any semblance of privacy, then backtrack a little, but not completely, when there’s opposition, then so can we.
- Comment on Introducing Proton Sheets 4 weeks ago:
They have those…
- Comment on Your old android phone is begging to be a cheap home server! 1 month ago:
100W idle is a lot imo. That’s about €0.50 per day where I live -> more than €150 per year in power consumption. To be fair, you’re running quite a lot of things at the same time.
- Comment on Google just broke *all* third-party web clients, including yt-dlp; a full JS implementation is now required. 3 months ago:
Not just populating with content, but also create revenue in some way. Otherwise creators won’t post their content there, they have to make a living from whatever platforms they’re on after all
- Comment on Shh 3 months ago:
Some estimates claim that (life) science produces about 2% of worldwide plastic waste even though only 0.1% of the population works in this industry. I’m not sure how accurate these estimates are, but I find them believable considering how much waste I see every day in labs. On the upside, this waste usually stays in contained systems and doesn’t end up in the ocean.
- Comment on Linux Mint 22.2 “Zara” Is Now Available for Download 3 months ago:
I just briefly went through what’s in the update. It’s mostly visuals and some minor integrations? Or am I missing something?
- Comment on Google: 'Your $1000 phone needs our permission to install apps now'". Android users are screwed - Louis Rossmann 4 months ago:
I think you’re on point with the malicious compliance. Google doesn’t want to give up power and control. Requiring all installations to run through them seems to be their workaround.
- Comment on Stardew Valley will be getting another update after all 4 months ago:
Ridiculous cookie wall, can’t use the website
- Comment on Breaking The Creepy AI in Police Cameras 4 months ago:
He rightfully points out in the video that even if the data isn’t sold, it could still be leaked and then proceeds to show how insecure the camera systems are. This kind of surveillance infrastructure just shouldn’t exist to begin with.
- Comment on Microsoft Word documents will be saved to the cloud automatically on Windows going forward 4 months ago:
Check out the Collabra Office android app. It probably covers your needs.
- Comment on Computer Science, a popular college major, has one of the highest unemployment rates 4 months ago:
What you describe might be true for Canada, but it doesn’t apply to all universities. Many universities have two primary tasks: research and education. These are two separate tasks with overlap.
I do find it understandable if publicly funded universities place restrictions on how many students they accept per program as it’s their duty to give back go society.
- Comment on The EU still wants to scan all your chats – and the rules could come into force by October 2025 5 months ago:
Ugh, this shit again…
Are there any initiatives out there to call a stop to this? Or even better, initiatives to introduce legislation that forbids setting up this kind of surveillance infrastructure altogether?
- Comment on What OS should I use for self-hosting that doesn't require extensive terminal knowledge? 8 months ago:
Thanks for the very practical resources!
- Comment on What OS should I use for self-hosting that doesn't require extensive terminal knowledge? 8 months ago:
Thanks for your reply. I agree the ‘why’ is important, for me that usually makes things more intuitive
- Comment on What OS should I use for self-hosting that doesn't require extensive terminal knowledge? 8 months ago:
Could you recommend a source for learning how to use the command line? In the past I struggled with understanding the basic commands and the various flags. I’ve found it difficult to find good documentation, but I would like to learn
- Comment on 42 Free and Open Source Projects Receive Funding to Reclaim the Public Nature of the Internet 8 months ago:
It doesn’t have to be email. Denmark has such a system, called e-boks. It’s essentially your digital mailbox where you can receive most letters from government agencies and banks (no more paper!). Other institutions and companies can use it too (not sure about who can and can’t use, maybe you can send ‘letters’ from one individual to another too?). I think it’s also possible to respond in some cases.
- Comment on Smartphones and computers are now exempt from Trump’s latest tariffs. 8 months ago:
That’s more or less my point. They won’t come out ahead but at least they won’t have to raise the prices as much so they’ll be more completive compared to manufacturers that don’t include electronics
- Comment on Smartphones and computers are now exempt from Trump’s latest tariffs. 8 months ago:
I’m not so sure about that. With tarrifs of over 100%, manufacturers can add over a 100% to the cost of production and still come out ahead… Alternatively they could move production, but that only makes sense to do if it’s cheaper than adding just enough electronics to make the items exempt from tarrifs
- Comment on Simple Antenna Makes For Better ESP32-C3 WiFi 8 months ago:
Ooh, nice to know!
It impacts the form factor a bit, but in most projects that’s easy to work with