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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨LibreOffice blasts 'fake open source' OnlyOffice for working with Microsoft to lock users in⁩ ⁨⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  Even your web browser is a decent PDF reader. Also LibreOffice Draw shows PDF pretty well and you can also edit it to some extent.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Android will become a locked-down platform in 194 day⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I hope that but power users don’t dictate the technological development 🥲. Everything is made for people who want it “user-friendly”.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Android will become a locked-down platform in 194 day⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  It won’t die. My country alone will have almost a billion Android users and those cheap Androids are all they can afford and know.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Android will become a locked-down platform in 194 day⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Until Linux Phones get good, we are seeing a very rough sail ahead. Or just hard fork Android ig if it’s a logical option.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨When did it become normalized to start passing credit card processing fees to the customer?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  From the comments I realised that you westerners don’t seem to have a concept of MRP (Maximum Retail Price) where you can’t sell the product for more than a specific price anywhere in the country set by the manufacturer per batch. It is inclusive of all sales taxes. Your prices seem to vary according to the demand lol. So if anyone charges above that it is usually added in the bill as Card processing fees and very few businesses do that because people get furious over here in India.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Google criticizes Europe's plan to adopt free software⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Aaahh it hurts our business…. please don’t…. we can’t collect data now aaahhhh…. open source = communism = economic losss aahhhhhh…. why are you being anti competitive grrrrrrrr….

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why didn't the mother just use her private doctor on her yacht?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  In India we do have affordable public healthcare but 99% of it is so shit, corrupt, with pretty poor medical infrastructure, long waiting, unhygienic surroundings, poor security, poor air conditioning, and so on. So that one has to visit a private hospital or clinic to get treated. And most of the times they don’t accept public healthcare insurance coverage like ESI (Employee State Insurance) or Ayushaman-Bharat so you have to shell out extra out of your pocket to get a Private Health coverage plan. If you have a private plan, the private hospitals then submit invoices with higher fees to the insurer to mint more money from them thus reducing their cash to pay for other patients. The central government barely allocates any budget to healthcare and education.

  I heard about a case from Bihar (one of the least developed states) where they constructed a public hospital for millions of dollars (which is very high thus some corrupt official or politician ate that money) only for it to be incomplete and abandoned.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Top of the world, ma⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Lol if you can’t counter and actually bring new insights to this debate and instead accuse the other person that their response is pasted from some stupid LLM, then your cause of spreading veganism has failed.

  So this is the end of debate then. Please don’t reply. IDGAF about vegans at this point.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Top of the world, ma⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  When the logic collapses so hard you have to summon a child sex offender.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Top of the world, ma⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I literally answered your points of concern one by one with sources and you call it ChatGPT like some “gotcha” lol.

  Have a good day.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Top of the world, ma⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t think veganism actually  solves major problems like ecological decline, climate change, antibiotic resistance, pandemics or any public health issues especially once you look at how these issues play out in reality rather than in an “influencer idealised” narrative.

  1. Climate Change & the “14%” number is very nuanced

  Livestock is definitely responsible for around 14-15% of global greenhouse gas emissions. That number comes from lifecycle assessments by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)that include feed production, enteric fermentation, manure, land use change and processing, not just the emissions from the animals themselves. (FAO))

  That figure is usually misinterpreted or understood:

  • It isn’t directly comparable to the way energy or transport emissions are counted; those are measured differently. (FAOHome)

  • Roughly 1/3 of total global emissions come from food systems overall, and within that portion, the livestock share varies depending on methodology. (ipcc.ch)

  • Other studies show the livestock share can fall closer to 12% of total global emissions when measured differently. (OECD)

  So yes, livestock contributes significantly but it’s misleading to treat that figure as a simple causal claim that eliminating meat will solve climate change. Deep cuts in fossil fuel emissions from energy, transport and industry are still the dominant needs.

  2. Reducing livestocks doesn’t automatically eliminate animals

  Even if people eat less meat, that doesn’t guarantee livestock populations disappear. Animals don’t just vanish because Williams decided to not eat meat:

  • They may continue to exist for milk, labor, manure, cultural or economic reasons.

  • Reductions in consumption don’t automatically translate into reductions in livestock biomass or methane outputs unless there are explicit policies to manage breeding and animal numbers.

  This means the assumed climate benefit is not automatic and depends on how production systems are actually managed, not just what people choose to have on their plates.

  3. Reducing livestock doesn’t mean Less Food

  Cutting livestock doesn’t reduce the need to produce calories or balanced nutrition. You still need to produce protein and micro nutrients at scale. That typically means expanding crop production which has its own environmental costs (fertilizer use, land conversion, water use, transport, processing). The narrative that plant crops are automatically lower impact ignores the fact that:

  • Many plant based proteins are highly processed and energy intensive.

  • Removing animals from small & mixed farming systems will actually reduce soil fertility and increase reliance on synthetic fertilizers.

  4. Antibiotic Resistance

  The core issue isn’t simply that people eat animals but it is how antibiotics are regulated, prescribed and used in both human and animal systems. The FAO projects that without policy changes, global antibiotic use in livestock could rise by up to 30% by 2040. (DownToEarth.org)

  It correlates with a lack of proper regulations and overuse of antibiotics in both human healthcare and industrial farming.

  5. Many problems are Western Industrial Systems problems

  A lot of the environmental framing around livestock comes from industrialised, Western models of agriculture (feedlots, monocultures, long supply chains). In much of the Global East, livestock production is integrated into local food supply systems and serve roles beyond just meat supply that provides manure, traction, nutrient cycling and financial assets (I don’t like to see living beings that way but that’s the way it is). Treating Western industrial problems as universally applicable heavily ignores these differences.

  6. Nutrition & Public Health vary by context

  Claims that veganism improves public health assume widespread access to balanced plant based nutrition & supplementation. In many parts of the world like big vegetarian populations like India, protein and micronutrient deficiencies (iron, B12) are widespread public health issues. Meanwhile animal source foods actually provide dense sources of these nutrients that are difficult to replace without reliable supplementation and access.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Top of the world, ma⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I really don’t get it why the people want to control what other people it? Eat whatever the fuck you want.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨TikTok's 'Addictive Design' Found to Be Illegal in Europe⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It can be turned off

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The sheeet of power⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  2 Girls 1 Trump. Shit that sounds very wrong.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Imagine looking at the first picture and thinking thats something to be proud of , lol, its mental illness⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The current Indian Prime Minister bootlickers bring up some GDP growth rate numbers and compare them with Pakistan and Bangladesh thus giving a false sense of superiority that India is developing rapidly—I mean yes but only compared to those countries. So the people who still have their brain cells started this meme trend.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Can anyone explain why?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Why spend on alcohol when I can buy more books, games, travel the world or join a sports club instead of damaging my own body and end up paying more with hospital bills later in life?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anna’s Archive loses .org domain, says suspension likely unrelated to Spotify piracy⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  now what?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft Office has been renamed to “Microsoft 365 Copilot app”⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Cockpilot

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨NVIDIA and AMD GPU Prices Projected to Surge in Q1 2026⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Just as I was planning to build a Linux Console PC, the RAM and GPU prices are going through the roof. What next will the world do to make me want to nuke it out of existence?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Indian Government developed UPI app not allowing me to use the app w/o turning off Adguard.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  All the blocked requests are app analytics and trackers. Whitelisting them will defeat the purpose. I might just switch to Google Pay’s UPI rather than fighting the government app or just use cash.

  Also using DNS filters in a whitelist mode is very inefficient and defeats the purpose of using the internet. I don’t want to make a fool of myself in front of my friends when I am unable to figure out which domains does the restaurant’s digital menu uses so I can go and whitelist them.

• Indian Government developed UPI app not allowing me to use the app w/o turning off Adguard.lemmy.world ↗
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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Steam Link for Non-Steam games on Wayland? (Linux)⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Apparently the dev got banned. The reason is unclear and I would love to understand the other side but this is on their Github.

  I got kicked from Moonlight and Sunshine’s Discord server and banned from Sunshine’s GitHub repo literally for helping people out. This is what I got for finding a bug, opened an issue, getting no response, troubleshoot myself, fixed the issue myself, shared it by PR to the main repo hoping my efforts can help someone else during the maintenance gap.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Steam Link for Non-Steam games on Wayland? (Linux)⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Thanks I will look into it. I didn’t know stuff like this even existed lol.

• Steam Link for Non-Steam games on Wayland? (Linux)
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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It just keeps getting worse - Firefox to "evolve into a modern AI browser"⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  As long as it is open source, it doesn’t matter. Forks like Librewolf will disable it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Half of the US Now Requires You to Upload Your ID or Scan Your Face to Watch Porn⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Blame folks like Jobs and Gates for this and all other tech giants who made technology extremely user friendly instead of educating the masses how to actually understand and use your computer safely. Now they are just sheeps.

• India orders smartphone makers to preload state-owned cyber safety appwww.reuters.com ↗
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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨SIM binding in India: What it means for WhatsApp, Telegram users and why the government wants it⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  But I don’t think it would make any difference. What would actually secure the account is the internal account password which both Signal and Whatsapp already have.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨SIM binding in India: What it means for WhatsApp, Telegram users and why the government wants it⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  If a phone gets stolen, you can easily file a complaint, get that sim deactivated and a replacement within an hour. Put it in another phone and logout of any accounts from the stolen phone. If the stolen phone has a lock, then it is pretty difficult for a random thief to extract the data from the phone.

  Source: My phone was stolen in 2014 and had my brother’s phone number in it who was in another country. My parents lodged a complaint the next day, deactivated the sim and got a replacement in 3 hours. My phone didn’t have a lock but thankfully I did not have any sensitive data on it and I reset my google account password ASAP after I lost it and logged out of all devices. I still use all the important accounts that were on that phone till this date.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨SIM binding in India: What it means for WhatsApp, Telegram users and why the government wants it⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I doubt because to get a phone number in India you already need to provide and verify your government id and biometrics. Without it even the vendor can’t hit next button to allocate the phone number.