Fonzie!

After checking a few more times I see the blue text “Bilbo” under the blue line, just right from the red one.

I need to sleep, but thank you internet stranger.

Wait, I’m dumb, what’s the blue line?

It used to be a word for people who defended Stalin sending tanks to Hungary in the 50s. It caught on in leftist discourse as a word for leftists who excuse illegitimate state violence, domestically and abroad

Correct etymology of the word!

Though on Lemmy, like reddit before it, it’s mostly thrown around at anyone who disagrees that the US used to a be radiant light in the world until 2016 or anyone left of Pelosi

LMAO no much worse, it’s “leftist I think is crazy”, so who is and isn’t a “tankie” depends on the person using the word; although it generally means someone who is pro hardcore Communism a la Stalin.

I think it’s more stock prices / shareholders drive enshittification

I thought money to Lemmy (not your instance but the founders) went to a US organisation?

It’s still federated so I guess it doesn’t really matter much, but still…

hot sauce Netherlands

I’m having a hard time believing they’ll be hot, speaking from experience with my fellow Dutch.

Someone is writing in English how the French are talking about the Scandinavians?

It can’t get much more European than this!

FYI Firefox (Mobile) and derivatives (LibreWolf, Femnec) have offline, on-device, FOSS machine translation available:

It supports many European languages, sadly not many non-European ones but it still fits the use-case for many people on this sub!

It’s the 21st century, don’t let language be a barrier!

Unironically, Lidl’s “own brand” Freeway cola is p alright, I’ve never felt much for buying, and paying extra, for name brands.

Oh that is a great explanation, thanks a bunch!

XMPP is more comparable to Signal, yes.

Signal does need (yes, need) a phone number, and most people only have one so that is identifiable info.

This puts it at mostly the same level as some competitors, including WhatsApp which is often advised against.

This? https://https/://simplex.chat/

FWIW Matrix and XMPP are also decentralised, much like e-mail is, which is why I recommended it. I’m immediately skeptic about SimpleX’s premise of having no user IDs; they’ll likely need some unique field for each user, this might as well be a UUID or something like that… So what’s the benefit?

Off-topic but:

Linux Mint
GPU: AMD RX7600XT
CPU: AMD Ryzen 7 5800x
RAM: 16GB DDR4

That’s surprisingly mid-range, I don’t think I ever see that; just budget specs or bragging-level specs. As someone with almost the same build (Ryzen 7 4700GE, RX7700XTX, 16 GB DDR4) I’m positively surprised!

Yeah, honestly they’re great.

As far as brands are concerned, replacing with Japanese alternatives is just as, or even more, valid as European alternatives; but that’s not for this sub.

Signal is American

Opt for a Matrix or XMPP provider in Europe (magicbroccoli.de is a genuinely great XMPP provider)

Edited, it’s supposed to be tweakers.net

I usually reach their website using DuckDuckGo’s !tweakers bang like so: Demo link

No clue, I hope similarly low or lower.

I’m afraid I’m wrong, though.

Listening to a track 10x means Spotify says it’s worth max $0.05, $0.035 goes to not-Spotify, and a fraction again of that goes to the actual artists rather than the publishers…

So either millions of people listen to a track dozens of times or it’s not really worth being on Spotify except for the reachability, right?

Your local computer shop, most likely. If it’s run by some old guy with a soldering shop hosting his website on his own little server in the back room of the shop they’re probably the best, speaking from experience here (NL)

As for the Netherlands, tweakers .com tweakers.net their price watch has a decent database of competing prizes across Dutch web shops, even smaller ones!
To anyone reading this, please let me know if there’s websites like this for other European countries!

I can speak for Nord’s client sending requests to Google for some reason, maybe not great for privacy thus not great for piracy either.

I can speak well of Mullvad, but advise against sending hundreds of bucks in one go as paper mail is not exactly well secured. There’s another VPN that happily accepts cash as payment and doesn’t need your info but I can’t find it atm…