Can’t abandon something I never joined in the first place! 🙂

Excellent! Thank you! 🙂

@[email protected], since you’re our resident China expert, I thought I’d ask: do you know if any of the PRC’s companies are working on (or have even already solved!) the “plastics problem?” With regard to pollution, recycling, etc. I do remember their National Sword policy…🤔

I see, apparently it doesn’t like my VPN, never mind . . .

This is incredibly important because regular container vessels pollute like you wouldn’t believe.

It’s true that some people really do have to be on Facebook/Xwitter for work, but in that case I’ve always suggested that they also make a Mastodon/Lemmy/Pixelfed account and let people know about it (“why not join me on …”) and try to use the two (or more) side by side. Hopefully that will make the people they interact with realize that there are in fact good alternatives, and perhaps get them to join as well, further increasing the size of the Fediverse🌈.

The Facebook/Xwitter/Instagram icons are still ubiquitous on far too many web pages, and I really don’t understand why they’re still there. These services have proven time and time and time again to be toxic in so many ways, and don’t even add any sort of value to the organizations that still use them.

Whatever you may think of NPR, when they finally left Xwitter (or were thrown off, I don’t remember) they found that there was a negligible drop off in traffic to their site. Toxic, and not even worth the effort, not for NPR, and I bet for a lot of other organizations as well. Why don’t they wake up?

I remember a while back reading a number of similarly-themed articles whose authors would complain about how they were “trapped” by Facebook/Twitter/Instagram, not realizing, or not even making the effort to realize, that there were already a number of alternatives like Mastodon, Lemmy, Pixelfed, and so forth. Every time I read one of these articles (I can search for them if anyone is interested, but I suspect folks on Lemmy have encountered at least one or two in the past), a little voice in my head said "there’s an easy way to solve this . . . " So either people in general just want to have something to complain about, or are just plain stupid. Grrr.

EDIT: One of my favorite uses of uBlock Origin is using it to remove Facebook/Xwitter/Instagram (and sometimes even BlueSky, depends on what mood I’m in) links from webpages that still have them. It does seem like the “f”, the bird/x, and the camera icon thingy are at least less prominently displayed than they used to be, if nothing else.

Wouldn’t it be nice to live in a country you could be proud of?

There’s this, but I tend to think of 60 Minutes as a program to scare old people (older than me! 👴)

So does this mean we won’t have to give Google hundreds of $$$ to get one of their Pixels?🙏

Hmm…no Android widgets, which is a shame.

Oh, excellent! Thank you very much!

EDIT: Unfortunately for me, I made the mistake of telling Mrs. Erinaceus about the site, and now she wants to buy a jackhammer, a couple of small buildings, and a health writer. 🤦‍♂️

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Hmmm . . . looks like their Linux client comes by way of Flathub, and I recall not having the greatest experience with Flathub in the past . . . 🤔

Have you used it? Better yet, is there a NAS you can get with it preinstalled?

I believe that thorium reactors can also consume nuclear waste! Not on the ship of course, probably, but elsewhere . . .

China deserves to be on top.

Holy shit! That’s their actual cover! Unbelievable. Unfortunately, I’m fairly certain it isn’t meant as a compliment.

Kind of what I was thinking too.

If no workaround can be found, I may finally be able to get Mrs. Erinaceus switched to Linux…