I think we are regardless

Fair enough. Great times!

Yeah I understand where you’re coming from. Maybe I am also too much of an optimist. I hope not, because I believe if Europe and other democracies around the world don’t band together we might be in for a rough ride.

I don’t think there is enough evidence to suggest that it is the size alone that contributes to them being fucked up. Most sizable countries today didn’t start out as democracies, so they never had the chance to not be fucked up. (And I would argue US for instance never really was a modern democracy to begin with)

There are a lot of small countries just as fucked up or even more so. I think it has much more to do with what values and ideologies countries were formed with that impact how fucked up they are.

A European Republic would only ever be borne out of democratic processes and not by force. I do believe a European Republic could be the first (truly) democratic super power.

I believe we need a European Republic. And one of its responsibilities should be more funding for european space agencies!

I don’t know if it’s super obscure, but have not seen it mentioned here generally.

TailsOS

It’s a built for the purpose of extreme privacy. It automatically routes all traffic through the TOR Network.

Nope, it’s the best decision I made. I don’t want to debate extremists that start insulting me as soon as a I don’t agree with all of their takes.

And btw at least with my client/instance, banning an instance doesn’t ban the users, so you can still interact with them on other instances.

Edit: And I don’t want to generalise, I’m sure there are .ml users that are fine. But I’ve had enough bad interactions with them that it warrants an instance ban.

Ah sorry to hear you had a hard time. But it’s crazy times, one has to step back and recharge a bit!

Yeah I don’t have a portable pc yet, so I suppose I could justify it that way lol. But yes, I’ll have to wait and hope that the hardware crisis ends at some point. Makes no sense until then.

Whats your opinion on the Steam Deck and how do you use it?

I really want to get it, but I don’t think I can justify the expense for just a little gaming on the go lol

Ah, yeah ok, I can see how it could be interpreted that way, especially the headline.

I suppose to me it was so obvious it’s up to the state to regulate companies and not the companies themselves, that pointing it out felt like endorsing the regulation itself.

But maybe that’s just my European showing lol

You’re not wrong, but it’s a strange thing to point out.

It’s like mentioning every country has the right to pass its own laws under a Post about a country passing laws that discriminate against a minority.

Nobody is criticizing Russia for regulating the distribution of apps per se, but rather what and why they are banning/regulating them.

I honestly believe that the more extreme .ml users will be chasing off new users coming to the fediverse, since they have the largest communities.

Which is a shame.

But some just go to such an extreme I find it difficult to not have the insults that were hurled at me in the back of my head, even on takes where I do agree with them. Like, yeah, I agree with you, but you did call me an imperial pig and a fascist so fuck you anyway.

Thanks so much for taking the time to answer! I’ll look into those options

Thanks!

Yes, the only tricky part for me, I think, will be setting up external access for my familiy.

I did wonder about security though. Is it possible to set this up in a way where my families and my own ISP don’t see what is being shared?

I’m planning on setting up a NAS, so I will be reading into networking aswell. Hopefully I won’t get to frustrated lol