Yeah, UK based stuff (SkyNews etc.) gets removed often 😏

I second this recommendation 👍 Generally it should work better with a controller as well.

The magnetic wireless charging part seems a bit useless, but the idea to combine a usb powerbank with a LoRa meshtastic device is pretty awesome.

I tend to use Hugo these days, which can be a bit janky as well, but there are nice themes for it.

If you want something really easy and Permacomputing compatible this looks pretty neat though: https://lichen.commoninternet.net/

Yes, the Windows store is crap, but it is still miles ahead of running random .exe installers.

And the Ubuntu store is like the worst possible example you could find 😱

Just any normal distribution repository from for example Debian or Fedora works great. And Gnome and KDE have very easy to use GUI interfaces for these and ideally Flathub is also integrated. Super easy and seamless, no joke at all.

Wdym? Installing things on Linux is much simpler. There is exactly one preferred way: the application repository from the distribution with a nice GUI interface for it. File types of archives play no role in that and why would that even be relevant?

Windows only recently got something similar with the Microsoft store, and before is was a super confusing mess of lots of different types of installers and generally a huge security issue to run .exe files from unstrusted random internet downloads.

Your explanation sounds more like you are trying to use Linux like it was Windows XP. But Linux is not Windows… you are holding it wrong 😅

You mean more cow bell?

Anschluss ans österreichische Reich natürlich (feddit.org) 😅

Vibe coder? 😏

While this was true 10-15 years ago, nearly all popular distros include graphical configuration tools that are as good or better than Yast these days.

Cli usage on Linux is entirely optional these days on most Linux distributions, but once you learn a bit of cli use you actually realize that it can be a very helpful tool.

Well, in theory airplane mode should disable it, but as a software feature that could be spoofed if the device is compromised. Some privacy focused phones have hardware kill-switches for the cell-modem because of that.

The “not super accurate” location is only from one cell tower (via the shared public IP). Triangulation via multiple cell towers is something only the ISPs with antennas near you can do, and it can be much more accurate.

Due to the emergency call function, a mobile phone will still connect to cell towers and send the unique device id even if you take out the sim.

(Might be mentioned in the video)

I meant their method to mechanically turn over the top soil to kill weeds. You can see it in the video.

Hmm, constantly turning over the top soil like that seems bad for erosion, especially in outdoor fields.

It’s both an undenyable fact of our near-term future but also a great way to rally community efforts around and build resilient structures that can over time evolve into something more. I personally think its a win, but of course with an unfourtunate background.

It’s not so crazy 😅 Ground effect water planes have a long history: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ground-effect_vehicle

I think the point of this specific design is mostly to make an all electric plane feasible for medium distance coastal travel. For example from the Spanish main land to the balearic islands.

Seems like a good start on the basic ideas. Maybe some additional thoughts on community prepardness for climate disasters would be useful?

I think that can happen on Lemmy-ui as well when comments get deleted. In this case it might be Nicole DM spam being deleted by an admin.

Places like Kickstarter and Patreon show that crowdfunding can be hugely successful. Sadly the incentives of these platforms don’t align well with their customers, so people have grown a bit jaded with Kickstarters recently and Patreon mostly devolved into a winner takes all attention economy that leaves lesser known creators with scraps only.

But the general idea is not bad. An ethical platform like Kickstarter that vets projects a bit and only allows coops or so would probably work well if they can convince people that those are relatively safe bets.

Sadly the payment processing side of things is a legal minefield, which makes it really hard and potentially expensive to set up an alternative.