The data point in Iceland about a military base being located here is not correct anymore. There used to be a base at/around Keflavík International Airport, built in WW2 but closed in 2006. Iceland is part of NATO though so there are usually one or two jets from NATO at the airport doing their things. But there’s no base there anymore.
Most of the base has been turned into a village on its own, a movie studio, concert venue, university, etc…
I see others have written a large amount of information so I’ll just stick with a short bulletlist of the main go to distros IMHO. (replace Gnome suggestions with XFCE for example if you want more lightweight and classic OS, but not optimized for touch)
That’s exactly the reason why I switched to Gnome. If someone would give me an axe and tell me to chop down a tree in 6 hours I would spend 18 hours sharpening the axe and forget about the tree. Whenever I try KDE, XFCE and others I will spend days adjusting things to my liking while on Gnome I just start working. Sometimes something bothers me on Gnome and I will either just install an extension, or realize it’s impossible to adjust it and I just go back to work.
Not available to EEA countries :/
"Our European visitors are important to us.
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I was a huge user of LittleSnitch on Mac back in the days so this makes me very happy
Obligatory XKCD comic strip https://xkcd.com/927/
I need more information! tell me more about this setup <3
i don’t miss it at all. I have it right here in front of me. The DS didn’t leave. we did. ;)
This site is my bible. I’ve been meaning to start hosting my website from home as my country is 100% renewable energy. Still haven’t gotten around to it though but I hope to do so soon. Thanks for posting this as it’s always good to be reminded about this cool project.
I use this remote. specifically made for Kodi https://osmc.tv/store/product/osmc-remote-control/
weird that it has no data on Iceland :/
“pictures of cats, rabbits, etc”
… that sounds like awesome content to me :P
with that said, I agree. the “water hose” global timeline is in most cases completely useless. I don’t think it should be removed completely. But I do think it should get disabled/hidden/etc… Make space for something more useful. :P
I also like to think of it this way. Even if Mastodon gets “centralized” we will at least not have a hard barrier forcing us to only use that centralized instance. If that centralized instance fucks up, there is at least always the possibility to create and join a new instance. Without the risk of losing contact with all the people on the old instance.
If Facebook fucks up, we can’t spin up a new facebook instance.
I don’t mind “soft centralization” as long as it allows for decentralization.
First step would probably be to stop calling them normies.
well yes and no. I guess it depends on the context. But protests are made to amplify the message of a cause (amongst other reasons), ahd in this case, if they would had showed up at the office it would probably had been a lot smaller protest, and I probably wouldn’t had heard of it so… :P
with that said, there’s something odd about using someone’s service to protest the service. Sort of like going into mcdonalds to protest, but buying a hamburger and eating it at the same time. :P
complete abolishment of animal agriculture is not done overnight with in one fell swoop. It’s done with small changes here and there. Slowly forging a new culture where it is considered worse and worse to treat animals badly. (and what counts as animal abuse will start covering more and more things). Slowly changing the norm. Same goes for privacy, user rights, etc. There are of course some key moments, watershed moments, legislations (GDPR for example), but those had a long journey of tiny steps all over the world before they came into being. Sort of like tectonic plates building up tension over tens, hundreds, thousands of years before they snap into place in one huge earthquake