loki

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[–] loki@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 4 days ago

I'm from Nepal and while the trend is positive, there's not enough infrastructure or long term planning to make it dependable for anyone outside of the metropolitan areas.

There are no recycling plants, no guarantees some of these companies won't disappear. Workforce to tackle problems arising for depending on software on these vehicles are also lacking. Most of the geography is hills and mountains, battery technology that heat up degrade faster and are not ideal for the region.

The corruption in this country runs wild. It sucks being cramped between two big countries that can just buy off your politicians for cheap and sway policies to benefit them.

Going all in may provide short term relief but I'm afraid we're just going to be a product dumping ground for these two nations without a shred of thought put into being self dependent.

[–] loki@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

And the world's smallest otter return to Nepal.

https://news.mongabay.com/2025/02/worlds-smallest-otter-makes-comeback-in-nepal-after-185-years/

"The Age of Men is over. The Time of the Otter has come."

[–] loki@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Ion launcher is simple and light. The only thing missing (for me) is you can't lock the desktop so I sometimes mistakenly move things around.

https://f-droid.org/packages/one.zagura.IonLauncher/