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[–] sparky@lemmy.federate.cc 3 points 2 years ago

Tbh I wonder if flashing an aosp rom changes that at all

[–] sparky@lemmy.federate.cc 5 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Half right. They all need to be installed, as in run from the hard drive and not directly off the disc. Some games require you to also download even more content, as in, the disc doesn’t have all the data needed to run the game.

[–] sparky@lemmy.federate.cc 2 points 2 years ago

As the proverb says, imitation is the most sincere form of flattery. It would seem Valve has truly defined a new category of device, given the rush by other OEMs to make clones!

[–] sparky@lemmy.federate.cc 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

Being able to talk to a government is a far cry from supporting it or agreeing with it. Even if you dislike Israel, you should want there to be diplomatic relations - that is how other countries can exert influence and attempt to steer them off more radical courses, after all.

Case in point - if the West had no diplomacy with them, then the opening of the border crossing into Egypt would never have happened.

[–] sparky@lemmy.federate.cc 3 points 2 years ago

I agree. Having no diplomatic communications at all is a bad idea especially during times of crisis. Regardless of your feelings of the behaviour of a state, the phone line should always exist for governments to speak to each other. Whether we’re talking about Israel or Iran or Russia or North Korea or whatever. When your own citizens need help, or a crisis is ongoing, or a natural disaster occurs, or whatever, you want someone on the other end to pick up the phone.

[–] sparky@lemmy.federate.cc 8 points 2 years ago

Fair enough, I guess. But seems like a zero-sum-game attitude, especially given Norway’s stark urban/rural divide. Certainly Oslo should be preferring mass transit, but out in the many rural villages of the fjord-laden countryside, where density precludes mass transit, EV subsidies seem appropriate.

[–] sparky@lemmy.federate.cc 40 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I think this is a failure of imagination on the part of the author. Norway is, on a whole, much more rural; a large portion of the population lives in small towns and villages in areas with difficult terrain (think fjords), where public transport beyond a bus is impractical due to population densities.

The public transport in Oslo and Bergen are fantastic - Norway's only two large cities. Keeping in mind that over a quarter of the population of the entire country lives in these two, it's not as bad as it sounds.

[–] sparky@lemmy.federate.cc 11 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Clickbait headline, and stupid article. At no point are they making the claim that EVs are worse than combustion engines. The author posits that bicycles and walking are even more climate friendly than driving a car of any kind (duh). This entire article could be replaced by the sentence, "We should keep building trams and bike lanes in the EV era".

[–] sparky@lemmy.federate.cc 51 points 2 years ago (2 children)

You may want something like https://porteus-kiosk.org/

[–] sparky@lemmy.federate.cc 7 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I feel like a lot of the tension now is due to a failure of the system post arrival. Germany and Europe were good to open their doors to these refugees but they then failed to integrate them. There wasn’t enough support around cultural assimilation, language training, etc - they weren’t blended into our communities so much as allowed to set up parallel ones without any positive interaction. And the wound has just festered now.

[–] sparky@lemmy.federate.cc 4 points 2 years ago

This is basically the million dollar question and also the source of confusion, when one person thinks of socialism they could be thinking of either social democracy, like modern Germany, or a communist state like the DDR.. so depending on your point of view, you’ll have a different answer

[–] sparky@lemmy.federate.cc 10 points 2 years ago

That is absolutely incredible. Fuck this so hard.

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