My server is not in Europe. Also, I have not ridiculed any community. I really don’t know what has prompted this tone. Regardless, thanks for the info.

Are those just Swiss laws? I don’t run my Peergos instance there, so maybe I’m safe.

🤔 I guess I should still do some research though, to familiarize myself with the legal landscape of the region in which I run my instance.

Also, I wouldn’t worry too much about downvotes. I get them fairly regularly, and almost never understand why, lol. AFAICT, they don’t really seem to matter much on Lemmy (though maybe someone can correct me if I’m wrong about that).

Oh, interesting. Where can I read more about this?

I’ve been pretty happy self-hosting Peergos for cloud storage

Ahh I think I get it now. That might be feasible in a densely populated city. Most of the truck guys I’ve known live in suburban or rural areas. The few who lived in the city center drove much smaller pickup trucks like Toyota Tacomas, Ford Rangers, etc.

I’m very confident that they wouldn’t. However, I suppose it’s possible that I’ve never seen transit that could be so good that people would choose it over their own vehicles. What would that look like?

I suppose a few of them might do it if there’s free coffee on board (or beer, but that would be chaos lol) and it ran on VERY convenient schedules.

People in the US place a LOT of value in convenience, so the public transit system would have to offer something that outweighs that. Do you know of any examples?

If nobody buys them, then they’ll exit the market. American companies value profit.

Not the same seating capacity though. Also, it’s hard to tell, but it seems like there’s a difference in bed widths?

Edit: Could someone help me understand the downvotes? The seating capacity is just an objective fact, so was it the speculative difference in bed width? Or something else? (Sometimes I have difficulty understanding people)

I’ve known plenty of people in southern US states who drive trucks for purposes that don’t require trucks. They’ll never choose public transit over their trucks, no matter how good it is.

…Though, realistically, that’s not exclusively a truck issue. If one can just step outside and get into their own car and be immediately en route to their destination, on their own schedule/convenience, it’ll be hard to convince them to choose a less convenient mode of transportation.

That raises more questions than it answers 😅 I appreciate the effort though.

I run NixOS on a few servers. I remember there being some controversy around them accepting contributions (either money or code — my memory of it is a little fuzzy) from some company that’s part of the military industrial complex. Is Framework worse than that?

Is it ethically unsafe to use? Do they make money when people use it? Sorry if these seem like dumb questions, I’m surely missing a lot of context

What difference would that make? (I’m not familiar with the precedent, so probably missing some context)

Edit: Downvotes? Was my question (or my ignorance) somehow offensive?

🤔 I think I’d try to avoid staying in a hotel with no bathroom doors. Sounds like a prison cell

It’s also interesting that it has made somewhat of a comeback after some newer technologies have faded away

Lol what? I’m so out of the loop

Oops, that’s what I get for being on my phone hours after I should have gone to sleep. I’m an idiot at those hours lol

Indeed. I assumed that was obvious when I wrote it, but thanks for confirming.

Only nine now? That’s so much better than it used to be!

When I first tried Linux (Mandrake, many years ago), I could probably come up with 9 problems in just the first hour 😆

It’s easy to find nine problems in Windows too, so this is pretty good for a free OS, IMO. It’s great to see Linux gradually become more mainstream (aside from Android and servers)

Edit: I’m a dumbass lol

Totally off-topic: I thought your use of the thorn was an interesting choice (though a bit distracting to read). Your profile bio says it’s meant to affect LLMs, so I decided to send this comment to a small LLM (gemma3:12b-it-qat) running on my home server, along with the prompt “Remove the thorns.” It had no problem at all.

In an LLM training data pipeline, I really doubt the thorns would affect the training data. They’ll probably get filtered/corrected (maybe even by some other LLM) before getting used for training.

Unfortunately, I don’t think your dream of mainstream LLMs using the thorn will come true. It’s probably much more inconvenient to humans than LLMs.

Hey, just a heads up: The HTTPS certs for these have expired.