stationary_melon

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[–] stationary_melon@lemmy.ml 7 points 3 days ago

You do you, but it's better if everyone donates a bit of money to a lot of projects than donating a ton of money to a single project. It's not like a single individual with a normal salary could fund a project alone anyways.

Let's suppose that 10 people have 10 dollars to give each, and there are 4 projects which they all use: Project A is the most important for 7 people, so they recieve $70. Then comes project B with $20 and C with $10. Project D gets no donations.

But if we ponderate them by average importance it would be: A=0.5, B=0.3, C=0.15 and D=0.05. If they had split their donations, the allocation of funding would have been way more efficient.

[–] stationary_melon@lemmy.ml 12 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Since you're interested in traveling, I would say french. It is spoken in a very wide variety of countries all over the world, you have a lot of resources to learn it and it's related to the other languages to know. Other languages might have more speakers, but if youre just interested in the visiting a lot of wholly different places, it is probably the best one.

[–] stationary_melon@lemmy.ml 13 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

making it harder for many* to escape.

many: rich people

[–] stationary_melon@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I mean, those are valid concerns. Most messaging apps require a server to be running at all times. If there is only one centralized server, costs will start to pile up, so they'll need a way to make money; either by asking for donations, making a paid tier or by selling your data.

[–] stationary_melon@lemmy.ml 6 points 1 month ago (2 children)

They are being ironic here

[–] stationary_melon@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 month ago (3 children)
[–] stationary_melon@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I have to agree on the DaVinci Code, it's impossible to get pass the first chapter.

[–] stationary_melon@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 month ago

It's really more like being called Indiana Jones or Washington Jones

[–] stationary_melon@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Are you referring to websites that use WebGl like Google Earth? If that is the case, there is an option for enabling it on settings.

[–] stationary_melon@lemmy.ml 5 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

I had no idea. Thanks for telling me! In that case, im going to try to use the ones from IzzyOnDroid if avaliable

Edit: According to their docs, they do take some special security measures and I couldn't find a case of an app offered on FDroid which had malware.

[–] stationary_melon@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 month ago

The closest to that would be Codeberg. It's a nice initiative, and some big projects like LibreWolf are already using it.

[–] stationary_melon@lemmy.ml 6 points 1 month ago (2 children)

I personally like F-Droid's vetting process. It's true that updates always arrive a few days later, but you can be sure they don't contain any malicious code. Furthermore, they specify all of the antifeatures a program has, which makes it easier to avoid them. If you want faster updates, you can always download a program through Obtanium.

 

As far as I know, open file formats have become the standard for basically all industries and types of files. However, some of them, like the Microsoft Office Formats, are still proprietary. I have seen Open Office documents and Ogg being recommended for Office documents and audio files, respectively, but I'm somewhat confused about other types of formats like video.

 

As far as I know, open file formats have become the standard for basically all industries and types of files. However, some of them, like the Microsoft Office Formats, are still proprietary. I have seen Open Office documents and Ogg being recommended for Office documents and audio files, respectively, but I'm somewhat confused about other types of formats like video.

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