Or replace them with newer, taller wind turbines. Turbines get higher and higher to harvest higher winds, which are more reliable if I understand it correctly. But seems these also have less fatalities … if less birds fly at that hight.

Question is if they can even see that. Such things are usually optimized for our eyes. It’s faster than our eye can handle and we blur it together, but I wouldn’t be surprised if (some) birds can see fast motions better than we do, after all they naturally travel at far higher speeds than we do.

The most direct tools the EU has is an European Citizens’ Initiative. With that citizens can directly propose a directive or regulation to the European Commission. If that goes well, citizens will meet EU officials, have a public hearing at the European Parliament to explain their initiative. Within half a year the commission has to reply, but they always can reject the proposal. It requires 1 million valid signatures and they have to be from at minimum 7 EU countries. That’s 0.2% of the voters and 25% of the member states.

That indeed differs from how a popular initiative in Switzerland works. The % of needed signatures is 5 times higher, but if it gets rejected a popular vote would follow. That kind of vote would be hard to transform into EU rules. For this Swiss popular vote a majority of given votes has to be yes, but additionally there has to be a majority in the majority of the Kantons. Switzerland already has some population differences between their Kantons, Jura has less than half the population of Zürich. In EU that is a lot more extreme, Germany has 158 times the population of Malta. In EU half of the members would be 14 countries and the smallest 14 countries only represent 11.5% of the total population.

EU doesn’t even have a uniform voting system. The elections to the European Parliament already are distorted because the value of a single vote depends on the size country it’s from. Generally it’s proportional voting, but the details differ by country and that includes whether they use open lists, semi-open lists or closed lists and they use different formulas to allocate the seats. In regard to the voting rules that is probably the most diverse vote in the world. Some countries split themselves further into parts, so different regions vote for only a part of their seats. Active (16-18) and passive (18-25) voting ages differ. Belgium has compulsory voting. When you reside in a different country you can either vote their or in your home country. Since the voting age differs, that means some can vote earlier than other citizens from their country. They don’t even vote on the same day, a few vote for longer than just one day. Availability and form of absentee voting differs. Some countries have compulsory voting. A few countries vote with single tranferable vote, some do panachage, but most do open lists.

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/jPSXZvQM8kY

Especially if Mexico agrees it would be okay.

That is generally complicated territory when you attack terrorist/revolutionary groups not affiliated with the state, especially when the latter lost control over the territory those groups are residing in.

But Mexico could do the same with US gangs basically if the US does that one-sidedly. And Mexicans might not like such interventions from the US. After all there is a bad history of legal and illegal US immigrants stealing Mexican territory. Coincidentally that’s also the US state that complains most about Mexican immigrants

At least on FireTV most apps work. (Not played around with AndroidTV yet)

Often they just don’t work with a remote, but you are always free to connect bluetooth/USB keyboards, mouse etc.

The official/standard app doesn’t work (well) with remotes, but F-Droid Classic works fine, though not 100% either (when an app is selected focus is not on anything visible, reading description and antifeatures doesn’t work), but installing, uninstalling, updating, filter and search work just fine.

There is also at least one list with apps that (kinda) work on AndroidTV

Though the only app I really use is Xtra, which doesn’t work with remotes. I also use KDE Connect, but I don’t remember how well it worked remotes, but once it’s running it doesn’t need any further interaction and you can send files and paste from a PC/laptop etc.

Some apps explicitly support TVs, like: Kodi, NOVA , Moonlight, BiglyBT, Shadowsocks for Android TV, Jellyfin for Android TV …

I was wrong. It works now, there is a button to get to appstore, and it’s always possible to get to apps by long pressing the home button.

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At least the original post ended with:

Please don’t bother her or flirt with her while she works

Somebody removed their watermark with AI

I can’t recommend it for such a use case. There is no way to automatically start it unless somebody found a new workaround since the last time I tried it. (I hijacked the home button via a accessibility until they removed that possibility) Though it depends on your use case. It’s probably okay if you always have internet and never have the situation where you are offline and want to watch material from a USB stick or something like that or stream it from another home server. In that case fire TV would lock you out and tell you to fix your internet, but only settings are available and all apps are hidden.

Why is that tankie?

That post criticizes “any western leader” talking about human rights and shows photos of bombing gaza below it, if I interpret it correctly. It certainly is whataboutism, but I don’t see how it is directly used to justify anything else, even though that might be thought behind it and be more clear after reading more posts of that person. Though I’d rather use the Guantanamo Bay detention camp, since that’s a more direct human rights violation than supplying Israel with money, weapons and defense support.

hm, maybe lemmy needs the feature to disable response notifications for specific posts or threads. Though that’s the less problematic scenario. The biggest issue in federated networks is when somebody is determined to stalk and pester you, though I haven’t heard of that happening here so far. But you could comment under each and every post of another user, since you can see all posts. And there is no way to stop that if they are persistent as they can just create a new account on a new instance anytime they get blocked or banned.

4. […] certain communities that were supportive of Lemmy suddenly got locked behind a NSFW curtain […]

You got that wrong. That was a measure taken by these communities to demonetize reddit. Reddit doesn’t put ads on NSFW subs. Any profile that posts on an NSFW sub also gets their profile switched to NSFW afaik. Moderators got banned for these NSFW tags.

r/PixelDungeon is the only sub that I’m aware of that completely moved to lemmy. Withe the main mod and developer of the most popular fork moving to lemmy. The sub is still open, but it has a “bookmark” called “Lemmy” and a “link” called “Lemmy Community” that directly links to the lemmy community. The sub is still open and automod responded to any new post that the sub moved to lemmy … at least for a year or so, it doesn’t post that any more.

And there are some obvious down sides. To my knowledge lemmy has not implemented flairs or post tags, which get used excessively by some communities to categories and sort their content. !pixeldungeon@lemmy.world fell back to putting text tags into titles like “[DEV]” and “[OC]” and then use the search for this. But that is merely a work around. The sidebar links to these searches, but since instance-relative links are not a thing they are fixed links to lemmy.world.

The search itself is still inconvenient, because you can just “search this community”. You always have to explicitly select a community to search it and have to enter the search term before selecting the community. Edit: that’s of course only true for the front-end (lemmy-ui) I use, dunno if all have that issue

I doubt regular end users will ever get warm with distributed federative networks. A lot of people already seem struggle with email. All tend to flock to a few big instances. For lemmy you also need some basic awareness of these systems. You can’t find everything and to expect that will always go wrong since you only search what your instance knows and never for everything. There are great projects like lemmyverse, but you need to know about them. People who don’t know about them will either just not find the communities they are looking for or they’ll start duplicate communities. The problem of not finding something is smaller on big instances but also more fatal, because their duplicate communities will displace the ones that were started on smaller instances but did not federate well yet.

And everything, the development and hosting, is solely carried on the shoulders of a few volunteers. That will always result in instances popping up and disappearing over time, with development speed varying depending on interest and free time the developers have.

The biggest selling point is not to replace reddit but to be connected with the rest of the activitypub fediverse. That you can see peertube channels as communities here. That mastodon users can comment on lemmy posts eggcetera

I had one once, but it turned into utter chaos. My local cloud is down for half a year or longer now. But the basic idea was to have linux desktop, linux laptop and lineageos phone synchronize with a nextcloud running on a raspi. With a upnp server running on the raspi to make my music available to all devices in my network and dyndns+vpn for access from outside. But I still had no solution for backing up games in a central place. I had attempts to organize and track grocery shopping an such with grozy but it’s down as well and already started decaying when the ALARM it’s running on dropped support for 32b raspi. I actually hope to get back to that at some point. It makes sopping easier if my phone can tell me which products need to be restocked, but tracking bought and consumed products is tedious. But it reduces costs since you only buy wha you need and notice when things are about to expire and consume them instead of having to throw them away at some point. My TV has a fireTV stick 4k running, which I mostly use for primevideo/netflix, but it’s the main reason why I set up the UPNP server … it can play my music that way without lag. I actually bought it for Steam Link, since 4k has stronger hardware, but initially had issues with it. By now moonlight+sunshine work fine there. But I have no actual need for it do to lack of friends/visitors.

maybe laziness is the smart thing to do

Those who care will look for alternatives on their own. For communities on lemmy.world it shoudn’t matter much. For communities on smaller platforms it would since there is a high risk that a duplicate will be created on a bigger one.

I’m pretty sure Evan started this community.

No issue at all. Left-facing swastika is absolutely unproblematic. The Hakenkreuz is always right-facing and a stylized SS.

It’s my favorite wand as staff. Aside from Primatic Lights and Living Earth all other wands are worth for staff due to side effects. But in contrast to these other two wands it has Magic Charge which can make other wands a lot stronger. Shooting a +15 lightning, disintegration, frost, fireblast, corrosion, regrowth, warding or transfusion is great when you need it, but useless when it’s your main ranged attack due to them waking other enemies, hitting yourself, doing less or no damage at the second shot, doing no damage at all or destroying items.