No <3

wow what a sick drum solo, the card trick at the end really sold it for me

My vote is for Le Guin-style moon anarchy à la The Dispossessed

The closest English has is phrasal verbs like “I turned the light off” or "I went to pick the kids up. Generally verb+particle = new verb. Sometimes you can put a noun between the verb and particle but not always (I looked the toys for vs. I looked for the toys)

These are not just verbs plus postpositions as “I turned the light” and “I went to pick the kids” have entirely different meanings.

Also funny that the other big number, 1.3 billion, is literally double 650 million. Maybe they split it it up because the numbers are tied to specific geographic areas with specific water/energy quantities but yeah it does not read very well

Glad to see many apps I already use here! Just to add ones I haven’t seen mentioned:

• Lichess - the best chess
• Paseo - simple step counter
• Wikipedia - duh
• Gmaps WV - for when other maps fail
• Openreads - amazing and underloved books / reading tracker
• SherpaTTS - offline text to speech
• Whisper+ - offline speech to text
• FairEmail - email client
• Fcitx5 - Chinese keyboard
• AnkiDroid - Anki flashcards

Good to know, I haven’t done anything yet of course but will look at the relevant regulations at some point. Thanks!

Just to answer the “why?” question and offer one data point, as someone with a university gmail account that I obviously can’t change myself this is a welcome update.

I kind of prefer the separation at the moment but it’s good to know I can simplify things in the future if I choose to.

noai.duckduckgo.com is the best drop-in replacement for a free pre-AI search engine.

kagi.com is great if you can justify paying for it.

I’ve used both for a long time and have never missed Google, especially in its current state.

I hate it when the money to store my balls and the payment for the lawsuit I settled with myself derails my 70 billion in funding for an unaccountable secret police force

As long as the villain is still an extreme close up of George Lopez’s disembodied head I’m in

On a side note but related, https://github.com/kmille/freetar is a private front-end for Ultimate Guitar that’s amazing. Free public instance at freetar.de.

Never went back to UG after finding this, so much better than navigating their awful website.

Why not both??

I switched to Infomaniak when I first started seriously migrating away from gmail. I found it a really clean and almost too good to be true, email is fundamentally un-private and IK seemed like a great balance. Also all their apps were open source and on fdroid! Wow!

I was disappointed to see them take a stance against Swiss encryption law, which ultimately made me stick with Proton (also not perfect, but who specifically took the opposite side of this proposal). This issue seemed to be at the core of what I expected from a privacy focused email provider.

What really made me upset was that when I then tried to leave Infomaniak I found that they lock email forwarding behind a paywall (something not even Google does). It actually became very difficult to leave the small number of services I had migrated over to, and I still have my ikmail in my client by necessity.

This is definitely a positive change. I want to take them seriously and more competition in the relatively private non-American email space is good. But I am still hesitant to reccomend or embrace them. Would be curious to hear anyone else’s thoughts?

Gogoro a moped/scooter company in Taiwan has these. Little stations all over the country where you can swap your battery out, it was pretty amazing.