Spartaco Pécora {🇻🇪 ⋂ 🇮🇹} @zpartacoos@social.cleverlibre.org

I fucking hate #English landlords/letting agencies. I haven't had a single positive/neutral experience in this fucking country when renting a place.

The renting system is already broken in the #UK in which you are almost guaranteed to lose part of your deposit but as an #immigrant it's about 10x worse. You have two options, either pay 6-12 months upfront or have a **UK-based** guarantor that will pay in case you don't. So as immigrants we are basically forced to pay a whole year in advance... so f-ing #unfair.

@louiscouture really? No advantage at all?

At this point I can't tell if people are just being sarcastic or not. Like, I can understand being frustrated that trans kids aren't being allowed to participate in highschool sports (at a non-professional level) in which, as you said, it should be about having fun. But if you're participating in it at pro-level and making lots of $$$ then I think it's more than appropriate to figure out if a person has an unfair advantage, and I think in the case of , let's say a biological male who is a woman participating with mostly biological females then that would be an advantage and thus unfair for the other biological females in that sport.

If these distinctions didn't make any difference we would not have segregated sports into male/female dominated categories and they would perform similarly at a professional level. I. E we'd have females that can run as fast as Usain Bolt...

Btw I don't mean to come across as mean spirited transphobe... Happy to take notes and learn but I'd have to see some kind of logical explanation.

@biomedmax lol those cows giving you the "we can fuck you up" look 😂

@deesapoetra a lot of misconceptions in this thread. However, I'm exhausted today + I'm not a physicists so I'll let someone else explain it. Perhaps @freemo has time?

@doliu666 Hm I see. That's a fair point, I guess that's why the big successful projects like Blender receive a lot of finding from studios using it so that's why they can get to such a high level even in mainstream.

@doliu666 I disagree. Could you elucidate me by providing examples of which propietary software you use for which the Foss alternative makes you less productive?

Also, I'm sure you know but free software refers more to a philosophical stance rather than gratis/monetary value.

In any case, in my experience using foss (or at least open source) tends to pay off in the long term, financially speaking. As I can get equally productive (although yes there's the time investment) but then don't have to keep paying for a subscription/license and I get the benefit of easily modifying it to my needs. This has been the case for things like my video editing software (kdenlive/audacity), note taking (obsidian), IDE (VSCodium/vim), etc...

@whirli I've been in a similar situation. If I remember correctly I used PySimpleGUI and PyInstaller to wrap the functions in a UI and make the executable.

@academicalnerd I don't know, had never heard of becherovka before until now.

@deesapoetra you'll probably get a different response from different devs as this seems like a gray area depending on your background. As far as I can tell, web developers call many things "app" whereas in mobile, embedded and desktop development that has a slightly different meaning.

For me, an app refers to a piece of code that the end-user will interact with whereas a library is meant for yourself or other developers, typically as an underlying component of the larger application/system.

Changing a battery and other components is NOT hard... Together we can shift societal norms away from fast moving consumerism that hurts the planet.

Laptop's age-> 5+ yrs

#designedtolast #sustainability #earthday2021 #earthday #righttorepair

@academicalnerd first had it when I was 13/14 and at first it tasted like medicine, had another one then I liked it. It's been one of my favorite drinks ever since. Especially because everyone else in my family hates it so the stock is never diminished unlike most other alcoholic beverages in a Venezuelan household (we are alcoholics).

@pluralistic this is 100% worth the read!

The Computer Chronicles (1993)

it's crazy how little people knew about computers back then compared to now. I'm stunned. Also, screw this guy, he keeps talking over people.

@amiloradovsky@functional.cafe why?