@lain@lain.com Absolutely. My apartment in China had a small grocery, convenience store, laundry, pharmacy, school, community center, park, public swimming pool, and restaurants all within 15 minute walking distance. Re zoning, many of these places were repurposed apartments or homes themselves, and could exist because of the absence of zoning laws. My buddy lived in a high-rise apartment complex on the 20-something-th floor and somewhere around the 12th floor someone has purchased 3 condominiums, knocked the walls out, and turned them into one large convenience store. So, you never had to leave the apartment building to get snacks or beers or anything. In a neighboring complex this really cool dude had opened an Italian restaurant on like the top floor---the place was the size of a single condo (it was a condo, he just turned it into a restaurant). @aven@shitposter.club
I really wish there were viable mobile alternatives to iOS and Android. I want to genuinely be completely rid of Google, Apple, and Microsoft from my life. All of them spy and data-mine; None of them respect their users. It's insulting that even after consumers pay for a product, ostensibly to make it their own, manufacturers continue interfering and persistently collect and utilize their customer's data for further profit.
@feinzer@akko.airis.dev I'm not even interested in widespread adoption by the normie classes. As far as I'm concerned, the pedestrian normie can continue to be exploited and suffer. I just want something I can reliably use regardless of hardware. Maybe Linux on the phone? I know there are multiple attempts at it---Ubuntu had (has?) a project, both KDE and Gnome are working on mobile interfaces. Unfortunately, these will still run into the same problems: hardware manufacturers locking the hardware down to prevent any sort of alternative OS installation. Changing that will most likely require government regulation to force companies to stop being scumbags.
Millennials to Zoomers when the economy nose-dives and throws the hemisphere into a nearly decade long recession right as people are entering adulthood or getting back on their feet.
@teratology@the.asbestos.cafe microwave cooking is actually one of the least likely forms of cooking to damage nutrients. That's because the longer food cooks, the more nutrients tend to break down, and microwave cooking takes less time. So cooking a roast in an oven is more likely to cause some loss of nutrients than cooking the roast in a microwave. And boiling vegetables is more likely to rob them of nutrients than either cooking them in the oven or microwaving them. That's because some nutrients leach out of the food into the water.https://www.health.harvard.edu/staying-healthy/ask-the-doctor-microwaves-impact-on-food
It's all quiet on Fedi tonight because it's Friday night and everyone's got lives and are out being social with healthy social groups and close friends while I get beer drunk alone in front of my computer, bored.
@dcc@annihilation.social I do not know anything about that other than it is possible and I think this would be something which would be configured by your DNS settings, if you have a DNS server. We use a program called VirtualMin which is basically a more advanced, FLOSS version of CPanel. It provides functionality for setting up and managing a DNS server(s).
However, I'm sure there are other ways of accomplishing this without some fancy tool suite. This would be what you would call a "fallback IP" for DNS.
@dcc@annihilation.social I have no idea. I'm just saying, maybe people like it? If there's a market to manufacture it, why not sell into that market if there is profit to be made? The private market produces all sorts of pointless and nonsensical stuff just because people are willing to purchase them and human beings aren't rational, ergo market economic aren't rational. Would I drink this in lieu of coffee? No. Do I want to replace coffee? Absolutely not. But, perhaps, others do. I don't know.
@dcc@annihilation.social I don't know. If it contains caffeine or otherwise has an enjoyable taste, why not? I had some friends in Asheville, North Carolina, who sold chicory coffee in their cafe.
@dcc@annihilation.social Dandelion and chicory root was widely utilized in the Confederate South during the Civil War as a coffee replacement due to scarcity of coffee bean.
Is the Fediverse, somehow by its design or functionality, intrinsically political and cliquish because of the Fedi exclusively? Or, rather, is humanity just this naturally political and cliquish and, therefore, it becomes normally exhibited on the Fediverse?
Once I was a pirateA bold and savage pirateI flew the skull and crossbonesAnd stamped upon the deckOnce I was a camelA handsome sort of camelWith princesses aboard meAnd jewels around my neckOnce I was a dancerAnd once a necromancerI even was a VikingWith helmet on my headI might have been a parrotA gay Brazilian parrotIf someone hadn't wakened meAnd pulled me out of bed