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Yeah, that's true. But if we consider "the Fediverse" to mean "internet forums that support Activity Pub", then Mastodon is unforenot the biggest pleyer on the Fediverse in terms of user count, public impact, and funding.

Of course, Threads can go fuck themselves. Open source communities have no obligation to play megacorps' games.

Oh neat! I just tried it, and it seems it's broken on Gnome when using 125% scaling though :/ Still cool to have the feature!

I also just figured out how to expose dark mode and my timezone though with RFP, which is useful.

Yeah, I agree with the description of Sweden here. There are some really nicely designed, walkable blocks, but there are also seas of big box stores. The big city downtowns are nice, but even the good suburbs are often not very coherent. A new neighborhood will be built with high rises and a nice design, but there are no stores, and the supermarket is 10 minutes away on foot across busy roads.

There is definitely a lot of value in the "innerstans" and transit-oriented "centrums", though.

Im not sure if density is the issue in Stockholm, or if all the suburbs just suck. (insert Paris comparison here) Stockholm's transit system is still very radial and all the suburbs are super car dependent. There are no urban neighborhoods outside of innerstan, Hammarby, and Sundbyberg. Some new towers along the new subway stations would make a lot of sense, but you'd get an even bigger impact by having more infill development around the single family homes and "towers in the park" miljonprogram.

I dont know what argument you're trying to make, or what you think I'm saying, but I don't appreciate you saying I have brain worms. Fuck off.

As much as fediverse development is centered on Mastodon and lemmy, and as much as I want them to succeed, Threads is bigger than both of them combined. FB used their monopoly to leapfrog the rest of the Fediverse here.

Sweden is ok. Most of the big cities haven't been emptied out for parking lots, but there are still a lot of urban highways and public squares converted into parking lots. The worst of these is the "centralbron" in downtown Stockholm, where there's a 6 lane open highway running directly through the middle of the city, running directly alongside the medieval old town. There's also a huge project going on right now to build a $5B+ urban ringroad straight through the middle of Stockholm's suburbs and nature reserves.

The peak of car culture in Sweden resulted in the famous "H-day", where Sweden converted all of its roads and streets to drive on the right instead of the left. This resulted in dozens of tram lines being completely torn up to make way for cars.

Thankfully, most of the car-centric projects in the 70's attempted to include separated biking and walking paths, so biking is actually viable in most places. But its not ideal, with the journeys often being long, winding, and confusing, with many conflict points.

Zoning is pretty sane, and there's no missing middle. the housing projects in the 70s even explicitly set targets for building low-rises and row houses. Housing prices are decent, though they have been rising rapidly recently and there is still a housing shortage. I have unfortunately seen some municipalities implement parking minimums.

Some newer transit-oriented neighborhoods can have world-class urbanist design, but there are also a lot of neighborhoods with big front lawns and two-car driveways. Car culture is very big in Sweden, and I have never met a manager who doesn't have a fancy car they drive into downtown Stockholm on a regular basis.

Public transport is very underfunded. Stockholm still has a pretty big transit system comparatively, but funding is basically non existant after various political and economic crises in the 80's and 90's. After big construction in the 60's and 70's, Stockholm since has only built a single new tram line and some new commuter rail stations since the blue line was finished in 1977. A new commuter rail tunnel was also recently built to resolve a capacity and maintenance crisis on the main rail line through Stockholm, but the new tunnel hasn't resulted in any servicr increases. The commuter rail system has instead more or less been in a maintenance and staffing crisis for the past two years, resulting in huge service delays. Thankfully, there are finally some big new projects underway to build out new subway and tram lines over the next 10 years.

Librewolf has Resist Fingerprinting which comes pretty far.

Every Librewolf browser uses the same windows user agent, etc. But there are downsides, like time zones don't work, and sites don't use dark mode by default.

And even then, EFF's Cover Your Tracks site can still uniquely identify me, mainly through window size. That's one of the reasons why Tor Browser uses letterboxing to make the window size consistent.

Linux was already faster

Kinda depends on the context, but it's probably convenient to consider the president, VP, and heads of departments as "the cabinet". The VP attends the staff meetings and is part of the leadership of the white house. In parliamentary systems, they use the term "ruling government" instead of cabinet, which includes the ministers, prime minister, and vice prime minister.

Millions of bucks

These tax credits need to be conditional on zoning reform in the neighborhood or we're not going to fix anything.

IP68 didn't exist when the galaxy S5 came out. The fairphone has a replaceable screen and is made by a tiny company that doesn't have the budget for full waterproof testing. Often phones will have waterproofing but will not spend the money for the expensive testing for certification, see: Pocophone, etc.