iamtherealwalrus

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago (7 children)

So a pharmacist should be allowed to refuse selling e.g. birth control, due to personal beliefs? Everyone can just decide who they want to service for any reason, right?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

Welcome to Europe, where we get 1gbps fiber at reasonable prices. Here in Denmark it is available at ~$30/month for example. Because the same fiber infrastructure is accessible by many different ISPs to offer to consumers.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 7 months ago

Please don't give them ideas.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

Perhaps they fixed it, but I experienced random crashes at least once an hour.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago (4 children)

For most games. Tried Witcher 2 on Linux a few months ago, what an unstable mess.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I develop C# on Linux, but I run the full VS inside of a Windows 10 VM.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 8 months ago

So convience over privacy, got it. That is pretty much what made Facebook rise to fame.

[–] [email protected] -2 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (11 children)

Are there any online collectives that work together to stop this tomfoolery?

Same as it has been for the last 100 years: Vote with your money. If you don't like the product/service, don't buy it. Stop thinking you can force them to change their offering.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 10 months ago

Yes Europe is mostly manual. You pay a heavy premium to get a car with automatic transmission. Anecdotally, I bought a Skoda ~5 years ago and had to pay ~20% more for automatic transmission than manual.

[–] [email protected] 57 points 10 months ago (10 children)

Did you even bother to read the article?

Luckily, the creators of the NERV App, Gehirn Inc, have created an app-based alternative for users to get information in real-time, as well as running a Mastodon account

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