The real alternative is much more simple - static HTML + CSS with manual deployment and manual file transfer. If that's not enough, you can step-by-step add to it. There certainly are web applications that benefit from the complex defaults. I don't hate these tools per se. I hate that they are the default. Yet it only makes sense that most web developers need a job and to get that job they need to use an overkill stack for their personal and community projects.

If you want to hear an upside, just remember that this happens everywhere and at least the modern web dev chaos is mostly built on top of free and open-source tools and not proprietary bullshit.

Yikes! I caught myself making the assumption that this was an "official" mod's post in response to the existing discussion...

I hope you don't mind a non-US-American comment on this one. I see this kind of statement/question quite often and I have a few things to say about it:

1. It is not common to learn 3-4 foreign languages at school

It's not rare to find people who speak more than 3 languages around the world. However in most countries schools just cover the languages you are expected to know in your country/region and the most common lingua franca(e). You guys simply need less languages in your daily business. If anything, there should be a bigger emphasis on Spanish in your education, at least in some states.

2. School education isn't enough to properly learn even one language

The truly foreign languages we learn at school do not stick with most of us. On the one hand, we had to pick a language that we may have not been interested in. On the other hand, you need to spend much more time beyond and after school to get beyond the basics for real life communication - even if the common reference level says otherwise. Even English or the respective lingua franca for the given region is mostly learned from real day-to-day communication. The school lessons serve more or less as a frame.

3. An overlooked advantage of learning a foreign language is to understand how little we understand

Sure, learning a foreign language is naturally useful for traveling, job prospects and educational value. But when you rewire/extend your brain a language beyond some basics for traveling, you have a bigger understanding how different languages can be, how much gets lost in translation and how little you understand of the world.

I'm not sure, if Spanish in the USA can be as important as e.g. English in many European countries (as an outsider I get the impression that it should be even more important :D), but I think treating it that way would be a much bigger benefit for the entire USA. Oh and 4) most bilingual Europeans who are yapping about dumb Americans on the internet have no idea how ignorant they are themselves. Greetings from an immigrant child from Germany! <3

The video series that is now labelled as a podcast

Watch your tongue, OSShole.

/e/os on Fairphone 4

This joinfediverse wiki page lists some fediverse replacements. Here is a bigger overview and the descriptions are usually enough to understand what kind of "traditional" social media it's based on.

So the Grimreaper saga continues...

Age: 9.6 - 10

I created an account at lemmy.ml, because I was interested in seeing real-world examples of Rust in production. Shortly after that, due to the death of Reddit 3rd party API, I began to spend more time in Lemmy.

The cantonal government was responding to a written question from Liberal Green parliamentarian Thomas Brönnimann, who wondered whether it would not be more appropriate to depict the bear without its masculine attributes, so that the population as a whole would feel better represented.

I wish progress was instead defined by people speaking up for themselves and privileged people only supporting them to raise their voice...

I experience Lemmy as a reflection of many of the problems in the world

You've said it yourself. It's not unique to Lemmy. This is just a smaller platform with therefore more biases. You could keep trying and show new visitors with your viewpoints that they have a space here. E.g. Lemmy is slowly becoming less try-hard anarchistic. But honestly with your viewpoints, whether it's about AI or strict immigration, I consider it too difficult and unrealistic currently.

Even better, if after their domestication they were still smart and resistant enough to not fall into the hands of owners that treat them like toys.