Yeah, I actually screwed that up a bit, the average is closer to 7.6 $/gal, and 8.9 $/gal for diesel.

Hopefully this means more trains and bike lanes, rather than switching to EVs.

EU average is about 6.5 $/gal. And I think that's still way too fucking cheap for the amount of harm it does to the planet

The main outcome from this is that it forces the companies to not out-source the development/maintenance/support to AI. If they do, they are literally no different from just self-hosting this and asking your own LLM for help, which is going to be cheaper.

As usual, automation actually reduces the rate of profit in the long run.

This is probably the most realistic goal of the movement.

But in all seriousness, they’re still unmaintaible slop

They are definitely more user-friendly and community-maintainable than the closed-source originals.

Originals are either binaries you can't modify, or completely black-box inaccessible software someone else runs which you only interact with.

Having some source code which does almost the same thing, even if it's buggy, is much better than having nothing at all.

Of course AI has its own issues and the resulting software is pretty bad. It is a great starting point to be improved tho.

Specific/credible death threats put instance admins in serious legal jeopardy (a.k.a. fedposting).

That's the main reason for it.

Nah it took like 350 years for everyone to switch

Russia did it in 1918, but there were a bunch of other countries between 1582 and then.

The funniest (to me) is Alaska which switched in 1867 when Russia sold it to the US.

IIRC there were a couple of nazi instances that were instantly defederated by everyone except each other. But I'm pretty sure they are both dead now. Good.

Lemmy is like many tiny Reddits called instances. You barely realise you switch from one to another while browsing happily expect for “instance nationalism”. It is smaller but more humane. That’s about all you need to start.

This should be the text on join-lemmy.org

I measure battery capacity and electricity consumption in J/kJ/MJ, as intended. None of that kWh bullshit.

It also makes for fun comparison with energy value of foods.

Energy is energy, after all.

64 MB RAM and 3D graphics? That's more than most of us can afford nowadays!

In Russia it's kinda the inverse. Like 80% of the books I've read in middle/high school I've re-read as an adult, most of them were still really interesting even on the second read.

People out there reinventing native software from first principles