China is doing a Speedrun in destroying their reputation. Began with COVID, then market confidence, now this (of course this isn't the first instance).

Luxury handbags that cost $60k. Not just a handbag, but to diversify your investment and launder money.

Address some of the issues. Like not having multiple similar posts, on different instances with similar named communities.

Also to reach critical mass, we need to keep posting. Addition of new apps such as Boost will also increase popularity

Anyone else feel two massive countries (Russia and China) are lurching from serious crisis to crisis (war, economic slowdown) and just feels like the "I'm in Danger" meme?

Nobody is coming to save you. Nobody. If you want help, ask. If you don't want to ask, learn to save yourself.

In France you can have it delivered to a post office. To pick it up you’ll need to show a state id card as proof.

Other than gamers, there's a huge share of enterprise Windows users. And they're not likely to shift OS, because of IT admin issues. Others in this thread have commented on how Apple is struggling to get devs to build native games compared to Windows.

Sure the number of home PC users might decline, one can always hope.

It typically happens during updates. People have reported their grub screwing up. If you’re able I would honestly suggest separate drives

OnePlus somehow never completely avoided issues. I remember on the 5 there was a display issue too.

People in EU use mostly WhatsApp and Messenger, cuz most people don't have iPhones

Can they do the same for Google recommending Chrome?

Currently the real estate market seems to be on very shaky grounds as developers have debts that they're not being able to pay off. So bonds whose coupons are due are not being paid.

Chinese citizens generally pay up front a certain amount (or fully) long before they move into their apartments. This money is generally used to complete construction. But developers seem to have used this to buy other properties for construction, over leveraging themselves. And now that construction is wayyy behind schedule and the people still can't move in, they're refusing to pay their mortgages causing banks to pull back lending and become more strict with debt restructuring for developers.

Tldr: Way too many homes built for people who don't want them. Lots of loans might be unpaid. Might affect other sectors.

Canada is still well protected, unlike rest of Europe which has a land border with Russia. Post Ukraine, it’s the turn of ex Soviet states (i.e. Lithuania, etc) to start googling where to move?

Exactly, Twitter still has over 200 million DAU. Thread has about 30 million, Bluesky has less. Mastodon is worse.

Things like my city’s metro communication is still on Twitter. People aren’t going leave anytime soon.

I mean he’s legally obligated to, not really a choice. He can say screw it, but then he opens himself up to legal troubles.

When talking about messaging apps, you've to use the one that's easiest to use even for the most noob tech person.

Signal uses phone number, because that's how people generally communicate. It's easy to use, setup. No privacy nightmares compared to WhatsApp, or security nightmares compared to Telegram (where E2EE is not even on by default). It's open source, regularly audited and can be used on any device (no more proprietary green bubble nonsense). There's still a market for Threema and Matrix, etc. It just never will be mainstream.

Unpopular opinion: Win 11 works well for me, and is visually better than Win 10. Although it's a fairly recent PC. Although if they keep pushing more telemetry and ads, I'm moving over to Ubuntu.

I think that might help, asking for volunteers. Segregating them based on their abilities (LinkedIn profile for instance). There are a lot of people who have a couple of hours a week they can spend for such a cause. Please check with your colleagues and see if asking for volunteers is possible.

Donating money is also an option, but in this economy, it's not sustainable to donate significant sums on a recurring basis for most.

Yes!!! Complete change in general usage of the word.

One of my Indian friends said she felt invisible when visiting France. Apparently being stared at just for being a woman is common in India.

I'm liking it so far. But given this is a federated replacement of Reddit, how does replication of communities work? Cuz there are multiple Technology or World News communities in different instances. Which one do we follow?

I’ll be downvoted to hell for saying this. But in this event I think it’s better for you to upgrade to Win 11 or maybe even move to MacOS (mac mini is pretty cheap), though I don’t know if you’ll find your replacement apps.

I use Win for work (no choice there) and Ubuntu at home (just browse the net, and only browser applications).

Same here. Edge gets a lot of bad rep, but I still prefer that over Chrome or Brave (due to its affiliation with crypto)

Imagine a scenario where a bunch of these are used as a server and to power cycle all of them need to turned off.

Curious, why not Ubuntu? Doesn't it have more support forums and generally more popular?

True, I'd rather support Firefox as a browser and an organisation. Edge for pages that work best with Chromium engine

Angry baguette noises...

But yeah most houses in France don't have a bidet. They wipe

Elementary OS is very similar to MacOS. Check it out