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If the US had a long term vision and totally embraced renewable energy, it wouldn’t have this problem.

But that paragraph is an exception. For example, take this title from Le Monde:

J. D. Vance avance que l’Iran a accepté le retour d’inspecteurs de l’AIEA sur son sol

An English speaker can perhaps understand the gist of it. That Iran accepted the return of inspectors of IAEI.

Yes, but everyday speech does not solely use Germanic words. Usually, Germanic words are mostly used in the realm of the familiar or personal, while words of Latin origin are mostly used outside that realm. This is why I think people will be able to understand the context.

I joined Lemmy during the Reddit API controversy, which resulted in my favourite iOS Reddit app being removed from the market.

I’m enjoying it here. It reminds me of Reddit in the early 2000s. You can actually have meaningful conversations here, whereas on Reddit your contributions get lost in all the noise, and the karma system makes conversation less organic. I’m enjoying my time here.

Self-hosting is a community effort in which the whole community helps each other to self-host their data, including programming the services people use for this purpose. The problem with closed-source software is that we don’t know what’s happening behind the scenes, or if it’s indeed sending telemetry.

Even worse, if that service is ever no longer supported or updated, I’ll be left with data on my server that can’t be used to its full potential, and a service that won’t receive security updates.

Open-source software, on the other hand, is a community effort. If, for example, software is no longer updated or supported, it can easily be forked, and my data can be transferred to the new service.

Sigh… As always, life must be balanced. You can’t go from one extreme to the other. It’s a spectrum. I self-host what I deem important in order to keep it under my control and not on a capitalist platform.

It’s an adventure, each month, you learn more and realize that you can host more services yourself.

I selfhost because I want to be in control of my data and own it. Closed software is the antithesis of that. They’re just bots trying to advertise their software.

I guess it’s about AI being shaved down throat for financial reasons. I use AI as I perceive it as a tool among other tools, but I also I switched to Linux because I don’t want AI to be shoved down my throat.

Sigh. Because people can’t think critically, they’re easily brainwashed by these companies. After all, YOLO (you only live once). It’s materialism at its finest. People are not content with what they have. They always want more to fill the void, but that void cannot be filled with material things.

I’m just ranting about the capitalist world of today.