In the short term a decent nuc is more expensive, in the long run… maybe not.

It doesn’t have to be the whole billionaire.

Yup, if I’m on an instance I treat it like a pay what you can subscription. The only way they can provide the service I want is if people who use it fund it.

If it makes you feel better mastodon is pretty well funded for an open source software non-profit.

“Governments should be able to kill whoever they want as long as they’re moving towards my ideological goals” is distasteful enough for me.

Why lower profits when you can cartel instead?

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That’s what I was thinking. You’re not a 5 year old at your own birthday party, you’re the adult host of an event.

Who chewed you out?

How about you give your supported and and reasoned opinions for why it is an untrustworthy source?

Hopefully, slowly but surely destroying a number of for profit businesses.

Not right now

Can you take a photo next to a euro coin, for scale?

As someone from the US blocking “Trump” and “Musk” are vital for sanity.

Start with this one.

DO NOT use funkwhale unless you want a headache.

In the U.S. sheriffs ARE elected and it’s a bit of a nightmare. They do not need to be qualified as long as people vote for them. They are not accountable to anyone but the majority of voters. They can violate rights, plant evidence, murder. It doesn’t matter if all those actions are public knowledge as long as people continue to vote for them. And that may sound absurd, but there are plenty of examples of sheriffs doing whatever the hell they want but continuing to get elected.

There are horror stories of child murdering serial killers going free for decades due the the incompetence of sheriffs.

It’s a lot harder to organize a recall election than to just fire a corrupt or incompetent law enforcement officials.

Is that the same thing as the German/Turkish Döner?

Thin, crispy, square cut pizza. And probably an Old Style. But I wish we were better known for our abundance of great craft beer.

There’s a few tourism foods we’re very well known for, but the locals would get the above choices.

Well your instance kind of gives this away even if your answer didn’t make it obvious.