Yes, even for them, the information they can get through a phone is lifesaving. They can learn how to build water supply and sanitation systems and shelter. They can learn how to farm and forage for food. They can find the best way to cross international borders and become a refugee. And so on, they can improve every aspect of their lives. Information is power, and with a smartphone they have access to the entire world, rather than just word of mouth knowledge in their local community.

Obviously, places without any form of electricity are screwed, but satellite internet is rapidly becoming cheaper and more accessible so soon they won’t even need cell coverage.

2. Those in extreme poverty need access to more important things than access to these gadgets.

We’re going down a sidetrack here but this is just false. A smartphone these days is a ticket to many things required to live. Applying for jobs, applying for government services, buying essential items cheaply, cheap/free education.

Don’t buy a Windows key. If Windows was installed initially it should remember your hardware and activate. If it doesn’t, there’s numerous ways to pirate Windows.

It’s worse here than in Aus.

Debian. The basic install is very bare bones.

I liked Quora as recently as a few years ago, it had some nice explanations that you couldn’t get anywhere else. Obviously you have to take everything with a grain of salt, but you have to do that anywhere on the internet.

The thing is, once they started talking about underground, the whole project got so silly that it was obviously never going to happen. $30 billion for underground light rail wiggling all over the place saving very little time on the trip to the airport, it’s clearly nonsense from people that are trying to get the project scrapped. So this money was genuinely and intentionally wasted by the public service and the consultants. Although the new government isn’t helping since they wanted the project scrapped too.

Yes, they are also as painful as possible for every other browser. That’s the point.

Further evidence for this is ChromeOS. It’s just a Linux distro, but worse. It does little more than run Chrome. Yet it’s popular. Anyone that tolerates ChromeOS would have an even better time on most of the standard distros if they had someone to set it up for them.

I was up all night chasing them away from my tent, they’re insane.

I’ve done it, it’s a pretty ordinary track and not dangerous if you have some common sense. The top part by the pylon(near to OP’s picture) might be the best view I’ve ever seen! Take the steep part slowly and carefully especially if it’s wet, don’t go on a steep snow slope if you don’t have crampons and ice axe, take enough warm clothes and waterproofs for the alpine environment, take a map. It’s just because it’s so accessible, and people think that it’s going to be the same as the well built tourist roads like the West Matukituki and Rees-Dart.

And watch out for the kea, they will stop at nothing to steal and destroy all your stuff.

I haven’t had any issues with Nextcloud yet. But any torrent client refuses to work. I’ve tried various qbittorrent containers, transmission, deluge briefly, they all work for a while but eventual refuse to do anything.

OSMand tends to choose a much more intuitive route.

The same thing is true here. A novice shouldn’t be hosting their own instance, heck a experienced user shouldn’t host their own instance unless they want a hobby.

Because it matters to the end user that all the instances are cross compatible, that’s the federated part. When I first heard of Lemmy and Mastadon as “self hosted social media”, I assumed that all the instances were isolated, and dismissed it as pointless. Once I learned what federation was, possibly through the email analogy, I was instantly onboard.

We’re not at a stage where you can make full use of these platforms without having a basic understanding of how they work. A disinterested idiot is going to go " WTF is an instance, why is [whatever instance they landed on] so empty" and give up. The email analogy is useful for the interested skeptic and they’re the people that are most likely to stick around.

In this thread the email analogy has been criticized for being not technically accurate enough and too technically accurate. That suggests it’s about right.

Maybe I’m optimistic here, but I feel like most users of email and Facebook understand that you can send email from Gmail to Outlook and that those are different services, but you can’t send a Facebook(message? story? idk I don’t use Facebook) to a Twitter user.

I can’t think of a better way to explain that activitypub is an open and cross-compatible protocol. The only other big cross-compatible protocol is the web(HTML etc), but that’s hopeless, half of people don’t seem to understand what a browser is.

It seems like they’ve been released on private land at Terawhiti station and West wind farm. The best publicly accessible reserve would be West Wind recreation area, but that’s closed at night. So there’s no good legal option to see the kiwi until the population establishes enough that they make it to the council reserves in Karori.

Email is the only federated social platform that every normal person is familiar with. It doesn’t matter that the technical specifications are completely different. The metaphor goes as far as “in the fediverse anyone signed up with any instance can communicate with anyone on any other instance, like email”. For that purpose, it’s a good metaphor.

Any digital image is actually red green and blue, those are the colors of the pixels on your monitor. When there’s enough of them your brain is tricked into seeing other colors. To get even more meta, all colors are just made up by your brain.

So I don’t understand your distinction between black and white, and grayscale. Whether it’s a gray made of black and white pixels or a “pure gray” doesn’t matter, it can look the same. Unless it’s a style where the pixels are supposed to be visible, e.g. pointillism.

NZF said they wouldn’t work with Labor and Labor said they wouldn’t work with NZF. The voters would feel justifiably betrayed if they ignored those promises. And I see no reason why the left coalition would work together any better. Can you imagine NZF and TPM agreeing on anything?

I don’t understand why the parties play the game of ruling in or out. Surely it’s better to pretend they will work with any other party, it puts them in a much stronger negotiating position.