I’m not sure about animal sanctuaries and no-kill shelters, but the rest sounds like Germany.
Of course it’s not perfectly just and equal etc. here, and of course community and crime rate depends on where exactly you are, so to be more precise: small city/village in southern Germany.
discuss.tchncs.de is tech-focused :) It seems like there are no communities for games and comics yet though.
I also daily use Firefox, Thunderbird, VSCodium, Signal, KeepassXC, DAVx5 and Radicale for calendar syncronization.
What I don’t use each and every day but what are among my favorite FOSS projects are KiCad for electronics design and CoMaps for navigation.
Linux, or as I’ve recently taken to calling it, Linux.
In German it’s called Arschbackenoberschenkelabtrennfalte
Yes, higher density means you exhaust more mass during those 2s, and therefore you don’t have to pee so fast.
Aerospace engineer here. To levitate, the force of the exhausted mass flow (F=ṁ×v) has to equal the pull of gravity (F=m×g) on your body. The gravity of earth is g=9.81N/kg. Wikipedia says the average body mass is 62kg. It also says the bladder capacity of an adult is about 400ml, and I’ll assume the density to be 1kg/l. You want to levitate for 2 seconds, so your mass flow needs to be ṁ=0.4kg/2s=0.2kg/s. If you rearrange the equation, you get v=m×g/ṁ=62kg×9.81N/kg/(0.2kg/s)=3041m/s.
So if you manage to pee with a velocity of about 3km/s, you can levitate for 2 seconds with an average sized bladder.
To achive that, your “exhaust” must be clenched to a diameter of about 0.29mm. This gives a cross-section of 0.066mm² or 6.6×10^-8m². Multiply that with the velocity of 3041m/s and you again get your flow of 0.2l/s.
Of course, during those 2 seconds you loose mass and therefore, earth’s pull on you gets less and you start to accelerate to about 0.23km/h, reaching a height of 4cm. If you took your special bladder to space, we can use the rocket equation to calculate that this stunt would accelerate you to 3041m/s×ln(62kg/61.6kg)=19.7m/s=71km/h
The Long Dark? Offline single player survival in the postapocalyptic Canadian wildernis. There is a survival mode in which you can freely explore, but also a story mode and several challenges. In my opinion an extremely beautiful game and on the higher difficulties also extremly challenging.
I can’t say anything in regard to modern printers, but I don’t trust any proprietary device connected to the internet. I have an old inkjet and an old laser printer, both without network functionality themselves - but I connected them via USB to a Raspberry Pi, which runs a printer server and makes them available on the local network. I can print and scan from my Linux laptop, and I also managed to print something from my Android phone. Haven’t tried Windows yet. Configuration of the Raspberry Pi was easy, especially enabling scanning via the network.
We used Jitsi quite a bit during Covid, I was very happy with it, and I don’t remember any complaints from other people.
Do you have an example? I am pretty sure that a FOSS license which requires companies to pay is impossible.
Open Source guarantees that anyone can give the software to a company for free:
“The license shall not restrict any party from selling or giving away the software as a component of an aggregate software distribution containing programs from several different sources. The license shall not require a royalty or other fee for such sale.”
And it guarantees that the company can then use it freely:
“The license must not restrict anyone from making use of the program in a specific field of endeavor. For example, it may not restrict the program from being used in a business […]”
Quotes from the Open Source Definition.
None. Those things are incompatible with each other.
Never read something more wrong about the subject. I sounds like you don’t actually know what Free Software refers to, and that it has nothing to do with the price.
Short and not completely true answer: Free Software and Open Source are the same thing, just with different reasoning behind them. Hence “FOSS” and “FLOSS” are also used, which combine both terms.
How would encryption even make sense here? Up to the server, everything is protected via TLS. And if you don’t trust the server provider, you can encrypt all you want, but they can just read out the RAM of the VPS or they could have backdoored the bare metal hardware to do the same. As long as the server has to somehow work with the data in question, the decryption keys have to be somewhere in there. And what do you mean by code integration? We’re talking FOSS here, how could someone prevent me from removing any “is everything encrypted?” checks in Mastodon? Also, what does the encryption on other federated instances even matter? Without having any in depth knowledge about Mastodon, your user agent will hardly be sent to other instances, and when and what you posted is meant to be visible.
Oh god, this answer has gotten longer than expected.
How is it? All in all, it’s good here. I’m confident that it would be difficult to find a significantly better country to live in. But it’s not perfect either and many people fear that it will go downhill from here.
Many parts of industry and research are struggling while a lot of money is pumped into the military. Our infrastructure is mostly still good, but, for example, we’re having trouble keeping up with a lot of old bridges nearing the end of their lifespan. The population is getting pretty old as well and healthcare costs are increasing. They are shutting down our local hospital to save costs and shifting the patients to a big new clinic, which is currently being constructed in the next bigger town. Rents and house prices in the big cities are enormous. In the countryside, internet and public transportation is lacking. Many people are dissatisfied with politics, which led to huge gains for the far-right AfD party, especially in the former GDR. They blame immigrants and the EU and the green party. What has always been an issue is bureaucracy. Complex, unflexible regulations and matching civil servants grind many things to a halt. Part of the problem is a refusal to adjust to new, digital processes.
On the positive side: Food is relatively cheap. Some prices have been coming down again since Covid; butter is down to 99ct/250g, pasta to 49ct/500g. Medical or educational debt is unheard of. The mother of the family next door, a Brasilian woman married to a German, just had brain surgery before christmas. l suppose the additional cost for her family was around 70€ (10€ for every day in the hospital). I studied Aerspace Engineering, about 200€ per semester. I have never witnessed any violent crime, nor has any close friend or family member for as long as I have been alive and as far as I know. Same goes for theft. The worst thing I can think of is a class mate back in school who told me he was attacked with a glass bottle and robbed at night at the train station. I’m sure I live in a bubble, but the people I have contact with are honest and have what they need. I recently lost a 50€ bill at one of the social clubs in which I’m active. Instead of pocketing it, someone picked it up and put it on a counter. Then someone else took it and went through the rooms to find the rightful owner. And while the price of the “Deutschland Ticket” is steadily increasing, it is something I really enjoy. It exists since Covid and allows you to use all (non high speed rail) public transportation in the entire country, for now 63€ per month.
Immigration: For a long time, immigration to Germany was not only tolerated, but actively promoted in Greece or Turkey. In the last decade people fled from Northern Africa to Germany, and in the last few years I noticed a lot of Ukrainians for obvious reasons. This of course changes society. No matter what you think of that, our aging population is a problem, and young migrants are a potential solution. Of course there are also criminal people among them, but I don’t know the statistics for migrant/long-time-German crime, and I don’t notice crime here anyway. If you want to experience crime for yourself, go to Frankfurt central station.
Regarding my town: I live in a small town of about 30000 in Baden-Württemberg in southern Germany. It’s not that exciting here, but we have a bunch of schools, an outdoor and indoor swimming pool, at least 5 supermarkets plus a few drug stores, all kinds of doctors, a library, churches and mosques, a skate park and soccer fields, a lot of social clubs and a beautiful old town center. The old town was built around a small mountain. At the top lie the ruins of the old castle, and in the summer after sunset, it becomes an outdoor movie theater. That’s part of some bigger festivities each summer. The newest addition to the town is a funny tower built on a mountain of trash, our former landfill. Great for watching the sunset or sunrise, although nightly visits are not officially allowed. We have a stretch of no-speedlimit Autobahn starting here and a train station. The Autobahn takes you to the next bigger city in about 20 minutes, there you can find more fun stuff like night clubs, a normal cinema, an Ikea and a lasertag arena. 40 minutes of train ride brings you to the state capital for even more shopping and night clubs, or to the international Stuttgart airport.
What do I do? I dance at our sports club, I go shooting once or twice a week at our sport shooting club, I like learning languages. We also have what we call a youth research center. I teach electronic circuit design to a group of pupils, others teach software development or mechanical design. I also work on a robotics project together with some university students, and we can use the workshop and tools for our own projects as well. Doesn’t cost anything to the students, everything sponsored by local companies, foundations and the government. This youth research center is btw sandwiched between housing for migrants and asylum seekers. I’m there twice a week, and I haven’t seen or heard about any problem during the last ten+ years. The only thing noticable is lots of playing kids and really good smelling food being cooked.