It looks fine as in the default Piefed theme, yes. But they used to have a very nice custom theme.

Their theme broke with the update?

It is actually a feature as far as bureocracy and diplomacy is concerned. If a language is the non-native language for more or less everyone, no country has an advantage in negotiations due to rethorical skills and so on.

And besides, the only other real options would be French or German, and really no one wants that.

Currently in university or so, and there is a large countryside vs. city gap.

In my experience there has been a relatively recent massive improvement in English skills by the younger generation. Anyone 35+ is still very much behind though. As an elder Millenial myself, it actually caught me on a wrong foot carreerwise as being able to speak English well is no longer considered to be a selection criteria for many jobs, because so many can do it and it is assume a given.

I am sceptical of this… most likely the definition is slightly different between the countries and that causes most of the difference. Like for example one country might count car accidents that happen during working hours into it, while another one might not consider that a workplace accident.

Yeah, everytime this topic comes up I ask if they personally had such an experience or have personally witnessed one, and it is always only some 3rd person story from social media or so. Truely terrifying how people can be manipulated like that.

Probably? I have not tried it myself to be honest.

I am not sure how intercompatible the modules are. It might be that you have to chose between them.

It is a modular system that includes a module for microblogging. But it can also be turned into something else.

The amazing part is that most of them will strongly refute this and believe that they are resisting against “the system” and are being oppressed.

Recent models run surprisignly well on CPUs if you have sufficient regular RAM. You can also use a low VRAM GPU and offload parts to the CPU. If you are just starting out and want to play around I would try that first. 64gb system RAM is a good amount for that.

China has a bunch of government aligned quasi-monopolists that try to expand into the European market. What you are suggesting is basically the same model, just with European ones, which is at most marginally better and will likely be much worse (I am old enough to remember when this was still a common model in western Europe, and it sucked big time).

Europe isn’t China. It would be pointless to turn Europe into a quasi-China to prevent Chinese influence on Europe. Just like it is pointless to create European tech giants as a counter to US American ones.

China, which slammed the move as “discriminatory”, banned exports of Nexperia products in retaliation. While most of the company’s chips are produced in Europe, around 70 per cent are packaged in China before distribution.

Finally an article that explains why China can ban the export of chips made in Europe. And the reason is as stupid as I expected 😒

This is even worse than I expected 🤦

That would be likely incompatible with WTO agreements and usually leads to local quasi monopolists charging absurd prices to government run service providers. And it wouldn’t solve the likely issue of European companies buying the needed software and hardware from abroad anyway.

Ok so you agree that there is a need to make laws here in Europe about it and subject any supplier to them regardless of where their HQ is located? No need to answer that 😅

Accountable based on what laws? The real issue is that these things are perfectly legal regardless of who does it and that there is also almost no way to hold a supplier accountable for software security breaches (besides the fact that it is too late then anyways).

It also further links to another issue about individually blocking users and communities. Apparently that is quite inefficient in the current version, so maybe that adds to your problem?

What you can try is to clear your browser cache for the main domain. In the past there was a bug in Lemmy that caused Firefox based browsers to accumulate many gigabytes of cache data and that slowed down the loading of the page significantly. In the latest version there are some fixes for this and it shouldn’t effect app usage, but I suspect this problem still persists to some extend.

Aside from general issues others have mentioned, our instance (slrpnk.net) is seeing some especially high database load in the last couple of days and I also noticed the subscribed page to be even slower than usual. I tried to figure out what it causing it, but so far there is no clear smoking gun, but I suspect some AI scrapers found a way to target the Lemmy API directly so our current scraper protections for the webinterface are inadequate.