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This sounds like a better solution than the current one. I’m not sure about the implementation of manually voting locally or federately, but that’s what testing is for! It might be easiest to embed the options into the 3-dot contextual menu. Or maybe add a new button that brings up a row of new icons/options under the post/comment for extra, lesser used actions. It’s kinda like a contextual menu but it’s a bar of icons that shows more actions. The Boost app does this for comments by clicking on the comment, making the UI hidden and slick, less cluttered until you want to interact with it.

You could also have two numbers, a total of local + federated votes, and a number in parentheses with only local votes.

AI definitely needs a method to identify it, to distinguish it from real work, and possibly used as a filter for those that don’t want to see it, or for those that prefer to see it. I think a simple check box would be sufficient, because we don’t need the degree of AI, only that AI is being used. I like that every post requires a language selection, where there is a default, and you can choose to change it. I’m guessing posters and commenters selecting the wrong language will or would be punished/moderated. The same should apply to AI posts and comments, at the discretion of the moderators of their respective communities. Having the functionality is huge, even if some communities do not want use it.

Agreed that a lot of the phones’ batteries are not actually replaceable without serious disassembling most of the phone. The common names of the phones are not front and center either. It’s quite disappointing from an official governmental service.

I dual boot between Windows 10 and Linux Mint, but mostly still use Windows for now.

From my experience, the tutorials on setting up the dual boots are usually done in virtual machines, or computers that already had linux on them. This is important to note because the setup processes might be different with slightly different steps. I had to manually setup the Mint partition sizes, a scary process when you are new to it.

Make sure to install Windows first, and create a blank partition allocated for Linux with the windows partition tool. Windows will outright ignore and not see any Linux systems installed, but will recognize its own partitions it makes.

Gee, I wonder why, when Boeing is crashing and burning, literally and figuratively.

I whole heartily agree, and thank you for taking the time for writing that. Not enough people look into this, including me. Sometimes I stumble into articles or videos that touch on how messed up the financial world is. The biggest thing I hate is how everything runs on debt, and how that affects the inflation rate to always wanting be positive. It promotes buying now, as money loses value from inflation over time. On the flip side of that, negative inflation promotes saving money because it gains value over time. I wish the system was more balanced instead of always leaning to one side, because as they say, the line has to always go up, is not sustainable. I’m not an economist either, as you mention, just another dude in this rat race.

You have to be asleep to believe it, as George Carlin said.