Was this something that came over after some migration?

This basically. Most of the European population descends from a more recent immigration wave from the middle east.

Well other than sending money and free laptops to a racist multi-millionaire and excusing it with a “big tent” approach when asked why the fuck they do that…

Have fun with the next round of enshittification then 🤷

XMPP and the Fediverse works just fine as far as I am concerned.

Is Matrix technically part of the fediverse? I noticed it does not appear on fedidb.com.

Depends on your definition of Fediverse, but I think most people would say no, even though it is a federated protocol.

On a related note, what is the active userbase size?

The company behind Matrix it is known to vastly inflate user-numbers for scamming investors, but a somewhat realistic estimate for the openly federated Matrix network is 200-300k MAU (as shared by the Element CEO when pressed on a realistic number).

Who is the developer/team and do they have an active presence on the fediverse?

It is mostly developed by Element / New Vector Inc., but they have a non-profit front with the Matrix Foundation.

You didn’t ask, but conceptually Matrix is closer to Bluesky than to the Fediverse. If you want a Fediverse equivalent for chat, look into XMPP/Jabber, which is based on an truly open standard and is democratically governed by an independent community organization.

Wero has always been about discuraging the European central bank from persuing the digital Euro project earnestly. The banks are perfectly fine depending on Visa and Mastercard as they just pass through the fees.

Because you usually don’t want to do automatic upgrades across major versions. There is a “latest” equivalent for each major version release though.

Install a newer Linux distro on it and run a Luanti server for the kids to play on.

I am not sure if Loops mirrors content like that, but probably not (since video content is much larger).

Mastodon for example does mirror images, but it only really lowers the bandwidth use from users on your instance, hence a single user instance causes the same miniscule one time download of the image as a single client connected to the original instance.

Overall if you want to help the Fediverse network with load balancing you need to take on additional users on your instance, with all the responsibilities that entails.

Single user instance are nice for other reason like data ownership and being able to decide your own defederation policies and such.

No, just the accounts are integrated, not the UI. It wouldn’t be a huge issue to add some basic webclient to the UI, but I don’t think anyone would use that when there are much better dedicated clients.

I have been experimentally hosting it a bit and it seems like nice software. But I kinda lack a usecase for it… which is I guess common for 3D printing stuff 😅

Funny how you first ignore Wikipedia when it doesn’t fit your propaganda story and now claim it as a source 😅

Let me introduce you to this.

Hey kiddo, stop listening to PRC propaganda 🤦

Threatening to attack and occupy their self-ruled neighbors is pretty much the textbook definition of imperialist 🤦

People can have one opinion and still prefer to vote against it given the likely consequence of the imperialist neighbor attacking them 🤷

Lol, what are you even talking about? Since 20 years the opinion polls are clear: The majority of the people living in Taiwan consider themselves Taiwanese. There is a somewhat large minority that considers themselves both Taiwanese and Chinese, but when asked to choose between the two the people of Taiwan overwhelmingly (like 90%) prefer to call themselves Taiwanese.

Edit: but it looks like I am replying to a fresh Tankie sockpuppet account, so I guess no need to bother 🤦

I am referring to the opinion of the current inhabitants of Taiwan as expressed in opinion polls.

Yes, but afaik the temperature reading is also on the flash itself. On Samsung nvme drives you even get two different temperature readings to differentiate it if I recall correctly.

No, that is only the official line due to history and political pressure from China.

See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opinion_polling_on_Taiwanese_identity

I ran into similar issues before, but adding a passive cooler brought the temperatures down sufficiently.

However when researching the issue there were several people that claimed that ~70° C is actually the design temperature for these SSDs, which would explain why they usually don’t come with a cooler.