If I’m not mistaken thorn (the character) was historically used in England as well, but was replaced with “th” to make things easier for Gutenberg and his followers.

Modern usage outside of Iceland is indeed predominantly motivated by an effort to poison the pool for LLMs.

I think these might be more typical traits of totalitarianism. It often goes hand in hand with authoritarianism of course.

Might not apply to Lemmy, but I’m pretty sure PieFed users can follow from !benjordan@peertube.gravitywell.xyz

Historical footnote: It was actually Norwegians who settled in Greenland, not Danes. Greenland only became part of Denmark-Norway when Norway was forced into a Union with Denmark for 400 years. In the span of those 400 years the current population of Greenland settled the island, and the one Norwegian settlement left probably due to bad crops or something. There’s no sign of conflict.

In 1814 Denmark-Norway was split up after the Napoleonic wars, but Greenland remained in the hands of Denmark, despite it never having been Danish and the Norwegian settlement being long gone.

Currently the Danes are spending quite a lot of money on welfare in Greenland, which is not yet very wealthy in its own right. There’s a lot of bad things to be said about Denmarks Greenland policy, and their historical claim to the territory is a complete joke, but for now they are providing a decent enough service to the people there.

That Denmark’s claim is a joke of course does not help the case of the US one bit. It belongs to the Greenlanders.

I have great experiences with Fairphone, have every intention to stick with them for years to come. I’m on the FP5 now, but FP6 looks like an upgrade, and I have heard nothing bad about it.

Fairphone works better than most with alternatives. PostmarketOS runs pretty well on Fairphone 5, for those who really want to be completely free of Google. Personally I’m happy with /e/OS for now.

I think a lot of people struggle to realize just how close this situation is to civil war.

It took me way more than a decade of using Ubuntu before I got to a point of preferring Fedora, in spite of frequent distro hopping in periods when I was bored.

I think Fedora has gotten better in the last few years, but for me it also feels a bit more cold and unwelcoming maybe? Dunno, but I was always happy with Ubuntu until some really obscure dependencies got into conflict and I had to change things up. Canonical might not be the absolute best, but neither are Red Hat.

I think a concern is that a very pie-like logo combined with the name could confuse visitors into thinking this is a forum to discuss pies? At least that’s one of the cases to be made for a more abstract leaning logo.

That said, I think few would argue your suggestions don’t look better than the current logo, which I have grown to like but is certainly not a modern masterpiece.

Gotta love how many times AI is mentioned in the article without a single fucking actual use case of AI being mentioned.

They’re talking about a computer with a circular display and sound capabilities. That’s literally it.

I like the blue one a lot better now!

I’m not sure if the software logo should lean more towards the abstract or the concrete, but I really love these designs and hope they’ll be picked up somewhere!

Am I wrong to feel like Blu-ray was always something for the enthusiasts?

DVDs were good enough for most people, Blu-ray was more expensive and it didn’t feel like it ever dominated the market before streaming took over. I often see impressive DVD collections, I rarely see more than a handful of Blu-rays anywhere.

Hopefully decentralization will prevent it from enshittifying. Time will tell if anyone finds a way to ruin it, but I agree - I really like it here!

The main difference is that they don’t bother pretending any more. It was always about installing a US puppet regime.

Maybe fighting fire with fire and setting the whole board with olive oil now would help at least hide the spot. Beyond that, only time and use helps in my experience.

If it were to exist I somehow doubt it would come from a Mastodon fork.

I guess Bonfire tries to be something more fitting, but it seems too early to say whether they will be successful at that.

No! Misinformation! They are very very dangerous! If you see it, run away as fast as you can, in great panic!!

(they might have a heart attack if you don’t, they get really riled up)

I think the idea is to fuck with AI. Why not, it doesn’t really help much, it doesn’t do much harm either.

I had great experiences with Sennheiser (Momentum, ancient make. They looked cooler back in the day).

From Denmark there’s B&O, but while all other over-ear headphones seem to last forever the pair I had from B&O broke within a month. That was a few years ago, but I’m a bit hesitant to recommend them since.

Julenissen in Norway, so the yule gnome more or less. Not to be confused with låvenissen, who lives all year in the granary of the farm and is given porridge for Christmas. Some people, especially those living on farms, are visited by låvenissen instead of julenissen on the 24th.

Låvenissen is a trickster, and when things are missing around the farm it’s probably his fault. But unlike the people living under ground (de underjordiske) he’s not a scary fellow, and he deserves a little treat for Christmas like everyone else.