Technically, yeah. But with less people going to Wikipedia directly there would probably stand to be less chance of getting any new contributors. I’m not sure how the foundation gets all its money, but the more traffic they serve the more they can prove their relevance which might matter for funding

I’m such a sucker for art deco. Half of the times I die in Bioshock is because I’m just gawking around at the in-game architecture instead of watching for splicers.

Fantastic! 😆

Lol, “PatrickGPT” would be the easiest novelty chatbot to write, too.

10 INPUT "ASK ME ANYTHING>"
20 PRINT "[THINKING...]"
30 SLEEP 3
40 PRINT "THAT'S A STUPID QUESTION"
50 GOTO 10

I use the web version rather than the app, but I want to say the app can store the library on the SD card if you have one of sufficient size lying around and if the Redmi has the slot for one. But as someone else said, there are smaller versions you can download if you can’t fit the full one.

Not trying to push Kiwix on you, but I just can’t emphasize enough how handy it is to have offline Wikipedia always on hand.

• Termux has lots of possibilities
• Pair it with a Meshtastic node and make it a dedicated communicator
• I run HomeAssistant and Emby and have several old smartphones to work with, so one lives in each room and act as remotes for those
• Setup Asterisk and make a VoIP system using old smartphones and SIP clients as handsets
• Check if PostmarketOS supports it. I haven’t used it, but it basically turns your phone into a Linux machine if I understand correctly
• Use it as your “ugh, I have to use an app for [THIS]?!” phone. Basically things that require an app for setup or one-off apps you can’t avoid using.
• Make your own little portable Library of Alexandria. Install Kiwix and download a bunch of ZIMs from their library. If you’ve got at least 130 GB to work with, you can even fit the entire Wikipedia dump with images and have that locally.

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If she had simply resigned from her position when she began experiencing health issues, it would have allowed her successor to be nominated and approved under a democratic administration.

There’s no guarantee that would have happened. See Mitch McConnell and Merrick Garland

To be fair, if you’re not at least a little high at a funeral, you’re doing it wrong. Definitely takes the edge off and helps me to function without being a wreck.

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Yeah. Agrovoltaics is just smart land use. Some crops even grow better in the partial shade.

calling out the way SOME americans act

Emphases clearly mine. Stereotyping 350 million people based off the behavior of a minority isn’t exactly productive. They’re not saying “some Americans” in these potshot posts; they’re stereotyping all of us, and I definitely have a right to be offended by ugly stereotypes.

I mean… tbf the USA is a lot more homogenized than Europe

Eh, agree to a point. While our federal structure is more unifying than, say, the EU, we’re still pretty diverse at a region, state, city, and often even small-town scale. Even in my podunk shithole of a state.

I’m likening Europe or even just the EU to the US with each country/member country analogous to a US state. I feel like that’s a pretty fair comparison even though it’s not perfect.

What bothers me, and this seems more Eternal September than anything else, is how people treat what is happening in the USA as a uniquely USA-only problem

That too. I didn’t want to go on a rant, lol, so I stuck to my main gripe.

Television portrays this homogeneity as being fairly uniform, regardless of the fact that it is not.

Yeah. Believing everything you see on TV is a whole other can of worms. I don’t judge other countries by their trashy reality TV, so I often hope that’s a two way street.

It’s actually somewhat funny in a way: whereas on Reddit it was legitimately true, here on Lemmy the USA-centeredness effect seems mainly some Europeans being mad at other Europeans, as some want to share e.g. news about the USA

Yep. Noticed that, too. People complaining about “All 'Muricans think everyone everywhere has to care about their news all the time and flood everything with it” while ignoring the fact that a very large chunk of those are posted by non-Americans for whatever reason (often just to shit on us).

how many bad actors there are across the Threadiverse, spinning up bot accounts or even human ones to amplify some things and decry others. So I am ignoring that here and just focusing on what seems a genuine disagreement.

Yeah, I have tools to filter some of that out and am focusing on established accounts.

it is far easier to complain than to work to actually solve any problem.

Can I get that on a throw pillow or cross-stitch?

I realize you’re probably not serious, but, still, voter disenfranchisement is both a slippery slope and a tactic employed by those everyone calls fascists. Two wrongs do not make a right and all that.