I also figured out later that offline maps you can download on your phone beforehand and use even without Internet don’t help a shit if you haven’t happened to download them before the Internet we t down.

“The Internet is down, therefore I will download offline maps” isn’t the breakthrough idea I first assumed.

WWWWHY printed maps? They have their Russian-made Maps.me, which has offline-maps. And its equally Russian-made (but without the influence of the Kremlin ally corporation “Mail.ru”) fork, Organic maps.

And if they don’t like the Russian influence, they can use CoMaps.
When you have offline maps in your phone, what’s the problem with that?

I’m wondering why Musk elected to do this now. Most likely has to do with the Epstein files.

But, there are two different ways that may have had an effect. They both may have played a role, but not necessarily:

• Maybe Putin no longer has material for pressuring Musk when the cat is already out of the box anyway. If Musk wanted to support Ukraine, now it can.
• Musk must be furious at Trump for having been selected as one of the people to throw under the bus by choosing Musk as one of the people whose mentions should be published. If this is just it throwing a tantrum, there’s a sadly high chance that the Russia will regain its Starlink access once the assumed tantrum is over.

I would recommend exporting your settings just in case. I was using an instance that kind of vanished for a week and then returned, but with my user account completely gone 😱

It’s nice that you can just import your settings from a file on your own hard drive and continue from basically where you left.

In a way yes, because this post is in a community running on a Lemmy instance. But at the same time: The user was did not use Lemmy to write the Lemmy trashing :)

(And Lemmy is good. It’s just, PieFed is so much better!)

Basically the context is this: !meanwhileongrad@sh.itjust.works

PieFed has more features and can do everything Lemmy can. There are many things you can do in Reddit but not on Lemmy, but most of those are possible on PieFed.

A user migrating to PieFed is more likely to stay than a user migrating to Lemmy, because they won’t have a feeling that there are familiar features lacking. You don’t have flairs, multireddits (a.k.a. feeds), polls, events, personal notes on users, or notifications on new posts/comments on Lemmy, but on PieFed you do.

PieFed is a different software. Lemmy is written in Rust and has a certain set of features.

PieFed is a newer project, written from scratch in Python, by completely different people. It includes Lemmy’s features and shows the same posts as Lemmy, but has additional features such as polls, events, feeds (which are the same thing as multireddits on Reddit), emoji reactions, flairs, notifications for new comments coming for some specific post or new posts coming in some specific community, messaging with Mastodon users, and some other stuff that fails to come to my mind right now :)

There are several PieFed instances: https://piefed.fediverse.observer/list

They include components that haven’t been produced since 1990’s. They will have to re-think large parts of the missile if they want to produce more than just a handful of new ones. There aren’t endless amounts of 30-year-old devices laying around to use.

There have been Finnish politicians joining Mastodon in in the last few weeks.

How would “more wars” solve this, in your opinion?

Agricultural exports are a very important part of Ukraine’s economy. The climate change will reduce our planet’s food output very much even in a relatively short term. Whether Ukraine can fully use its best agricultural land or not, makes an extremely important difference in the coming decades.

Almost half of all black soil on this planet is located in Ukraine. And by far the most fertile soil in Ukraine is… Here, where the colour is at its darkest:

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There has been talk of them changing the engine for a European one. Even the engine they would use has been mentioned. Though, I cannot remember which one it is!

if you are a russian soldier and you aren’t an idiot

Isn’t this is a bit like “if you are a person writing in the Fediverse and you don’t have lungs”?

Which of these have military presence by the Russia? Most?

That presence is in the process of disappearing, which will mean action for all those countries…

True, but the chaos is coming anyway. The earlier it begins, the less destructive it will be.

That’s a different operation, though. At least for now USA’s behaviour is more akin to what they did in Iran than Iraq or Afghanistan.

The difference to the mayhem they caused in Iran is that here USA wouldn’t need to worry about implanting a successor.

HUR will be handle that a thousand times better.

In Putin’s case they don’t need to. There are competent people around who will be able to handle that. Moscow isn’t that far from the border of civilization.