Nice read. I did similar hacks in the past but I have less time lately.
I don't agree with your juice example. I also notice the lower quality in some products but it's driven by consumers. Every time you go to a discount store or buy the cheapest products, you are telling the companies to replace premium products with lower quaity. If there is demand for high quality juices Cocacola or another company will start selling it at a premium price for sure.
I agree, those countries have internal problems. Said that, when they talk about democracy most of the time they are talking about freedom of speech and clean elections. When you have millions of people complaining and political parties that want the independence it proves there is a lot of freedom.
Best desktop program to view / manage a big collection
I have quite a large collection of photographs from my travels (about 50,000). My photos are correctly labeled with date and geo location. The functions I find most useful are sorting the photos by date, facial recognition, map with geo location.
I would like to know which programs are the best to manage this kind of collection.
It's not automated. I just have the most important commands to fix/rebuild my sever in case of disasater.
I don't save all my documents. Just my self-hosting, servers infraestructure notes. I don't want to have the recovery intructions in the same machine I'm recovering
The only thing I save in Google Drive are my notes just in case of disaster.
No, we have more employment with less working hours.
Real unemployment (calculated with the total number of hours worked, number of temporary workers... etc) is between 19% and 23%. It has been like this since 2008 crisis. The unemployment among youth people is 45%.
There a many reasons, not just one. Imho it's related to the tourism (summer season), we have few industry (full time jobs all year), unemployment benefits are very generous (there are some jobs in agriculture that are done just by inmigrants from moroco with temporary visa, the landlords don't find Spanish people to work)
In Spain 6/10 citizens vote left or far-left parties. They don't change the vote even if the goverment does a bad job. They just hate the right for different reasons. The only way the rigth can win the elections is if most people who votes left don't go to vote.
Stats are manipulated. 3 years ago the government changed the name of the temporary job contracts to "discontinuous permanent worker". They are hired by a company but they only work few days or even few months a year. People with that kind of contract does not count as unemployed, even if they only work few days a year.
Most of the workers with that kind of contract want to work a full time job but they can't due to the high unemployment. The same as before but now the stats looks better.
You are rigth about HEIF, but most electronic devices already pay for the license to encode/decode HEVC.
The camera sensor returns raw images, then there is post-processong and the last step is encoding. There are no technical limitations and it's not hard to implement another image format. As other users commented, Google Pixel phones and some apps in Google Play already does. Btw I'm electronic + software engineer.
My conclusion is even if the new formats are better, JPEG is more compatible and good enough for most users. Some brands take care of power users and others don't. I'm a bit disappointed with OnePlus camera software.
Overture Maps Foundation is trying to collect enough data so that companies can build maps they own and operate rather than paying Google and Apple.
Meta, Microsoft, Amazon, and TomTom have formed a group that will release data that could enable companies to build their own maps. The Overture Maps Foundation has captured 59 million points of interest, including restaurants, landmarks, streets, and regional borders. The data can be used for free as the base layer for a new map application. The data was collected and donated to the foundation by Meta and Microsoft.
All 3 formats I mentioned are free to use and there are free and open source libraries to do the conversion.
They include OSM data mixed with other sources.
https://overturemaps.org/download/overture-july-alpha-release-notes/
But they could give you an option to change it. For example, in my OnePlus I can choose video in h264 or h265 format. Photo there is no option, just JPEG.
Why Android camera app uses JPEG format?
There are more efficient formats like JPEG-XL, HEIF and WebP. If you convert the RAW -> JPEG -> WebP you are losing more quality. I think iPhone uses HEIF format.
Related https://lemm.ee/post/2052205
10 Gbps symetric no limits @ 25€ month. Spain.
Low power consumption UPS for home NAS?
I have a low power NAS (~35W) and I want to buy an UPS (uninterruptible power supply) to keep things running. The problem is most UPS for well known brands have an idle power usage (even without load) greater than 20W. It's comprable with the NAS + HDDs + Network equipment....
Do you know any alternative? UPS battery for 10 minutes will be enough. UPS load could be very low < 50 W. UPS software is optional.
Save sort options for comments
I like to sort comments by top votes but I have to do it for every post. Is it possible to retain that configuration?
Global links / Perma-links
I can share the link of a post like https://lemmy.world/post/58535 but if I change the domain to lemmy.ml it links to a different post.
I understand that the post Id is local but, is there a way to generate a global link that contains the information about the server, community and post?
I think it will be useful to make mirror sites, index in Google, addons to redirect to your Lemmy server...
Fiat currency
"I don't believe we shall ever have a good money again before we take the thing out of the hands of government, that is, we can't take it violently out of the hands of government, all we can do is by some sly roundabout way introduce something that they can't stop." - F.A. Hayek 1984
Servidor en español / castellano
Llevo poco tiempo en Lemmy pero veo que no existe ningún servidor en español y que prácticamente no existe ninguna comunidad.
Tengo los conocimientos técnicos para hacerlo pero no dispongo de mucho tiempo para moderar el contenido. Me gustaría saber si hay alguien interesado.
Internationalization / multi-language support
I want to start a Spanish language server + communities. Is the multi-language support in the Jerboa roadmap? I could help with the translation.
Is crosspost from Reddit allowed?
I want to make a bot to crosspost most voted news/links from Reddit. I'm interested in crypto and economics. It will be allowed?