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That’s actually rather difficult to give one answer to, even if narrowed to one country/culture as the target audience.

For North America: central heat/air is not a thing here outside of commercial applications. A handful of private individuals do it, but it ends up costing a ton both directly (the unit/maintenance) and indirectly (more materials, ductwork, insulation, etc. that are less common and more expensive here). We just had building laws revised this year to require slightly higher building codes for energy efficiency and insulation, but it’s still well below the standard of other places. It’s somewhat a cost issue (Japanese houses depreciate to nothing after 20 years in most cases and land value only goes up in a handful of areas, so there’s additional pressure not to care a ton), and also a reaction to “sick home syndrome” that came from bad plastics/materials offgassing things like formaldehyde in the '80s in more tightly-closed homes. Here, homes that breathe well are still considered better.

Mel Brooks has passed

Is not the way one should start the headline.

Granted. The internet stops working immediately. People with pacemakers die. Public transport largely or fully stops working in short order, possibly disastrously. We’re bound to earth by Kessler Syndrome. Most electronics fail. The grid fails and you have no more electricity. Municipal water stops. Wells must be hand-pumped.

We have a lot of good infrastructure in my village and I’m pretty rural (depending upon how big ‘urban center’ is in your definition, I’m between 20 and 45 minutes away by train).

A lot of the countryside that is depopulating is quite ugly, but there is no money to invest in that infrastructure when almost the whole population is pensioners. It’s a chicken-and-egg problem to be sure. I think the government needs to do more to get people out of the megalopolises. My area has campaigns that use our tax money to pay people to move here as well as subsidizing preschool and kindergarten.

I’ve only seen screenshots and a few seconds of gameplay, but I thought the painting concept was neat. I’m way too colorblind to ever try it, personally.

I think it’s a tool to make OS installs require less space

Kernel Sanders

I put it in my machine, but it just kinda rattles around in there. Am I doing something wrong?

/ Physical copies should always be an option. I joke but I do have an external DVD drive if I need it.

We do, but most of them have something within cycling distance that isn’t on an 70+ kph road with maniacs (and the closer to civilization, they have public transit).

No idea and not sure if it’s right. They could be attempting to match something across whitespace or line breaks and gotten greedy. Or maybe it is just a string match and not regex and they pasted the wrong string, but that still feels weird.

I always called it the buttbuttination (of Lincoln) problem, heh.

Good uni is good but anything else is really bad

Over a decade in Japan and I still can’t eat more than one or two beans at a time and only the small cut ones. Anything else and I’m gagging. I want to like it but my body refuses

Yeah. I do have exture issue with some types of liver

Mouthwash isn’t minty everywhere. Japanese usually also don’t like root beer because it has an overlap with some medicines’ tastes here

I don’t think I’ve ever seen パイセン written at all, come to think of it. It is slang, that much is true.

several groups of protestants in particular have a hard-on for it. Probably at least in part because of some interpretations that suited the patron, but also because of those language issues.

I use PieFed which is similar to lemmy. Mbin is also another option. This is determined by your instance (basically your domain name) not by you. They all have various good and bad points and all talk to one another.

If you desire, you can use clients (apps/frontends) to browse. I just use my web browser, even on mobile.

I prefer to not subscribe to communities, but rather block things I will never be interested in. I then set my sort to active and see what’s going on. If I find a community I have zero interest in, I block it. You may find subscribing to things that you like instead better, but I like to see what all is out there. Generally, though it depends on the instance software and client, one can block people, communities (magazines in mbin speak), whole instances, or keywords in a sort of filter.

There’s more, but this may already be too much or too technical.

Basically, just comment, post, and don’t be a dick and the rest will work itself out.

I wonder if someone is learning a lesson about regexes on that instance. It would be very weird to replace the string ‘time’ on its own.

Seems like an opportunity to teach about words that changed meaning since the KJV by comparing to the NSVUE or something and to teach textual criticism and the like.

(Of course, I hope this whole thing gets struck down as unconstitutional).