Why do you think it hosts the UN headquarters, ICC headquarters, and so many other IGO headquarters?

Because it retains a lot of soft power from the centuries of being the world power.

It’s the only multi-national federation that I know of and is part of the largest and most widespread defense pact in the world.

Depending on where you draw the line on what counts as federation vs other associations of countries, there are many potential others, like Mercosur, Gulf Cooperation Council, Caribbean Community, African Union.

Clearly people want to live there, otherwise they’d be migrating to BRICS nations and Northern Africa. So it must be doing something right.

I’d say this is irrelevant to the topic? Also a large part of the reason many people want to move to Europe is because Europe fucked up their home countries starting from the centuries of colonisation, resource extraction, arbitrarily redrawing borders that then fosters ethnic tension for generations, etc.

What’s wrong with a civilization being self-centered? Especially when most of the critique it’s received regarding previous centuries was that it was too expansionist?

Well, Europeans tend to feel the world revolves around us (though the USA is even worse in this regard). We feel we can afford not to know about the history and geography of countries outside of Europe, since everything of import happened here. (Though in the post-WW2 era that consideration includes the USA.)

Also, I don’t think self-centredness and expansionism are opposites. If anything, self-centredness makes it more easy for people to disregard the rights and interests of the “others”, so exploiting them doesn’t feel as wrong as if it happened to other Europeans.

we’re self-centered enough for that lol

🎻 <- tiny violin

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Yeah that’s my choice too bc it offers access from my desktop browser too, not just the mobile app. Tying accounts to a single device makes me uncomfortable.

thanks, interesting :)

yeah that’s the only meaning I see it used with in the UK

Adobe is a shit company, and I’m not giving them any money, but the fact is their programs have features that the alternatives don’t. I’m looking forward to the day when they start supporting Linux or an alternate program family steps up with all the features I need.

I think scrapers typically run with javascript disabled, and new reddit doesn’t load at all that way

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• Adobe and other professional programs
• online games that use anti-cheat
• some old games
• some game mods

lol I was surprised that the UK has those too, then opened the article, and apparently there’s a Suffolk in the USA 🙃

afaik AVIF is even better quality/size? just has even worse software support 😅

this is the one I’ve been using for many years: https://www.oo-software.com/en/shutup10

zero for you perhaps, but I unfortunately need Adobe InDesign and Illustrator (and Photoshop but that has more alternatives), or similar software that has the many professional features I use

also need my games and mods to run on Linux… currently ProtonDB says my Steam library is 51% platinum and gold, and then I haven’t even addressed older or online games

This is my current solution too, while Win10’s extended support period lasts… I really hope Adobe will support Linux (or a working emulator is made) by the time I need to leave Win10, because I don’t want to touch Win11 with an 11-foot pole lol

Yeah this is why I don’t want to bother self-hosting. There are just too many ways to fuck it up. I’d rather pay a small fee for professionals to handle it for me 🤷 If Bitwarden goes to shit, I can always move to something else - I never heard of a password manager that didn’t let us export passwords.

I don’t think I received one of these. Only heard about the price increase on Lemmy before I was invoiced with the increased sum.

thanks, I haven’t seen this before

didn’t KeepassXC go full into vibe coding?

https://lemmy.world/post/47036606/23815574

otherwise that would be the most appealing alternative to me too