Nah. In Europe, Venmo is just not a thing, because bank transfers are free and fast. IDs are a plastic card, just like almost everywhere else.

Banking apps are a bit more problematic, because most people (and probably banks, idk) prefer if you use those not just if you have a smartphone and want to do banking on it, but also as a second factor for when you want to log in on your desktop.

There’s plenty of alternatives (TAN readers, for example), but none as simple or seamless, unfortunately. But bank websites are fully featured (and usually more so than the app, actually).

Fantastic. Best use of language models I’ve seen.

Probably this: https://マリウス.com/a-word-on-omarchy/#summary

No - because the do not count trains that either never started their journey, or that stopped midway through and turned around. It’s a really sorry trick to make the statistic look “better”.

“It’s not delayed, it just… Jever got there!”

I have not opened my SMS app in years.

(not the poster above)

btrfs is the only fs I’ve ever seen people have issues with, so I didn’t even want to try (though, I do recognize that that is just personal bias). I also don’t need the backup/rollback features.

Happily running xfs.

Oh, nice! And there’s even a nixpg!

But that actually is an asshole move then. Because a lot of emotional attachment and memories can be in a chat.

Yeah. I just put the media location on my nas, and that is being mirrored to hetzner.

Ussewa

If you don’t mind saying, where in the show are you currently? Because depending on that, “MC last Minute heel turn” can mean drastically different things

Nah. She is a night-owl and always stays up for hours later than myself. Which makes it really hard to get up from the couch and go to bed for me in turn.

Go to bed on time finally

OK, so what you want is for other people to volunteer their time and money to keep an instance running. That, by itself, is honestly fine, and many people are happy to do so.

But you then also do not want to play by their rules. That part is not fine.

Just host your own instance.

Others are luckily always free to block you, but you do not need to worry about losing your account.

There is not really any downside to hosting your own instance either, thanks to federation, you get to participate in the wider Lemmy community as an equal member.

Actually… Just tried it. I am on 2025.10, so newer than what was mentioned there. It still does not understand any better than from what I remember. Bummer.

But hey, at least the acknowledge that there’s the need for something between dumb pattern matching and an LLM.

Holy shit YES!

That article is from yesterday, and the relevant section is: https://www.home-assistant.io/blog/2025/10/22/voice-chapter-11/#improved-sentence-matching

Awesome to see improvements there. Thanks a lot for linking!

Alright, thanks for the recommendation (seriously)!

Definitely planned for next time. This time we went south to Fukuoka (already very few tourists) and rented a car back to Tokyo, staying in smaller towns. Highly recommend.

Oh wow, awesome!