It likely wasn’t federated to lemmy.zip. Try subscribing to it and then reloading it a few times. Otherwise you can go to it directly from https://slrpnk.net/c/money to see what should be showing up once it’s federated.

Since Taler isn’t operating in the same way as the wild-west of crypto, and needs to secure the adoption of existing banking institutions, its rollout is going to be much slower.

It hasn’t been widely adopted yet, but the big change that occured is it only just recently released a stable 1.0 version that makes wider adoption possible, and passed some essential security audits, including for iOS.

In addition to recently being approved and available in Switzerland, it is also planned to be added to a Ko-fi-like payment/donation system thanks to a grant by the NLnet foundation, which will hopefully enable it to gain wider adoption by creators or youtubers, as an example. In the future, it could become a replacement for Zelle if more banks adopt it (I suspect credit unions would be more likely to give it a try, if they became aware of it by their membership, and it was requested a lot).

There’s a bit more discussion of it over at !money@slrpnk.net, if you’re interested.

It likely does have more representation and mind-share here on lemmy since it aligns with the ideals of many users here in particular, we’re going to be more tuned into alternatives like that compared to the wider population.

GNU Taler is an anonymous digital cash, but it’s not yet widely adopted, I think only a few banks in Switzerland are using it. Hopefully if continues to gain momentum.

The U.S. has inflated solar costs compared to other countries. Even then, that’s a high cost per watt.

Most advice I’ve seen suggested that any quote above $3 a watt pre-subsidy is overpriced in the U.S. unless you live in a HCOL area.

It’s hard to say how much prices will come down after the subsidy is gone.

I got that notification for the first time today as well, guessing it’s just a tactic to get people to create accounts they can data mine to sell to AI companies.

This has not been my experience, at least on a 4G device. My internet/data still work fine on a 5 year old device.

As an owner of a 4a, I can tell you with confidence that my device has not received an update in any form for many, many months now. It is effectively unsupported, and certainly is insecure in comparison to a Pixel 6 or newer.

The GrapheneOS developers themselves have stated in their forum that they will no longer provide extended support beyond the Pixel 5a, and that the extended support it has is already effectively insecure:

You should already be treating it as if it’s not receiving updates anymore, since that’s largely the case already.

Providing extended support doesn’t fit with the way we do things at all and is ending after the Pixel 5a. It’s a temporary compromise for harm reduction through existing users at least getting some of the patches despite not moving to a secure device. When this topic comes up in this way, it hints to us that we may be doing more harm than good through people continuing to use an insecure devices. We’ll certainly stop doing it with the 5 and 7 year support devices.

A day ago, a GrapheneOS dev said of the Pixel 4a:

It’s unsafe to continue using the Pixel 4a. It lacks basic security updates. Pixel 4a was launched August 2020 so it’s at the 5 year point. It was a budget device, not a flagship. It was launched with 3 years of support, unlike 8th/9th gen Pixels with 7 years of support from launch or the prior 6th/7th gen Pixels with 5 years of support from launch.

So for the Pixel 4, it effectively received about an extra year and half of tenuous support. The Pixel 5 will receive a few more months of tenuous extended support, then there will be no extended support for any future devices, meaning users will have to upgrade at the end of Google’s official support cycle for each device.

From the link:

GrapheneOS aims to provide harm reduction releases for devices which only have a minimum of 3 years support. Extended support updates at minimum will be done until the next Android version.

Emphasis mine. That quote does not imply they will provide an additional 3 years of support, only that they will offer the harm reduction updates from the end of official OEM support until the next version of Android is released.

I have personal experience with this, as my quite old Pixel 4a received harm-reduction updates from GrapheneOS for an additional few months into 2024 until the next version of Android was released, but that did not result in years of support. It is now completely unsupported, and has a warning on every bootup that says as much.

Further along they then say:

It is likely that we will make a decision around harm reduction releases for other devices with longer lifetimes in Q4 2024.

This implies they may actually stop doing post-support harm reduction updates for the newer devices that have longer support lifetimes from Google.

There’s nothing in that link to indicate 15 years. OEM support means Google’s support, not graphene’s. GrapheneOS does usually offer a few harm reduction releases beyond the official support timeline, but that’s a few months of extra time, not years.

GrapheneOS supports a phone model for as long as Google officially does. You can see the support lifetime of each model here: https://endoflife.date/pixel

If you want to keep an updated phone constantly, you’d have to upgrade every 7 years.

I try to donate to projects I use the most.

• Mint/Debian
• Krita
• KDE
• Archive.org

If I had time to redo it, I do think that revised order would be more ideal.

I would be pretty surprised if the current order will render it completely ineffectual at informing people of those concepts, and any who do flip it over and read the poorly named step 3 will find that it recommends building community for a general strike to be successful.

Clicking on the find a branch button brings you to a zoomed out map showing chapters around the globe, but I get what you mean where the preview is zoomed in on the US by default :p

That’s when the UAW’s (a large union) contract ends, so the plan is for all unions to plan the ends of their contracts for the same date.

It is admittedly a long time to wait, but due to how little of the US workforce is unionized, I assume it’s to give time to build up more unions and gain momentum?

You can break that view of themselves through community efforts - like gardens, allotments, etc

That’s precisely what the second page mentions, as well as information on how to find a local Food Not Bombs chapter. These topics are also discussed often on Slrpnk.net, which I encourage readers to take a look at and join, in the hopes of exposing them to more in-depth discussion of those topics and people who they can talk to about it.

The people who are already open to unions are already in them.

Again, in my personal experience in my area, I have met an astonishing amount of people who genuinely have no concept of what a union or general strike are, so for them, the lack of knowledge is most certainly a big barrier.

Ah, I realize now that, at least on voyager, cross posts don’t seem to show the post body contents.

If you click through, you’ll be able to see the second page (that is supposed to be on the reverse side) that briefly covers community building as well.

I have the general strike as step two since it made sense to explain what is immediately after mentioning it, and how it goes hand in hand with unionizing.

At least in my area both unions and a general strike are completely unknown concepts to most people I mention it to, so I wanted it to be clear what they are, though I wrote it while fairly sleep deprived, so I’m sure it could’ve been done better.

Ultimately this flyer is intended to just get people started down a good right path. I could only fit so much without it likely becoming overwhelming and not read, and still fitting on a double sided page.

One way to explain this is “double system theory”, namely the idea that a successful transition between two systems (any kind of system, not just social or political systems) happens only if the dismantling of the old happens in sync with the growth of the new and this growth can fulfill the needs of its participants better than the old.

That sounds fairly similar to Dual Power/Counter Power

I really, really like the logo you have for it. It’s snazzy AF :)

Hm, I thought he mentioned it in his 6.4 juicy video, but I can’t find it either. Apologies, I must have confused it with something else.

I did manage to find this rounded corners proposal, and unfortunately it doesn’t look like it’ll be in kwin anytime soon.

I think native rounded corners were introduced in one of the latest versions, Nicco Loves Linux did a video on it, I believe.