Signal ?
A good one IMHO is Omnivore.
Omnivore is a complete, open source read-it-later solution for people who love to read.
A good chair for sure. I think this is the most valuable thing you can ask for.
The issue with the current time zones in Europe is that they are far from being natural... The more you go to the west the later the sun is raising and setting, the more you go to the east, the opposite. Current western European time zone is too large... There are initiatives to improve that but will it be done ?
For example: https://timeuse.barcelona/what-we-do/permanent-time-zones-eu/
Thank you for your dedication in maintaining us a great instance. Very much appreciated, I'm really happy that my initial instance closed and that I choose (mostly out of luck) this one.
A bit on the costly stuff but I find the vacuum cleaner robot (not sure it's called this in English) very useful. The house is cleaner to be vacuumed every day (even if it's not as efficient as manual vacuuming or cleaning). Especially with pets and children.
Recently switched to Duck Duck Go and honestly I find the results better than Google. More accurate, less "sponsored" results, ...
I think that one of the structural change that helped a lot to have less stalled or unmaintained open source projects is the improvement in the DevOps tools.
I mean that, until recently, I always had been an open source user and supporter but, despite being a professional software engineer, I never coded in open source projects. The reason to this is that I did not wanted to commit myself into a project that I cannot afford to work regularly on because of professional and/or personal time constraints.
Now with the broad use of git and related platforms for open source projects (GitHub, gitlab, ...), it's possible to work only a little on open source projects. You can fix a bug impacting you as an user, translate some strings in your native language, improve the doc, ... without commiting to work regularly on the project. You just change the stuff, have no requirements to inform anyone, make a pull request and it's merged or not by the maintener ...
I think this is really what contributed to improvement in the way open source projects evolved.
It could be nice for transparency purpose to publish a list of reasons for each blocked instance. ( Could be even better if Lemmy supported that out-of-the-box but I don't think this is a top priority right now).
Exactly this is the problem, when I talk non-geek (including my wife) about privacy they answer "what the hell have you to hide !" ... It's so difficult to convince people :'(
Just finished Death's End, by Cixin Liu which is the last volume of Remembrance of Earth's past trilogy (better known from the title of the first book The three body problem). I enjoyed very much the 3 novels, great Sci-fi and I also learned many things about Chinese culture through translator notes. (note: I've not seen the Netflix show before reading it, because I hate watching movies about novels I have not read, it block too much the mental image I do reading the book, therefore limiting the amazement of reading).
Next, I decided not to read the fan fiction sequel but rather what is presented as a prequel: Ball Lightning, by Cixin Liu.