Since many other comments have focused heavily on technological inventions, I think it makes sense to add some notable cultural impacts on society as well. As with most of the technological inventions mentioned, cultural forces also don’t come out of nowhere and arguably have been around for a lot longer than 100 years, but I think it’s pretty obvious that society within the past 100 years has been and still is being massively affected by the following concepts that did not originate in the USA:

• feminism
• civil rights movement (usually seen through a US-focused lens, but is happening everywhere)
• gay rights movement (esp. in the 1990’s and beyond)
• gender-spectrum concepts
• widespread influence of evolutionary theory (even the word “meme” came from a British biologist’s book about evolution)

Especially considering that Yuri Gagarin’s flight inspired generations of people all over the world after him to a probably immeasurable extent. If the OP wanted “global society-altering”, then that certainly qualifies.

It does begin to feel a bit like you’re moving the goal posts for what you consider “world-changing” as you comment more on this post. If the first man in space and high speed rail are “just incremental progress”, then why do rock music and AI count for you? Everything humans have ever done is accomplished incrementally using the accomplishments of prior human ingenuity.

My partner and I live separately, and we use Colota (F-Droid link) to send location data to our individual self-hosted Home Assistant instances.

Our Home Assistant instances are linked together which lets us share our locations with each other.

This might be a bit much to set up just for location sharing, but if you’re using home automation anyway, it’s nice to have it all tied together.

I don’t know for sure what that person is referring to, but I believe the default in GNOME is for alt-tab to switch applications, which is a bit unintuitive. There is a simple built-in option to change it to switch by window instead, which is probably usually what one would expect. To me, that’s not something that needs “fixing”, it’s just a default to change, which is perfectly fine.

This can be a great idea, if it’s done well. For example, the Street­Complete app has achievements to encourage contributions to the OpenStreetMaps project:

Sounds like instance C might have federation turned off. I know there’s a server setting for that, anyhow.

How would using NixOS have made OP’s system immune to the critical hardware issues that they discovered were the root cause making their computer fail to boot?

I don’t see this one mentioned often, but Frogatto & Friends is a lot of fun if you like platformers with an old-school aesthetic. I keep it on my Steamdeck to play a few levels every now and then, it’s a smooth game with a nice feeling to the controls.

The source is here.

her activities. They range from very productive performatism to useless but mostly inert lip service

You seem to be using the word performatism in both senses of it’s meaning, as performative has become a contranym. Here you are contrasting it to “inert lip service” as opposed to your earlier comment that implied the opposite meaning:

what she does is performative and doesn’t really accomplish much

Putting the confusing nature of your comments aside, I do think it’s worth highlighting very clearly that - as you yourself pointed out - performative action can be quite useful in the original sociological sense of the word. It means bringing something into being through speech/action, which is the polar opposite of “inert lip service”.

Many of Thunberg’s actions have inspired and informed others precisely because they include a performative aspect (in the sociological sense), and she doesn’t do anything that is “inert lip service” as far as I am aware. In fact, based on interviews I’ve seen of her, I suspect that “inert lip service” is incredibly annoying to her as well.

If someone needs/wants to use AI to do extremely simple things like plan their date activities, that’s a good indication that they are an exceedingly uninteresting and unengaging person overall. They can’t even do the simple things, so the hard stuff in life is going to be insurmountable and they’ll be a massive burden on their friends and partner(s).

Where’s the incentive to “give them a chance” in this scenario? The books at home are the better option by far.

I mean, we are in a degoogle community here, so it wouldn’t be odd to see criticism of YouTube’s policies as well. Yes, it’s also a problem that YouTube hosts far-right content, and is one of many reasons to degoogle.

What has this to do with degoogling?

FWIW, if you self-host Adguard, you can do those things without needing to bother with touching individual hosts files. It’ll also then just work for every device on your network. Create your own domain and expose adguard via a subdomain and you can just point your phone at your DNS server while you are on external networks too.

I despise tow operators (unless they exclusively work for repair shops) and their lesser cousins, car booters.

I’m also a “fuck cars” adherent, but tow operators are cop collaborators, and car booters are assisting them both to steal and ransom people’s personal property at the behest of capital.

Nothing is too on-the-nose for capitalists. Look at Palantir.

I can’t tell if there’s a way to deal with this from the screenshot, but that looks like an accessibility nightmare. How is a blind person supposed to accomplish that task?

What if I don’t have a mobile phone? What if I do, but the camera is broken? What if… eh, fuck Google.

Like you, I am excited about it for the sake of the community, though I’m hard pressed to find any reason to play games on my Android phone as it is. Android games are either ad infested junk that isn’t interesting to me, or open source and playable on Linux already.

I’ve messed around with Waydroid because it sounds cool in theory, but every time I get it installed, I’m like “now what?” I can’t think of anything to actually do with it, so I imagine it’ll be the same for Lepton.

Still, very cool to have the options, and I’m happy that Linux is getting more attention as a preferred platform such that gaming companies recognize the value in supporting translation layers for it.

I’m not even sure how you’d figure that out anyway. At this point, the “non AI” content by influencers is likely stuff they or their production team wrote using AI. Everything I accidentally end up seeing that was posted on the big social media platforms feels to me like regurgitated algorithmic AI influenced slop, regardless of whether a meat sack is the performance puppet or not.

You might be right about this software, but regardless of this specific use-case, I was responding to your overall sentiment towards containerization in general. It’s worth looking more into, that’s all!