I new that the painting seemed shockingly familiar to me.

This one (“Der liederliche Student”) I’ve seen in the “Alte Pinakothek” in Munich some time ago - painted by van Honthorst in exactly the same year. Even quite apparent similarities with regard to the lady in blue…

…Than let’s just flood the comment section with information and links to the Fediverse and esp. Lemmy?

Actually, there is at least one other company specializing in sustainable / repairable electronics - besides Fairphone - I’m aware of.

Check out Shiftphone: Their new Shiftphone 8 (still under development / construction) will be a pretty solid deal with a reasonable price-performance ratio - already pre ordered mine and very excited for final delivery in March.

… Their previous models as well as spare parts, etc. are also still available through their shop.

Just out of interest: What are the specific formating options / features you’re missing to be able to perform your job?

I don’t know whether this should be hastily dismissed as “FUD”: Do you want to live in a world where all of your country’s critical infrastructure is owned by Chinese state-owned corporations as soon as your government can no longer service its loans to Beijing?

… The situation is certainly not entirely comparable, but since the start of the Russian war of aggression against Ukraine, we have seen the problems Germany has had with the fact that its gas storage facilities belong to Gazprom…

The fact that time and again right-wing populists / demagogues all over the world side with Putin against the interests of their own country…Quite curious don’t you think? Why is that? One might think that patriotism was part of their brand…? Trump, Le Pen, Orbans, FPÖ (Austria), AFD (Germany), etc. - in the end they are all traitors to their nations by regularly allying with our greatest geopolitical enemies… I just don’t get how any sane and patriotic citizen may vote for these fuckers in democratic and free elections!

…When Russian tanks are finally in Bratislava and the whole country of Slovakia is on fire, destroyed, raped and looted, please don’t expect any help! … You have brought this on yourselves!

You are aware that this is over 5 years old data (2017!) for the German electricity mix, right?

Please don’t get me wrong, the scale up of renewable energy sources is certainly not going fast enough in Germany (thanks to our conservative government that ruled the country for 16 years until 2021!), but please argue this position using the real data for 2023 (57.7% renewables in the German electricity mix)!

Yes, and that is exactly the reason why the energy transition in the heating sector (insulation, conversion to heat pumps, etc.) is proceeding so slowly in Germany! - The incentives for landlords to invest in energy-saving measures are simply non-existent if increased heating costs (higher gas prices) can always be passed on to the tenants anyway…

Wonderful idea - full support on my part 👍🏻

… The Fediverse can only acquire steady growth if engagement in some of the bigger communities picks up and new users are noticing that there is constantly something going on around here - I’m sceptic that with the natural spread of thematically related smaller communities over the Fediverse, we can make that happen without pushing some incentives for community centralization…

Actually, the German government was one of the first public entities adopting Mastodon as a secondary communication channel when shit hit the fan with regard to Musk and Twitter:

Here is their official Mastodon account!

Have an look at CryptPad :)