Wish there was a good FOSS Acrobat/Blue beam alternative.

I use those tools for the majority of my work as an engineer.

T-Mobile supports these bands:

• 5G: n2/41/71/258/260/261

• 5G,ER: n25

• 4GLTE: B4/5/12/71

• 4GLTE,ER: B25/66

• 2G,GSM: B2

Fairphone 5 supports these bands:

• 5G: n1/2/3/5/7/8/20/28/38/41/48/71/77/78

• 5G,ER: n66

• 4GLTE: B1/2/3/4/5/7/8/12/20/28/32/38/40/41/42/48/71

• 4GLTE,ER: B66

It looks like the Fairphone 5 covers T-Mobile’s 5G Frequency Band 1 frequencies (bold), but Frequency Band 2 is not covered (italic).

Regarding 4G, the Fairphone 5 covers all LTE networks (bold) except for extended range band B25 (italics).

it doesn’t support US bands for TMobile

It covers some, but not all.

Even if he had gone all in on manufacturing, it’s not like a supply network of industrial goods can be built in a day. Hell, it’s hard to build that in a 4-year term. Trump is virtue signalling while at the same time jeopardizing any chance America had of reshoring.

It’s honestly infuriating me how big projects needed to improve our infrastructure take years and years to complete, when from one administration to the next, those same projects can be cancelled.

It takes multiple presidencies to build something good, and it takes one to tear it all down.

I see now the benefits of China’s 5 year plans with how well organized they can control their economy.

Do you know the origins of that meme?

I thought I had already explained my idea of its origination, but according to Know Your Meme, the “soy” reference started around 2017 when information was hitting the mainstream about how soy contains phytoestrogens (isoflavones) [likely due to the rise in veganism at the time and people pushing for soy-based milk alternatives to cow milk and protein alternatives to meat] and people started to speculate (ignorantly) that consuming more soy makes people more feminine (but particularly less masculine). This may be true, but current it’s plausible due to a lack of sufficient evidence.

Know Your Meme then go on to explain how the term “soy” gets ascribed to a meme, “Soyjack”, and how his effeminate male persona gets compared to the ultimate masculine male persona “Chad”.

I take this meme to mostly refer to how some people in the world are changing their worldviews and behaviors to disform with the traditional patriarchy and order. People are upgrading their morality, whether that means abstaining or advocating for not consuming animals for food, or championing equity and minority rights like women’s, or touting the reality of the climate crisis and how we need to abandon fossil fuels in favor of clean energy.

This is in comparison to an older, narrower point of view that aims to regress worldviews and behaviors to a time when humanity dominated all other species on Earth (since we’re obviously better), neither women nor minorities had societal or individual powers or rights, or coal, natural gas, and oil are the best forms of energy because of how much they’ve contributed to humanity’s advancement.

People who subscribe to a worldview like the latter routinely would call people with the former worldview “soy”.

Are you sure you’re okay with repeating it yourself, even if it’s just meant as a joke?

I am fine using that term myself only towards regressives that abandon their worldviews or fail to practice their beliefs out of cowardice or a lack of conviction specifically because those people claim superiority over progressives. I’d use the term on people who would call others out for being more feminine (i.e. showing compassion, talking things out before forcing people to do things, etc.) but then show those same characteristics themselves, often without them recognizing their hypocrisy.

So, I called Microsoft soy in this case not because they enjoyed relatively progressive policies on human rights for example, but because they regressed on those beliefs by foresaking them and firing one of their employees who acted fully within the policy framework Microsoft themselves had created.

We should not settle with only one side of the societal spectrum name-calling and bullying the other for how they live. All ways of life are acceptable, so long as they don’t impede other’s. Tolerance is not a paradox. It is earned, in trust, as a social contract. If people prove to (routinely) breach that contract, then they deserve no respect in my eyes.

I have no issue with calling people or groups or companies or countries soy in that way.

No, sorry there’s a meme going around online where the English term “soy” (as in soybeans; this term was likely derived from veganism where many vegans drink soy milk instead of cow milk) is being prefixed to nouns or people to denote weakness or just to snark at people, kinda like how people would use snowflake in the past.

I was calling Microsoft “soy” in this way

Soy Microsoft, tbh

Scumbags

I don’t think I’m banned. I left with the API Exodus. I do like Lemmy more now because of more free speech and control over what information I see

One State. Simple

What do you mean my that? Like, your own posts or those of others?

Not sure I’m seeing that on my side. Could be wrong tho

Sync for Lemmy feels just like Reddit is Fun (RiF). So good

Welcome!!

Let’s go!

I’m shocked, really

Think of instances like Discord servers. Then each instance has communities that are like Discord channels.

Another way to think of instances is like email providers: you can select Google or @Gmail, Microsoft or @Live, etc. The same is true for the fediverse, where you can make Lemmy.World your “provider” of Lemmy content, etc. Each community in this analogy might be folders or labels you apply to your emails so you can sort them efficiently.

What’s cool about the fediverse though is that no matter which instance you sign up to, you can see the content from communities of other instances as well. So if you have an account on Lemmy.World, you can see content from my instance, dbzer0, and all other instances.

Well, sometimes. Each instance allows federated relations in which posts, comments, upvotes, etc. are only shared between other federated instances if both the sending and receiving instances agree to that channel of information flow. If say Lemmy.World doesn’t allow that information flow but dbzer0 does, then Lemmy.World won’t see any data from dbzer0 while dbzer0 will see all data from Lemmy.World.

Think if someone posts a meme on Lemmy.World, if L.W federates with db0 and vice versa, Lemmings can see comments and upvotes from both servers to that meme post. If L.W. defederates but db0 doesn’t, then L.W doesn’t see db0 comments/upvotes but db0 sees L.W’s and db0’s. Also, db0 can respond/upvote L.W. users, but L.W. users won’t see that data. Then if both L.W and db0 defederate from each other, neither instance sees content from each other, effectively blocking the entire instances from each other.

Federation is 2-sided. Both parties must agree to information flow in order to interact.

Defederation is 1-sided or 2-sided. If 1-sided, one party sees nothing from the other, while the other party sends data that will never be seen. Kinda pointless! If 2-sided, neither party sees anything and so they don’t interact at all.

Hope that helps! Federation is an amazing tool when dealing with issues like xenophobia/racism and corporate shills like Meta’s Threads trying to take over the FediVerse.

Welcome!

Welcome!

Welcome! I’ll leave this comment explaining Lemmy that I’ve previously left for new users:

Welcome to Lemmy! I’m glad you joined. There are tons of tutorials out there for how to use the platform, but if it helps, here’s my advice:

I use the Android app Sync For Lemmy. Reminds me a lot of rif is fun from before Reddit shut down 3rd party API access about a year ago.

Lemmy.World is the name of the biggest instance on Lemmy. Think of it as a discord channel with different sub-channels except those are called communities here (and instead of r/ for subreddits we have c/ for communities).

There are still trolls here. What’s nice about Lemmy is that you can block individual trolls, communities of trolls, or even instances of trolls (if you deem them so). Conversely, if you get banned from any of the above, you can make a new account on any other instance (like dbzer0 or shitjustworks) and still have access to the content from those people/places. The same is true if certain communities/instances change their policies on things like Luigi, which happened on Lemmy.World recently. I switched over to dbzer0 to avoid that censorship and to also see stuff about pirating - that which is banned on Lemmy.World.

Lastly, we can see posts/comments from other people on the Fediverse, like from Mastodon (Twitter alternative) and others.

Hope you enjoy your stay here! Lemmy is primarily tech- and politics-focused rn, but a lot of people draw parallels to Reddit’s early days, which is good!

Yeah. I’m a vegan and I took issue with that. Sure we can do scientific studies to see how cats do on vegan diets, but imo that further propels cat domestication which vegans should be against at the very beginning. We already subject cats and other pets to environments that aren’t natural to their genetic history. And now vegans are introducing foods that aren’t natural, even though taking cats off streets can be seen as the more ethical thing to do, given the alternatives.

Lots of nuance here, but it’s not fair to the cats. Any time vegans think for themselves instead of the real victims of animal slavery, they undermine their entire cause.

Damn Sunshine, you’ve been popping off on content. Formally, thank you 🙏