snuggledick

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[–] snuggledick@lemm.ee 2 points 15 hours ago

According to their website it comes with /e/OS, a degoogled Android.

[–] snuggledick@lemm.ee 11 points 23 hours ago* (last edited 22 hours ago) (1 children)

Been using mailbox.org for a couple of years and I'm quite happy with it. Don't know what "needs client app" is supposed to mean though. If you don't want to use a mail client you can use the web interface. I've used maildroid on Android with it and when it was discontinued switched to Thunderbird, both work fine with mailbox.org.

There's one tiny minor annoyance, they somehow automatically create a new "archive" folder for every year that the web interface uses when you hit the archive button but in your mail client you gotta change the preferences manually once a year. Don't know if you can change but it's such a minor inconvenience I never bothered to check.

 

Macron, who has been calling for years to direct defense spending toward EU products, said he wants to convince other European countries that are currently “buying American” to shift to local options.

[–] snuggledick@lemm.ee 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I know, I posted it. :) I wrote the comment as reply to

Maybe there's a third program that works in yet other countries?

as 2g2g operates in a bunch of countries.

[–] snuggledick@lemm.ee 3 points 1 day ago

There is a filter in the settings for vegan/vegetarian. In my experience the shops/restaurants always asked me if I eat meat/fish when filling the bag, but I also live in a very hipster area where it feels like majority of people is vegan now, might be different elsewhere. :)

[–] snuggledick@lemm.ee 8 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Don't know if this is new but I just checked and you can set your diet preferences in the account settings.

I hardly believe restaurants prepare extra food in advance just to sell it a huge discount with very little or no profit. Actually whenever I went to a restaurant that participated it wasn't leftover stuff but they cooked the meal fresh just for me. I guess they're using the app as a way to advertise and draw more people in with a big discount and hope they come back again to eat there at the full price.

[–] snuggledick@lemm.ee 5 points 1 day ago (4 children)

I'm using 2g2g in Germany and there are lots of participating shops here. According to their website, they're operating in all of Europe as well as Canada, Australia and the US.

[–] snuggledick@lemm.ee 8 points 1 day ago

Ok but even if that was the case and they produce too much because they can sell the rest at a discount, it's not really "too much" if everything gets sold and eaten. Why would they produce less than there's demand for? I don't really see a problem as long as the food doesn't end up in a trash can.

[–] snuggledick@lemm.ee 8 points 1 day ago (2 children)

But if someone buys and eats the food then it's not wasted, is it?

[–] snuggledick@lemm.ee 16 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

I disagree, at least don't see that for any of the stores participating in my area. They don't like overproducing either, everything they throw away is a loss for them. But it's also difficult to predict how much you'll be able to sell on any given day. Bakeries for example usually bake only once a day in the early morning and they have to make an educated guess about how much of each item will be sold that day, but it's never gonna be a perfect guess. Sometimes they're out early, a few customers will be disappointed and the shop will make a tiny bit less profit that day, and some other times they produce a bit too much that they won't be able to sell the next day so they'd have to throw it out. I just don't see how it's greenwashing trying to avoid that by finding takers for the extra stuff using this app. If someone eats the food then it's not wasted food.

[–] snuggledick@lemm.ee 6 points 1 day ago

Yeah, I've tried a bunch of places at first but now I have 4-5 favorite ones that always have good stuff. Some restaurants seem to use the app more as advertisement to get more people visiting, but I think that's fair too when they offer a meal for half the price in return. Also I never got any bad deals, it was always a good bargain even if I didn't end up liking what I got. It's kind of a plus for the app actually in my opinion because that I tried many new places that I'd normally not care about just because they were in the app, and I found some really nice ones this way.

[–] snuggledick@lemm.ee 1 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Ah I see, I thought it was about sharing stuff with your partner. No idea then. :/

EDIT: Oh I just realized the person I replied to wasn't you, nevermind then. :)

[–] snuggledick@lemm.ee 7 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Sounds like any "visual bookmarking" tool would work for that. You could check out https://www.pearltrees.com/ for example (France).

 

I've been using their app for some time now and really like the concept: Basically it allows restaurants, bakeries, supermarkets etc to announce when they have stuff leftover that they'd usually throw away at the end of the day. You can browse those nearby shops in the app and reserve a "surprise bag" for a small amount, usually around a third of the regular price, but it varies. In the pickup timeframe (usally around 30-60min before their closing time) you go there, show that you've reserved the bag in your app, confirm that you've received it and happily walk home with a ton of surprise food for super cheap.

After using it for a while I can especially recommend looking for food stalls at farmers markets as they often have lots of stuff leftover that they don't want to take back home when packing up so they're often super generous. Bakeries are also great, I regularly get a week's supply of bread, buns, pastries and cake for like 3-5€.

EDIT: While it's made in Denmark the app works globally or at least all of EuropeAFAIK, definitely works fine with lots of participating shops in Germany.

 

Russia is manipulating global AI models by embedding its propaganda within them, a tactic termed "AI grooming," which raises concerns about the potential influence of these models on public opinion and the reliability of information disseminated by AI systems.

 

Direct link to the news site but the article is worth reading as well to learn what it's about. Basically a bunch of European public broadcasters teamed up to make a news site where you can find interesting news from all over Europe that you'd otherwise probably miss.

 

Welcome to the brand new NAFO community on Lemmy!

I just created this community because I thought it's weird that there wasn't one already, let's see how this goes. This might be a good palce for more in-depth discussions, promoting fundraisers, organizing stuff and so on.

If you're completely new to Lemmy, here is a good way to start. It doesn't matter on which instance you create an account, you can still search all over the fediverse and subscribe to this community on lemm.ee.

Here is a list of clients/apps for Lemmy.

Some other relevant communities worth checking out:

Ukraine news: !ukraine@sopuli.xyz

Buy European, defund Trump: !buyeuropean@feddit.uk

Same but for Canadians: !buycanadian@lemmy.ca

Will add more if I can think of any, suggestions welcome!

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