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Wikipedia doing well is great, but that doesn’t mean people should stop donating to them.

It’s a resource of free and open information, which I believe to be increadibly important. Especially right now given everything that is going on. Democracy requires an informed populace, and having a platform like Wikipedia is an immensely important public good.

And frankly I’m not unconvinced that this “don’t donate to Wikipedia” line might have originated as a propaganda campaign meant to limit access to free and open information.

I donate sporadically to traditional charities (feed the poor, cancer research, etc) when I’m asked for a donation either at the door or in the street. Similar to how I give money to a homeless person if they ask and I have some on me.

I’ve also donated to a couple of causes that I particularly care about, such as Wikipedia. And I’m paying some money each month to the local gay rights lobby and cycling advocacy lobby.

I don’t have recurring payments to any traditional charities set up, however.

Edit: I should donate to my Lemmy instance.

I think that finally got fixed several years ago. I do remember this exact problem though…

By default both the Dutch and US International layouts would be enabled if you set up the computer to the Dutch region. And you could switch between them (accidentally) by pressing some key combination. It was highly annoying…

AZERTY is not really about being similar to QWERTY. It’s the French standard keyboard layout.
Similarly QWERTZ is the German standard keyboard layout.

Most (European?) countries use some variation of QWERTY with the symbols and special characters moved around to fit their respective languages better. Over here in the Netherlands we are a bit of an outlier in the sense that we use the US layout of QWERTY, but with additional modifier keys to make special characters available (It’s called US International)

There is also niche layouts like DVORAK (optimized layout for English) and BÉPO (optimized layout for French).

What is the reason you switched to AZERTY, if I may ask? I’m quite curious.

That makes more sense. Thanks!

My guess is that they are referencing the default applications for Android Auto?

Google Automotive Services, consisting of Google Maps, Google Play and Google Assistant, is an offering enabling the use of such services in in-vehicle infotainment systems

Imo it’s already difficult enough to convince friends and family to use Signal. Delta Chat would be even more difficult to pull off.

I like to think that these videos are the only thing keeping Patrick Boyle sane from his career in finance.

His channel is great. I love his dry sense of humour.

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