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I disagree with OP too, but I also think downvotes are not great for disagreement. I like them much more for marking something as wrong or off topic. Otherwise we just limit lemmy to a tool that finds the majority opinion, instead of being an actual discussion platform.

For example, OP starts a discussion and your comment that I disagree with is a legitimate opinion, so I won’t downvote either. But if someone tried to derail the discussion by commenting ramen recipes, I might downvote that.

I think they have one (also built in India, but not sure which markets it’s sold in other than EU).

It doesn’t have VRR but it does have a configurable refresh rate. So e.g. if a game runs at a stable 40 fps you can run the display at 40 Hz too (or 80 Hz for the OLED model) and then you don’t get the uneven frame spacing you’d get from vsync with 40 fps on a 60 Hz display. With VRR the screen would also adjust to whatever frame rate the game produces even if it’s not stable, and the Deck doesn’t do that. But being able to get 40 fps with uniform frame timing instead of the 30 fps you’d have to use if the display was locked to 60 Hz (LCD model) or 90 Hz (OLED model) is a huge difference.

These are all forks of forks of the microblogging platform Misskey, so they tend to focus on their differences compared to other Misskey forks or Misskey itself. I don’t think it’s strange for people interested in the Fediverse to at least have heard of these. Misskey is older than Mastodon and it supported ActivityPub before e.g. Lemmy existed.

I remember visiting family friends in Yugoslavia just before it broke down, and getting a new bag of money from the ATM every morning because the rate was so volatile and the currency was basically worthless.

Which ties into the question about the German mark. It was a strong currency and the second largest reserve currency after the USD. It had some use outside Germany too, it was accepted for payment in some countries that had more volatile local currencies, and Kosovo and Montenegro straight up used it as their official currency until they switched to the Euro. Bosnia’s currency is named after it, uses its unit names, and was pegged to it (now to the Euro).

One reason for the Euro, and one reason why there was resistance to it in Germany, was the idea that a common currency could keep a unified Germany’s economy in check. Especially France wanted this, and Germany agreed to make an eventual monetary union part of the package deal for German reunification.

But the general idea of the Euro is that it reduces barriers to trade. And as opposed to the previous paragraph, this part actually worked.

Some EU countries negotiated exceptions to the Euro a long time ago (like Denmark), but in general there are requirements a country needs to fulfill before joining the monetary union. Most countries that aren’t using the Euro now are legitimately not meeting these requirements. Sweden is the main one actively not trying to meet them but that’s an exception. Recently there have been more voices that this was a mistake, as research has shown that the Euro significantly increased trade and foreign direct investment, and in comparison we can see that Sweden just did not get those benefits.

Parallel pricing is kind of normal. People need to get used to the new numbers. We had this too when the Euro was new.

According to the article, he was hiring Americans at first. However:

“They would call five minutes before milking time, and say, ‘I’m not going to make it,’” Tim said. “Well, who’s going to milk the cows? We’re trying to run a business. It just wasn’t working.”

Then he switched to Mexicans.

With Codeberg the main risk is that they’re a small non-profit that depends on donations, so they could run out of money. That doesn’t allow them to act against their bylaws, but it could affect availability of the service.

Personally I would choose Codeberg because their services are hosted in the EU (Germany).

If we could get public restrooms like the ones in Japan just for watching a few ads, I’d be all for it…