I work in a petrol station and I’ve had police and ambulance crews come in for fuel, a bus even pulled in with passengers still on board last Saturday. Never seen a fire engine pull in though but I’d guess they have tanks in the firehouse.
Not saying it’s the way it should be, but since North and South America are different continents, I typically hear “North American” used for Canadian, Guatemalan, Honduran, Mexican, Costa Rican, etc; “South American” for Brazilian, Columbian, Chilean, etc. There is no adjective for a citizen of the USA other than “American” that I can think of (no USA’an), so “American” is used as citizen of the US.
In technical stuff, “American” can mean “North American”, like the NEMA 5-15 plug is known as the “American electrical plug” which uses 110V-125 V at 60 Hz. This is a standard for all of North America (except Belize, which uses it only in part of the country).
The United States is a construct of the states themselves. Technically, 2/3 of the states could vote to dissolve the federal government and I’d suddenly become a Tennessean only. It’s not feasible, since every state gave up their right to have their own currency and have their own diplomats to join the US, but it’s something to note. The US could cease to exist by a simple vote, no overthrow of government required.
@Glamorous9899 I use a personal Friendica instance as my primary method of interacting with Lemmy. I chose Friendica for many of the reasons you mentioned: I can follow Lemmy instances and people on Mastodon. I can also follow RSS feeds. Those 2 things make up most of the content I want to follow. If there's a particular subreddit I like, but don't want to browser reddit directly, I can use the subreddit's built-in RSS as well.
The biggest drawbacks is you don't always see all of the comment history of posts, and I imagine this has to do with which instances have federated with my Friendica instance.
In addition, as you can see from this post, if I interact with a post directly it uses the fullname I use on Friendica.
Besides that last little hiccup, Friendica is an ideal solution for me. It's a great "one stop shop" so-to-speak.
From what I know, they are one of the companies endorsed by the FSF, so I’m assuming they’re good as in good with Linux and open source. For the quality of their products, I assume they work at least good enough. The specs of their PCs seem fine for the prices.
Overall, they seem to be good, especially good if you went far down the libre rabbit hole. I want to note here that they don’t seem to donate to / sponsor any open-source organizations (like KDE), unlike Tuxedo.
Also remember that the stuff that’s being talked about is probably more known around the community, so it’s possible that just not that many people know about them.
I personally would probably buy their accessories, but maybe not their computers. This is my personal opinion that I made from ~30 minutes of research and a bit of previous knowledge from a youtube video I watched yesterday, you should make up your own with more research before deciding to buy from them.
I have bought accessories from them, like wifi dongles and USB sticks. They’re great and have worked flawlessly for awhile. I cannot arrest to their more complex stuff though. I’ve always been curious.
Both have good file managers. XFCE has more options for visual customisation in my opinion. Memory usage is similar. I think XFCE works better with multiple monitors. I use LXQt and it is a little quirky—but that may be related to Openbox.
I make a list of all the ones I like. Then when I feel my system is getting too bloated, I wipe and reinstall while only installing the packages from my list.
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