Czecho-Slovak QWERTZ is fine, but it annoys me that you have to guess whether a keyboard is set to QWERTY or QWERTZ. Z and Y are the only characters that are switched. I gave up as I frequently switch to English QWERTY; now I just use QWERTY for both languages.

I have it turned off. But maybe that option is not available outside of EU? I don’t know.

That is considered non-native here and it is very difficult to get rid of it.

The following links are in Slovak, but there are latin names of the plants.

• The list of invasive species in Slovakia: https://invaznedruhy.sopsr.sk/invazne-druhy-sr/invazne-druhy-rastlin-sr/
• Non-natives: https://invaznedruhy.sopsr.sk/nepovodne-invazne-sa-spravajuce-druhy-na-uzemi-sr/nepovodne-invazne-sa-spravajuce-druhy-rastlin/
• And EU list: https://invaznedruhy.sopsr.sk/invazne-druhy-eu/invazne-nepovodne-druhy-rastlin-vzbudzujuce-obavy-unie/

I have found a seed mix that appears to not have any invasive plants (site in German): https://www.bloomling.de/samen-maier/bio-nuetzlingsweide-summ-summ-wiese, and it is also available in my country.

The Slovak company Novesta makes some: https://www.gonovesta.com/en/vegan-shoes Star Master / Dribble and a couple of other models are also made just from cotton, caoutchouc (so plastic-free except for the insole which is recycled rubber). Leather, rubber and synthetic material shoes are also available if you prefer that. Personally, I own a pair of Star Masters and they are pretty nice, although for my next purchase, I would choose shoes that are less flat. Also important to note: after 2 years, the heel counter is getting worn out from the inside.

Do they not licence their brand name to other companies?

Hmm… the ID editor is still light. That should be fixed asap along with the map dimming.

Slovak is pretty interesting in this aspect, you basically have this: á, ä, č, ď, é, í, ĺ, ľ, ň, ó, ô, ŕ, š, ť, ú, ý, ž

In fact, you can speak Slovak in Czech Rep. and people will understand you, the same the other way around.

As a Slovak, I am frustrated. The opposition seems unable to gain support from voters on the countryside, which is the majority of the population - they are the easiest to convince, usually by lying and fearmongering (i. e. “Korčok will send slovak men to Ukraine”), or giving promises they plan on never achieving but sound nice (reducing prices, even though they are doing the opposite).

The current government has plans to dissassemble the slovak TV and radio in favour of a state influenced alternative (essentially for propaganda purposes), is reducing punishment for criminals, rapists and thieves (as many of them are now in the government).

The country’s debt is growing (now at ~7b euros), railways, healthcare and schools are falling. Things still kind of work, but they are held by duct tape.

That’s definitely not normal. The rendering can be a bit slow, but everything else shold be usable. Unless you have a low-range phone. If that is the case, I can recommend Organic Maps, which are much less resource-intensive.

Organic Maps currently only supports metro/subway navigation, not buses, trains or other types of PT (although they are planning on introducing a new map layer for that). Bike routing works, although only fully separated bike paths are rendered.

Hmm, maybe some forum platform would be a good alternative? I feel like the Reddit format of Lemmy focuses more on news, rather than the forum format which is more about deeper discussions… Just an idea.

Have a look at the cyclosm.org map for details about the type of infrastructure, surfaces, bike parking, facilities and low-speed streets in your area. The map is using openstreetmap.org data, so feel free to add any missing infrastructure.

Well, you can create an account from EU, although mine got locked after creating just one blog post. And the support does not seem to respond, so I moved to a different platform.

This is the energy mix for Slovakia (I live there :]) Nuclear and hydro are the most used sources.

I usually map these with a bare node - you could also use crossing=unmarked. I honestly don’t think a new tag is necessary.

I remember reading about tyre pollution recently (I was comparing electric and ICE cars and showing the impact on the environment of both - at around 50-150k kilometers the emissions from production and use even out and BEVs then have much lower impact - but it is highly dependent on the energy mix and whether or not do you plan to replace the battery). I found out that about 6 million tons of particles get released from tyres every year. The worst thing is that there are no regulations and it is difficult to check what the tyres are made of (as it’s a trade secret). The particles can become airborne too, and some of them can cross the membranes inside of lungs - but the research about their effects on humans is scarce.

Related article from the Guardian: https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/jul/25/tyre-dust-the-stealth-pollutant-becoming-a-huge-threat-to-ocean-life

Oh wow, big tech single-handedly curing my internet addiction! Love it!

OnlyOffice has a usable client for mobile. And it’s FOSS.

Na Mastodone som si spravil účet, aj keď som predtým odmietal používať Twitter. Nemám rád systémy a algoritmy, ktoré popularizujú konkrétne účty a je takmer nemožné spoznať zaujímavých, menej populárnych ľudí. Samozrejme, ďalšia vec sú neexistujúce reklamy, žiadna karma a ocenenia na Lemmy, chronologické radenie príspevkov a menší počet ľudí. Mám pocit, že ľudia nie sú stavaní na to, aby komunikovali s, a videli názory milióna ľudí denne. Federácia a decentralizácia je v tomto ohľade super riešenie. Taktiež sa mi páči to, že tu netrávim niekoľko hodín denne, len na pár minút nakuknem a vždy sa dozviem niečo zaujímavé.