Yeah, Paris specifically.

I spent one day in Paris, let me give you the highlights…

1. We arrived, left the train station, and were immediately accosted by like 5 people trying to sell us friendship bracelets, or little string bracelets
2. We left the area and walked to a local Metro station to get across the city, we wanted to check something, so we went to the nearby information section, where the lady refused to speak any English, despite the signage indicating that English was spoken there
3. We figured it out on our own and entered the station, which smelled exactly and completely of piss
4. We got off the train and walked along the river for about 10 seconds before being accosted by a conman pretending we’d just dropped some jewelry. Apparently it’s a common con. We ignored him and moved on.
5. We had an ok time for the rest of the day trip, until we got back to the original train station, where we sat in a café beside a family who decided to change their kid’s diaper at their table, and then threw the used one to the nearest bin like they were playing cornhole

I’m not in a big rush to go back.

I’m English, so I’m sure the feeling’s mutual. ;-)

Is it that surprising that your average person in another country is easy to get on with? I’ve been to a fair few different countries and the everyday people you interact with are lovely (except France).

It’s the fucking politicians you’ve got to look out for, and not just the foreign ones.

That is how wikis work.

Because being gay is still illegal?

It used to be a convenient way to keep up with friends and share photos. It took a while to turn into a politics-filled hell-hole where making people argue in the comments got prioritized because any engagement is good engagement.

I don’t know if there’s a way around that, but I suspect there is. I wouldn’t mind someone trying.

I went to Singapore to chew gum, watch porn online, be gay, have 1 gram of cannabis, and I’m all out of gum, which is good, because all of those things are illegal.

There’s been one political party in power for decades. A guy went to the place where you’re allowed (gee thanks) to speak freely, and then got arrested for speaking freely. You can get the death sentence for having some drugs. All male citizens have to do a year of military service.

It’s a lovely place to spend a short time, but there’s no way I’d ever live there.

Oh look, a calm, measured, reasonable comment on the internet.

Even in your edit you ended with uncertainty.

You think the entire nation of China needs a small amount of money from Elon?

China is the largest holder of foreign reserves in the world, and has been for years. We’re talking trillions of dollars, not a few billion.

There’s dozens of us! Oh wait, yeah.

Ah, is that why my headphones sound all weird for a second when a call comes in and the audio hasn’t paused yet?

Think of the number of times you’ve needed your phone to be waterproof versus the number of times you could have plugged in a decent pair of headphones and not had Bluetooth introduce lag and mono audio.

I can’t remember the last time I cared about data speed for a USB cable, but charging speed is useful when I’m charging my phone before leaving the house.

Hey everyone, check out my app, you just need to spend like $3500 on this bespoke hardware first!

Apologies for the laziness here, but I self-host a WordPress site with a bunch of old blog posts that are now private. I’m not ready to make it an offline archive yet (maybe I’ll restart blogging one day), but I’m not interested in supporting or otherwise using WordPress any more. I don’t have any major requirements or plugin dependencies.

What is a good alternative to self-hosting WordPress these days?

Edit: thanks for the suggestions so far. One key requirement is the ease of importing hundreds of WordPress posts from its output format. I don’t really want to manually process them all, I did that to get them into WordPress way back when I switched to it.

Wow, they’re really churning them out. I’ve still only seen the first season or two, and I really enjoyed what I saw. I hope the quality remains as high at this speed.

Chinaman is not the preferred nomenclature, dude.

It’s not a good source, but knowing they got it from there is useful information.

If you’re on Lemmy then you’re not gonna like the answer… It’s ChatGPT.