@hedge just so, upfront? Kinda is, yeah. But if you talk to them about Signal and that you’re using it and how cool is it before that, it’s okay, imo.

@plactagonic I still have my Huawei phone and it works perfectly fine. I turned it into a Digital Audio Player, and I plan to fill it with music.

And it has Play Store support.

@Midnitte right. I didn’t think about this, sorry 😁 however, modern Android versions have this option built-in. I used Twilight as well in the past, however, I no longer feel like I need it.

@Tucumano88 Settings > Display > scroll all the way to “color”

@alyaza Are you guys voting already? Good luck and hope the orange man only gets to serve fries for the rest of his life. Here it’s a cold day. We’re already experiencing temperatures as low as 1°C and the radiators are cool as well! I’m basically waiting for the heat to come already. Yesterday, I heard some water going through the pipes but when I touched them they were still cold. I don’t know what’s going on.

I think I’ll get my plants inside the house and I also tried to look for a bigger pot for my ficus. Sadly I cannot find anything in the regular supermarkets, so I think I will go to a specialized store.

I’m happy about the outcome of the Moldovan elections (about which I wrote more broadly in the Politics community) and I’m looking forward to our elections too. They are the most anemic presidential elections to date and I’m really not sure if I should vote for the lesser evil or cancel my vote…

Looks like the post did not update on Beehaw’s end since this morning. So here are all the updates I wrote this entire day to the OP:

Edit 11:25 AM local time: The website seems to be down for me, but one of my friends can see the results. It is 50.26% for the yes camp!

Update 12:13 AM local time: Website still down, but there is an alternative source here: agora.md/alegeri-2024/rezultat… There is also a YouTube stream of the official webpage here: youtube.com/live/SJPX0Nfwllo. Almost all reports have been processed (2200 out of 2219) and the score is 50.31% yes and 49.69% no. Nice. Also, the delay on my node is killing me, is my node on the same server as the elections’ website? lol.

Update 12:30 AM local time: The president of the Central Election Commission declared that there were some frauds recorded at the election: people stealing their ballots that should have been cast, or picturing them, paying voters etc. Eugen Tomac, Romanian MEP of Moldovan origin, declared at Digi24 (same report) that “Russia thrown […] enormous resources and made available its entire state apparatus. […] The results should be regarded with this restrain, regarding the extreme involvement of Russia in the effort to confiscate these elections. And it is only the beginning.”

Update 1:55 PM local time: agora.md seems to throw a 404 error, but the YouTube stream is still going. There is also this site: bertybuttface.github.io/dova/. 50.42% of people have voted in favor of the Constitution modification, which means the referendum has already passed. Russia, as expected, is angry about the results, already. ¯⁠\⁠_⁠(⁠ツ⁠)⁠_⁠/⁠¯.

Update 7:30 PM local time: Official website recovered a few hours earlier, but I didn’t want to edit this thread any further. This is the final edit:

Maia Sandu and the pro-european camp won!

It was a huge effort on behalf of her team, not just for her own campaign, but also for convincing the regular folks to vote in this historic referendum. Seems like in any Romanian state, the diaspora is the one that comes to the rescue and make the right choice for us. It’s a pitty, but whatever gets us on the right track is more than welcome. The fight is not over, but this is a huge milestone on Moldova’s way to the European Union, to progress, prosperity and to secured freedom. The victory is a marginal one, with only 12,000 votes difference, but it’s still a reason to celebrate. It is a proof that every single vote counts and can be the one that makes the difference. So go out there and vote at the next elections if you can.

Below are the final results of the referendum (it says preliminary, but all the votes have been counted):

And here are the results for the elections:

As you can see, at the presidential elections there is a solid victory of Maia Sandu (Action and Solidarity Party or PAS, pro-EU), with 42.45%. At a huge distance below, there is Stoianoglo Alexandr (Socialists, pro-Russia), with 25.98% of the votes. The other two candidates that won over 5% of the votes are also pro-Russian. All three of them make up for 45.15% of the votes, which might go to Stoianoglo. The second round of these elections will be interesting to watch. Thank you for staying with me.

@MachineFab812 Yess, the pro-EU camp won. It’s the best news I could get for today!

Thank you so much!

@Mr_Mofu Whoa, so many double deckers!

@The_Che_Banana yeah, it seems like the vote has shifted in favor of the yes camp. They’re slowly getting there.

It will still be a bit bad, as I outlined in the OP, but it’s the lesser evil.

Hope Maia Sandu can also make it in the next round, I am very nervous about it.

@tardigrada absolutely. Russia put a significant amount of money to make sure people vote the right option: to return to the Motherland.

Gosh, if only they sent these money before to build roads, schools, hospitals and whatnot, instead of pocketing the oligarchs…

@0x815 wow. This is actually comforting to know. It seems we haven’t lost our direction, at least yet…

@tardigrada it isn’t escalation if Russia does it

@14th_cylon they’re using duckduckgo though.

@jawa21

@Pyflixia This one might be a very obscure thing, but back when I was in high school, I used to download music from a website called mp3ostrov.rucom (edit: it was .com, apparently). Of course, the website was in Russian and I couldn’t understand a damn thing, so I had to resort to the Chrome translation for it (Or I guided myself with the icons). But it had so much music on it, and it was really easy to get. And whatever I could not source from there, I downloaded from YouTube, but the downloader I used had too many ads.

@BossDj I see

@lnxtx I see

@lnxtx Are you implying that old trams never had any commercials on them? (Here’s another example)

@Mr_Mofu

I think the West as a collective should at least stop being so passive and draw some red lines itself.

@MrMakabar @sunzu2 less than 5 months left…

@LaFinlandia Assholes! They more than certainly want to make sure the right person wins the election, before postponing that indefinitely.

Hope the orange man will be beaten decisively at the ballots or things in all Eastern Europe will be terrible.