I don’t see the deception. ‘vegan sausage’ ah, it’s a sausage but without meat. ‘vegan burger patty’ ah, it’s a burger patty but without meat. ‘oat milk’ ah, it’s like milk, but made from oat.

It is an easy and accurate way to describe what they are selling - a product intended to replace a specific animal product. No one is going to call a block of tofu a vegan steak - if that’s the name, it will be a product as much like a real stake as the producer can muster.

Why make things more complicated than they are?

I had a brother laser printer with a pre-heating roll that went bad. Sourcing a replacement for that was pretty annoying. But I get your point.

Why are you so adamant on this? All vegan meat replacements I’ve ever seen are very clearly marked as such, and most supermarkets around here have them in their own section.

Are you usually just stuffing your cart with things immediately after recognising a single word on the packaging? Cause that’s how you end up with shitty sausage, even if you do buy meat.

I feel like it makes sense to name replacement products in a way that makes clear what they’re replacing. Mandate putting the word vegan in front of it in the same font size if you’re really worried about confusion.

“I have helped pay for something good. More people could benefit from it, at no additional cost to me. But I’d rather they not.”

See my reply to the other comment.

I really do believe that the most sensible way to formalise it is just requiring publically funded code to be open source. Requires less complexity than co-op, and works out the same if enough countries opt-in.

See this as an example:

https://github.com/Governikus/AusweisApp/

https://commission.europa.eu/about/departments-and-executive-agencies/digital-services/open-source-strategy-history/european-union-public-licence_en

And the UK taxpayer might save money by using open source projects funded by other municipality in different countries. This is already the standard for some EU projects.

Could some countries ‘freeload’? Sure. But what’s the actual cost for that? The people in those places getting better software, while the original users are no worse off?

Could also help with less wealthy countries having access to software they couldn’t otherwise afford to develop.

Well, my fellow countrypeople consistantly go for the very obviously wrong choices.

That might not be practical. But everything else done with public money should be open source. A lot of these software projects are more or less necessary for every city globally. Collaborating on a few apps and programmes is a lot more sensible then everyone having an app custom build by a contractor.

Curiosity Stream is fine if you are looking for a service that let’s you pay to stream nature docs. The rest, I’d probably avoid. Some of the because they suck, others because there are better alternatives.

Yeah, I usually approach this stuff from the standpoint of someone who is already actively self-hosting. For people stuck in Google/MS, it is certainly better.

Vaultwarden is free. Bitwarden is free. Bitwarden Premium is 10€/year.

For what it offers, Proton is pretty expensive. They are also making inter-operation with other services difficult or impossible.

There’s much worse, but they aren’t that great either.

I just said that the economy breaking isn’t really a convincing argument to me. As for the rest - I am not sure the birth rate would make a significant difference either way.

That is a very different argument from no one being around to run the economy. I don’t necessarily disagree, but I don’t think that the ratio of workers to owners will change meaningfully before the system is at a breaking point due to missing labour. Not having children also doesn’t preclude you from working to induce mass action.

I use qemu/kvm with vm manager. There’s a lot of other options too. Most of them are valid indefinitely.

I use the Win11 LTSC IoT Enterprise Image, because it cuts out most of the usual windows bloat. Maybe have a look at massgrave.dev.

Honestly, I’d give the cool gadgets to China.

But … our current economic system is a big part of how things got so bad. Being able to fuck it up is kinda a motivator for not having kids-

Two plans, both unlimited calls and data. One is 30€, the other 15€ (the more expensive one has significantly higher speeds), on two different networks.

Depending on the moth, I tend to use 50-100 GB/month.

You can hand over a USB device fully to a Windows VM. That’s how I update my Yamaha stuff.

Because Goldman Sachs are such great and lovely people?

Because Goldman Sachs are such great and lovely people?

Double posted because of network problems.