I think, it's possible to find alternative materials which behave similar to plastic in certain use-cases.
But yeah, I can't see a one-for-one replacement happening. It's part of the appeal of plastic, that it does not degrade.
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There's also this newfangled cutlery out of metal, which is pretty cool. You rub it with soap water and it's as good as new.
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That would be cool, but human brains are weirdos. If you're already copying text, you could've edited or annotated it, for example. For example, if it's an opinion you don't entirely agree with, you might feel obliged to say so, because you have the ability to do so when it's a text post.
If you want to call that irrational, I'm not arguing against that. I'm just saying it's the reality we live in and I'd like to have tooling to deal with that better, because I would also prefer text to not be screenshotted.
Yeah, really unfortunate that that's not possible. Always having to take a screenshot and then type out letter by letter what's on the screenshot, that can be quite annoying.
But even if copying text was possible, the reason people post pictures of text is to give proper attribution, but also to distance themselves from the content, so that it's clear that they don't necessarily hold the exact same opinion or that they might not have all the knowledge to defend the statements in the post.
Cross-posting could fill that same roll without screenshotting text.
You might be thinking of "Holland"? The Netherlands is sometimes informally referred to as "Holland", but that's also a region within the Netherlands:
Would be cool, if we could cross-post Mastodon posts...
If they couldn't find/trust additional admins, I don't see how they could've handed it off entirely...
The meme is a reference to a popular German YouTube channel, called "Held der Steine" (basically translates as "Hero of Bricks").
On the channel, a guy shows off building block sets which you can then also buy in his accompanying shop. Up until a few years ago, it was almost exclusively Lego sets. Then Lego sent him a mail that his channel logo, which contained a Lego-like brick shape, violated the Lego trademark.
At a later point, they also demanded videos of him to be taken down where he had colloquially referred to building block sets from other manufacturers as "lego", as we often do in German.
And yeah, this did not go down well, so now the guy mostly shows off building block sets from other manufacturers and frequently highlights how insanely expensive Lego is in comparison.
Non-gaming anecdote: Colleagues wanted to build a Rust application for different platforms. (Save for scripting languages, Rust has some of the nicest tooling around that.)
Building for Windows:
cross build --release --target=x86_64-pc-windows-gnu
Building for Linux:
cross build --release --target=x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu
Building for macOS:
Uh, you need some signing key or something like that? I believe, they had also concluded that you'd need to use a Mac to do the build, rather than being able to cross-compile from wherever.
In the end, they decided not to support macOS...
Well, the unfortunate part about Metal is that it's incompatible with the rest of the world, too. They could've integrated Vulkan and chose to do something slightly different instead, because that's the way the Apple crumbles, I guess.
There is MoltenVK, which is a compatibility layer to be able to run Vulkan games on macOS. Maybe they'll integrate that. But well, it wouldn't be on-brand, and it certainly still doesn't make it easier for gamedevs looking to support macOS.
That one happens for me, too. I like to imagine a non-techie trying to use that web version and every time it starts doing the login-logout loop, they have to contact tech support.
For me it happens about once a week. Surely, there's organizations where this keeps tech support busy all day...