xep

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[–] xep@discuss.online 4 points 7 hours ago

You can if you're a spider

[–] xep@discuss.online 8 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Khalifa,

I don't know who you are. I don't know why you are asking. If you are looking for closure, I can tell you that I won't give you any. But what I do have are a very particular set of skills, skills I have acquired over a very long career. Skills that make me a nightmare for people like you. If you let this go now, that'll be the end of it. I will not look for you, I will not pursue you. But if you don't, I will look for you, I will find you, and you will know what a Marine Biologist does.

Regards

[–] xep@discuss.online 16 points 3 days ago (1 children)

The problem with Gary is thinking that Singletons are ok to write in the first place.

[–] xep@discuss.online 1 points 4 days ago

This IMHO is the main feature setting Google Maps apart from the FOSS maps. I wonder what the best way of getting it to be FOSS is? Is it getting the public transport companies to provide programmatic access to their scheduling?

[–] xep@discuss.online 27 points 6 days ago (1 children)

'Natural' dye doesn't make any of those things any less ultra-processed.

[–] xep@discuss.online 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

If you disable TPM in your bios, W11 won't install, nor update if it is already installed.

[–] xep@discuss.online 9 points 1 week ago (10 children)

What is so lazy about Python?

[–] xep@discuss.online 36 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Why is the opposite of 'Yes' 'Not now'?

[–] xep@discuss.online 3 points 1 week ago (2 children)

I see, so your definition of luxury good is "something that can be functionally replaced." I was thinking of the economic definition.

I don't think meat to be functionally replaceable with plant proteins. Heme-iron alone makes it very difficult to do, since iron from plants is far less bioavailable. What does a vegan diet do for Vitamin B12? Conspicuous consumption is not necessary for survival, but B12 very much is.

I don’t notice a day-to-day difference.

Changes from nutrition can take a long time to become manifest. I wish you longevity and good health.

[–] xep@discuss.online 4 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (5 children)

Commercial meat is a luxury

This is a take I've never heard before, it's not how I think luxury goods are defined, and I'm now genuinely curious as to what you consider a luxury product. Do you think that eating some chicken is the same as wearing a Hermes handbag, or driving a Lamborghini?

because it can be entirely replaced by other calories + nutrients + supplements.

This reads to me like it cannot be replaced without supplementation, which seems to be a critical flaw for people who are unable to supplement. I'm also of the opinion that calories are not a useful measure for nutrition, since our bodies are not bomb calorimeters.

[–] xep@discuss.online 19 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (4 children)

Fair point, but there's quite a large hurdle to rooting a phone nowadays, and I'm not optimistic that FOSS will continue to work as well on Android for the average person once Google introduces these restrictions. iPhones could be jailbroken but there never really was much open source software on those things.

 

Sony's AOSP on Xperia Open Devices page: https://developer.sony.com/open-source/aosp-on-xperia-open-devices

With the recent activity around Google restricting sideloading and not releasing device trees for Pixel, this is a possible alternative. I haven't tried it, but intend to switch to a Sony device for my next phone.

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