Thanks!

I would be interested to go there, definitely. Just maybe not while the regime is still in place. But I am bettng Pyongyang is quite impressive and rural areas, while super-poor may be too.

Rock-hard, even though it’s not cold.

You can’t even read the title of the window properly, and it’s a short one! And there’s this ugly scramble of icons all clustered on the left. This may work and you may be used to it but Gnome is certainly not designed to be used like that.

Hiding all the buttons as the poster above told you to do is worse though.

It was an important model in the 90s and early 2000s. It helped that ever more computer users came online at the time many of whom wanted very similar utilities and that those shareware companies often basically consisted of a guy in a basement converting Diet Coke into code.

7Zip is open-source and can be audited which is something people do from time to time (e.g. there was an encryption issue that was fixed a few years ago). No real reason to fear it simply because the author is Russian.

It was visible in large parts of North America.

Free buffet?

There is even toilet paper with ads on it. Does that count as “ads in our anuses”?

Ftr: I was talking about regular RSS feeds+MP3 downloads, not Spotify exclusives.

If you really wanted to do something about Spotify exclusives, the likely only way to do this legally is building a custom Spotify client—Spotify allows custom clients, but only for paying customers, not for free users.

It likely won’t work (well), because lots of podcasts actually use Megaphone and similar services that add interest-based ads into your download. I.e. ads can be of variable length or there may even be no ads, because the podcast targets the US but you’re downloading from Pakistan.

Since you pee out electrolytes along with water, drinking too much distilled water has the effect of washing out electrolytes from your body.

This is almost literally the process Coca-Cola uses for its Smartwater brand. People outside Coca-Cola have described the process of removing everything then adding it back as dumb though. I wonder why

As long as they eat their Five a Day, that is.

On the Wawa parking lot?

German beer/water/juice bottles are mostly standardized. There are some massive warts in the system unfortunately: The deposit is legally mandated but the bottles are private standards. Hence breweries/bottling companies are increasingly deviating from the standard bottles for marketing reasons. And there’s a separate single-use flimsy-plastic deposit system used by discount stores which is very effective at collecting bottles for recycling but doesn’t foster reuse.

However, I find it ridiculous that we’re transporting all that water at all even though tap water here is at least as drinkable as the bottled water.

So this is what happens when package maintainers fail to find the problematic bits during package updates. I’ll be honest, after seeing how Linux package management is done (automation and semi-automation galore) and by whom (people who often don’t know the programming language of the source and who don’t have much time either), I am more surprised that it took this long.

Washing and reusing is much more environmentally friendly than recycling. It may be more expensive because of the current societal/legal environment but given the right incentives, it doesn’t have to be.

Deposit systems with standardized containers would be my wish. And I wouldn’t mind if some of the standardized containers were made of plastics.

I’d also hope for all sorts of concentrates and powdered drinks to take over. A large portion of the packaging we go through every day is actually for drinks.

Single-use bioplastics and fungi-based materials may also be part of the solution. Bioplastics would ideally be created from byproducts of other processes though.

I wish that worked for me. The armrest of my chair catches onto every bit of cable it finds slightly hanging off the table. Granted, that’s only an issue because the armrest is T-shaped rather than O-shaped.