My local solar steam generator was shut down years ago as it was no longer worth testing direct reflector material anymore — even if they had gotten perfect reflectivity they couldn’t compete with photovoltaics anymore

Thinkpads are more expensive and far far less user serviceable

The fact that some paper straws perform as well as plastic suggests that the bad ones are just cheaper and are used by companies that don’t care. When I used to drink the sort of drinks that use straws I carried a steel straw to use in places that didn’t supply good straws

Right now I’m wearing a wool shirt under a linen shirt. I’d count the local weather as “warm”

My decade old plastic shirts have faded, the linen ones last better, but yeah, they stain (and I’m not going to test them with plastic coatings to improve stain resistance!). I only get bold colours, so my pastel shirts are very faded

Of course the 2% contributor has been addressed, personal care products now aren’t allowed to have plastic “abrasives”, which is a good change anyway as plastic is useless for improving scrubbing

No other sources have had any work done to mitigate the problem

I feel like this is the least funny far side comic of all

Feigned is such an uncommon word I’m not surprised to see it spelt like that. I’m all for fixing English spelling, it really is a mess of broken rules

I never understood a single word he said 🎵

Why do you use Lemmy, given the politics of its own source creator? Bit hypocritical.

So you won’t buy the most user maintainable and repairable laptop, that also comes with Linux and probably worth open source firmware in the not too distant future because you don’t like the politics of the owner of an open source project the company supports?

That really feels like cutting off your nose to spite your face

That’s odd, it’s not a story about religion, it’s about Brian who’s a very naughty boy

I really like the fact that if most of the lanes in the bottom picture were replaced by rails and trains, the cars would be able to travel faster

It’s nice to see humans and bonobos in the same sentence like that. Usually we only get compared to our other close related animal, the warlike chimpanzees

Ten and a half kilos. Fatso

“Ed is the standard text editor.”

Ed, the greatest WYGIWYG editor of all.

ED IS THE TRUE PATH TO NIRVANA! ED HAS BEEN THE CHOICE OF EDUCATED AND IGNORANT ALIKE FOR CENTURIES! ED WILL NOT CORRUPT YOUR PRECIOUS BODILY FLUIDS!! ED IS THE STANDARD TEXT EDITOR! ED MAKES THE SUN SHINE AND THE BIRDS SING AND THE GRASS GREEN!!

When I use an editor, I don’t want eight extra KILOBYTES of worthless help screens and cursor positioning code! I just want an EDitor!! Not a “viitor”. Not a “emacsitor”. Those aren’t even WORDS!!! ED! ED! ED IS THE STANDARD!!!

TEXT EDITOR.

When IBM, in its ever-present omnipotence, needed to base their “edlin” on a UNIX standard, did they mimic vi? No. Emacs? Surely you jest. They chose the most karmic editor of all. The standard.

Ed is for those who can remember what they are working on. If you are an idiot, you should use Emacs. If you are an Emacs, you should not be vi. If you use ED, you are on THE PATH TO REDEMPTION. THE SO-CALLED “VISUAL” EDITORS HAVE BEEN PLACED HERE BY ED TO TEMPT THE FAITHLESS. DO NOT GIVE IN!!! THE MIGHTY ED HAS SPOKEN!!!

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Nb WYGIWYG* is a play on WYSIWYG†

*What You Get Is What You Get

†What You See Is What You Get

I’m pretty sure every distro lets you pay if you want to. Many beg you to

If you came to my place, I’d give you free beer - I’m a home brewer but not much of a drinker

My local butcher offers offal rich minced meat, I should keep a kilo in the freezer for every now and then

We lived upon glaciers last ice age (except for tropical people and probably those in the southern hemisphere) if we weren’t hyper carnivores then we couldn’t have lived in Europe, we couldn’t have crossed to the Americas. We ate animals that could eat the plants that could grow on the ice and the mountain tops poking through the glaciers, there was no fruit, no grain, no root vegetables, no beans, no cruciforms. There hasn’t been enough time since then for us to become herbivores, though we inherited much ability to eat many plants from the herbivorous apes we evolved from