I was there, it was fine.

Redhat had gnome devs in it's payroll and a fair chunk of control over it, why would they increase their own support burden rather than just tell everyone to use gnome?

I'm not a fan of AI slop being used in long standing decent projects either, but the problems you list aren't a problem for the overwhelming majority of users. I've never had home wiped from a theming action, and I'm unaware of what accessibility needs are not being met.

I'd agree that if it weren't for immigration issues the UK would likely have stayed in the EU. They lost control over their own borders and have had a great deal of issues with cultural conflicts from the imported population and just plain housing them.

The trouble with that is, you let the cities rule the country. City and country interests don't always align, and letting city folk decide policy who've never set foot outside of populated areas is a recipe for disaster. At least currently there can be some mitigation as remote populations wishes can be heard because their votes matter.

He claimed people should likely have more protein for better health/outcomes.

You cited 'common wisdom says otherwise'

He provided evidence of average consumption and better health outcomes of increased protein consumption in a few different ways (skeletal muscle mass retention etc)

You appear to claim common wisdom trumps measured data, because the data did not sample from everyone everywhere in the world.

Just be aware of what you sound like.

Considering many peoples pseudo-spiritual usage of the word 'gender' to be something they inherently 'feel' about themselves it's pretty consistent of him to reject the concept.

It doesn't help that the very people who insist that gender is different from biological sex are insisting on surgery even though sex has nothing to do with gender supposedly.

Or that it's regressing on the whole idea of equality of the sexes, that ladies can like power tools and guys can like dolls but that doesn't make men women or women men, everyone can like what they like.

The concept of 'gender' was made from whole cloth by robert stoller, but popularized by john money. Considering it derives from genre and genus meaning type it's fairly ill suited considering modern usage.

The pushback would be less severe if it weren't being pushed so heavily. Spirituality pushers have been around for forever, what makes people dislike them is when they turn to "you must believe in my spirituality as being truth or you're evil (transphobe)"

People are entitled to believe they're a pink space unicorn deep in their soul. Other people will be polite and quietly think they're nuts to themselves, when the space unicorns demand being recognized as space unicorns, when they are in fact people. You have problems.

Funnily enough bigoted is being obstinately and blindly attached to some creed, opinion practice, or ritual; unreasonably devoted to a system or party, and illiberal toward the opinions of others.. Which is often the behaviour of those calling others that word.

People can tolerate others, even if they they're being odd/crazy. Not so much when they insist others must be part of it/accept it as truth.

That's when it directs fairness/safety of others. Most people can keep away from the wrath of the cult if they keep their mouth shut and just keep on treating people fairly as humans. When you see unfairness happen beyond a threshold, that's when people react/perk up.

Well you haven't given him much to work with.

Bloated relative to what? total package size is about 7mb on my system. There's a lot of non-core features there like gitweb and git gui, but really it's still quite minimal compared to most things.

Nothing stopping you writing your own minimum functionality required version. On disc format hasn't changed since 2.0.

Without a frame of reference we don't know the goal. It would be neat to see some of those demoscene folk make a full basic implementation in 96k though.

The way it has worked out in Australia is the grid charges you around 35c/kwh, but pays you 3c/kwh. Feeding back to the grid gives you almost nothing, the only real savings is in scheduling household appliances to run during the day consuming the solar before it goes to the grid.

There are enshittification problems with EV's in their current state, and to a lesser extent even modern ICE vehicles.

I hired a quite decent modern EV for a work trip, after having figured out where the compatible charging points were along highways. Great vehicle and fast charges.. when it could be charged...

Unlike gas stations, you can't pay cash, hell you couldn't even pay with your card. You had to have a registered account, and an app that wouldn't work with de-googled androids. For each and every provider.

Companies are using the transition to EV to establish a new "normal". One that involves perma surveillance and tracking. The car companies are involved too although some worse than others.

Even with infrastructure problems relatively 'solved' the real problems with EVs are corporate greed. Fighting that with an apathetic population can be pretty hard.

So long as you don't confuse "what situation a human can survive in" with "what situations humans will want to survive in"

The kowloon walled city should not be something we aspire to recreate.

People have often survived in situations that are terrible for their mental and physical health, they are entitled to want to escape those situations.

Density brings its own problems, its like having a few cats spaced around a yard vs shoved in a bag.

I'll take peace and low crime with everyone having their own space and freedom over how many sardines can we fit in the cities.

The thinkpad x201 era were the last of the good ones, proper keyboard, locking mechanisms, night light. Quality mouse nub. A lot of these things could be looked by, but the keyboard can't. Nobody makes quality portable laptops any more.

20 years ago yeah, now it's more aligned with blender.

The food quality in the US seems absolutely terrible. When I was playing tourist around the country greasy sugar filled food was everywhere, but a decent steak and veges type meal was hard to find.

The additives/changes that have been made to USA food compared to food in europe can be quite insane. Something as simple as bread can be far more unhealthy in the USA.

how about Price discrimination

Trying to maximize the amount that you pay, because they have enough information about you to know what you can afford and how badly you need a product within a specific timeframe.

Some dodgy gig type employers were looking at using the same information to determine how little they could offer to pay workers while still having them barely make rent, knowing their household expenses to keep them on the brink of eviction.

The only solution is to not collect the information, and for where the informatio nis necessary (i.e. credit card logs) ban it's sale/access aside from internal administrative functions to the card/banks.

Probably not the resources he means. The cheap easy to access energy of oil just popping out of the ground has already been used. As more resources are consumed the easier to get to and easier to process ones go away, and you need a certain minimum level of tech to get to/extract/use what remains.. If that goes away, you might not have the resources to build the tech to get more resources.