You mean, most of Europe?

Come to Spain:

8h breakfast 11h almuerzo 13h aperitivo 14-15h lunch 18h merienda 21-22h dinner.

Because she’s in the app? Hmmmm

Costco, is that you?

Spain produces a lot of high quality wine, but also a lot of lower quality wine, used for mixing to make cheap “table” wine. Much of that is exported, often in cartons.

Many French winemakers have been importing that type of wine for decades to mix to increase volume in lower quality wines.

So fuck the more agricultural strong members, and benefit the more industrial ones? Nice.

(Some) People are up in arms about Russian meddling in the west, but Israel has been doing it since the 40’s and no one batted an eyelash.

The fact that some (many?) Jewish lawmakers and military are allowed to have dual Israeli/US citizenship is baffling to me.

I would depart Barcelona too.

I have lived in the US, and have very dear friends there. I wanted to go visit, with my young adult kids, who have never been to the US. Now I must wait until things normalize.

Even though I’m standard European white, and my kids are blond and “dark” redhead; paper white, freckles etc. and we’d have less chance of being profiled, there have been instances of western tourists held for weeks, so no. Plenty of world to see for now.

Fuck! I rode that a few months ago!

Humidifiers are simple and cheap. Maybe the cost of a 2 in 1 wouldn’t make commercial sense.

Also, it would probably need two water tanks, as I imagine you wouldn’t want to use the drain tank as a clean water source.

Just guessing here.

I have 2 4K tvs, one used as a monitor. I’m now rewatching some 70’s - 80’s shows. When the intro starts, I’m acutely aware of the low res, but as soon as the show starts, I get into the content, and I really don’t notice the resolution.

If you focus on the resolution instead of the content, maybe the content is not that engaging.

I also think that 1080 is fine for normal living room distance. In my case, though, I use a 42" 4K as a monitor, where I have the equivalent of 4 1080 monitors. No gaming, but for my use it’s more practical than multiple monitors.

Not ideal, but you can air gap the TV from the network, and use some small sbc, or even a firestick or android box. That’s what I do. Stremio?

Higher res matters when filming, because you can reframe scenes in editing without losing resolution when downscaling the final result.

I have the same questions about Stremio.

Because I use a paid graphics suite for profit (Affinity, great and pretty decent payment model), and I’m OK-ish with paying (a fair price) for stuff that allows me to make money, but I’d rather live in Linux for most everything else.

I currently use Affinity mostly in a VM, and dual boot for some very specific things, but this seems to be a way to make the experience better.

Also, a lot of people have paid for a license when buying their computer. I’m OK with people sidestepping the strict licensing terms if they have paid for it.

It’s not “you have pirated it”, but “you aren’t using it exactly as we want you to”

I’m willing to sacrifice some of my valuable internet points here and be down voted to low hell.

I was going to make a comment along those lines.

They are, at the core, an ad company. Their motivation is to make money, and we are free to pay or not pay for their services.

The idea that we have a right to a non essential product for free is entitlement. They make a shit load of money, but also pay money to most content creators. Could they provide a service where they essentially just pay for costs? Sure, but no for profit Corp is going to do that, it has to make money somehow. While I’m all for peer tube, I really don’t know if it’s sustainable.

I wonder how many of the people who demand free access to services donate to FOSS Development.

Maybe some form of consumer co-op, where users essentially pay for operating costs, could be an option.

If it breaks down into tiny pieces its not biodegradable. The definition of biodegradable is that its chemically “processed by nature”.

BTW, biodegradable does not necessarily mean innocuous. A lot of “natural” elements and compounds are toxic. Something may be biodegraded, and leave mercury as one of the resulting elements, for example.

The caveats you express are somewhat valid, but not totally correct. Printing correctly, with a food safe nozzle, path, and PLA formulation, is entirely possible. Simply printing in single layers, with a properly dialed in printer can eliminate your concerns. Medical items and implants are printed out of PLA, albeit with extreme production controls.

However, printing these single use items would be absolutely un-economical. 3D printing shines in short runs, bespoke items, like replacement part that are out of production, or which are very difficult to manufacture by other methods like injection or machining.

Its true that PLA, in unmodified form, has a much higher modulus than PP or PE, so squishiness is out of the question. What I have mentioned before is that I have bought single serve olive oil in PLA containers. From what I could see, these were injection molded and had a film top made from a plastic I never bothered to identify.

These containers were surprisingly elastic when crushed, not as elastic as other plastics, like PET, PP or PE, but much more than I had come to expect from my experience with the material. I’m going to attribute this to molding vs. extruding.