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@progo
What about [any of the non-google chromium-based ones]?

@alex
Glad to know it's not really about efficiency. There are many factors driving consumer food choice: deliciousness is a big one.

@alex
Every day, hundreds of thousands die, many of them perfectly healthy. Why don't we eat them first? The energy has already been converted.

@ZW748VSJSiwWMNBxyz
I like millimeters for 3d printing. Why do you bother converting into centimeters?
@Darcy02 @dave @coldacid

@dave
Who cares how many centimeters are in 3 meters?
SI units are only easy to convert using pen and paper-- and it's still easy to do an 'off-by-ten' error. The prevelance in usage of both centimeters and millimeters shows that people want to have their own unit for different tasks, even though the other is perfectly adequate.
@Darcy02 @coldacid

@dave
Powers of ten is also arbitrary. I live 20.0 Kibimeters from my place of work, which is eqivalent to 20.5 kilometers, or 12¾ miles.
Might as well call it 67.3 kilofeet or 789 kibi-inches.
The prefixes are portable, but for most cases, our units are usable without any prefixes.
@Darcy02 @coldacid

@progo
And you have to go and find a calculator before you can even know what size anything is. Meanwhile, we've all memorized 8½×11".
@coldacid

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"Ethical source" can be open source the same way that grain-fed pigs can be kosher.

In other words, you can't be both. "Ethical source" denies users liberty and expressly repudiates the open source principle of nondiscrimination (discriminating against those you consider discriminatory themselves is NOT non-discriminating). #opensource

@masterofthetiger@theres.life
I voted no... because I'm not on theres.life and I don't want to miss out on the local-only posts.

@zudn
All the chatterings have now ceased;
Untold words expired and released.
As darkness grows, a night star is born,
bidding you, 'sleep', 'till Sunday morn.

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Reminder that if you don't license your work it's automatically under an all rights reserved license.

If it doesn't have a license, it's not FOSS nor is it free culture. Please license your creations!

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Does God love everyone, or just selected ones? – Forthright Magazine forthright.net/2020/02/24/god-

> Most everyone is familiar with John 3.16. It has become a favorite verse of many. God loves the world! But this fine summary needs to be supplemented with the full gospel. A good place to start for this is another word from Jesus, also in the gospel of John.

#gospel #love #Bible

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This is why I'm skeptical of claims like, "Someday in the future we'll have a device in our brains so we can Google using our thoughts." I don't *want* software in my brain. Software in my brain means:

- they ship a patch that breaks my brain
- somebody hacks my brain
- they change the UI for my brain unexpectedly
- the server goes down so my brain stops working

Software for anything mission-critical scares the bejeezus out of me. (And that includes software in planes etc.)

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@zudn
I'm sure it does, but at least it's not installed on my phone.

@zudn
When I'm in a bind needing to navigate somewhere, I'll use Google's [Plus codes website](plus.codes/map) to look up the location, then copy the plus code into OsmAnd. But yeah it's tricky: one time I ended up in some parking lot because it didn't have my friend's driveway. 'Streetcomplete' is a fun android OSM editing tool, but can't replace the standard editor.

@zudn
The simple apps are good, but I use Etar instead of simple calendar, and Amaze instead of files. Flite TTS, AnySoftKeyboard, K-9 Mail, EscapePod are some basic staples. (I assume you're using F-Droid). I also like 'budget with envelopes'.

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