They’ll enjoy the beautiful beaches in Saudi Arabia, Maldives, Curacao… please do not worry for them, they’ll be alright, always.

That’s the beauty of being a psychopath. /s

OK I don’t think we are having a conversation so ending this now, take care.

First search, first link, “In the US, only about 2% of aluminum capsules are actually recycled, meaning most end up in landfills.” https://bruvi.com/blogs/articles/mythbusters-the-truth-about-recyclable-pods so I wouldn’t exactly say it works. They are theoretically recyclable, YES, but are they recycled? According to that link no. In fact a lot, the largest marketshare, of pods are NOT aluminum, they are plastic, and this https://www.mordorintelligence.com/industry-reports/coffee-pods-and-capsules-market say that 5% are actually recycled.

Also, I don’t know if you’ve been to an office but my experience with such machines have been terrible, namely the machine itself breaks (OK, not ideal but maintenance should fix it) but more importantly very often the pods do NOT get put in the right bins.

So it’s a huge difference between recyclability, or the potential of being recycled, and ACTUALLY being recycled. I’m not necessary blaming the industry there, maybe not even the people who do genuinely put it in the right garbage bin, I’m only highlighting that from the numbers I’ve found, it’s not happening.

Anyway, even if those links were a lie or incorrect and even if my own experience was more than anecdotal, namely an outlier (I’ve been to few offices but still, maybe not random, just unlucky) then the basic reasoning is still pretty obvious :

• recycling pods take more resources, energy, water, labor, etc; AND producing them AND shipping them than
• … not having pods, just the grains straight in the machine.

Again if you take 1kg of grain and you fold it in the trash vs side by side you take 1kg equivalent of pods the volume is striking.

Still, as I mentioned earlier, maybe I don’t get whole picture so if you have an actual study I’d like to learn. While searching I did read the argument that pods do extract more coffee per volume of coffee so that was interesting, but it’s only a part of the equation, hence why LCAs (life cycle assessment, with actual recycling data, not recyclability) are so important, not our own individual perspectives.

Sadly the two aren’t exclusive, pods come in addition to the coffee beans. I’m not a lifecycle or logistic experts but my intuition is that the smaller and most durable the package, the harder it is to both produce and recycle.

To clarify, I’m not saying importing anything from around the World is fine, only that if you do so (as I do) better not to do so in the most bulk way possible.

If you do have a link that shows that either/or show

• pods or bulk it’s comparatively irrelevant compared to the energy to treat and ship then anyway,
• coffee pods are actually better than grains then please do share.

I’d be shocked but maybe there is some supply chain or scale piece I didn’t take into account.

No idea… I bought a coffee machine right as the pandemic started, as it forced me to work from home. It’s nothing trendy but damn being able to pour 1 bag of coffee beans in, press the button and move on is so damn convenient and (I hope) quite more ecological than those damn pods.

Me who just went to see a friend this morning on my fixie “Neat… I totally fit the stereotype!”

Fascinating, digging into https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gresham's_law then, thanks for bringing that up!

“read the runes” … people need to stopping believing that money is money. Money is money AND strings attached. It’s totally different to get 1 EUR from a friend vs 1 EUR from a brank vs 1 EUR from VC vs 1 EUR of public subsidies. Money NEVER comes without string so one must be cautious they are not getting a noose around their neck while signing a contract.

PS: IMHO NLNet is an example of “good” money. Other examples welcomed. In software in the game “industry” specifically I don’t know where one can find non “bad” money so please if you have examples, do share.

Note to self if that were to happen : OSHW SIM modem (or even eSIM) that forwards to whatever (API, email, etc) that then bridges to other networks.

I have a couple of PinePhone I could keep plugged in but otherwise any Android phone where one can load an .apk e.g. Termux could have a hook on SMS then forward accordingly.

Edit: quick search, a 4G dongle costs ~20EUR today and for compatibility on e.g. a RPi https://forums.raspberrypi.com/viewtopic.php?t=210724 bother otherwise Ubuntu https://wiki.ubuntu.com/NetworkManager/Hardware/3G and example on Debian https://wiki.friendlyelec.com/wiki/index.php/How_to_use_4G_Module_on_Debian

Edit2: didn’t try it but https://alwaysconnected.eu/ proposes 1Gb for 1 year (probably already too much data… since one needs 0 if connected on RPi) for 14EUR and they sell a Huawei (not great but I imagine works well with the card) E3372 (no idea if it works well with Linux) for 60EUR.

My wife will hate it, but so be it.

Pretty sure you can build and self-host an SMS-whatever-she-is-using (e.g. Signal, DeltaChat, etc) bridge if somehow SMS isn’t enough.

Fair enough, hence why I mentioned the BT controller but OK so might want something more compact, say if you are walking around or in the subway for 1 stop.

That’s not my situation so naively I’d suggest stuff like https://hexgl.bkcore.com/ or (and sadly I can’t put my hand on it right now) those who rely on accelerometer, this way you don’t even tap on your screen.

That being said I think there are also now Web based emulators that do have controller overlay. This way you use your entire screen real estate but also use the device it as a controller. There is no haptic feedback but works relatively well, I used that for WebXR on mobile.

Edit: it wasn’t any of these but still gives the idea https://forums.libretro.com/t/rgpad-a-universal-gamepad-overlay/41134 https://github.com/ShawnHymel/phaser-plugin-virtual-gamepad/

Out of curiosity why is it not on F-droid?

I don’t mind installing myself the .apk via adb but the more I learned about how positively strict the process to publish to it is (via https://github.com/Mentra-Community/MentraOS/issues/1168 ) then I also take absence from F-droid as potentially warning side a project isn’t truly open or rely on proprietary parts or anti-pattern.

I mean… not sure if it counts as mobile but the entire history of console gaming up to few years ago works on emulators, so that’s a VAST choice. Sure you might dislike 99.99% but if there is even 0.01% you enjoy, that’s hundreds of games if not more!

Check https://search.f-droid.org/?q=emulator and consider a BT controller.

Isn’t the software architecture supposed to promote certain ways to interact? The medium is the message kind of thing?

I was going to get rage-baited into making a “point” about reasoning and how Trump wasn’t a “native” American… but I’m resisting the engagement temptation. There is no “logic”, it’s all about gathering privileges then justifying how to prevent others from doing the same. There is no reasoning, no logic, not even ideology.

Half-life: Alyx

Thanks for making the video but also for providing non Youtube link. Maybe there is a PeerTube server that would enjoy hosting it.

Orange vs Apple! Who will win!

That being said I do wish every country would have a better public infrastructure.

Just out of curiosity if you do have recent research in economy on the impact of subway, tram, bus, bike lanes, etc on both productivity AND happiness, please do share. I’m already convinced but I’d love to learn more on how and why.

I do check other media but I do not participate in them anymore, e.g. I browse reddit or https://old.reddit.com/r/worldnews/ but I deleted my account months ago.

Yes but I need to carve out time for it. I explicitly warn others about that, that I will be unavailable because I’m playing. I usually think of it as a choice between playing vs something else I enjoy doing, namely sports outside, watching a show, reading a book, coding, etc.

To expand a bit on the “I explicitly warn others” it also means I dedicate time for others but I also expect to have time for myself, including to play. I actually even recommend other adults to do so. Video games can be absolutely amazing. They can be an art form or something casual, they can be about any topic. I genuinely believe that adults who do not play, and I mean in a healthy fashion, are missing something. It’s just so damn fun!

IMHO if you consider it a valid hobby like any other and don’t try to “cheat” by squeezing it in in addition to everything else, removing time for chores or worst, sleep, then sure you might have time for it BUT, yes, like every other hobby it is a privilege.

Edit: anyway, back to Clair Obscur. FWIW finished BG3 last year (3x), Elden Ring this year (offline), so I do spend a bit of time on long, very long games, but it does take me a while.