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I'm all for promoting own solutions if it fits the context but OP is asking for self-hosted alternatives and this is not. This fits the definition of spam.

Note that while you point out this happened in specific areas you've lived in, there are unfortunately plenty of places in Europe where you'd face the same issue.

But if we go one level deeper, fat does fill you up much better than simple carbs like HFCS. In fact, HFCS will create more appetite (more than even plain sugar) down the road which at the end will make you eat more - and probably even of the same kind. Therefore, it's not very clear to me it's a win in calorie reduction either.

Industry / sugar addicts will keep working hard to find sugar alternatives instead of facing the ultimate known alternative: not adding sugar or sugar alternatives to anything, enjoying the sweet things as nature intended, with its whole fiber and macronutrients. The palate evolves in such a way that eating a simple orange (not just the juice) will feel extremely pleasant.

I know this is controversial but just faced this reality myself in the past and I have a much better relationship with food nowadays - stopped being obese many years ago as well and my overall health took a turn for the better.

It's fine to have an opinion/preference about the topic. I'm ok with CEOs thinking remote is a mistake, the same way they should be ok with people (maybe even the best people you could hire in some cases) not even glancing at their job offers for not being remote friendly.

Reminds me of a very recent neat feature from Slack [1] that among other things summarizes the unread channel messages.

[1] https://slack.com/blog/news/introducing-slack-gpt

I'm not aware of the specifics OP talk about (I'm not from the US) but any mature adult should of course care about the unfair loss of wealth. If you look at US marriage/divorce statistics, it'd not be paranoid to think that it could also happen to you. In fact, I bet most of the people who got to lose "material objects" unfairly never thought they'd be in that situation - which then makes them get to experience the miserable way of life you mentioned, at least for a while.

So yeah, I'd suggest to be mature and consider that things can go wrong, which shouldn't affect the depthness of the connection while things work (hopefully forever).

>The real solution imo is to spread out the jobs to other areas so that these major urban areas aren't the only places people have to move to find work.

While that definitely works whenever doable, I'd say investing in much better infrastructure to reduce commuting time and complexity is the other big factor. Living far away from the workplace isn't a biggie if I can take for example a train and be there in a reasonable amount of time. For sure an expensive solution but a solution that will pay off nevertheless.

>Let the King shake hands and open buildings and leave the governing to the MPs

If the king/queen shakes hands and open buildings, do we really need a royal family with all its associated costs (not only monetary) or a single appointed person that can do these things and get replaced if it's not doing a good job? Let the people vote for it in elections or let the Parliament appoint someone to do these things. I just don't see why the nation should keep giving power to the same family over and over.

>I look forward to finding a politician who will work for nothing. The royal family pay for themselves through their own property and holdings, they actually pay 80% of their earnings to the state and keep the remaining 20% for themselves.

I didn't say it'd cost nothing. Also, the majority of the property and holdings of the royal families come from all those privileges obtained over the centuries, which they get to enjoy while the rest of the people don't have a chance unless allowed in isolated occasions (if so).

>Generally we continue with things because they've worked well for us for centuries. I don't see anyone in the current political class that I'd rather have as a 'president' than Elizabeth II or even Charles III. The British way is empiricism, biased more to observation than pure reason.

Fine, but this is literally an appeal to tradition [1].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Appeal_to_tradition

>It gives us someone who can speak for the nation, untainted by party politics. This is something you'll miss if you abolish the monarchy.

But this is the case in many republics as well! I live in Finland where the head of state speaks for the nation and is untainted by party politics. He was elected in 2012 and re-elected multiple times, becoming one of the highest valued officials of all time (I think it's currently the second). I have listened to him a bunch of times and I can clearly see he's a "king" with the difference of eventually getting replaced due to better people around or just doing poorly. Good luck doing that with a king/queen - in Spain, it just happened when scandals keep stacking up to an unbearable point where he had to forcefully abdicate or else monarchy could have been really gone.

All this being said, I believe the discussion won't become very productive because you're pro-monarchy and I'm anti-monarchy, in general terms, and some couple paragraphs here and there probably can't change much (specially given the feeling we're both well informed about our positions and it's not simple fanatism). We have exposed our arguments but I really see this can get really long and at the end pointless. I appreciate the time you spent answering my questions with your opinions that, while I don't agree with, are respectable and educated. I'll take a look at Mr Scruton.

>Changing the head of state from a powerless unelected to a powerless (or worse, powerful) elected head of state would change little practically.

>Can you not see any advantages and positive achievements of the British history of constitutional monarchy, common law, Bill of Rights, etc? Jury trials, habeas corpus, etc, have done much for freedom. The legacy code, if we might call it that, is the only thing still holding back the authoritarian ambitions of the powerful.

So what's your position exactly? On one side you claim it's a powerless family that would get replaced by a (potentially) worse elected person, on the other side it turns out it's a very influential family that prevents authoritarians from taking the power. Then, you finish up with non specific examples of republics that are much worse off than UK monarchy while conveniently excluding republics that are doing equally well or better than UK (you didn't specify in what UK is better so I can also be nebulous I guess).

In my view, monarchy is an artifact of the past. It's pretty much a family inheriting rather high privileges because of some things (which we can agree were important) that happened in the remote past. Nowadays, what's the point? Why do we need to continue with that? If they're powerless as you say, why not just get rid of them? Save money, make the country more democratic (at least on paper) and all that. Oh yeah, and as a spaniard I can also guarantee that a monarch can become a piece of trash like any elected official so those guarantees are thin as paper.

I just would like to hear real arguments about why a monarchy is so much better than an alternative.

I just don't see how not having/watching TV in 2023 is a special thing to be discussed here anymore.

It may be the whole appeal for you but for others it's a deterrent.

>Despite this topic being brought up regularly, these pop-up forms do work. That's why everyone uses them.

Unfortunately a good part of HN is quite blind when it comes to facts about things that aren't of the liking of the community.

Some people seem to not be able to understand why K8s is widely used and not <whatever>, why the majority uses WhatsApp and not Signal or why the majority uses Twitter and not the <open source alternative of the year>. A not irrelevant amount of HN users will think, and many times literally say, that all these people are stupid and cannot understand how things really work.

In reality, everything happens for reasons. Sure, some people will just blindly follow trends but when you see most of the big websites that have plenty of money to do studies to find out if it works continue to do it, perhaps it means it's working for them? I hate those popups like most end-users but at the end of the day I'd never think most of the website owners who do this are dumb and do it to harm themselves but rather I tend to think they have hard data that shows this actually works pretty well.

I wish the community would realize how arrogant those "I don't have data on this / I don't understand why this is done therefore people who do this are just stupid" positions are.

>We might be just going back to the time of early, anonymous internet forums time where most people used to it just didn't take it too seriously, and a lot of communities were closed /invite only.

What would prevent that some of those people use AI, even if it's invitation-only forum/whatever? I just don't think the "old internet" can come back anymore. If anything, maybe in-person activities may get increasingly popular.

>And not if you don't want to create a panopticon where everything anybody does is associated with everything else that person does, and nothing is ever, ever anonymous.

I have a strong feeling this will be the future of internet.

I bought the cheapest one during the recent sale (370 €) and swapped the eMMC with a big SSD in 10 mins. I have only used it for like a week but it has surpassed my rather low expectations. It works really smoothly and had no issues so far, all games I wanted working and all. Who could have told me the first console I’d ever buy myself would be from Valve!

It does, at least for me (using free AdGuard).

Not OP but Skyscanner just aggregates different sellers and they don’t deal with tickets themselves. It ultimately depends on the seller you choose to buy the ticket from. In my experience as an European, even the crappiest ones were able to help but then if the difference is small it’s better to buy from the company operating the flight as you can then manage the flight stuff from their website instead.

Partially changed its mind. E-fuels (which is what Germany supports) are vastly inferior to e.g. EVs:

>While e-fuels might help prolong the life of the combustion engine in a zero carbon world, they remain relatively inefficient compared to battery technology — and are also significantly more expensive [...] Vehicles run on e-fuels consume five times more energy than a battery-powered EV, and will be around eight times more expensive to run per kilometer in the future, according to a study commissioned by the German Energy Agency.

Work generally isn't good for the human soul but meaningful (whatever that means for each individual) work is. Most of the jobs aren't very meaningful and they're done solely to survive. Let's not kid ourselves, most of the people here including myself have jobs they like or even love but outside of this bubble a big percentage of jobs are rather miserable.

They could do something like in Undercover Boss [1] so that employees (allegedly) don't know the person working there is the CEO.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Undercover_Boss_(British_TV_se...

Amazon for example tries to capture these with the Lightsail offering [1] which is a separate product from the typical AWS offering (even though of course it runs on AWS but that doesn't matter in this context). No need to go with "raw" EC2 which would make things more complicated and more expensive if all you want to have is a couple VPS.

[1] https://aws.amazon.com/lightsail/

While I like Hetzner a lot and can share your recommendations, I just don't see how it compares to full-blown cloud providers like AWS, GCP or Azure. It's a common misconception to put them at the same level when the offering is completely different.

Nobody seriously uses AWS/GCP/Azure to have a couple VMs or dedicated servers alone. If someone can run their full workload in e.g. Hetzner without much hassle then they shouldn't be using any of the other cloud platforms in the first place as they'd be definitely overpaying.

EDIT: I want to clarify that I unfortunately do know some companies use the big 3 as simple VPS providers but it seems that everybody agree here that it's a waste of money and that's one of my main points, which is also why the comparison of the big ones vs Hetzner or any other standalone VPS/dedicated server provider is pointless as they serve different use cases.

>Are they gullible or pragmatic?

Gullible. Pragmatic would be a person who doesn't worry about completely made up things - not the case.

>these laws hardly affect the average Joe so why should he care

That's where I completely disagree and I encourage you to read more about how this is an overreach. I won't link anything specific to prevent nitpicking but googling "chat control summary" should bring some ideas at least.

>There is some wisdom in not worring about future hypotheticals until they actually happen

Well this isn't a hypothetical, it's another step towards overreach and should be at least exposed. It's literally the boiling frog apologue [1]. When it actually happens we may already be burned alive - metaphorically speaking, hopefully - and there won't be much else left to do.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boiling_frog

To be honest I'm not very hopeful. The average Joe really is gullible - just drop some terrorism, children and nowadays some "preventing misinformation" bs (which of course has never and will never be twisted to fit government's needs at the time) to the mix and people will accept it.

Nevertheless I support these campaigns since I'm more than happy to be proven wrong.

The difference is that not being able to develop hobby apps is a side effect of that policy, not that the policy's main aim is to prevent hobby apps from being developed.

Not meaning to sound insulting but funnily enough your comment reads like one written by ChatGPT.

You’ve mixed them up - it’s D3 with K2.

It's literally mentioned in the document a bunch of times.

No, I use the SDK or the CLI tools available for everyone.