Well shit, it had me convinced. I don’t remember what the argument was about so can’t really find the post to verify.

I saw a comment recently that answered with “would a bot do this?” with a photo of a post-it note saying Not a bot :). Was kinda cute

I shop from small businesses when it’s more convenient (which is actually more common than you’d think when you don’t have a car).

Mini markets are closer than supermarkets and stay open longer so I’ll often get groceries from there even if it’s more expensive.

When looking for a specific piece of equipment there are some things that can’t be delivered or they’d take an eternity to arrive so I find which stores sell it and go to the physical store, which is usually a smaller local place.

I don’t know if thrift shops count as small businesses but they’re also more convenient than going to big clothes shops.

And I guess most restaurants are local businesses too.

From the link, since I think this is the part most equivalent to DNS.

The Onion Service assembles an Onion Service descriptor, containing a list of its introduction points (and “authentication keys”), and signs this descriptor with the Onion Service’s identity private key.

The Onion Service upload that signed descriptor to a distributed hash table, which is part of the Tor network, so that clients can also get it.

You can still see that on https://lemvotes.org/

Even if they don’t end up fully switching it doesn’t matter. Some might switch, some might try dual booting. But saying they are going to switch is free press and may convince more people to try it so that’s still a win.

Many companies will just buy in bulk and give the same thing to everyone. I’d rather use Linux but I understand they don’t want to deal with different environments. Also yeah, Apple has made it very difficult to emulate MacOS so it’s easier to buy that and emulate everything else.

How about getting the people who pay you to buy you over-priced hardware?

If you’re wearing jeans you can also strap it onto the belt straps. If it’s on the side it shouldn’t be too uncomfortable

If it’s something specific like what you mentioned, just search for relevant articles with lists of recommendations. For more general themes you can go to goodreads (or similar), find some reviews you agree with on other books you liked and see what else the reviewers liked. Or do the same with people you know if you have similar tastes. You would think LLMs would be good at recommending books but every time I’ve tried with chatgpt the results were pretty bad but YMMV.