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Germany has Katzenhirn - cat brain.

But why?

There's absolutely no benefit compared to just burning it and using plant based materials as a resource.

There is a pretty good way: burn it.

Most plastics can't be recycled in any meaningful way, so just burn it and use the energy. There are some legitimate uses for plastics, but most of it is wasted.

And always remember: most of the plastic in the ocean is fishing gear, not household waste.

It's always "in mice" or on an extremely small scale for ridiculous prices.

Scientists only develop the first stepping stones, most of which lead to nothing, that's okay. But the university PR > newspaper pipeline leads to everything being a major breakthrough, and that leads to fatigue with the reader.

And that's especially true for Linux and other big projects.

I'm not a kernel or C developer by any stretch, but a few years ago fixed a small bug that caused my knockoff PS2 controllers to act super weird. Nothing serious, something like one constant and maybe 5 lines of code. Would have gladly pushed that upstream, but fuck me sideways is that a complicated process. Patches via email??? And the argument is always "but it works for us", yeah burning witches and slavery also work for some people, doesn't mean it's something to continue doing.

If there isn't a serious revamp, Linux will die a slow death or become just a corporate graveyard product like Cobol.

Not much less. The cheaper ones all have significant drawbacks.

Used phones might be cheaper, but they still rely on someone else shelling out money.

My problem is not my personal financial situation, it's societal. We throw out tons of resources (natural, but also human) out of the window for products that have zero benefit. It's extremely wasteful.

Life.

I need a smartphone for my job (authenticator), bank, social life, etc.

Buying a new phone in the range of 500€ and having to replace that every 4-5 years, comes down to about 10€ per month.

Of course I could buy a cheaper phone, but those usually get barely any software updates, which I find rather frightening, and often enough break for other reasons (battery dead, ports worn out, cracked display). So it's not really cheaper.

I just got a new phone (reluctantly) and it feels like 90% of the "features" are useless marketing gimmicks.

Most people still use their phones for very similar purposes to 2016 or even 2012. Instead of providing properly optimized software and batteries that last weeks, we get these huge heavy expensive unoptimized pieces of techno garbage. And of course they need fast charging, otherwise you'd be wired to a charter half the time.

I'm practically forced to spend 10€ per month, even if I'm hesitant to buy new stuff, just to have a reasonable phone. That's crazy.

Of course, but most governments are allowed to mostly be sovereign.

Sweden or Australia play ball on their own, no need for a coup here.

The US tried to invade Cuba as well, and tried to kill Castro, several times. That's ultimately why he did align with the USSR - choosing the bully that's slightly more on your side.

That's actually the really sad story here.

Every "experimental" regime was either toppled (Chile) or had to align with the USSR (Cuba) to survive. There was never a real attempt at democratic socialist politics without interference from superpowers.

Two stupid questions:

1.) why is there a 5V regular for a USB plug that's supposed to be 5V only?

2.) will this regulator output more than 2W and burn itself out or is there a self limiting thingy? The 3W from the wall include power supply and board, so 2W don't seem too far off.