random878 · HackerTrans

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I switched to a safety razor about 10 to 15 years ago. In that time I've bought two of them (one broke). All I need to buy are the safety razors which are cheaper and use less packaging. It's a win-win. Those fancy cartridge razors from the likes of Gilette are scam!

random878

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Yawn. I can see where this is going. If people don't show an outward display of fevered anti-Brexit sentiment they are immediately shot down as somehow pro-Brexit. It's not that binary. I'm very anti-Brexit, but I'm sick of these disingenuous woe is me articles.

random878

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Lots of things change in life, regardless of how much we don't want it or how fair it is. I don't want Brexit either, but that's not going to change it.

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It's not. Plenty of people have done it.

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That's not the same thing at all. Brexit is different.

Prior to Brexit, country of origin really didn't matter. Who cared if you lived in Germany but had a UK passport. It didn't matter.

Now, like it or not, we have a situation where the circumstances have change. That privilege has been taken away. We have had at least two years notice of this change. This is why there is such a surge for Irish passport applications.

Wanting to be in Germany on a UK passport post Brexit is a meaningful as wanting to be in the USA on a UK passport.

random878

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I'm curious why he didn't apply for German citizenship two years ago when this process started. It's not like he isn't eligible. He's has been in Germany since the 1970s. It's disingenuous to say he is being pushed out by Brexit.

random878

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That's analogous to the commonly held, stupid opinion that you may as well smoke because you have to die of something.

random878

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> It's worth noting for anyone that advocates this sort of diet that it is a luxury.

Utter nonsense. A commonly perpetuated myth. Foods like lentils have the best cost-nutrition ratios of any food. What do you think the people around the world living on $1 a day are eating?

> doubtless time-consuming. What of those who work by the hour? ...most don't want to spend 2 hours cooking regularly.

Another myth.

random878

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Bingo. It makes me laugh when people push this myth of ingredients like this being expensive.

Do they think all those Indian mums are maxing out their credit cards to cook daal?

random878

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It's the first thing I recommend if someone asks me about vegan fast food (or healthier alternative to other fast foods). Forget all that impossible burger nonsense, a great falafel place is the best!

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You can ban Facebook from your phone by choosing not use it.

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Android and the apps (in this sense) are not 'open source' and, regardless, 'open source' is not the same thing as 'Free'. Richard Stallman is known for his hatred of the term 'open source' (as it generally causes a misunderstanding such as yours).

random878

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Maybe the first step would be to stop financially supporting proprietary software/hardware and buying DRM'd media.

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You make a very valid point. It can be easy to forget to consider environmental cost when we consider the cost of an item.

I hate smartphones with a passion, so just use an old dumbphone. I face a lot of pressure through work to have one though. I'm thinking that if I do eventually get forced back into smartphone ownership I'll opt for a Fairphone 2. Major benefits being the improved environmental consideration, the ability to run Lineage OS (so no Google), and the modular approach makes it easy to hack/repair. Main downside is that it is very expensive (to me anyway... I get that many people these days seem to think £1,000 is a reasonable sum for a Facebook/Instagram PDA!).

random878

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Serious question...

How did this submission make it to the #10 slot, after being posted 38 minutes ago, and with a handful of comments?

This is a very boring update about some product specs. I cannot see how it could be interesting enough on it's on to merit such a rapid response. It's not even remotely interesting on its own (it's essentially a boring advert).

I noticed the same happened with a Purism advert yesterday.

I'm a natural cynic, so perhaps I'm fooling myself into seeing what I want to see, but is this an example of shilling? Does HN have a history of promoting adverts masquerading as content (Reddit style)?

random878

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I like Icecat (annoyingly not in the Debian repos).

I've also started to make use of text browsers. Links and Links2 are two that I use. Links2 is a nice halfway option as it will support images too.

I find them great for websites where I want to read info, but the interface is ironically designed to make that harder than it should be. News sites are a perfect example. Text browsers turn them from bloated billboards back into a readable format.

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Perfect match. They both offer a heavily marketed appearance of being Freedom and Privacy respecting, but actually just relying on the ignorance of customers.

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It's more marketing BS to push the idea that somehow purisms products are Freedom and Privacy respecting.

random878

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It's a quick, crappy, cut-and-paste, article based on a recent interview with him. It's a complete trash article - standard for internet news now.

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I agree completely.

I used to be quite active in a guitar forum. It was almost like a family - complete with crazy fights and arguments too! I bought and sold several guitars, amps, pedals, etc too. Not cheap stuff either, I would send £500+ to a random stranger and trust them to send me the guitar. That was how well the community integrated. People built up real respect, and you could rely on the fact they didn't want to lose it. That forum (probably the biggest in the UK) doesn't exist anymore.

I wouldn't even dream of having a Facebook account, nevermind participating in a community on there to that degree. I wouldn't even send £1 to a random person on Facebook!