Just off the top of my head, they had hired a registered sex offender (sexual battery of a child) and didn't warn any other employees about it. It didn't come to light until he defaced another open source project's wiki. The normal annoyances seem minor by comparison to that which are snap and (was) unity desktop, but unity hasn't been a thing for a while.
I'm firmly of the opinion that government regulations create monopolies. Before all the car safety and fuel efficiency regulations there were many car manufacturers in the US. Then as more regulations were added over time, we were down to just 3 manufacturers and they all made shitboxes in the 80s and 90s that didn't last and nobody liked and gave rise to foreign manufacturers coming in and eating the big 3's lunch.
My point is that the big 3 were the only ones that could afford those regulations and were also the ones to lobby the government to pass those regulations to drive their competitors out or force mergers. Advancements in safety and fuel efficiency would have happened anyway. This is the case where advertising can be actually helpful by showing off their products advancement in safety and efficiency to drive their sales. Volvo giving away their patent for seatbelts is another example of a way way to get goodwill and generate sales from that goodwill while keeping competition healthy.
With no government, there would be no need to vote. I'm sick and tired of every election being tHe MosT iMPorTaNt eLecTiOn oF OuR liFeTiME. I'd be fine with the absolute bare minimum of government if it meant the people we elect would not have the power to abuse in the first place.
The right to be fucking stupid and do without or to do it yourself shouldn't be denied. It's why I self host stuff. I also have the right to be fucking stupid and not backup any of my systems, but I do my backups myself. Though if I was in a position to have a better fire control situation than my local solution, you damn right I wouldn't want to pay for the inferior service. The same goes for any other utility or public service.
The whole idea of libertarianism is to take the power away from government and abolish it so that the people can be left the fuck alone. The government is just another monopoly in my view especially in the area of currency and violence.
I'm still leery after coming over from a TrueNAS app deployment of NC that crashed and I was never able to get back running. Docker AIO has been good so far, but NC is the reason I validate backups.
Mozilla is an ad company now. It happened when they picked up anonym last year. It's why I use iron fox and librewolf that disable the telemetry by default among other things until ladybird gets closer to ready. Not to mention Mozilla forcing their ToS now to use the base browser on new installs and soon™ for existing users.
Mozilla is prepping for how to replace their income from the Google default search deal. I'm 99% sure it'll get blown up when the dust settles in the anti-trust case. It's why they ended a bunch of projects that won't make any money and branched into a bunch of weird (for them) markets like AI hoping to make money. The only proven to make money thing they are doing so far is ads.
Leaving one ad powered company for another isn't what I want to do. Fool me once...
Thanks. It's why I showed what energy monitors can do to measure usage and make calculations easy. I knew home cooking from scratch was cheaper just from a budget standpoint, it's just that I has never quantified it. I had done the paralell EV to gasoline cost analysis though, which is why I shared that.
I'm interested to know what power company doesn't give price for a kWh nor how many kWh you used in a billing period. It was essential when I made the switch to an EV and had to show my wife how much money we saved with electric vs gasoline.
If you don't know what your electric appliance uses to cook, you can get energy monitors that can give you the exact amount. I have an emporia car charger and a plug monitor for my mower batteries. It's as simple as setting you electricity rate in the app and setting the view to currency costs. Here's my recent usage for mowing my yard ~2 acres:
It usually costs me $0.30 to mow and trim a week compared to gasoline equivalent of my old mower and trimmer of just over a gallon per week. I pay $0.14478/kWh where I live, gas is currently $2.899/ gal. The break even for my car in efficiency is gasoline has to be around $1.50/gal iirc.
I guess I never noticed. I always wear a ball cap when driving, always have before wearing glasses. Just another tool I use and have not given it much thought.
Just off the top of my head, they had hired a registered sex offender (sexual battery of a child) and didn't warn any other employees about it. It didn't come to light until he defaced another open source project's wiki. The normal annoyances seem minor by comparison to that which are snap and (was) unity desktop, but unity hasn't been a thing for a while.