I avoided Gnome for exactly that reason for years but the shell extensions for gnome have improved a lot and it’s pretty flexible now. If you don’t mind depending on the addin authors maintaining your favorites.Dash to panel or dock is virtually a whole different UI.

In general each dollar given to the poorest in an economy adds more to economic growth. That’s because the velocity of money is also important. The person living on a marginal wage tends to buy essentials first and spends a greater proportion of their income. Some of that may go to local businesses who in turn spend locally with tighter margins. The faster money travels from hand to hand and the more participants the larger is the overall benefit. Alternatively you can subsidise something everyone needs like healthcare and education. That’s effectively the same as putting money in everyones pocket but the benefits are more targeted.

RockStar physics !! Next up The Astronomers bring you their all metal album.

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It’s more common for people to misread fiction and pick the worst bits to promote as the future. For example people who read Acceleranto (https://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/fiction/accelerando/accelerando.html) and develop not post capitalist innovation but slop factories in space or 1985 and develop social scores based on who the omnipresent cameras see you talking to.

It’s provided free to factories for fuel. This is of course unofficial but very widespread. https://www.asia-pacific-solidarity.net/news/2025-05-10/toxic-tofu-how-plastic-waste-west-fuels-food-factories-indonesia.html

Especially when “recycled” mixed plastic and paper from western recycling programs is exported. The plastic is likely to be burnt to cook food.

Disappointed to see my own country implicated in this.

If you end up with a second proxmox server with its own storage for redundancy in a cluster then ZFS is great. You can mirror each VM. The only issue is the ZFS storage needs to be named the same. But it can be a different size or media.

The furry paw of diplomacy. Now the nerd in me wants to see a graph of the Panda Index as a measure of Chinese opinion about other countries It’s the cuddly side of a relationship in contrast to darker clouds on the horizon.