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[–] xep@discuss.online 3 points 1 day ago (2 children)

I see, so your definition of luxury good is "something that can be functionally replaced." I was thinking of the economic definition.

I don't think meat to be functionally replaceable with plant proteins. Heme-iron alone makes it very difficult to do, since iron from plants is far less bioavailable. What does a vegan diet do for Vitamin B12? Conspicuous consumption is not necessary for survival, but B12 very much is.

I don’t notice a day-to-day difference.

Changes from nutrition can take a long time to become manifest. I wish you longevity and good health.

[–] xep@discuss.online 4 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (5 children)

Commercial meat is a luxury

This is a take I've never heard before, it's not how I think luxury goods are defined, and I'm now genuinely curious as to what you consider a luxury product. Do you think that eating some chicken is the same as wearing a Hermes handbag, or driving a Lamborghini?

because it can be entirely replaced by other calories + nutrients + supplements.

This reads to me like it cannot be replaced without supplementation, which seems to be a critical flaw for people who are unable to supplement. I'm also of the opinion that calories are not a useful measure for nutrition, since our bodies are not bomb calorimeters.

[–] xep@discuss.online 18 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (4 children)

Fair point, but there's quite a large hurdle to rooting a phone nowadays, and I'm not optimistic that FOSS will continue to work as well on Android for the average person once Google introduces these restrictions. iPhones could be jailbroken but there never really was much open source software on those things.

[–] xep@discuss.online 26 points 1 day ago (26 children)

That's egregious and really will impede using open source software on Android. Guess my phone will turn into a device for tethering now, instead.

[–] xep@discuss.online 7 points 1 day ago

Don't be silly, birds aren't real.

[–] xep@discuss.online 6 points 1 day ago (8 children)

How will this be enforced?

[–] xep@discuss.online 3 points 1 day ago (8 children)

Do you think say perhaps AI emissions are less of a luxury product than food?

[–] xep@discuss.online 9 points 1 day ago

Any of the Battlefield titles look pretty great.

[–] xep@discuss.online 10 points 1 day ago (11 children)

If you look at the source of the data for emissions it's unclear that it's all from meat production: https://ourworldindata.org/greenhouse-gas-emissions-food

Even if we take at face value that meat accounts for 60% of industrial agriculture emissions, as a proportion of total emissions that is still only 0.6 * 26% = ~16%. It's sizable, but perhaps we should be addressing the elephants in the room, in the "non-food" section, first.

[–] xep@discuss.online 1 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (1 children)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tizen

Remember LiMo, which became Tizen? What about MeeGo?

[–] xep@discuss.online 2 points 4 days ago (3 children)

That's an adoption problem. The manufacturers don't care for it, they have no reason to.

 

Sony's AOSP on Xperia Open Devices page: https://developer.sony.com/open-source/aosp-on-xperia-open-devices

With the recent activity around Google restricting sideloading and not releasing device trees for Pixel, this is a possible alternative. I haven't tried it, but intend to switch to a Sony device for my next phone.

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