Carl B. Latro

"Censors in Australia and New Zealand deemed it too violent, and without their buy-in, selling to other markets was not profitable." And quite right too! Look at the state of the Northern Hemisphere now? All the world would be like that if wasn't for such preventative action!

First I'd heard of 'Van Man'. https://theconversation.com/everybody-to-kenmure-street-h…

That time when NZ said no to a US destroyer... https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/CHP19850206.…

"I guess there is the big avenue of people who just want to make a group with their friends, or with other florists" And that's two markets: One that's social and one that's commercial, no matter how small. The social ones have gotten used to the idea that social media should be free, but they also like it to be free of advertising as well. Blue Sky's trying to make that work, but I've not noticed how they expect to do it. I can imagine a social media that marries the social and the commercial successfully though. It'd be one where users know which space they're in and neither side bleeds into the other. And the sellers in the commercial side are charged to be there and those charges pay for both the social and commercial side of things. Maybe relays should be in pairs - one social and one commercial?

My main laptop still has Win10 on it, since I managed to get an extra year's support for it. There's some stuff I need Windows for, but I don't want to switch to W11! I tried to dual-boot the small laptop but mucked that up... :)) My first try with Linux was in the early 2000s. It eventually decided it didn't like the PC I had at the time.

I put Linux Mint on a small laptop I bought second-hand in 2020. This was after Microsoft decided it wouldn't support Win10 anymore and wouldn't allow Win11 on any of my current Win10 machines either. Now I'd been using this laptop to mainly watch Youtube videos for about an hour a day. And I'd charge it for about an hour or two a day as well. (I use it where it's not convenient to be plugged in.) With Linux though, it was draining a lot out of the battery while not plugged in, as in much more than Win10 was. This was obviously a battery problem of course, (and buying a new one fixed it), but I was surprised Linux used more power than Win10 in 'Suspend' mode. Very happy Linux exists though!