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Thanks! The other reply obviously meant well but was a bit mansplainey !

My situation is, I've recently purchased a camper trailer. It's wired up but needs a battery. I haven't had time to "research" other than seeing what batteries people are selling second hand. It seemed to me that everyone was using AGM batteries for this purpose and while I knew that AGM referred to the physical structure of glass mesh I had assumed it was synonymous with deep cycle batteries.

Now I've read about it a bit more I realise that LiFePO4 batteries are superior but more costly.

I guess, the reason why I was seeing AGM batteries everywhere is because everyone's buys them because they're cheap and then realises they really needed LiFePO4 so they try to sell the AGM and upgrade.

Hmm, I don't find it "tasty" myself and just kind of assumed it was milk's ugly-cousin substitute. Why else would it be oat "milk" if not intended as a substitute? It never occurred to me that someone would drink it as a stand alone beverage because... there's much nicer drinks around than oily water.

There's a cafe here that doesn't serve cows milk so they offer oat milk to everyone that asks. "Nah mate I'm good just poor some oil in there that'll do".

We don't really do "creamers" here. It's either cow's milk, cream, or this type of vegetable oil based substitute "milk".

Also just to make sure you're aware, all coffee is black coffee before you add "creamer".

I thought AGM were considered "deep cycle", as in designed for their full capacity to be used between charges.

All over the world people are doing really dumb things.

Yeah see this is the thing.

Looking at the ingredients of oat milk it's often as little as 2% oats.

That checks out looking at these ingredients... 4/5ths of the oats are strained out.

That means it's really oily unsugary water with a whiff of oat.

What is even the point of that.

Also, fun fact... the xanthan gum seems to kill the creme on a nice cup of black coffee. So a dish of oat milk in your long black is... undesirable.

Yeah what the fuck is with that.

It's a very twitter centric view of the web. If you're not on xitter you're "shutting out a significant portion".

The thing is, it's not simply that Musk has an ideology that is disparate from my own, he has an agenda that is egregiously contrary to the stated values of the Debian project.

You'd consult with the community over a new logo or blog layout maybe, but on whether to assist Musk in his far right agenda there's not really any decision to be made honestly.

Oh but look at this deleted draft PR release that was committed that doesn't really say anything spicy and was later sharpened up to reflect the intentions of the author.

You might be right about Googles agreement with Mozilla. I had assumed it would be based on the number of searches performed with a mozilla user agent but that's just a guess.

I'm not sure why exactly but I just feel very uncomfortable with the idea of donating to Mozilla. I absolutely believe in the importance of Firefox' existance, and if I felt I was contributing to that then I would donate. I think with the situation as it is making a donation would feel a bit like voting - my own contribution isn't going to effect the outcome, and I don't really agree with mozilla's behavior anyway.

On the other hand, if Mozilla declared that they were going to spin off a separate org exclusively to develop and maintain firefox, and would have no ongoing relationship with google nor advertising of any kind, would focus on privacy, and were going to survive entirely on subscriptions, I feel like that's something I could get behind and feel happy to contribute.

I'm not really sure what you're getting at?

I understand that my circumstances are unusual but I would absolutely pay $20 a month without a moment's hesitation.

I would pay $50, but I'd really have to believe in the project.

It's worth noting that presently mozilla earns $0 from my not using google, and not seeing sponsored tabs.

... and don't put "IMPORTANT" in your email subject.

Yeah. I really dislike this "rule" because it's commonly espoused by motivational speakers and efficiency "experts" saying you make 80% of your money from 20% of your time.

It sounds great if you've never heard it before but in practice it just means "be more efficient" and is not really actionable.

It's almost-trump-but-actually-musk day!

Some examples of active sabotage?

2 separate unrelated statements.

I think they'd tried and failed this one before.

Oh man 100% this.

A little while ago there was a thread about what people are actually using LLMs for. The best answer was that it can be used to soften language in emails. FFS.

That assumes that whatever we have now is a precursor to AGI. There's no evidence of that.

More users isn't necessarily good.

Every time there's an influx from whatever shit storm we retain about 20%.

Searxng all day baby.

My situation is somewhat different because I'm in Australia. Presently we have a center left government, but they're quite impotent like Biden, and as a society we're sliding to the right like everywhere else.

That said, I'm particularly concerned about the rise of fascist groups. I'm seems their recruits are usually disenfranchised young men. I have no illusion about my ability (or lack thereof) to "reach" members of that segment, but I can certainly support the organisations that can, with both time and money.