I have one, I use it for running an arma3 server, it’s been bulletproof for reliability though, hetzner have come a long way since the first time I used them years and years ago where it was a mess.
I’m almost at the point I’d use them for some thig that mattered (I.e. money was involved).
That parallel between propaganda and advertising is why I have a pathological hatred of advertising, I block it in all forms possible, to the extent that if I can’t block it I won’t use the product.
I simply hate been manipulated.
So much so that I forget what the modern tech landscape is like for the average user til I use one of their devices.
We’ve (collectively we for techies) helped create a dystopia.
Blocking the advertising itself only shields you from the advertising, it still lets these services set up the underlying surveillance/advertising system that harms society (and you) in the long run.
Of course it's not always possible, but it would be ideal to use services that don't have advertisements for anybody.
Sleek isn’t what matters in most domains, fast is more important but suffers from what definition of fast and how you measure it, in my experience working on a lot of enterprise systems what users really want is software that fits the domain and is predictable and consistent.
We must live in different parts of the UK then because where I am in the north the bread choice has never been better - what you said was more true a couple of decades ago but my local small co-op has a huge range of bread fresh baked on premises including stuff like ancient grain sourdough.
All the lidl's within 20 miles have in store bakeries and do the same and you can order that stuff from all the major supermarkets.
It's funny that you mention co-op and lidl.. neither of them actually have "bread fresh baked on premises including stuff like ancient grain sourdough" [0].
kwhitefoot is correct and the vast majority of bread in the UK is not what you think it is.
The bread in these two stores is mostly baked in a factory and then delivered to the store where it may be heated for a golden crust (at most). The ancient grain sourdough is (likely) just mostly wheat bread [1].
In my personal experience, I was always suspicious of the "fresh sourdough bread" at Tesco. It was far too soft to be real sourdough bread and now I think it was a straight-up lie- sorry just a marketing label.
This is just premixed and shaped dough brought into stores and then cooked there surely. There's no guy at the back of your co-op carefully nurturing his bread-mother.
If you improve parsed/scanned speed of html in Chromium by say 1%, that doesn't sound impressive.
Then you consider 3 billion people use chrome (or Chromium derived browsers) multiply that out by how much html gets parsed/scanned a day by those users and then consider the energy costs - it quite quickly gets to a massive number (and that's just actual users, Chromium is also the core of Electron and a alot of other tooling)
Simply put at Google's scale, tiny incremental gains compound to a massive species wide saving.
I have one, I use it for running an arma3 server, it’s been bulletproof for reliability though, hetzner have come a long way since the first time I used them years and years ago where it was a mess.
I’m almost at the point I’d use them for some thig that mattered (I.e. money was involved).
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