Yea I’m here a short distance from the border of the US and need a translation too.

The point is that it would force trucking companies to make choices that consider effects on the road infrastructure.

Do I continue shipping pretty much everything in trucks as big as possible? Or do I consider smaller trucks for shorter distances? Maybe I should hire developers to determine the most cost-efficient system of paths by small trucks and large trucks? What if I used trains or ships for some long distance travels? Would that make sense? Etc.

Some remote towns in Canada give land away for free or for a very low price.

Would be so satisfying!

Yea it seems like a lot! But I assume it would be for communities that are already in the desert, they’re manageing with water, but barely, and one or two of these machines would help rounding things.

Considering the amount of water it produces, I imagine it would be a community rather than an individual that buys it.

What’s the business model of the repair shop in that situation?

I love that it replies seriously.

I think he’s arguing that not using the most advanced technologies (eg. what Google and Microsoft offer) would be detrimental to worker productivity in the EU.

Of course, in reality, if all those countries start investing in FOSS, they could easily replace the Office suit, SharePoint, the Power platform, etc. I know several programmers who’d gladly devote their time to FOSS full-time if they could. I’ve even met one who simply refuses to work to create anything proprietary.

I would like to glide with knives on ice.

That’s good, but it pales in comparison to the effect we could gain by reducing the amount of paper that gets printed, especially in business.

Incredibly, a lot of time I spend is spent scanning shit that was produced using a computer, then printed, sent to me, only for me to then bring it back into a computer!