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The industry got too big and too reliant on subsidies. A reckoning will occur at some point, it's just a matter of whether it's announced ahead of time or surprises everyone.

You can make plant-based cheeses. And some of them are pretty good. But they lack all of the same properties. Like, you can get a cheese that that when hot will stretch a little bit like the cheese on a pizza, but as it cools off it loses all of that elasticity and is not great for lukewarm pizza. You can get cheese that is pretty decent for lukewarm and hot pizza, but it doesn't have that stretch. It more just rips apart. And you definitely don't have the span of "flavors" of cheese or whatever you'd call it. Some of the big ones, sure, but again, they don't have all the same physical properties.

I don't mind the loss of those properties, but many people do.

Cheese isn't a great source for protein compared to beans in regards to price though.

Honestly, I think we subsidize the dairy industry simply because they've been lobbying so long. Meat is subsidized too. It's the one market that the conservatives are fine with ignoring the mantra of "free market" and support regulating the hell out of it in whatever way supports the "farmers" (big farm is nothing like the labeling suggests and is all headed by big guys in suits who likely never have been on a farm in their life).

They'll never include it as it needs the headphone jack. Unless they expect a huge market for radio, that is big enough for them to offer a mea culpa and give back head phone jacks, it's never going to happen.

Would people love to get headphone jacks back? I'm sure. But I don't see the market being there to get companies to give in on that.

Do these chips have AM radio? Otherwise it's not that useful for emergencies.

I'd rather a wind up radio for emergencies as opposed to wasting the battery life on the one thing I can use to call for emergency services.

Edit: also, who uses FM in emergencies. You want AM radio for that.

The shows don't really exist anymore. At least not in my area. Well over a decade ago they were all replaced by playlists and commercials.

You can still use a wired headset if you so wish with your $3 connector. But when someone wants wireless, it's nice to have the option.

I don't blame Fairphone trying to make their product less expensive to produce. It's not like they're the biggest sellers in the world or benefitting from economies of scale as much as other companies.

I didn't say a USB headset is inherently better. The one on your phone isn't inherently better either if you're using a 3.5mm jack either. So the argument can work both ways. And to be honest, no phone really has amazing onboard DAC, and especially not the Fairphone.

I mean, I don't know their other practices, but the removal of the headphone jack is hardly green washing. I'd bet it actually is more sustainable to not include it tbh, plus it is likely more affordable. Beyond that, with just looking into it, as I expected, they're a more sustainable and repairable set of headphones compared to the rest of the market. Moreover, I highly doubt dropping the jack would drive folks to decide to buy these if they weren't already. They're not tiny earbuds. They're over the ear which is generally something folks buy when they actually are looking for them.

Sometimes accelerated progress can lead to waste, but holding onto legacy tech for too long can also lead to waste.

That's great for the future. But the government needs to operate prior to that time. If there is no speaker, then there's no vote for keeping the government open past mid November

It's not good for those who live in the US. A speaker needs to be elected before they can pass anymore funding.

Because spying on you is bad. They mention the privacy implications in the article.