In Texas, they would ask whether you want sweet or unsweet and you’d get a glass of iced tea. The closer you are to Louisiana, the sweeter the tea.

You have to specify hot tea, if that’s what you want.

I saw an article on lemmy about this yesterday, though not sure whether I’ll find it again.

Hotels, flights, retailers already have an abundance of price discrimination. Target shows higher prices when your device is physically closer to a store and lower prices when you are further away. IPhone users tend to pay higher prices because they assume that since you had the extra money to pay for an expensive phone, you’ll be open to spending more at other stores.

Likewise, if they see your device or other devices on your network/near you making several searches for hotels/flights the price will increase.

It’s just another way to build greed into the system

Lol, you have to use fractional measures because each degree is further apart. I thought I had made that point. Sure you won’t ever get rid of all fractional measuring in any system, but it’s much easier if you don’t have to use as much

I pointed something similar with regard to thermometers to a group of European tourists. In Farenheidt, 98.6 is the normal temperature and if you are getting sick, people will say that 99 is a low-grade fever. While that is a. 4 degree difference in F, that’s only a .2 difference in C.

Likewise for weather, F is much more precise and easier to communicate given that there is a smaller interval between units. There’s more than 2 units difference in F for every 1 unit difference in C. That’s huge when you’re talking about the difference between 38 and 39 C

I’m using Connect and it provides an option to block an instance

It’s a play off Friend of Dorothy.

I’ve seen a lot of posts recently about FOSS. I’m not a programmer, so I don’t know anything about it. What is FOSS and does it have a big advantage over other software designs?