MentalEdge

Also, you’re digressing.

I merely consider it necessary to function in modern society, and hence a service a government might conceivably provide.

You really like making assumptions about what I mean, and twisting my words, huh?

You classify email and internet search as non-essential?

And what does how they are classified have to do with the ability/inability of government to provide them in a sufficient manner?

You claimed something that HAS HAPPENED, could not. There’s no comeback here for you to find.

Those are some pretty specific additional qualifiers. Did I hit a nerve?

I’m responsing to someone claiming governments inherently cannot be good providers of essential services, which is patently untrue.

The nordics are home to numerous government institutions, providing a variety of services that are perfectly satisfactory, and often excellent.

Are you claiming that email or search engines not being among them today, means the rest mean nothing, or that they never will be?

If the current services are anything to go by, those things getting added to the list, will be fucking great.

I live in the nordics, would you like a list?

They aren’t. What you’ve seen is called a frontlight.

E-ink panels are not transparent, light cannot pass through them at all. The complete opacity of the ink particles inside the panel is part of how it works. They physically cannot be backlit.

The built in light you find on most new e-readers is a string of LEDs around the edges of the panel, which shine light into a glass or plastic layer in front of the screen.

This allows the device to illuminate the e-ink panel in exactly the same manner ambient light does.

!bocchitherock@sopuli.xyz will welcome you.

Yeah, even that feels outlandish.

Meanwhile, my parents: Started gushing to each other about how cute Milla Jovovich is when we watched The Fifth Element on family movie night, to the point of making me and my sisters a little uncomfortable.

TBF, if it’s a small farm, they could easily list all the cows for a certain batch of product.