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Not cheaper in general, just cheaper compared to equal or more energy efficient solutions.

Red LEDs are cheaper but less energy efficient, whilst more energy efficient solutions like e-Ink are much more expensive and suffer from the problem that they need external lighting to read because e-Ink dots are passive, not emissive.

Mind you, it's possible to come up with solutions with Red LEDs where their slightly higher consumption is no big deal (for example, a button that need to be pressed to activate the charge-left display, so the LEDs are OFF most of the time rather than ON all the time, so ultimatelly use almost no energy because they're usually off) but they tend to add cost ("no button" is cheaper than having a button) and increase the likelihood of failure or manufacturing defects (adding any kind of mechanical moving part to something which otherwise has no mecanical moving parts adds another, more risky class of failure modes).

In summary, using blue LEDs tends to be the Engineering-optimal solution for these devices, though not the usability-optimal one.

Somebody: "How are you?"

Me: (mentally checking my own mental state and how the day has gone so far to figure how I am at the moment)

All the "whites" (warm white, natural white, cold white and so on) on led lights are combinations of red + blue light emitting junctions covered in a phosporous mask to "smooth" the spectrum distribution of the resulting light (otherwise the light would be purelly a peak at a very specific wavelength on the red part of the spectrum and a similar peak on the blue part of the spectrum).

The most energy efficient kind of light emitting semiconductor junction is the one that emits blue light.

This being a battery bank and assuming that 2x7 segment LED display is always ON, maybe the choice of color for it was driven by that (and price, since that numerical display is far cheaper than even lower power solutions like e-ink) above usability.

The Neoliberals too have been using exactly the same technique to crush dissent, since it gives them plausible deniability (i.e. they claim it was for some other reason than silencing somebody) which is the essence of how they apply Force (people aren't violently made to do or stop doing something, they're just pushed into a situation were they have no other option or see the example of what happens to others when they don't comply)

A specifically Fascist method would've involved violent use of Force, for example arrest or her being violently attacked on the street, rather than indirect methods like this firing.

Let's not leave the other Far-Right ideology of the hook just because their methods are are better PR-wise: their disempowering of the many and subversion of all the pillars of Democracy helped pave the way for the Fascists.

The position people tend to see as "criticized" is that which they directly or indirectly get from the Press, and the Press is bought and paid for and has been working as a Propaganda arm of a subset of the population rather than as Journalists, for decades.

IMHO, the Consent for "Billionaire openly making a Nazi salute during Presidential Inauguration of Far-Right populist multi-millionaire" has been Manufactured and the acceptance of this by many and feeling of impotence about it by many others was never the product of natural Tolerance.

PS: In fact, the very events on the article the OP posted - that somebody in a public-facing position in the Press was fired for being a dissenting voice - give weight to the point I'm making.

Yeah, but the Rogers is trully jolly .

The local TV here in Portugal also did the whole saying "that some consider a Nazi salute" thing in their news segment about this ...

... and then showed Elon's salute and a bunch of Nazis doing Nazi salutes as examples, leaving nobody in the audience but the blind in any doubt that Elon's salute was the same as the salutes that the Nazis did.

Yupes.

My problem is that for me as a customer their chosen "solution" (me using my phone to see their easy to change menu) provides me no gain whatsoever whilst adding hassle. There are various possible options they could've gone with (blackboard, digital system with tablets for customers, printed piece of paper) with various balances of cost and ease-to-change and they chose the one that maximizes their advantages, minimizes their cost (and maybe it doesn't even do that properly compared to, say, a blackboard) and increases hassle for customers.

In other words, in their requirements for the solution they've chosen to use, they focused entirelly on what was best for them and screw the customer, and if I have a choice I'm not going to bring my custom to a business which has activelly chosen to make my life more of a hassle purelly for their own gain.

Even though they're using Tech for what they're doing, the actual problem for customers is a Tech-agnostic "they did what was best for themselves and made the customer experience worse", and maybe because of my immense familiarity with Tech I really don't get dazzled by there being lots of Tech in their choice and just look at it from a "what does it do for me" point of view (a way of looking at business practices which itself derives from my professional experience: since I both worked on and implemented Business Requirements I got used to look at systems from a "what does this provide to the user" angle as part of the work of designing such systems).

I've worked in Tech for 30 years, done software development in enough areas and at a sufficient senior level to be able to implement the whole QR code support, both coding and systems design, all the way from an App in a smartphone taking a picture and translating into a URL, to the webserver and if needed database on the other side including if needed an ordering system integrated with some internal order request system.

If I was faced with this I would ask for them to bring me or show me a menu. If they said "no" I would literally get up and leave.

I'm not going to be spending time mucking about with my phone to read in it's comparativelly small screen something they could have available on an A4 piece of paper or an even larger format hanging from somewhere in the restaurant just to, at best, save them a few cents or, at worst, satisfying somebody's totally misplaced idea that any Tech is cool just for being Tech. I'm even less going to enshittify my smartphone experience with some app that demands access to my Contacts and wants to pester me with notifications entirelly for the benefit of somebody else.

If there is one thing 3 decades in the Industry, often at the bleeding edge, have taught me is that Tech isn't necessarilly the best solution for everything and that being newer doesn't make something better and I'm not interested in being the beta tester for some half-arsed solution which serves most customers' requirements worse than the older solution and I'm even less interest in installing a software agent doing the will of somebody else on my phone.

It's exactly because I know Tech so well that I just judge Tech tools as I would any other tools and, damn, so much of it out there are just horrible ill-adjusted unstable tools worse than the old-Tech or non-Tech versions.

We're currently conducting a vote on dbzer0 for it via a pinned post.

Last I checked the count was overwhelmingly for banning links to X.

When one's ideological architecture if reliant on the idea that people are defined by ethnicity, whole ethnicities are good/victims and others are bad/aggressors and the ethnicity of a person determines how he or she should be treated, Fascism is but a miniscule distance away.

This applies to Israel (whose constitution very literally says the country is a nation of a single ethnicity and all those of that ethnicity are its nationals) and its sockpuppets around the World, as does in Germany where the authorities have once again revealed their black heart in connection to the Israeli Genocide.

I suspect a lot of those pseudo-idologies and organisations just served to hide those with a Fascist heart during the period when Fascism was "unfashionable" and now that it's on the rise again they're coming out in support of Fascists but using the language of the pseudo-ideology that so successfully made them seem movements for good rather than just another variant of Racist.