Even the UK has online shops that sell loose leaf tea that can be prepared in any way you consider safer than tea-bags. :)

In central Europe I have at least one shop that sells loose leaf tea in walking distance, and multiple ones in ordering range but still local(ish). Prices per 100 grams are about twice as gourmet coffee, but you use less quantity so it lasts longer. So check your neighbourhood internet. :)

Tokenomics had been already used by marijuana enthusiasts for a long time.

Listenbrainz has a page that allows you to fetch your history from last.fm, and knowing them, the scraper is probably open-source.

Lol, I had no idea scrobbling was popular again. I'm the maintainer of a scrobbler daemon for linux that gets the track info through MPRIS and can send it to last.fm, listenbrainz and libre.fm. :)

https://github.com/mariusor/mpris-scrobbler

Because anatomy not consistently used declines in fitness?

And unused muscles start to significantly decline in your mid-forties. Maybe thirty years after playing trombone as a kid.

Brb, joining the brass band at the legion.

Haha, have you tried that? I think in this day and age marketing is much needed activity even for open-source projects providing quality solutions to problems.

I maintain a niche-popular project that I didn't do any marketing for. My understanding is that even for popular projects, the usual dynamic is that there's just one guy doing all the work. So "getting off the ground" just means getting people to use it, and there shouldn't be any reason to artificially force that.

It depends what your objective is. Many people seem to see their open source projects as a stepping stone into some commercial activity. Putting aside whether that is a good idea or not if that is what they want to do then they will need to market in some way.

I'm pretty sure electronic IDs are a good starting point for exactly this. Hopefully they get wider use inside the EU.

why do you hope that?

Because there are many interesting uses for having a personal electronic token that's also recognized by your own government. My own interest is in using it as a base for establishing an identity for electronic ballots.

sure but I don't understand how electronic IDs are a good starting point for having QR TAN or some other hardwarde device. I think OS-agnostic hardware should be the default starting point, not the other way around.

The electronic ID hosts a cryptographic key that can be used through some sort of hardware device in order to generate QR codes, or whatever that are linked to the user's official identity...

The public part of the identity (which in our example it was enrolled at bank account opening) can be used by the server that checks the QR code to see if it actually belongs to the correct account owner.

And they can be found online pretty easily: https://himawari8.nict.go.jp/.

I remember there's some tools to use the images as desktop backgrounds: https://github.com/boramalper/himawaripy