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Re:Floorp – a customisable Firefox fork from Japan by pil0u on Monday October 02, 2023 @04:54AM (#37735593)
Some people care about items not travelling twice the globe before landing home.

Other people care about work conditions for the produced items they buy, namely not manufactured by children, for which country origin could be an indicator.

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Re:Floorp – a customisable Firefox fork from Japan by Xeamek on Monday October 02, 2023 @05:05AM (#37735675)
>Some people care about items not travelling twice the globe before landing home

Which is pretty dumb thing to care about, since these journeys have minimal carbon footprint, compared to something like local delivery

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Re:Floorp – a customisable Firefox fork from Japan by alwyn on Monday October 02, 2023 @05:58AM (#37736097)
Can you elaborate on the minimal carbon footprint in this context?
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Re:Floorp – a customisable Firefox fork from Japan by deaddodo on Monday October 02, 2023 @11:40AM (#37739557)
> unless there is some fundamental moral hangup with it
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