I think it is worth visiting, but you should either read up on Volta's activities (beyond the battery) in advance the visit or buy the guide when you get there and plan to have time to read it while you visit the museum.

It's full of interesting-looking devices, but the descriptions in the museum only give you their names, with very little hints on what they do. You can probably guess a lot (we did), but deeper explanations would be better.

We only grow the basil, we don't have the trees (pine and olive) nor the right weather to grow them. We're not growing the garlic either, but that we could probably do.

Plenty of things missing from the basic needs :D

Back in 2012 Raspberry Pi announced that they were the first arm board with FLOSS GPU drivers, when they in fact only had a shim that called the real drivers from the proprietary GPU firmware. Since then their situation has afaik improved a lot.

I don't know if the FSF ever dealt with Raspberry Pi, but they have suggested multiple times that putting a proprietary firmware on a ROM would make it part of the hardware and thus not a/their problem; I know it has happened with the GTA04 and with wifi card.

IMHO this policy is horribly misguided, does not improve the practical freedom of the user and reduces their potential freedom.

btw, the jar of course had some food products in it, the wick is made from used basting thread, the cork came from a bottle of wine and the foil is a leftover from a solar panel.

I guess that the only “new” thing is the tap water at the bottom :)

It wasn't my fault! it just happened!

(the fact that I visited two brick and mortar shops, opened a forum thread asking for more shops to try and then browsed through the online reseller list on the producer's website until I found one I liked doesn't mean I can't claim it was something like the devil forcing me to act, right?)

@Fabio

I'm definitely happy with the amount of spinning I did: I completed everything that I had planned (and didn't hurt my hands) and by the time I had the forced stop I was already thinking about stopping for a while and using some spun yarn in order to decide what kind I needed more: I'm weaving a scarf on the backstrap yarn and winging it without real plans, so I'm not sure if I'll have enough weft, but I also want to try some tablet weaving with the same fiber, spun thinner, so I want to leave some of the roving for the project that will need it most.

I think my spinning has improved a bit, and trying to card was also something I wanted to do: I'm definitely not proficient at it, but I have plenty of materials to learn (today I washed a bit more of the fleeces)

I also learned that whorls made in salt dough will. break., but then it is quite easy to “glue” them back with a few drops of water and some time.

Well, the suits thing was mostly a joke / provocation, I don't think anybody who shared that post really wanted to ban suits instead of stopping to ban hijabs.

Saying that "all religious symbols are banned in the same way" however is misleading: in an area where the religious people are mostly part of either a dominant religion that does not mandate wearing any visible symbol (and if they do want to wear one, it's usually something small and easy to hide like a cross pendant) and one that is discriminated against that mandates that its followers must always show visibly their religion, such a law will not impact the followers of the former, but only the followers of the latter.

Also, there are laws that are not against religious symbols in general, but just against specific kinds of dress (especially the burkini, afaik) under the excuse that they are a symbol of the oppression of women and those are even worse: if a woman is being forced to wear a burkini when going to the pool, and the pool forbids that woman from entering while wearing a burkini, it's not like magically she can wear a swimsuit, they have just forbidden her from going to the pool.

So, yes, these things do have an impact, one that adds more burdens and discrimination to the weakest parts of society.

(disclaimer: I'm talking about the laws and proposed laws in Europe, mostly Italy and to a lesser extend France, I don't know what the situation is elsewhere well enough to have an idea )

(disclaimer2: I know that not everybody who is religious in Europe is either christian or muslim, but at the moment the political debate is on those, everybody else I'm afraid is going to end up as collateral damage)