How well does it compare as a carbon sink versus wood?
We stuff "cellulose" into so many products, especially food. If mycelium is more efficient, maybe it could replace some of that wood pulp.
JWBananas
joined 1 year ago
Corporations have been pushing the sustainability-is-a-personal-responsibility narrative for decades. But even in the best case, it only makes a drop-in-the-bucket difference compared to solutions that work at massive scale.
"What is your carbon footprint?" I don't know. What is Walmart's?
On top of that, there are billions of people who are either currently living in poverty or are finally on their way to tasting the prosperity that much of the Western world has had for the last century. Will our cuts in consumption be enough to outweigh the increases by everyone else? Even if we break even, that still leaves us on the way to disaster.
There is no silver bullet. The more realistic scalable solutions we can synergistically use to achieve sustainability, the better.
And yes, that includes Enterprise
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Yes. Never deflate the spicy pillows.
I generally start looking to replace mine around the time that Google Maps starts becoming laggy. That's usually around the 3 year mark for me. After 4 years things get pretty bad.
Nexus 5 -> Pixel 2 -> Pixel 6a
Practically every app update grows its respective compute and memory footprint. And over time, it adds up. Combine that with the big jumps in resource usage that come with OS updates, and eventually things just start slowing down.
The thing is, there was a minute where to get online, to use a computer, to do these things, you needed basic tech troubleshooting competence.
There was a minute when computing devices came with printed owners manuals that described set-up, usage, and troubleshooting in detail. Many even had a label with a phone number – right on the front of the device – which would connect one to US-based technical support for as many hours as one needed, for a small fee.
Today, if you're lucky, you get an Ikea-style wordless pamphlet that depicts how to plug in the power cord. Then halfway through setting up everything, the device installs an update, reboots, and comes back with a completely different UI. And if you're brave enough to Google for technical support, you end up downloading malware or on the phone with someone in Nigeria who needs you to go buy iTunes gift cards before they can help you.
My WWII-era grandparents had no problems buying a Gateway desktop, setting it up, and spending hours on the phone learning how to do everything that they couldn't otherwise figure out about Window 98 Second Edition or AOL from the novel-length books that came in the box. These days, all you can really do is phone a friend or hope your local library has some free courses.
One upon a time, reddit did not have communities. It was a simple, uncategorized link aggregator. When subreddits were added later, they migrated all of the existing content to /r/reddit.com.
They kept it open for some time after that while users adjusted. But eventually they restricted new posts because it had served its purpose.
On a platform like /kbin which launched with communities from day one, it seems antithetical to encourage users to make uncategorized posts. As this is a young platform, there are comparatively fewer communities established today. And of those that do exist, many are still trying to find their footing.
It seems to make more sense to encourage users to grow those communities and to create even more. The massive number of strong, unique communities was one of the main draws of reddit.
Kbin users, are you seeing what I'm seeing?
/kbin just has better algorithms. It's why I switched from Lemmy. I have the exact same set of subscriptions on both ends, but my subscription feed on /kbin just felt way more balanced.
Only issue I've noticed is that /kbin doesn't seem to respect pinned posts in Lemmy communities.
Hold up.
The ~~Klingons~~ Romulans go back in time to ~~save~~ ~~JFK~~ kill Khan? And ~~Spock~~ La'an has to ~~kill~~ save him?
Wasn't this the original plot of Star Trek II?
And IIRC it was introduced as being a relatively modern innovation in UX. So that's a continuity break.