nossaquesapao
@nossaquesapao@lemmy.eco.br
- Comment on It is very therapeutic to garden, though. 1 day ago:
But it doesn’t need to have a better overall yeld or lower price. It can work as a complementary production, to bring variety, resiliency, and protect local crops and pollinators.
- Comment on It is very therapeutic to garden, though. 1 day ago:
Crops like soybeans are mostly cultivated for animal consumption, but are you sure it holds for the entirety of the industrial agriculture?
- Comment on Gabe Newell, the Man Behind Steam, Is Working on a Brain-Computer Interface 2 days ago:
Which implies that the brain-computer interface will never be viable as a product
- Comment on Living 6 days ago:
Nice to know I’m not the only one. I feel bad about them too.
- Comment on Maggots 1 week ago:
On the Human skin are living more creatures of these, than existing Humans on Earth. Are you sure? I remember reading that about bacteria, not mites.
- Comment on Maggots 1 week ago:
Luckily, the text loaded fast, while the image lagged, so I had time to close. Sometimes, having a shitty internet pays off.
- Comment on Tasty 1 week ago:
I love seeing really old artifacts like that. Are there some lemmy communities for this? Maybe something like r/ArtefactPorn
- Comment on Checkmate, science 1 week ago:
Looks like people are (re)discovering troll physics
- Comment on Morish Morals 1 week ago:
Everything is food if you chew hard enough
- Comment on Come on, science! 2 weeks ago:
Maybe not directly, but there was a demand for “portable computers”, a better input system for phones, better portable cameras, a way to readily access the internet anywhere, among several other things. The smartphone became popular so quickly because it concretized all of those latent demands into a single device.
- Comment on we have a problem 3 weeks ago:
Wouldn’t the direct sun exposure mess up things?
- Comment on go go gadget sonar 4 weeks ago:
This is so cute and feels so wholesome, for some reason :)
- Comment on It’s time for a hard reset on notifications 5 weeks ago:
I do a similar thing, enabling only the apps I want notifications, and I run “adb shell settings put global heads_up_notifications_enabled 0” to stop those annoying popups interrupting me. This should have been an option available in the configs, imo.
- Comment on amazing!!! 1 month ago:
Yes, but it shows that they’re reacting to it and probably experiencing the color, but it doesn’t give a hint on how the experience is. I’m falling a bit into a solipsism-like thinking, but perhaps the idea of other animals experiencing colors that we don’t isn’t absurd.
- Comment on amazing!!! 1 month ago:
But how can we know if they don’t experience different colors in the infrared/ultraviolet range?
- Comment on STEM 2 months ago:
If only engineering documentation was as precise and comprehensive as this meme claims…
- Comment on Gen Z is bringing back landline phones because they think they look ‘cool’: ‘I love to twirl the cord’ 2 months ago:
Sometimes I wonder if some companies or groups are paying to publish “news” about genz using this or that, as a way to promote their stuff. It looks to me as a good and cheap tactic, since some younger people would look into the “trend”, trying not to miss it, while some older people would look into it trying to stay “cool” and not look out of fashion.
But then I think again, and it looks like too much of a conspiracy theory. Why does my brain do that?
- Comment on You know how bad it needs to be to be ignored for over 2 decades! 3 months ago:
With some exceptions, like lamps or tvs, older devices lasted much more. You can inspect the older devices you find around you and check for yourself. In general, they were much more robust and used better components and were designed to last. This was due to a lot of things that were different. I will try to list some:
- in some industry areas, growth in the market was mostly due to population increase, people who never got access to some things being able to buy them, and expansion to development countries, so it was better for the companies that the devices lasted long, because they wouldn’t be able to supply a demand of replacement + new users. In other words, there was no incentive for products with small life.
- devices were generally simpler, with fewer components, therefore, with fewer points of failure. The components used were often more “brute”, instead of the delicate electronic components we have.
- a lot of the modern obsolescence comes from software and from i/o communication incompatibilities, things that weren’t even present in most devices
- market demand forces prices down, and this has led to many things, including worse quality stuff
- the life cycle of everything has diminished, as the consumerism became stronger, and people are buying new things much faster, leading to users not even caring for things to last long, because they will buy a new one soon anyway.
These are the things that came to my mind. However, it’s important to remember that there are products being made out there with the same robustness level of old appliances. Look into industrial devices, for example. They’re build to last for decades and endure much more than common devices, but the prices aren’t inviting to the average user.
- Comment on A time-honored tradition 3 months ago:
Do you have any source for this information? If they’re plastic containers, they probably leak aa well.
- Comment on A time-honored tradition 3 months ago:
Don’t tupperware leak as well?
I mean, unless you use some sort of glass container or metallic, you’re eating microplastics.
- Comment on HOW?! 3 months ago:
We don’t change as much as we think…
- Comment on Is there a chart where particular cuneiform or hieroglyphics are actually matched with emojis? 4 months ago:
Sad because turtles are banned
- Comment on IT support work be like 4 months ago:
You could just get a rain-proof router! /s
- Comment on CHEESE 5 months ago:
It would be nice if we bring r/cheesemaking to lemmy.
- Comment on GTA 6’s Publisher Says Video Games Should Theoretically Be Priced At Dollars Per Hour 5 months ago:
We’re living in a dystopia so boring that the future is easily predictable.
- Comment on Very few people realise how environmentally devastating this game is. 5 months ago:
This is interesting. Out of curiosity, did the golf courses use to be more affordable back then?
- Comment on Very few people realise how environmentally devastating this game is. 5 months ago:
Don’t underestimate the capacity of rich people to flaunt their excesses, while the people are suffering in scarcity.
- Comment on Checkmate round-earthers 6 months ago:
Runs fast, but isn’t very stable
- Comment on For some reason, I'm doubtful. 6 months ago:
I’m reading the other comments, and wondering why do people need to be binary like that? Yes, diminishing returns are a thing, so we shouldn’t expect the same degree of improvements, but stating hard limits is also something that usually gets laughed several years later.
- Comment on I could totally do that if I wanted... 6 months ago:
And we start seeing much younger people doing everything we tried and failed… Oh, how it hurts.