Obelix

@Obelix@feddit.org

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨nets⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  And if you go out and order a drink, you might get 3 or 4 straws. Yes, it’s stupid. Yes, it doesn’t make sense. But it happens and people throw their to-go drinks into the environment after they finished them

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨nets⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, but it’s a quick win. Ban some single-use plastics and prevent it from getting into the oceans because it doesn’t exist. Yeah, you have to do something about the fishing nets, but there is no reason to not take those quick-wins

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨nets⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  Why shouldn’t it be relevant? The waste is out there, is being found on our beaches and the industrial plastic waste is not swept up as often? So why would a regulation to prevent the most common plastic-items on our beaches from being there be bad?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨nets⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s kind of crazy - those plastic Q-tips are only better if you want to totally wreck your ears and every doctor is warning against that. For every legitimate use, those paper variants work perfectly well

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨nets⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  If it gets swept up on the shore, it’s in the ocean. So it totally makes sense to prevent it from being there.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨nets⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Just FYI:

  Single-use plastic products are used once, or for a short period of time, before being thrown away. Under the EU’s rules on single-use plastics, the EU is tackling the 10 single-use plastic items most commonly found on Europe’s beaches and is promoting sustainable alternatives. The 10 items are

  Cotton bud sticks 
  Cutlery, plates, straws and stirrers 
  Balloons and sticks for balloons 
  Food containers 
  Cups for beverages 
  Beverage containers 
  Cigarette butts 
  Plastic bags 
  Packets and wrappers 
  Wet wipes and sanitary items 
  

  …europa.eu/…/less-plastic-waste-means-cleaner-bea…

  So yeah, nets are bad, but straws, plastic bags, cigarettes and packages are also a problem.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Are we going through another scalping apocalypse?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Just be patient. Those new GPUs are so new, expensive and rare that no game has them as target hardware. Stay on your current setup and wait until games are catching up and prices go down.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  You could just use a computer without internet. Get something without a network card. But your use-case is quite bad as you still need access to the internet and you even want Facebook, Reddit & YouTube, which totally will send you into your doomscrolling dead spiral again.

  So some hints:

  • you can download YouTube videos and view them offline
  • there are lots of ways to disable the internet or slow it down. Nothing will work when you’re the admin as you can and will disable them.
  • if you get distracted doing your work, even black & white displays will not work. People totally didn’t do their work in the past and watched a lot of black&white television or even read some books
• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨At this rate, why not.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Paper is here: arxiv.org/pdf/2501.06623

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Valve ban advertising-based business models on Steam, no forced adverts like in mobile games⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Let me guess: Valve was not getting their cut from the ad money?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I got the money saved in my mansions safe.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  You’re right. I’m not from the USA and I’m not living paycheck-to-paycheck, but having ~6 months of expenses as savings is manageable. That depends on your situation, income, number of children, of course. Will be problematic when you’re earning in the lower income brackets, but for most people that should be a little bit under 10.000€ here in Germany.