pedz
@pedz@lemmy.ca
- Comment on White House Announces Strategy to Keep Edible Food Out of Landfills 2 weeks ago:
The last proposition to reduce food waste is
urge companies to donate more food.
Before that we’re gonna try to make it last longer, and compost more of it, then maybe companies could think aboit donating more of it.
But they have to be careful because if they donate too much nobody is gonna want to work to buy food anymore!! Or people could sue if they get sick from old food. Better send it to the composting site instead of giving it away.
Obviously we can’t force companies to give unsold food, we can only urge them to do so.
No money to buy that tempting watermelon about to expire? Ok then, we’ll send it to the composting site to reduce food waste.
Aaah sweet capitalism!
- Comment on The current state of auto insurance: shit that belongs on a shady Kickstarter from 2013 2 weeks ago:
Meh. I have a cabin in the countryside 130 km away from my apartment and I can cycle the whole way, or take a coach with a foldable bike and pedal the 30 km left.
It’s actually in the region where I grew up so I have to get there frequently to see my family. It’s a hassle sometimes but it’s only because my government can’t adequately fund and maintain a decent transit network.
I also bike to national parks nearby, and sometimes haul my inflatable kayak with a bike trailer.
People overestimate distances and think the country side justifies a car but it’s usually just excuses. I did move in a big city eventually but I lived in small towns and cities for a decade before that. I still hated cars and didn’t have one.
For example, my mother lives on a rural road outside a village of less than 2000 people. And she works in the next town that is 7 km away. Meanwhile I live in a city and work in the same city but I have to bike 9 km to get to work.
So sometimes distances are shorter in smaller cities and towns but people still insist they need a car. People will give any excuse to use their car. It’s like cocain.
Also, here Uber is only available in major cities where it’s competing with public transit anyway. AFAIK you can’t take an Uber to a small town or a rural road.
- Comment on The current state of auto insurance: shit that belongs on a shady Kickstarter from 2013 2 weeks ago:
I prefer to be compared to Diogenes of Sinope, thank you.
- Comment on The current state of auto insurance: shit that belongs on a shady Kickstarter from 2013 2 weeks ago:
Jokes on them, I hate cars, don’t have one, and would never take an Uber.
- Comment on Futuristic movies timeline 2 weeks ago:
Babylon 5 (The Gathering) is set in 2257 and the following years. To my surprise, it’s pretty close to The Fifth Element’s timeline. However the date is about the same thing they have in common.
- Comment on Exploration 4 weeks ago:
🎵 We’re whalers on the moon, we carry a harpoon. But there ain’t no whales so we tell tall tales and sing a whaling tune. 🎵
- Comment on Ascended to Spanish 1 month ago:
I never realized this but it seems logical. I grew up in a French speaking area of Canada, English is the second language, but the provincial TV was broadcasting Spanish lessons. From the earliest moment that I can remember watching TV, there was Spanish lessons on it.
- Comment on True Love 1 month ago:
- Comment on So close. Once again missed the mark by a mere 1%. I was at 68% at this time last year. 2 months ago:
Maybe you can go back in time with some kemocite and by venting warp plasma into the cargo bay and catch it at the right moment.
- Comment on A bad influence 2 months ago:
There are modern IRC clients like TheLounge and Convos that support media and video. And push messages. You can also have your own internal server not exposed to the internet, this eliminating the problems of takeover, splits and whatnot…
Also the protocol has evolved and there’s been integrated options in the servers to hide IPs for at the least a decade.
You may remember those issues and problems when you abandoned it, but it contniues to evolve and endure. I have a private server for my friends and it’s been the most stable and direct way to chat and share images for years.
- Comment on wise 2 months ago:
“My parents were Starfleet officers and I’m at the top of the evolutionary ladder!”
- Comment on Duo out here teaching me the essentials 6 months ago:
Today I learned that a giraffe in Greek is a spotted camel.
- Comment on How do people understand each other? 6 months ago:
[Foreign language]
- Comment on Microplastic overdose 7 months ago:
Ask me how I know we’re not gonna reach our climate change reduction goals.
- Comment on OK Microsoft... trying to log into Teams while work lapop updates to Windows 11. No longer works in any iPhone browser, including Edge. The app will not authenticate my work login... 7 months ago:
I work in the tech support field and Microsoft is making me want to quit and find a work that doesn’t involve using Teams. I’ve never liked them very much and been a Linux user for over 20 years, but I still have to deal with them for work. However they’re becoming increasingly difficult to tolerate.
They really really want Windows users to have a Microsoft account. I avoid that and prefer local accounts. But Microsoft likes to link my local account with my Microsoft account anyway, because I need to give it to them to play Minecraft on Windows. So now even if I didn’t want to, my Windows account is showing the picture of my Microsoft/Windows Gaming account profile because I must have passed over a box to uncheck somewhere while logging into Windows Gaming to play Minecraft… mildly infuriating Microsoft.
I used a personal laptop for work a few times and accidentally connected my OneDrive to my corporate account. Again, I must have misunderstood the configuration and login process because it synced (more like moved) all my personal files on my work’s OneDrive. Mildly infuriating Microsoft.
Same personal laptop used for work sometimes. I use Edge specifically to separate work from personal browsing and somehow, again, I logged in somewhere with my work account and it synced all my personal browsing history and saved passwords from a different browser, into my “Edge for business” online thigny. So when I was using Edge at work, on my work computer, it was suggesting me logins and passwords from my personal browser that I use on different computers. Mildly infuriating Microsoft.
Teams, OneDrive, Edge for business, their subscription model, forcing Microsoft accounts… individually they are mildly infuriating but combined together, let’s say it’s a powerful generator of rolling eyes.
- Comment on Bye biiiittttchhhh 8 months ago:
I don’t drive a car, so where’s my money for saving the planet? Where are my rebates for shoes and bikes?
Subsidizing the car industry is indeed dumb. I don’t think it’s hurting the economy though, as the goal is to continue to sell and replace millions of cars. Still, the infrastructure for cars is probably costing us much more on the long term though. Maintenance of expressways, space for parkings, and other infra for cars costs billions.
Just replacing a single expressway interchange in my city cost 4.3 billion! For ONE interchange.
So again, where are the rebates for people taking public transit? Where are the investments in public transit? Why is it only on the condition of BUYING A CAR?
- Comment on But my WiFi is just fine! 9 months ago:
In perfect conditions for Wi-Fi. I live in a high rise and the 2.4 Ghz band is hardly usable. My previous phone didn’t have dual band Wi-Fi and it was much faster on 4G than WiFi.
Plus, modern routers and APs often rely on band aggregation and so even with devices that have dual band, crowded airwaves will have a negative effect on speed.
Wi-Fi is very fast when I’m in my cabin in the countryside. But when I get home with the same devices, it’s barely usable.
You could argue that I need a better router with the newest protocol and gizmos but so far, even with new bands and protocols, Wi-Fi is still a competition of which router and devices will shout louder than their neighbors.
- Comment on Here we go again 10 months ago:
No, Chromium will not be fine. Apparently Google have already pushed the code for their “integrity API” with Chromium on git.
github.com/…/6f47a22906b2899412e79a2727355efa9cc8…