Not so sure about the last part. It takes ehhh about 3kg of c02 to produce 1 Watt for a year. Carbon footprint to build a laptop is about 200kg or so, but you’re not offsetting one of those you’re offsetting the raspberry PI you WOULD have bought which is just a small fraction of that. After a year or 2 you’ve almost certainly burned through your c02 savings if it’s on all the time.
You’re missing out, Facebook marketplace is THE place to buy local secondhand goods for dirt cheap without getting scammed. You do need an account but you don’t need to install anything, and the payments are not done through FB
Back when I lived in a (quite nice) apartment building I was constantly surprised at the things people threw out. Perfectly good furniture but also stuff like perfectly functional printers, artwork, computer cases…
I’ve been in one car accident in my life (my fault) and it shook me up, I remember searching “how long until self driving cars.” But I got over it, next day I was back behind the wheel. As other people have said, it’s a necessary life skill for most people in North America and it does get much easier with experience and time.
Edit: one thing that helped me is to identify what I did wrong and how i could avoid it happening again. I have a motto of sorts, “never make the same mistake twice.” You can apply that to close calls as well. In your case, you say you struggle with multitasking, but that isn’t something that is out of your control. Especially while you’re still a beginner, avoid listening to music (and DEFINITELY keep your phone down) and keep your eyes on the road. And if you’re driving with other people, they will be totally cool with you telling them, “sorry I can’t talk, I need to focus on driving.” As time goes on driving will get much easier and you can probably allow for some (limited) distractions like music, etc
I get that in a perfect society you shouldn’t need to learn to drive, but that ignores the fact that if you want to be able to function in society most people in NA need to be able to drive (unless you live in one of the handful of cities with excellent mass transit). It’s a bit like saying nobody should be forced to work for a living and then being homeless.
Nah that’s pretty weird I’ve not heard of that before. I’ve snagged a fair number and still got them as far as I can tell.
I’m not so sure eating out a restaurant that doesn’t use disposable utensils/dishes is really wasteful at all. The only difference i can think of is if you drove a long distance to get there. But it might actually be more efficient from an energy consumption perspective. You might have to heat up your oven just for a meal for a few people but they are going be cooking up a lot of stuff at once. I’d say the much bigger factors are a) are you wasting good and b) what kind of food are you eating.
I’m really just here for the memes and tech/science stuff, and the occasional interesting discussion
Huh? I’m literally talking about like anxiety memes, adhd, autism, etc. Just not topics I find interesting.
Don’t have any instances blocked, but I block all the political, trans, furry, and mental illness communities. I wish people wouldn’t post political stuff to the YSK or general memes communities, there are 5 million better places to post that on lemmy, but it’s manageable.
I assume moe? Which I think means cute?
Virgin online activist vs the CHAD meme and amateur pornography enjoyer
Ohhhhhhhhhh I get it! They called it Vista like a view, like something you would see out of a window (I am not very smart)
Well, fwiw if a guy doesn’t want to date you cause you’re 5’7 you dodged a bullet. Same with the rest of these superficial “rules”. like it’s one thing to have a preference but idk why you would reject someone outright over something like that
I’d say it’s a expression that does have gender associations, but it’s not offensive or anything to call a woman dude in the right context. If anything it is usually used as a gesture of camaraderie, in this case because a woman has suffered in a way that men can understand.
Wait really? Are you straight? I’d be really surprised any guys would think 5’7 is too tall.
He’s repeatedly said he won’t… not that he can’t change his mind but I’d be really surprised if he ran again. There’s a much better chance of him dying in office than running again, let alone winning given he’d literally have to get a constitutional amendment passed. The supreme court is conservative but they have a strong record of swatting down his more ridiculous claims, including when he tried to challenge the 2020 election results.
Not really? We’re still 3.5 years out from the next presidential election, most people aren’t even thinking about who they’re voting for yet. People won’t be announcing their candidacy for another 2 years so this is all premature anyways.
Nah no way does the average ewaste tier laptop use less power than a raspberry pi for any given task. The power consumption floor for a laptop may be lower than the rpi ceiling but that’s not a fair comparison