The main issue is that while a subset of the West are giving up meat, the consumption of meat is increasing in developing countries which is a typical trend as countries get richer. Also, there is a subset of Westerners increasing their meat consumption massively because of idiotic social media trends, but hopefully that is temporary.

I’m hoping that plant-based meat and/or cell-based meat eventually match or exceed meat in quality and price, but we are not quite there yet. Not that I’d eat anything that smells or tastes like meat personally, but people seem to be addicted to it.

their pedestrian warning system is also louder than fossil fuel cars.

Hasn’t been my experience, not that I disagree with your overall argument. Might differ by country and regulations etc.

People online are actually “real” people as well (assuming they are not bots) so yeah, at least some subset care. Do I care personally? Not in the slightest.

Better get going on those taxes Neddy!

the averge person spends most of their time during daytime away from home, so its far less practical to have solar at home.

Only because of hostility to work-from-home policies; plenty of people spent their days at home during the pandemic, and there’s also carers and the elderly that are home most of the time.

But this is definitely a “why not both” scenario as both will have benefits and aid in greater decentralisation of the grid, reducing the risk of down time (whether intentional or otherwise).

I’ve done the hardware mod on an older chromebook and it’s about the least risky mod you could possibly do. And it looks like your model just requires disconnecting the internal battery cable temporarily which is similarly easy to the method I needed (removing a screw).

Probably a little bit of risk from possibly fragile connectors, but that should be okay if you take care.

I’ve never used Mint before; does it not come with a graphical app store?

It does, but I think even slightly experienced Linux users will just turn to the CLI for consistency and because it’s easier to explain in steps to other people. But he should have mentioned the GUI for new users, agreed.

idle their cars beneath my window and exhaust fills my apartment

I don’t fucking get this, like why do people do this? Even during the oil crisis people still do this shit for no reason I can tell. I’d understand if it was super hot or cold where I am right now but it just isn’t.

Not the OP but:

• FreshRSS interface is kind of ugly (probably can be tweaked). You can use third party RSS readers, but that ends up being almost as much work as installing readeck and the like.

• FreshRSS doesn’t support OPDS or have any koreader integration, unlike readeck. These are essential features for reading on an e-ink reader, which is my preferred way to read longer articles in particular.

it’s because no one want to type in 32 alphanumeric digits for every single device, every time…

Use DNS; I almost never type in an IP manually. You can also make short IPv6 addresses that are just the prefix and a bunch of zeros using ‘::’ followed by one (or more) characters.

Something like:

2001:0DB8::1

NetworkManager now has a CLAT and you can install clatd if not using nm.

But Linux is a bit behind on this tbh, especially compared to MacOS/iOS and Android (to a lesser extent) which have had mature clat support for years.

And the younger MAGA men would also support it, as long as it was guaranteed to be other young men and not them specifically.

And then “it was our fault, and you deserve it”.

I think it’s interesting that the terms are predominately slur form too, which you’d expect to be more common amongst conservatives.

See what happened to Xiaomi bootloader unlocking for an example of this in action.

Usually these sort of studies include embodied emissions including all of the inputs that go into building the car. This article here: https://www.reuters.com/business/autos-transportation/when-do-electric-vehicles-become-cleaner-than-gasoline-cars-2021-06-29/

focuses on new-to-new comparisons, but if you subtract the embodied emissions of around 8M tonnes of CO2 for the model 3, it looks like the break even point using the US electricity supply in 2021 is around 4.5 years. And that is probably a bit conservative given that:

• The energy supply has gotten cleaner since then
• It is compared to a Toyota Corolla which is a quite efficient petrol car (although bulkier SUV EVs etc would come out worse too so it depends)

Of course, it also depends on how much the car is used. If you use a used ICE car extremely infrequently the crossover point will be later.

Here’s a research article I have gotten around to reading yet but you may find interesting: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S095965262300269X

You might have to go to annas-archive and the like to get the content however.

Emissions from building a EV is from memory less than the emissions from continuing to run an ICE car after only a few years. And rapid adoption would encourage more renewables into the grid and in homes further increasing the EV advantage.

I think all of these have sdcard mods now (and the 360 had long had HDD mods from memory).

Flashbacks to 2020 and trying to buy a videocard.

I consider pet ownership to be too widespread in general because it causes a massive drain on resources (and on local wildlife) while we are in a climate crisis. An even in richer countries, pets are often neglected by their owners causing widespread suffering to the pets themselves.

And I say this as someone that likes and gets on with cats and dogs; I just think there are too many of them.