When I worked at Best buy over 10 years ago they had the exact same propaganda. You know instead of union dues you could buy an Xbox! (From us no less!)

…okay I added that last bit but it was implied

Personally I can’t wait until Nvidia releases a new generation and they start shedding gpus. Helloooo secondary market!

Good note, and good callout, we should always call out these things.

But yes if you’re self hosting and you both have a public facing instance and allow open registration, you are a much much braver person than I.

I’m guessing those seasoning crumbs are a pretty standard mixture, one that is easily googled, and can be bought for pennies compared to that bag. Some olive oil, that seasoning, and a bug bowl and you could have weeks of it ready to go

I’ve lived long enough where I definitely see this as the reason.

It starts with one person saying “hey wait, if we do this thing we waste a little less!”. Good intentions and idea. It grows and catches on. Companies see that and see the triple hitter: they can

• reduce overhead costs by not doing the wasteful thing
• go on a PR blitz making it look like they’re doing amazing things, people clapping all the way
• continue charging the same amount.

Happens all the time. Tipping is the best example. You feel bad for the driver or server so you tip a little more. Companies see this and make it easier for you to tip, saying they really value their workers and want to let you tell them. Meanwhile they do nothing for actual pay, screwing you and the employees at the same time.

Now that I can’t believe. At some point it’s better to let the trees keep growing and make a plastic tree. We’re not talking about paper for newspaper or something consumable, were talking about an item we want to keep for a lifetime. I can’t believe that cutting down, setting up, and throwing out 70 real trees over a lifetime is better than one plastic.

However, some other things to consider, first where do you think the plastics in the artificial tree come from? That’s right, PETROLEUM

I mean, yeah of course that’s why it was the first thing I called out

My main ask then because it does matter is how many real trees cut down is the equivalent. As said it’s done for me, artificial tree is up right now so moving forward it doesn’t make sense for me to abandon that. For those who don’t have one though, how long would they have to own the artificial tree?

I’ll admit I’m skeptical of the statement because it’s a common technique that has been used to prevent people from choosing greener alternatives. The great EV debate has been plagued with it, with people bellowing that the cost of mining the minerals means you should just drive ICE cars when in reality if your EV rolls over 15,000 miles you’ve officially hit the tipping point.

Same thing with new stoves, water heaters, a lot of pro-oil will claim “Well manufacturing alone means that you’re actually hurting the environment, you wouldn’t want to do that now would you?” and put the blame back on the consumer when in reality most of those purchases become carbon neutral usually after a year or two of standard use. Now for the trees if it’s 20 years… maybe. Even then I wonder about the potential of those 10’ fir trees growing into full adult trees and what we cut short by cutting them down. (Granted I know most are farmed now, but even then, it’d have be be multiple decades for it to make sense in my book)

Too many colors on a map looks busy, as long as none are touching with the same color then it’s good. In fact, the fewest number of colors you can use without any touching is usually the best

Okay that changes things. If they turned off these guardrails than that was on them, never blindly trust an LLM like that

Oh my god really? Cursor explicitly asks you each command and could only do this in “yolo” mode. Not having these guardrails is insane

Artificial. While it was a ton of plastic I can’t get over cutting down a tree every year. Seems wasteful to me. My artificial is exactly the same as it was 10 years ago and I have no need to replace it.

Recognize that anywhere. From Pink Floyd’s P.U.L.S.E. live show.

Revolt/Stoat dropped the ball by not supporting federation and not choosing that from the beginning IMO. It could have been such a huge opportunity if they had built that in from the beginning, I’d drop matrix for it

Ironic thing is that they are allowed to criticize, it’s just the same thing that they think they should be able to say whatever they want and have no one say anything back

A good manager can really reset you if you’ve built that trust in ways they can’t even fathom.

I completely feel this. I had one that just said “I think you’re funny, you’re very sarcastic and it’s funny, but no one else here understands it and so they think you’re an asshole”. Also flipped me around, that while I thought I was constantly joking that these people are not my friend group and did not understand my very dry delivery.

Taught me to test the waters a bit before going full sarcasm, and people like me a lot more thanks to that

Yup I’m seeing it, and then people wonder why there were so many rules on reddit banning posting until you had so much karma. Because bad actors spoil it for everyone.

The data they had even proved it was useless to us. Something like 50% of the content came from the 10% on third party apps. They just couldn’t deal with only 90% of their users being served ads constantly though and had to kill off the third party apps.

From what I hear content got noticeably worse. Good

Okay that makes so much sense, because I knew I had calling before in Element but they wanted me to set up all this extra stuff. Is it still a thing to do the plugin?

Wait there’s a jitsi plugin?