Topics around green technology and practices that actually work, not the green-washing stuff, and getting off the addition to fossil fuels before we wreck this little ball of dirt we call Earth.
Be civil, kind, and respectful. If we need more rules we will make them, but it boils down to those three.
@[email protected] There's no "we", no collective will and nothing of that sort.
There are just:
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For cars, what's best should be aware of "Well to wheel", including manufacturing processes. If electricity is generated with 100% carbon free way, and batteries, magnets, and so on (excluding common parts with ICE cars) are manufactured with lower carbon way than ICEs, BEV is clearly the only way to go.
But how are the "real world?"
Something alike should be applicable to other areas. What's most efficient throughout "total life cycle" is most important to judge the way to go. This is quite often forgotten.
I've been saying this forever.
We have to look at end-to-end. This includes keeping what's currently being used going as long as makes sense given the embedded energy.
This requires a lot of deep analysis, and people don't like to think that hard. We want easy solutions: "just do this and you're a better person than the next".
It's hard to convince people something is a better approach using hyperbole and assumptions. When questioned about how much less energy/carbon/oil a hybrid or electric vehicle uses over its lifespan, and all you have is "it's better", people stop listening.
@[email protected] that's why #righttorepair
and Open Source is very important imho
A computer is supposed to be compliant for 36 months now where i work.
Insane, i could still rock my Powerbook G3
If i could understand computer software more.
M$ Teams take more resources then that machine has 😆😆
@[email protected] I understand this. Today I was in a Zoom call - and I'm not using Zoom that much. After some minutes, my Macbook Pro M1 Pro (Apple Silicon) was getting hot.
I can't believe how this machine can process audio and video "at the speed of light" (not exactly, but it's really fast) and becomes hot just for a call with 4 parties.
We need to concentrate more on software efficiency.
@[email protected] "Environmentalism without class struggle is gardening” Chico Mendes. Capitalism isn't good for sustainability. Rich people with private jets are polluting in hours what i'm polluting in years. Private property is the reason behind the ideological short circuits. Private property is unnatural so no surprise that our system, that is based fiercely on private property has brought us towards environmental disaster.
A nice excerpt (especially the last question) from UNIX: A History and a Memoir, by Brian W. Kernighan (2020).
“As an example of how computing hardware has become cheaper and more powerful over the years, a 1978 PWB paper by Ted Dolotta and Mashey described the development environment, which supported over a thousand users: “By most measures, it is the largest known Unix installation in the world.” It ran on a network of 7 PDP-11’s with a total of 3.3 megabytes of primary memory and 2 gigabytes of disk. That’s about one thousandth of a typical laptop of today. Would your laptop support a population of a million users?”
(million = thousand times thousand)
@[email protected] I think most of us are in a similar situation.
I am completely fatigued by it and at this point I don't give a **** anymore. Probably what big corp wants.
I think there's good will and effort going on, but also a LOT veil pulled on our eyes.