Ah, I thought the oven in general does it for you. Yeah, that makes sense, I hear migraines can be triggered by a lot of things if you’re prone to getting them.

I know :(

Gitlab itself is American these days, legally speaking.

Try Forgejo, self hosted or one of the European hosts (some allow private projects)

What’s the difference between that and feature branches? Sounds like you still have PRs that get merged to main from somewhere - forked repos I guess?

It’s 2.7 lol

Try Codefloe, it has a free tier and you can host both public and private projects.

Convenience and reputation. People expect github to be a legitimate source of software (despite the fact that there’s little moderation). The UI is familiar already too.

It’s such a simple reason tbh. Github is expected to stay online indefinitely. My VPS? As long as I pay the bill, which I may not want to at some point.

Codeberg is a decent middle ground - open source projects only. The site itself is open source too.

Yeah I forgot those were a thing. We run slightly more voltage here so high power electric appliances are the default, even gas stoves are becoming rarer, ovens are basically all electric for home use.

Wait, how does an oven give migraines? Legitimately curious

Edit: I forgot Americans have inferior electricity and often use gas ovens at home lol

Should be a class action lawsuit by Tesla owners and damages in tens of billions rather than millions tbh. I’m just saying that this particular case can’t be seen as Tesla’s fault by anyone being objective.

Thank you. I didn’t get why the young uns would be texting Game Master.

Did you read it tho? Tesla is at fault for this guy overriding the safety systems by pushing down on the accelerator and looking for his phone at the same time?

I do not agree with Tesla often. Their marketing is bullshit, their cars are low quality pieces of shit. But I don’t think they should be held liable for THIS idiot’s driving. They should still be held liable when Autopilot itself fucks up.

Americans often say this

First off, I’m not American.

You are saying that cruising in a several ton metal missiles, often alone, back and fourth over the planet or to McDonalds is necessary!

First of all, fuck off, I’ve flown back and fourth across the planet exactly once and that was to see my father before he died. I hadn’t seen him in 25 years, because he left to the US to pursue something resembling income when I was 2, as our own country was only just getting started economically. Second of all, I said it’s “often necessary”, not strictly always necessary.

we have invented train, bus, bicycle, electric cars, please for god sake stop working for astroturfing oil company proxies

Who’s been astroturfing oil company proxies? And anyway, when talking about the CO2 impact, trains, buses and electric cars are part of the number. Bicycles quite a bit less, because the CO2 there is production (once per bike and not comparable to a car or a train) and the extra food you need to eat. But trains, buses and electric cars absolutely do use energy - and therefore increase CO2 emissions, even if indirectly.

But the most important part

Do you think these are just different technologies that happened to have been developed simultaneously? These are all from the same spark. Neural networks giving rise to emergent unexplainable phenomenon when prodded in very very specific ways. Ai research is almost all trying to understand how the fuck that happens and why it can do all these things.

Radiology is a good use case. Ai porn maybe not so much.

I realize that neural networks are the basis of all that, but I’m saying we don’t need to be pushing everyone to use a super energy-expensive chatbot instead of a regular search. We don’t need AI chatbots embedded into literally every software application we use daily. This doesn’t benefit the research, it benefits stock values because AI is a buzzword and you CAN’T run a publicly traded company without saying you’re harnessing the power of AI, shareholders will literally murder you.

That’s why people are dunking on AI instead of cars. Because 99% of public-facing AI is useless shit people actively dislike and so is 99% of AI energy usage. With cars, I’m willing to bet at least 10% of trips are strictly necessary, and 40-50% of trips are deemed necessary because of stupid car-centric city design with no transit, so still necessary, but for the wrong reasons. I doubt more than about 50% of trips are just leisure altogether. But these are just numbers pulled out of my ass to illustrate a point: There is some car travel that is necessary, some car travel that could be avoided by political change, but is currently necessary for the people doing it. But very little AI usage that is necessary.

Google, Microsoft, etc, aren’t building billions upon billions of dollars worth of data centers at a never-seen-before pace to run models that benefit humanity. They’re doing it because right now all the money in the world is in building a better “Here are the tallest buildings in NYC to jump off after losing your job” machine than your competitor, and shoving it in more products nobody asked for.

And worst of all, just shoving more and more input data at larger and larger LLMs alone isn’t likely to cause new breakthroughs in AI. For all we know, it might be a dead end in the search of AGI - and they’re well into diminishing returns as far as investing more and more energy into training new models is concerned.

For sure cars are worse for the planet than AI. But cars DO something. They get you to places. AI tells you how to kill yourself, or how to make pizza with glue, etc. Its best use cases are for cheating at homework, and replacing human workers without even making sure AI CAN do their jobs (good luck hiring all your support staff back, Klarna). It’s currently a completely new plague on the planet, and tech CEOs are doing everything to point it out more and more. You know when was the last time I heard anything from Gernot Döllner or Ola Källenius? Fucking never. They don’t shove themselves everywhere to let you know what they’re doing to destroy the planet. At best they’ll tell you what they’re doing to reduce their impact. But tech CEOs right now will outright tell you they’re going to fire everyone they can, build as many energy-intensive data centers as they can, and drain desert towns of their last drinking water, just so you could see what it would be like if the chick from Avatar had 3 boobs.

THAT is why people are mad at the AI industry.

Americans often say this

That’s still better than anything I’ve ever drawn in my life lmao

Truth be told, I’ve given up on the idea of ever creating anything artful on my own. The couple of video game ideas I have, if I end up creating any of them, will have to have outsourced art. For which I’d use humans, just nobody particularly expensive lol

I have an idea for a fast-paced side scroller that doesn’t require all that much artwork necessarily, but is also not the one I’m most excited about. The one I really want to make is a 3D RPG (without the MMO that often comes in front of those letters - I’m crazy but not THAT crazy) and I have a lot of mental material, but I literally can’t afford to get it done at the moment. Have been considering reaching out to a studio whose asset packs I like on the Unreal and Unity stores to get a lot more work done in the same style, but I already know it’d be crazy and my ADHD ass isn’t going to finish the game anyway. Plus I’d want sound effects, semi-OK voice acting… All things I can’t do alone unless AI (voice actually is the easiest - I could do one role myself, and get some friends to do a few more).

But at this point I’ve realized my other two projects are more likely to bring in money than the game which is more of a creative output, and I can work on them alone or give people a stake in the company to get them to work for cheap. Why make a passion project for yourself and other people to enjoy when you can focus on what truly matters in life, B2B SaaS.

Oh I didn’t even mean the outdoors clothes lines (which I also have, but am too lazy to use), I meant an indoor rack like this:

I have 2 of those so I can do like 3 loads of laundry and just set it and forget it.

Won’t work with high humidity, but chances are if you have high humidity indoors, you’d want a heat pump to use as AC in the summer and for extra heating in the winter, anyway (game changer IMO)

Heat pump hot water heater - don’t think that’s even a thing here. Reason being, if you’re getting a heat pump to heat your water, you might as well just go full blast and install an air-to-water or even geothermal pump that heats up both your radiators (or floors) AND the boiler. It’s a goal of mine for next summer. But in the absence of such an option, I will admit that a straight heat pump water heater is probably good too. Right now I have an electric heater for summertime usage and I’m not the biggest fan.

Mate, I even lowballed the 95% number. It’s probably closer to 98-99% of smartphone users that want nothing to do with custom ROMs.

This is coming from a person who has used them on every single Android I’ve owned (including an Oneplus).

So there’s a 98% chance of a mainstream Android phone becoming ewaste within 2-3 years (admittedly, flagships now can get longer support because of pressure from Apple). If you think your iPhone is slow after 5 years, you can literally still sell it. There’s still a market for it, and it’ll continue getting at least security updates for a while. Some people report phones getting slow, but you know what? It’s a minority. Plus once you wipe it of all your shit when you sell it, it’ll be way faster again lol

So no, Apple isn’t perfect (if they were, they’d let you flash other operating systems), but first party support is still more important to 99% of people than third party support is. I keep my OP 7 Pro around because it can run Android 15 smooth as hell and I’ve got an app I want to develop eventually, but I can’t use it as my main phone these days (yay play integrity API) and on the custom ROM the battery drains pretty fast despite the phone not even having a SIM card in it and being used fairly little.

The oldest iPhone to get a security update this year is the 6s. It came out in 2015. From the company most hated for planned obsolescence. My last Android phone, the OP 7 Pro, released in 2019, got its last security update in 2022 or 2023, I forgot the exact date. Plus it took me hours to chase down the exact stock ROM I had to flash to downgrade the OS and get the bootloader unlocked last year. Oneplus had killed the downloads on their website, I ended up finding some on someone’s google drive and some through wayback machine I believe. Don’t remember which one actually worked in the end. This is NOT something a normal person would want to go through, I have ADHD and had more important work to do, which is why I ended up flashing my phone lol

Upgrade your dryer to a heat pump dryer , they use 1/4 the amount of electricity to do the same job if literally everyone traded their electric dryer for the heat pump dryer it would dramatically reduce energy usage and thus also result in a dramatic drop in CO2 generation from various energy generation sources.

Dryers are such an American thing. Heat pump dryer sounds extra expensive. My European ass just hangs clothes to dry. Guess what, they’re dry by the next day. I compensate by having multiple days worth of clothes. Heat pump dryers are like 700 EUR, a good quality clothes rack is 15 EUR.

Use your compost bin actually start separating stuff for it properly . Most people don’t make use of it, if you are particular waste Company does not offer composting then simply make a compost box somewhere on your property if you can and start composting there’s a lot of things that just end up in the trash that could be compostable which would be better for it the environment and reduce the burden on the waste system.

So as of 2024, in my country, it’s actually mandatory to either have a compost bin, or alternatively a compost enclosure in your garden if you have a garden. You get fined if you have neither (so apartments will always have the bin). Reason was, a lot of people threw meats and stuff in their compost piles and that attracted animals. So now it has to be enclosed to keep them away.

But does composting actually affect that much, as far as CO2 is concerned? I just do it because compost is great for fertilizing crops and soil deteriorates if you keep growing mostly the same shit every damn year (even when rotating where exactly which thing is). The soil apocalypse is another one we’re going to have to face soon.

Curb the demand for forever chemicals. Replace everything in your kitchen with stainless steel or wood or glass. No plastic or Teflon

IKEA over here gives a 15 year warranty for certain models of their stainless steel pots and pans, but not the ones that have teflon coating. Get yourself a 2.8 liter pot with a 15 year warranty for 5 fucking euros (discount price not regular I think). Lid included in the price. 15 EUR 28 CM stainless steel pan, 15 year warranty. Carbon steel pan of same size, 30 EUR. Also 15 year warranty. I already bought one pot and one stainless pan. No idea if I’ll ever need a warranty on these goods (except maybe the pot for the plastic handles if they get loose and can’t be tightened anymore), but the prices themselves are already better than teflon shit in a regular grocery store and those often don’t last too long. Next up I’m buying a carbon steel pan so I can compare that to the stainless steel one. Previously all I’ve owned has all been teflon or ceramic. I’ve personally contributed to the teflon industry by about 3 pans over 10 years.

Shh, we don’t want to talk about that, car is comfy

On a more serious level, the type of AI that all the energy is being used for, generative AI, is not particularly necessary. Transportation often is. There are types of AI that are ridiculously useful, like the one that does protein folding, or a lot of machine learning algos that classify things for X or Y business reason… But LLMs and image generation are a fucking novelty.

Ah yes, DLSS, the option to make your game look worse for better performance.

It’s not a necessity for a good looking game.