ProdigalFrog

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[–] ProdigalFrog@slrpnk.net 3 points 3 months ago
[–] ProdigalFrog@slrpnk.net 9 points 3 months ago

3 people may be enough, believe it or not. It wouldn't hurt to toss 'em an email and see what they suggest. With a company that small, it's likely they'd take you on.

[–] ProdigalFrog@slrpnk.net 8 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Honestly, it sounds like you could use a union. If you have a good relationship with your coworkers, you may want to contact the IWW and see what they make of your situation.

[–] ProdigalFrog@slrpnk.net 3 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

Perhaps Wallabag, a self-hostable service to save and categorize articles?

Also @Australis13@fedia.io and @ratzki@discuss.tchncs.de

[–] ProdigalFrog@slrpnk.net 7 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

It depends how quickly you put on miles (and which study you base the calculation on). For most EVs, they break even with the emissions of an ICE car at about 15k miles. By 200k, the EV emitted 52% less emissions compared to the average car.

If the electric grid is powered by more renewables in the future, that would jump to 78% less emissions at 200k.

[–] ProdigalFrog@slrpnk.net 2 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Too bad it's being actively killed by Google. :(

[–] ProdigalFrog@slrpnk.net 13 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

That does seem to be an influence, though oddly there are some modern wildly popular games, Minecraft being a prime example, that still allow you to self host your own server, so it shouldn't really be as foreign of a concept as it appears to be to some younger folk.

[–] ProdigalFrog@slrpnk.net 16 points 3 months ago (5 children)

I think the issue is that, as with reddit, a lot of people are only reading the headline and commenting.

[–] ProdigalFrog@slrpnk.net 3 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

AFAIK, most PS3 (and even PS4) / Xbox 360 games will play and function with just the disc, an internet connection will just let them download updates to the game.

It was PS5 and Xbox One where the discs became glorified physical download codes, and did not actually contain the entire game.

[–] ProdigalFrog@slrpnk.net 9 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

It doesn’t sound like it was as of 2020 in the US, at least on the good/service distinction:

The creator of the Stop Killing Games campaign did a segment about the viability of fighting it in the US in a segment here: https://youtu.be/DAD5iMe0Xj4?t=1097

tl:dr, the motivated lawyer he talked with on it eventually found a court case that set a precedent that would be extremely difficult to fight in such a pro-corporate court system without extreme amounts of legal funds. This is why the Stop Killing Games campaign is focusing on implementing laws in the EU and other non-US countries.

[–] ProdigalFrog@slrpnk.net 3 points 3 months ago

And Isaac Asimov's The Feeling of Power, a short story about a man who can do mathematics in his head, a skill long forgotten after computers do all calculations for humanity.

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Rhinophrynus dorsalis is the only surviving member of a family of amphibians that once had a distribution throughout North America and contained many more species 30 million years ago. Today the sole species in this family occurs from South Texas down into Costa Rica. They reside deep in the ground and only emerge after heavy rains. Their call is a very bizarre and distinct sound.

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