zevon

11 ms·

121.
by zevon 1y ago
It is happening all around the world. You can go look at it. You can go participate in it. Just last week I held a workshop where we did it. I also never framed these activities as an "alternative" to other 4R efforts. That is
122.
by zevon 1y ago
Huh? Football fans regularly produce significant costs for the tax payer by way of the huge police and cleanup activities needed for big games, for example. Even if you take the stance that PP is art - artists have asked for money for as lo
123.
by zevon 1y ago
A lot of comments here seem to assume that the goal of PP is to provide a complete solution for the plastic waste problem. It's not and it doesn't have to be. I may be off base a bit but I think the amount of plastic that is actua
124.
by zevon 1y ago
Health concerns are important - which is why the PP knowledgebase and PP workshops include quite a few infos about the safety aspects of different plastics and how to work with them. The laser cutter is not necessarily a good comparison for
125.
by zevon 1y ago
What is there to "believe"? Precious Plastic collects and creates some knowledge, furthers the education of many people around the world and transforms some stuff that would have otherwise gone to waste to useful things. I really
126.
by zevon 1y ago
It's not really clear to me why it is better to build the required infrastructure, transport things to an incinerator and destroy them than have at least some of them locally recycled into useful stuff and spread some knowledge and exp
127.
by zevon 1y ago
This. No matter your stance on economic base model or plastic and recycling in general the decade-long effort of Previous Plastic is very commendable, was a lot of hard work and produced quite a bit of actual output. That doesn't warra
128.
by zevon 1y ago
Interesting. I have used Precious Plastic and similar machines in educational settings and I know a few people who have set up more or less permanent workshops. There were never any problems getting materials (one's own trash, old pla
129.
by zevon 1y ago
Who or what is this "the Linux desktop" you speak of? ;)
130.
by zevon 1y ago
Are they doing that in this case? The DMA is not targeted at Apple specifically. The clarifications linked by Gruber are - and I would assume that there are similar clarifications for other companies' products as well (especially if th
131.
by zevon 1y ago
Don't they get the same scrutiny? Google certainly has had its troubles with regulations (Samsung, specifically, I'm not sure about but based on their size alone, I would assume as much). Microsoft as well, to name another (in)fam
132.
by zevon 1y ago
Is this supposed to be irony?
133.
by zevon 1y ago
John Gruber's mental gymnastics are a fascinating read sometimes. Here, he basically says 'Apple (and the other giants) will try to not comply with the spirit of the EU regulations, so less regulation it is better for customers&#x
134.
by zevon 1y ago
Get old stuff. It's possible to acquire old oscilloscopes and all sorts of (once really expensive) lab equipment for free or for cheap from trash bins at universities or from the Craigslist equivalent in your country.
135.
by zevon 1y ago
"How to Diagnose and Fix Everything Electronic" often gets recommended as a very useful book in that regard.
136.
by zevon 1y ago
I would not want to touch 120V with wet hands, for example...
137.
by zevon 1y ago
See if there are Repair Cafes around you. Tinkering together with other people can be motivational and there usually are retired craftspeople (such as electricians) around who are happy to share knowledge.
138.
by zevon 1y ago
Of course sewers are amazing but they are used for a lot more than toilets. My point was: Composting toilets do not need to take up much more space than water-based toilets and it's entirely feasible to use them in many living settings
139.
by zevon 1y ago
Not "in the ground" in the strict sense, but I'm pretty sure that composting toilets would scale to population density. Same basic idea as shitting in a hole (and probably more useful than water-based toilets).
140.
by zevon 1y ago
Maybe also an option and an educational little project about electronics and (re-)using "old" devices: There are lots of used iPods around and many of the old hard drive models are pretty easy to retrofit with flash-based storage
141.
by zevon 2y ago
I've always been rather happy with Android in the form of certain versions/ROMs like Cyanogen in the past or GrapheneOS nowadays. The latter is lean, not bloated, secure and - IMO - very usable. Installing it is easy and there are
142.
by zevon 2y ago
Can anybody explain to me in simple terms the argument about opening the floodgates for spam on iMessage if Apple would lower their restrictions? I just don't get it. If true, wouldn't this mean that every other messenger app with
143.
by zevon 2y ago
Sure it would and there are existing Pebble time tracking apps. Here's a search for "Time Tracker" in the Rebble store but I'm sure you will find more with other search terms: https://store-beta.rebble.io&#x2F
144.
by zevon 2y ago
No questions but a comment: I rarely get emotionally attached to devices, especially since I have to handle a lot of fancy hardware for work and it gets old quickly. However, there are a few pieces of technology like my Walkman or my Thinkp
145.
by zevon 2y ago
The only way to install the old iOS Pebble app is by sideloading via something like AltStore (or doing it manually every week). Maybe you can also still re-install it if you had it installed when it was available in the App Store but I&#x27
146.
by zevon 2y ago
Wow, those guys are moving fast. :-) I own and use a Pebble Time Steel and a Pebble Time as my only watches. I'm not really missing anything and I'm very happy with my old Pebbles - yet, I'm still quite tempted to pre-order a
147.
by zevon 2y ago
It's been a very long time since I was involved in teaching basic coding but were I to plan such a course now, I think I would not even consider including automated grading. In fact, I think I'd focus even more on individual and
148.
by zevon 2y ago
It's configurable. As per their FAQ: https://delta.chat/en/help#why-can-i-choose-not-to-watch-the... https://delta.chat/en/help#why-can-i-choose-to-only-watch-th...
149.
by zevon 2y ago
I'm using it under Wayland right now. Though you are right that there are apps that don't populate it.
150.
by zevon 2y ago
KDE has a global menu bar that works like the one in MacOS.

More ›