AntY

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[–] AntY@lemmy.world 2 points 3 weeks ago

Org-roam for emacs is an alternative. It doesn’t have a phone application though.

 

Say that you suddenly wake up in the year 1875. You end up talking to someone and you want to convince them that you’re from the future. How do you do that?

[–] AntY@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I read some of the studies on this and i would say that the evidence is shaky at best. People seem to have an easier time reading texts using fonts that they are used to.

[–] AntY@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I’m currently fighting waybar to make it look similar to what you got. Do you happen to have config files to share?

[–] AntY@lemmy.world 8 points 1 month ago

Yes, but never for meat. I use it when I make toffee, bake bread and some other things.

[–] AntY@lemmy.world 13 points 2 months ago (1 children)

AFAIK, there’s only three Star Wars films. Episode IV, V and VI.

[–] AntY@lemmy.world 4 points 2 months ago

"Let's keep the costs public and the profits private!" they said.

[–] AntY@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

Your link refers to a BBC article which I read. It compares cities with other cities, making the argument that the bigger cities produce less carbon dioxide emissions than smaller cities. The source of data here is a bit mixed but mainly it relies on governmental data for cities of 135,000 people or more. It's hardly rural when there are high-rises. It's also a bit unclear on how emissions are calculated. It includes industrial emissions for the place where the goods are produced, not where the goods are consumed. Generally, consumption is equal to emissions. If a millionaire flies in a private jet, the emissions shouldn't be attributed to those who make the plane or pump oil out of the ground. It's the millionaire who is consuming the plane and fuel that is the polluter.

The BBC article isn't written by a journalist. Its written by a Paul Swinney who "is director of policy and research at Centre for Cities, a think tank dedicated to improving the performance of UK city economies". The article should be viewed as an opinion piece.

In the other source, WNYC Studios, there's a professor Cindy Eisenhower who's being interviewed. She says, and I quote, that "in reality we're finding that -- many studies emerging that would suggest that if we account for all the things that people buy, uhm, that cities oftentimes have higher footprints despite the efficiency gains that relates to living in really dense settlements." Listen to the interview that your source links to at https://www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/takeaway/segments/urban-versus-rural-carbon-emissions

This is a great example of why secondary sources shouldn't be trusted without verifying what they say. The author of the article you linked clearly misunderstood the interview. What the professor is saying is exactly what my municipality found: that even if people living in rural areas have higher transport emissions in their day-to-day life, a single trip abroad by plane may produce as much emissions as a full year of traveling to work by car. The direct transportation emissions in rural areas are completely offset by higher consumption and overhead emissions in cities.

[–] AntY@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (3 children)

My municipality made a study where they looked at the carbon footprint of residents in three different areas. Those with the highest carbon emissions lived right in the city center, next to where they work. The ones in suburbs were right in the middle with respect to carbon dioxide generated by their lifestyle. Lowest were those living 30 km or more away from the city center.

I drive to get to work, nothing else. I don’t drive to the store, I don’t buy clothes, I don’t fly to holiday destinations. I don’t need or want to, since I have everything I love right outside my door. Those who live in cities are statistically those who need to make the largest changes to their lifestyle if we are to save the planet.

[–] AntY@lemmy.world 4 points 2 months ago (7 children)

I’ve got a horse but there’s no stables outside my workplace. Walking 50 km to work would take the whole day.

[–] AntY@lemmy.world 18 points 2 months ago

My dad had problems with Ubuntu since the snaps didn’t communicate well. For example opening links in Thunderbird using Firefox.

I would recommend mint just to avoid the snaps.

[–] AntY@lemmy.world 9 points 2 months ago (3 children)

I looked into this claim a couple of years ago. I couldn’t find any well executed study that showed this. It’s mainly a talking point that people who argue for circumcision claim is true, but I couldn’t find any scientific support for this.

[–] AntY@lemmy.world 5 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Islamic_scarf_controversy_in_France https://www.france24.com/en/live-news/20250219-france-s-senate-backs-move-to-ban-headscarf-in-sport

It's OK to wear a cross in, It's OK to make the sign of the cross, because that's the majority religion. Headscarves, however, are considered a "outfit ostensibly showing a [...] religious affiliation" and that should, according to some french lawmakers, be banned.

 

At long last I'm finally switching operating system for my gaming PC. I have a lot of photos and such saved that have been moved from an NTFS drive. Is there any tool out there to help me fix the permissions of these files according to file type in bulk?

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