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EU internal borders being closed was agreed between countries in the EU though. It wasn't every country for themselves.

Wasn't it?

I'm wondering what those workshops will teach people to do. Most of the advice I hear comes down to three things "Vote green at the polls"(1), "Vote with your wallet"(2) and "encourage others to do the same"(3)

(1) I live in a democracy with ranked choice voting, and I always vote green #1, but the greens are in minority and the main parties are more interested in playing to the masses. sometimes they're in coalition but they don't achieve much.

(2) I'm a relatively well paid person in a relatively wealthy country. I own my own home, and I have rooftop solar installed. But I can't afford an EV that will fit my family, or a heat-pump, so I still have to burn oil or wood to heat the house in winter and burn diesel to bring the kids to school. I die inside a little every time I have to go to a filling station. We live in a rural area with no public transport, so that's not an option either.

(3) I talk people into getting solar panels and switching to EVs, lowering electricity usage, buying second hand, reusing, recycling, every green action thing I can do. I urge people to vote green. Sometimes I feel like I have a little effect here, but I could be fooling myself.

It's disheartening that an environmentally conscious person like myself, with a good steady income and no big debt, still has to burn fossil fuels on a daily basis to keep warm and move around. I feel like I'm part of the problem, not part of the solution.

is it difficult to DIY?

I didn't like it that much. It was ok but I think it's been hyped out of all proportion.

Gleeson and Farrell are good actors, but for me the script let them down. It felt like it was trying too hard to be meaningful or symbolic but nothing landed.

Barry Keoghan was the best thing about it, amazing performance.

$14,000 is competitive with quotes I've seen for heatpumps. I've been quoted up to €18,000 for a small retrofit.

I would have expected the cost of heatpumps to have fallen as adoption goes up, like solar, but instead the opposite seems to have happened and they're far more expensive now than five years ago.

Any insights into why this is?

I was hoping for something tiny in resources, not just window size.

I miss Billy - https://www.sheepfriends.com/index-page=billy.html

I really wish we could see a low-resource-usage development movement akin to the lofi / retro gaming trend (playdate etc) . I have MS Office 2003 installed on my thinkpad and it starts instantly. It's very satisfying. I feel like apps just grow and grow in size and memory usage to match the average spec of machine instead of being truly thrifty

biodiversity loss is surely a huge one. "even in undisturbed forests" is the headline, but these undisturbed forests are lesser in size every year. Ireland's forestry cover has dropped from about 80% in the 1600s to 1% in the 1900s. It's back up to 11% now and that seems great on paper, but its all monoculture forestry for logging, with zero wildlife. meanwhile, hedgerows and wild land is shrinking all the time - the place where wildlife actually lives

pesticides in rivers because of fossil fuels?

plus one for this, I had wildflowers and while the number of bees was disappointing I saw a lot of butterflies. they were in the house every other day over summer.

We also planted a mint plant which went to flower, and that was like catnip to them. Anytime you looked out the window there were seven or eight butterflies on this one plant, no flowers free.

I loved The Bridge! The first three Culture novels are exceptional: Consider Phlebas, The Player of Games and Use of Weapons. Highly recommend all three. The rest are probably great too but I haven't read them yet.

I also recommend The Crow Road.

The biggest environmental concern always cited for EVs is the source of electricity, which has a decent chance of being renewable, going forward. Fossil fuel ICEs have zero chance. They will always be dirty.

The second biggest concern is mining for the lithium used in EVs, which hopefully soon will be a much smaller concern as Sodium batteries become the norm. Again, there is a risk we could still be mining lithium in 20 years, but it's a risk rather than a certainty.

I was just literally this morning thinking of building this same thing! Very nice work.

Please don't link to the Daily Mail. It's the british tabloid equivalent of Fox News.

I've been thinking about doing this! Also have considered ditching my phone, or downgrading to a dumb one. Yesterday for world book day I sat and read a book for the evening and it was wonderful, but I kept putting the book down to check things I'd just read on wikipedia or see if I had any emails. It was an eye opener to how much I do that on a normal day

Side note - I love the scrolling effect on the grid!

But if the artist, when painting, thinks that he wants no message to be imparted in the work but rather created in the mind of the viewer, then it can be both?

Hinduism, Buddhism and Sikhism are all separately practiced in higher numbers than Judaism

Wait... Atheism? How does one answer spiritual questions from an Atheist perspective? Surely that's impossible since the ethics and morals of an Atheist can't be drawn from a single source.

silly noob question about all these apps that frame GPT - is it just a case of passing some extra prompts to the GPT API when setting up?

Something like "Answer the following user question in relation to Judaism: **"

Or is there more involved?

Googled Psypic and got pics of PSY.

Not disappointed.

yeah this one is, but I think that's on account of the tiny footprint of the 701. A larger machine would be easier to modernise with framework bits

Is it possible to put the t25 keyboard into a t470 or t480?

I think its become well known enough at this point?

John Karidis, the designer / inventor, sadly passed away in 2012 at just 53. He had 83 patents.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Karidis

I love the idea of modernising old laptops with this approach. I have a ton of (working) old thinkpads and dells I can't bear to part with, would love to upgrade some this way.

I probably would have done the 51nb mod already if I could have just ordered the parts through a regular online store and not the cryptic forum puzzle that was required

> yet since 2010 the humanity lost this wondrous know-how

more like its cheaper

I couldn't afford to buy myself the t25, always wondered if it was worth the money. sounds like it was!

Surely there must be a similar lag time for production of Sodium Batteries?

Not programming, but I asked it to generate a list of words that end in common tlds, to see if I could come up with a nice website domain / project name. I said give me words that end in .io, .ws, .is etc.

It failed to follow this simple instruction. I tried to be more and more specific, but no matter what I did it returned words that did not end with the tlds I asked for. it just seemed to give me any old words and throw a . two places before the end.

Compared to the initial experiences I had with ChatGPT it feels like it's suddenly gotten awfully dumb.