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TBF you can also pretty know the temperature from thousands of years ago somehow accurately by analysing ice from the polar caps

I'm not really conviced by fairphone. They claim they have an ethical and ecological supply chain / manufacturing but there is very little on their website to support that claim. The phone is made in China like any other smartphone. The "Fairtrade Gold" label doesn't mean Gold-rank fairtrade materials, it means that only the actual gold that's inside the phone has the fairtrade label. The amount of gold in a phone is ridiculously small and doesn't represent the major part of the phone's emissions footprint. They have another label which name I can't remember but I looked it up and the terms are very vague. After all the electronic components are still electronic components : copper wires made from copper, qualcomm CPU made in the same qualcomm factory, etc. I don't think a label changes that.

All in all I don't think that buying a brand new, 580 € smartphone with subpar performance is a good move if you care about the environment. Buying a used phone sounds like a much better option to me : cheaper, better performance, probably not as serviceable BUT it's already living a second life anyways.

I tried to be enthusiatic but FP looks way too much like a cash grab aimed at people that care about the environment

i hate it

That's interesting but never forget the difference between exams and real life is huge. Exam test cases are always sorta typical clinical presentations, every small element pointing towards the general picture.

In real life, there are almost always discrepancies, elements that don't make sense at all for the given case, and the whole point of getting some residency experience is to be able to know what to make out of those contradictory elements. When to question nonsensical lab values. What to do when a situation doesn't belong in any category of problems you learned to solve.

Many things i think generative AI, due to its generative nature of predicting what word is most likely to come next based on learned data, wouldn't be able to do

Mandatory Dishonored 1 and 2 recommendation, but Prey is also very good

Well, the average indian household probably doesn't own 2 or 3 cars, doesn't eat meat everyday and doesn't have a huge house

The game doesn't really want you to spare enemies. It's just that there are 3 different ways to play the game and 3 different flavors of the story : low, mid and high chaos. I think you should feel free to massacre everyone, and then maybe start over a new game and try lower chaos !

I don't think a 10 million dollar yacht, be it electric, diesel or diesel powered, is anywhere near a reasonable compromise

installed Linux Mint on various apple macbooks i got second hand and the battery life is abysmal.

TL;DR electric $10M yachts aren't good for the environment ; not building any yacht at all is the best answer

the witcher 3 is great It shows short sentences but Geralt doesn't exactly say that and usually develops a little more. If you are impatient, you can choose a simple sentence and skip the talking without losing the general meaning. You can also listen to the whole thing.

No ! it's because $10 million yachts for billionnaires are of course not good for the environment ! It's greenwashing ! "well yeah i'm a billionnaire and i run an ecocidal megacorporation but look : my luxury superyacht is electric !" i'm baffled that people could ever think this is a good way to mitigate the climate crisis

They're not literally lying, but presenting the information in a biased way

very bad, sadly

Flatpaks are my second choice when there isn't a recent enough version in the repos. They're fine but take 1. too much storage space, and 2. are usually slower

those promises don't constrain them in any way other than PR. They can promise anything they like and are completely free to do whatever they want after that

don't get me wrong, human doctors (humans in general actually) have a lot of problems and it would be great to have some kind of AI assistance for diagnosis or management. But I don't think generative AI like chatGPT is actual AI : it's a probabilistic algorithm that spits out the word most likely to be after the last one it wrote, based on the material it was trained on. I don't think we need a doctor like that.

i've been distro-hopping a lot and always come back to linux mint. It's that one distro i can't fuck up when fiddling with things. it just works

i don't use this kind of wi-fi anyways because anyone can grab whatever you send through it

Old Intel crapbook air from 2013 or 2015. The battery life wasn't ever great, but it significantly diminished when i changed them to linux. I expected an increase...

pretty sure the shitty sticker on the plastic product made in China easily tears for economic reasons, and not environmental reasons.

Same here with Vivaldi.

is this an endless space reference ?

it's a good sci-fi, 4X, turn-based video game. The lore is about an extinct powerful godlike civilization called the endless. Many artifacts / places / technologies / songs are called "...... ...of the endless". So the title "Dream of the Endless" made me think of it

Agreed. Still i'd rather use mobile data.

yes i'm talking about the startup speed. It's not as bad as snap, but noticeably slower with some apps (it can be annoying for a web browser for example)

i'd be fine with it if they presented it like this. But they don't, they aren't honest about the actual (very moderate) sustainability they offer

My problem with FP isn't only that their phone lacks in features and sustainability. It's that their whole PR and marketing is misleading. They hold back a lot of essential information to trick the customer into thinking that the phone is good for the environment. I would be more enclined to support them if they were honest about it ; right now it looks like corporate BS intended to make a maximal profit, like any other phone company

you must be joking right someone tell me i'm not getting the /s