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Cake day: June 30th, 2025

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  • Considering only the queries ommits all the energy used in training models, scraping and preparing data and all the indirect energy from putting a greater load in servers all around the world from scraping them all the time. oh, and all the energy in the manufacturing processes of the hardware, and from building the servers. We must consider the consumption of the industry as a whole, or we’re being biased as well.

    Articles keep showing up explaining how queries aren’t so power-hungry, but the corporations keep draining more and more energy, building more and more power plants that never keep up with the demand, and so on.



  • How do normal people survive?

    Simple. They know a fix-it-all tech person that will help them!

    I’m not even kidding, that’s how communities grew strong all over the world for millennia, and still do, on smaller scales, depending on the place. People create a network of specialists in each domain, and one calls the other when needed. Sometimes they pay for the work, sometimes they exchange favors, sometimes they just help for free. If you go to smaller neighborhoods in developing countries, you will see this in action all the time.

    Part of the success of large corporations and the spread of consumerist culture comes from promoting an extremely individualistic lifestyle and destroying people’s networks and relationships.





  • The best ones imo. No microplastics, zero maintenance, extreme durability, not hard to wash and not so expensive nowadays.

    My grandmother still uses her stainless steel pans that are like 50 or 60 yo, and they still look perfect, almost like new, if not for the scratches. They were a gift when she married, and she literally never bought pans for herself in her life.






  • I really want to understand this, but I don’t find constructive information anywhere. Everything I read either doesn’t really explain anything at all and is based on assumptions/opinions, or expect me to be a mobile os engineer.

    Let’s say I have a phone with lineageos, without google play services and without gapps, with most apps installed via f-droid and only a couple from aurora store. What power does google have over me, that wouldn’t also have if I used a pixel with grapheneos?

    In terms of security, If any threat involving physical access to the phone is statistically irrelevant for me, how is my phone less secure than stock android? And how would grapheneos improve my life?





  • I’ve seen a lot of adults thinking like this, but when I ask them to list the things they do daily, Is an enormous list. People just don’t realize how exhausting it is to take care of yourself, your house, a family, your aging parents, your work, trying to still have hobbies, etc. All that while you have no one to help or take care of you.