You ok there bud?

Removable batteries existed in smart phones before. There are plenty of devices today, walkie talkies for example, that are fully waterproof and are battery swappable.

Manufacturers just want your money.

The judge who signed off on the search warrant also has 2 DUIs

One of my required classes in college had a day where the professor just talked about all the times porn determined the newest media distribution standards.

Sorry to be grandpa reddit but the last one felt forced too

steps in shit

"Hey it smells like you stepped in shit."

"What makes you assume it's shit?"

I had two friends quit call centers within a month of joining because it immediately sent them into a depression.

I'm sorry for everything you have to deal with at work.

Wow... I'm new here so I'm still learning how all this works but I tried to apply to beehaw at first and they were having severe issues with their approval system so I either got denied or, most likely, got stuck in application purgatory.

Honestly, with how Lemmy is set up, it seems like it makes more sense to cater your instance to a more niche crowd than "all nice people" like beehaw was attempting to do.

Unfortunately 24 hour libraries, or even late night, are pretty much non-existent now because 1) parents use them as babysitters and 2) nothing against homeless people but librarians aren't equipped or staffed to take care of them appropriately.

And now with the book bans librarians are in short supply too, which means shorter hours and even fully closing on some weekdays.

Support your local library, everyone! See if there's a "friends of" group. It's a great way to connect with your community.

Several cities, including Paris and Grenoble in France, São Paulo in Brazil, and Chennai in India have taken concrete steps in this direction. In São Paulo, ads are banned from certain parts of the city, and in Paris, they are prohibited near schools.

Several more cities are following suit, with a growing ad-free movement aiming to make cities a better place to live. ‘Adfree Cities,’ a UK-based nonprofit, is one such example. Cities such as Bristol, Birmingham, and Cardiff are part of its network, attempting to drastically reduce the amount of urban advertising

This is an excellent trend, and one that only lobbyists would fight against.

Since the online advert bubble seems to be bursting, I'm going to take that as a glimmer of hope. And until then, VPN maximus, ads be gone!

The original subreddit was kind of a cesspool anyway. I witnessed men and women get bullied over trivial nonsense so much that I unsubbed from the original subreddit.

I wonder if this will have any effect on the film industry...

I miss /r/CozyPlaces

Hardware investments: Second-hand UPS

Leading by example I see 😎

To add on to your notes about maintenance: I have large gravel, mulch, and grass in my backyard. The gravel requires much more weeding time than the mulch. The mesh does nothing.

I can sympathize with you.

My industry is also anti-solarpunk (television and live events) but the skills I've learned along the way would translate well. I use the term "guerrilla TV" a lot because we really do swarm into any location and make it functional for our needs. It would just be neat if live entertainment could be beneficial and green instead of capitalism-driven and wasteful.

I don't know how everyone is linking the reddit mirrors, but this dude was a legend

https://www.reddit.com/...

I think a bodyfitness or minimal equipment community could be very solarpunk!

Cheapest and messiest: pile on the ground.

Cheap and contained: pallets or chicken wire.

Expensive but easy and not ugly: a kit like this https://greenesfence.com/...

Skip the tumblers unless you're really not ready to commit to a location in your yard. I ended up giving mine away a year into it.

Can you elaborate on this?

I can't WFH so I haven't really kept up with the trend