Yes you are correct, my bad I was misremembering. It's the sum of the top 100 most polluting plants (656 million metric tons in 2020) which is close to the total emission of all passenger vehicles. It was closer in 2019, because 2020 saw a 10% drop in emissions due to COVID.
Nuclear is just cleaner when it's done right. Look at the top producing plants in the US (https://findenergy.com/power-plants/). All fossil fuels, mostly around 1,000 KGs of CO2/MWh produced. Nuclear is around 15 KGs/MWh. Just for reference, the #1 polluting plant in the US produces more CO2 than all of the passenger vehicles in the US combined.
Just spend a week using it for your everyday work, and disable arrow keys. It really sucks for that week, but after I felt fluent to the point where it was no longer hindering me.
I'd say there is a point. With disabled scrolling you can guarantee that the "cursor" will always be on the screen. With scrolling enabled, you could out scroll the selection, making for worse UI experience. I'm also not a fan of blurring the previous article, but I guess they chose to do it to put focus on your current selection.
> On top of that, in most of the developed world, you get less money's worth of cryptocurrency out than the cost of the electricity to generate it.
This isn't really true. It depends on your hardware. My friend has a 3080 and was making $30-$50 a day mining eth. 3080 has a max usage at 750W, and let's say your computer in total is at 1.5KW. Average rate in US is 13 cents/KWh. Don't think Europe is much higher than. Other countries probably less. Also life expectancy decline of mining is highly over exaggerated by GPU companies so people don't buy them second hand.
Well firstly those strange coins are pretty much money at this point. They might not be as universal as fiat, but you can 100% live a comfortable life using only crypto, albeit it might be a bit more work. Secondly I think clicking "yes" to a message saying "you want to support the developer when your computer isn't doing work for you?" Is easier than sending fiat in most cases.
I do concede though that it only really makes sense if you live somewhere with cheap eletricity.
Obviously this would be consensual, keyword legitimate. I don't know why you can't imagine someone agreeing to support someone else with some CPU/GPU in off time.
I wonder if this could be turned into a legitimate way of supporting open source developers? Run their docker images that have an option to configure running a miner during your down time.
I don't know about waiting so long on updating Ubuntu, or essential server software. As an Arch Linux user, I've come to loathe outdated packages that break, which is ironic because Arch is notorious for breaking on new updates. From personal experience, the latter happens less frequently than the former.
Answer there quotes a source that is deleted:
"The t=mageia is intentionally added in the search configuration, as Mageia gets a tiny amount of money donated to it from duckduckgo for making it the default search engine in most of the browsers."
* #1: Not much I can do about this
* #2: I'll be setting up a weekly edition as well
* #3: This just goes counter to what the newsletter is about. One of my main inspirations for it is the fact that you can find inspiration in unexpected places, including articles that at first glance don't appeal to you. There have been countless times where I've read an article for the newsletter on a topic I wasn't really interested in, only to have something related to it unexpectedly come up a couple of weeks later for work or in conversation. I think being knowledgeable of topics beyond your areas of interest is very beneficial. Hell, you might also find that something you initially thought was lame, was actually pretty cool and get into it more.
Currently I just offer people to support me on Patreon or through donations. I might have ads in the future (for non-supporters) if a company whose product I actually use comes to me about it. My only goal right now is to be getting more than I pay per month on mailchimp/hosting, which is about $55. Ultimately I hope that if people find value in the work I'm doing, they'll help support it. If not, oh well. I'm enjoying curating, writing, and connecting with subscribers, and that's enough for me at this point.