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Cake day: June 14th, 2023

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  • About 6 months ago I moved from a big desktop to a laptop with much less compute power. I had to change a lot of my workflow and software because I didn’t realise how much background compute and stuff everything was doing on the desktop.

    I do miss some of the features, but overall I feel better about myself and my situation. I feel more in control and aware of what is going on with my hardware and that is satisfying.

    I was able to tune the desktop down to about 65-85W usage, but prior to all that, it was pulling like 180W just doing nothing. I found the most gains by turning down my monitor from 100hz to 60hz and turning on eco mode for the CPU in the BIOS. The laptop uses about 10W even under load.

    Best of luck with the switch!



  • Well, I did a little analysis and almonds sure are a consumer of water in California, but I’d encourage you to look into the water, land use and emissions impact of cattle and dairy, I know, you are worried about exporting away all your water, but there are larger impact agricultural products and you said everything should be scrutinized more, so here is more scrutiny.

    tl;dr: In 2022, California used this much water on these agricultural products: Almonds: 9 billion m³ Beef: 20 billion m³ Cheese: 4.4 billion m³ Butter: 1.3 billion m³

    This doesn’t factor in other dairy products because the data doesn’t line up well enough to compute and I’m just some internet user, so what do I know?

    Anyways land use is crazy, beef alone used 1 million acres, while all other field crops used 627 thousand acres. (Source: cdfa stat review)

    2022                  1000 pounds  metric ton              m3 water usage
    Almonds (with shell)  2565000      1163476.36759503        9362494330.0372
    Butter                685953       311146.239680668        1346018632.85857
    Cheese                2460538      1116092.71523179        4402985761.5894
    Sour Cream            199309       90405.9693368412
    Yogurt                377839       171386.646103602
    Milk Nonfat           860246       390205.02585503
    Milk condensed        108237       49095.9811303638
    Dry Buttermilk        60090        27256.6451964075
    Ice Cream             77939        35352.8984849859
    Lowfat Ice cream      36140        16392.9964619432
    Cattle Calves         2197765      996899.664338202        20154320513.9254
     
    Water use (m3 /ton)   green        blue              grey  total
    Milk                  647          60                89    796
    Butter                3519         324               483   4326
    Milk Powder           3007         277               413   3697
    Cheese                3196         310               439   3945
    Almonds (with shell)  4632         1908              1507  8047
    Beef                  19102        525               590   20217
     
    References:
    https://www.cdfa.ca.gov/Statistics/PDFs/2022_Exports_Publication.pdf
    https://www.cdfa.ca.gov/Statistics/PDFs/2022-2023_california_agricultural_statistics_review.pdf
    https://www.waterfootprint.org/resources/Report-48-WaterFootprint-AnimalProducts-Vol1.pdf
    https://waterfootprint.org/resources/Report47-WaterFootprintCrops-Vol1.pdf
    


  • I see, for anyone else here is the definition from the HTA

    “highway” includes a common and public highway, street, avenue, parkway, driveway, square, place, bridge, viaduct or trestle, any part of which is intended for or used by the general public for the passage of vehicles and includes the area between the lateral property lines thereof; (“voie publique”)










  • XP when I started going main on Linux. Windows 7 was the last version I had installed for games on a dual boot. Linux was always just more fun. I always felt like it was my computer and I wasn’t constantly fighting the computer to make it work for me. Going to a tiling window manager was the point of no return though, my workflow changed so much that my productivity outside a tiling window manager plummeted.




  • Please don’t buy into geoengineering. We need to repair our relationship to nature through rewilding. We should be changing the way we live, giving up large monoculture crop that goes toward animal husbandry and rewilding the planet to sequester carbon emissions. We are in this situation because our ancestors changed the land and the wildlife so radically in our attempts to industrialize. We overfished, killed whales, ran large predators into extinction, removed most old growth forest among many other things. Humans have tried geoengineering before, we dam rivers, flood planes, dig canals, level the earth and introduce species where they are not native, among large chemical, mineral, metal and other injections to the ground, sky and water. The climate models see carbon sequestration, SRM and geoengineering as attractive options because it lets us continue business as usual. We do need rapid change, of the way we live and with our relationship with the earth.