IndefiniteBen

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[–] IndefiniteBen@leminal.space 11 points 7 months ago

I'm sure it does nothing, but every time DPD/other fucks up a delivery by failing to even ring the bell and says "we missed you", I call up their customer service and waste their time complaining about the small amount of time allowed per package delivery.

I ask for drivers to be allowed more time. It's not entirely their fault (but some seemingly have no situational awareness).

[–] IndefiniteBen@leminal.space 6 points 7 months ago (3 children)

Does this normally work? They removed support for location based reminders over a year ago, so that might be why it's struggling so much. https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2022/06/the-google-assistant-is-losing-location-reminders-one-of-its-best-features/

Though last time I tried assistant responded "I'm sorry I can't set location based reminders anymore". Either they've removed that warning, or this image is over a year old...

[–] IndefiniteBen@leminal.space 1 points 7 months ago

In this context (IIRC) smart means "if this zip contains a single folder with contents, directly extract that folder, but if the zip contains files and/or folders, extract all that to a new folder named the same as the zip file".

Some people zip folders while some people zip the files in a folder. Smart extraction just handles both automatically.

[–] IndefiniteBen@leminal.space 2 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

You really are an Unethical Life Tip Pro.

[–] IndefiniteBen@leminal.space -2 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Is it 100% optional? Are there no dietary conditions that require eating meat? Even if it is optional, I only said that expecting everyone to change is unrealistic, not that it's impossible.

How much do you expect people to sacrifice? If you give up eating meat can you fly to go on vacation? Or are people expected to give up everything in the name of the climate while billionaires jet around and corporations expell endless emissions?

Also, your comparison to mercenaries is bad. If military operations are required for survival (like eating) then why would the nation feel guilty? If the mercenaries say "yes we will only defend that military base and we will not kill everyone in the nearby school" and then they go and kill everyone in the school, why wouldn't they be blamed for not following their orders?

[–] IndefiniteBen@leminal.space 2 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Sure, but to get to a plant-based diet that meets the dietary and taste needs to replace a meat-based diet, takes an initial investment of time that some people may not be able to spare.

I'm not saying a matching diet will be more expensive, but the cost (mainly time) of changing diets is an investment some may be unable to afford. If there was a lot of social support for the working poor to change diets, sure, but to say changing diets is something that won't take more time because the buying of produce and active cooking takes the same time is misleading.

[–] IndefiniteBen@leminal.space 2 points 7 months ago

If only there was some kind of carbon tax that took from the profits of polluting companies!

[–] IndefiniteBen@leminal.space -3 points 7 months ago (7 children)

People could just stop what? Eating?

Buying meat? Is becoming vegetarian not more expensive in terms of time and money for someone who has a meat diet? Many people do not have the money or luxury to make such a change?

Expecting everyone to become vegetarian is unrealistic. If you're buying meat and all companies you can choose to buy meat from are making the same carbon neutral "commitments", it's not like you can choose the company that will actually follow through.

But anyway, blaming people for the depravity of companies is also not going to fix anything.

[–] IndefiniteBen@leminal.space 10 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (11 children)

Can we blame them?

A few years ago everybody was kind of jumping on the net zero bandwagon without actually thinking through what it actually meant

Yes.

[–] IndefiniteBen@leminal.space 14 points 7 months ago

Just a guess, but maybe they were deleted because of the Reddit info, which is shitty exploiting of someone's post by a company.

[–] IndefiniteBen@leminal.space 2 points 7 months ago

I just came here because I was trying to copy the link from a comment to modify the link in my reply (to make it an old Reddit link), but it was a very frustrating experience.

Even opening the web view of the comment does so in the internal browser, which just shows the URL and title (hidden under your finger) when you long press on that.

If I am holding a link it should give options; you already handle tapping on a link in a comment differently from tapping on the text of the comment, so why is the same not true for holding on links?

Thanks for all your work!

[–] IndefiniteBen@leminal.space 37 points 8 months ago (5 children)

Cubic feet would be better, especially as taller vehicles are more dangerous to pedestrians.

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