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freebee

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  • Leaving food on the counter - the absolute survey

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  • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Micromort?wprov=sfla1

    I'm unable to find micromort numbers for food-poisoning or food preservation techniques, but my wild guess is that leaving an average vegetarian leftover overnight at an average kitchen temperature on the averagely cleaned kitchen counter, unrefrigerated and even not covered at all, then eating it the next day (maybe reheated) is gonna be negligible amounts of risk compared to many many many other risks people take everyday without blinking their eye about it (such as walking, driving, climbing stairs, swimming, drinking alcohol, using cleaning products, inhaling/eating environmental pollution, not washing hands after toilet, ...)

  • Lasagnaius

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  • How Germany outfitted half a million balconies with solar panels

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  • No one is powering their fridge with it. 99,9 % of all buildings in Germany including households are very well grid connected. The North Korea comparison seems really far fetched. It's just a simple way to 1) have small consumer money be invested in local energy production while 2) making energy production a bit greener. No one with a Balkonsolaranlage is cutting the cable to the grid. Everyone without their own mini Solaranlage is also perfectly able to keep phones charged. The Balkonsolaranlages just help a little bit, if you then also for example run the laundry on a sunny afternoon... The biggest gain imo is cultural: raising public awareness about energy, prices, foreign dependency, timing of big appliance usage...

  • And they mocked me for my WoW subscription 😗

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  • It's true, some genres are better represented than others. The user base on listenbrainz is relatively small. I hope you do keep scrobbling your listens to listenbrainz because it can still help improve the recommendations for other users after you who listen to somethings you do but know a lot less than you in the genres you listen.

  • People regret buying Amazon smart displays after being bombarded with ads

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  • The shittiest apps come pre-installed.

  • Zelenskyy: Russia no longer exports but imports petrol and that's our achievement

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  • Happened before. Soviet Union Vs. Afghanistan Mujahedeen was an absolute disaster for Soviets and sped up the decline of Warsaw pact.

  • Public transit wastes money

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  • A monetary value on transportation provides information about needed and desired routes. Without such information a PT company runs empty busses to empty stops, just for the subsidies.

    The best way of funding PT is a combination of taxes and ticket income.

  • My first jellyfin setup

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  • Pi works fine for trying and if you only want to stream 1 thing at a time in 720p. Just try it.

    If it somewhat works but you find it slow, buy an old SFF office computer < 50 € and experiment further... Either pay close attention which integrated GPU it has or buy a cheap PCI videocard with it.

  • Public transit wastes money

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  • No I disagree this is not a capitalism problem imo. In order to be able for public transport to work at all, there needs to be some hurdle. Otherwise what you stimulate is healthy pedestrians taking a bus for 1 stop 'cause it's free anyway' and cyclists will transfer to public transport 'cause it's free anyway'. The net results are negative for society: fuller vehicles while it's not necessary, worse service because there is no incentive to PT company to gain/retain/please customers, financial abyss for the company when public funding situation changes with a different political tide.

    Absolutely free should only exist very well targeted at certain groups, discounts at certain other groups, but those who can pay should pay a fair price. Of course it should be strongly subsidised (mainly infrastructure building and maintaining) but a healthy PT company has at least 50 % of their exploitation income self-generated from tickets, selling advertisement space etc. A 100 % subsidised PT company is an incredible weak target for political tide otherwise, and will lose touch with their main goal of efficiently moving as many people as possible.

    The super heavily subsidised tramways to bumfuck nowhere in the soviet union were just as big a problem there and then as the 7 lane highways with no good PT alternatives is here and now.

    You need to be able to measure real demand on routes and you need to stimulate as many people as possible to walk and cycle, only use PT when needed. That combination of subsidies and some pricing creates the sweet spot. "Free!" is just easy slogan, but not the solution for most real situations. Fully free PT will create many other problems. Just the health benefit alone of stimulating people to walk or cycle for short distances is enormous. I stand by my opinion, it should be cheap/affordable, but not free.

  • Public transit wastes money

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  • Every transport costs something. Making public transport completely free can be a recipe for a financially troubled public transport company, and since no-one pays anyway (so no one actively decides to use PT over other means) there is little incentive to the public transport company to make it more reliable, higher comfort etc.

    Public transport should be very affordable (and for sure way cheaper than private car usage), but not completely free. The only free thing is walking.

  • The AI bubble is 17 times the size of the dot-com frenzy — and four times the subprime bubble, analyst says

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  • Neu-tronenbommenstickers op m'n nieuwe tas gaan plakken

  • Expecting heavy industry greenwashing of this

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  • No it doesn't. German ICE are a lot more affordable than French TGV. The price difference is really enortif you book a few weeks in advance. German ICE are more comfortable vehicles too, French TGV double deckers you're a sardine in a can. German ICE serve every big-ish city quite well, centre focused French TGV serves 1 city extremely well, many other smaller big-ish cities are served more poorly.

  • This Plastic Mr. Fantastic

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  • There is "buy better", it is not but a fantasy.

    Buy more local / regional produced food and products, less km travelled and support local people. Buy products made from longer lasting materials if there are different versions. Buy fairtrade when it's available for coffee, cacao, bananas, pineapple, etc. Buy bio if available. None of it is perfect, but you are still voting with your wallet and not perfect is often still better than the cheapest there is.

    If you can afford it.

    Buying better definitely does exist and, for non-consumable goods, definitely can result in buying less. My washing machine is from the early nineties. I expect my steamdeck to last for 2 decades at least, because it seems repairable and software won't ever be the bottleneck. I have sweaters I wear that are over 25 years old. Endless noise just makes it hard to identify which product is the better one, you'll often only be sure long after the purchase... And the at first sight most frugal option will often not be the better buy.

  • How big a solar battery do I need to store all my home's electricity? - Terence Eden

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  • That's because they are big mechanical whirring machines. Solar panels are dead quiet and don't throw intermittent shade and have a very low risk of causing damage in the surrounding. There's good reasons they are forbidden for the average household to put on top of the chimney...

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    Rented e-bicycles more dangerous than e-scooters in cities

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  • Yes, in my opinion the foldable bike is the better, safer option.

  • What are you guys using to sort and name music?

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  • Musicbrainz Picard, there is no better user friendly solution.

    Yes, it can seem like a lot of work, but you can also look at the flip side: you can learn a whole lot about the music you like in the process.

    If music metadata is missing for stuff you have and like, add it to musicbrainz yourself. No, it isn't particularly fun, but someone has to do it. I do it sometimes for more "local" albums of which I own the physical record or CD.

    If shit is really messed up and you have a historic collection of mp3s from back in the days when getting a full album took a long time: don't be scared to throw stuff out and source it again. It'll likely be much higher quality for same or smaller filesize and have better metadata from source already, which makes using musicbrainz a lot easier. And what took many hours back then takes seconds to minutes now.

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    Rented e-bicycles more dangerous than e-scooters in cities

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  • How is the center of mass is lower on a scooter? It is the same or higher. The head is the heaviest part / cm³ of the body and on a e-scooter you're standing up, on a bike you're sitting, bringing the head a bit lower. The tiny scooter wheels will react enormously to tiny disadvantages in the road surface and the consequences of it. Hitting an tiny rock on the asfalt with a e-scooter will result in way nastier accidents than hitting a similar rock on the asfalt with a bicycle.

    Same with sudden breaking: imagine the situation where you suddenly have to break and the rear break fails (on both bike and scooter) so only the front break works. The forces required in that situation to get you "flying" head first towards objects with a e-scooter are much much lower than with a e-bike (wich is heaver and more distributed over a larger surface). The chance of being sent "flying" is simply way way lower on a bicyle vs scooter in many situations, making bicycle typically much safer than e-scooter.

    I'm never in my life riding e-scooters again, after having read a few articles with interviews from doctors in hospitals about how people look when they come in after accidents with scooters. And most of those were accidents with no other parties involved, just someone on a scooter hitting a tiny pothole, rock, sidewalk thingy etc.

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    Rented e-bicycles more dangerous than e-scooters in cities

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  • I am quite convinced they are not safe at all, independant from cars being around and even independent from good separated infrastructure. People falling with bikes tend to break wrists. People falling with scooters tend to break faces. (Both should wear helmets in area with very lacking infrastructure.) But the scooter fallers often fly forwards and don't even manage to soften the blow with their arms, while most bicycle fallers often fall sideways and do something with their arms that's softening the blow to the head. It mainly has to do with the size of the wheels, bigger wheels offer more stability and make you less likely to "fly".

  • Sep 12, 2025 - Self-Host Weekly by Ethan Sholly

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  • The only thing I'm looking/waiting for is a jellyfin audio player that automatically goes to full screen visualisation or lyrics after a determined amount of seconds of music playing + no user inputs... Wish I could do it myself and contribute to the project, but alas.