To minimise the environmental footprint of your own music streaming, use Wi-Fi rather than 4G or 5G. If you listen to a song repeatedly, purchase a download to play. Use localised storage rather than cloud-based systems for all of your music and video files. Reduce auto-play, aimless background streaming or using streaming as a sleep aid by changing the default settings on your device including reducing streaming resolution. And turn your camera off for video calls, as carbon emissions are 25 times more than for audio only.

Lol no I won’t.

What a stupid, bizarre and illogical article. It clearly shows that the key is in moving to renewables yet it still argues for the users also doing this sort of tiny useless gestures. I suspect it’s AI-written at least in part.

55g of CO₂e is 50 times more than audio streaming and the equivalent of microwaving four bags of popcorn

How much is that in football fields?

The government, however, remains committed to European Union accession

Lol. Their accession has been stagnating for the last ~8 years. They don’t “remain”, they might only start to commit to the accession.

to say that Collective Shout is blameless

Twitter is not, as it turns out, the only place where well articulated sentences get misinterpreted.

But you mean the short cut screen right?

I mean the default new tab, with the logo, search bar (which I removed because I can just search from the URL bar), and the quick links that automatically get populated with your most visited sites.

Btw an another user posted a solution, turns out removing it through CSS isn’t that complicated (when a stranger provides you with the code, at least).

The CSS solution worked, thank you! And that guide was useful, now I’ll have to toy with the CSS elsewhere too… :D

(The config you mention in the edit doesn’t seem to work, however.)

I tried out one of the extensions (Tabliss) the last time they forefully changed the new tab orgnisation, and it seemed pretty good, but it loaded somewhat slower than the built-in new tab, so I’d really prefer to just modify the default new tab instead of switching…

Maybe I could try making my own html and see how that works.

Why are you caring about what is in a new tab?

You’re making it sound like “new tab” isn’t a thing one uses a lot? I have a bunch of shortcuts there and it’s stupid that area that could be used on them is wasted on something so useless. Admittedly this variant is better than the previous attempts to force the logo there that I had reverted (twice), because those were really dogshit - reducing the size of the shortcuts and/or pushing them down outside of the screen - and now at least everything fits on one screen, and the shortcuts are less reduced, though they used to be bigger.

Actually I guess I want to revert to the old style entirely. Big shortcuts, no logo (or an easily removable logo).

you could remove the logo from the source code and compile it your self. Or you could create a custom css template (I think)

Sadly I’m not competent enough to do either of these, I have no idea how CSS could affect this or be applied, and removing it from the source and recompiling sounds like killing a fly with a cannon.

Windows 10

This is my flag.

Let me guess, you’ll cry about censorship and persecution when this comment gets deleted and/or you get banned.

So youre simultaneously saying you dont live in a democracy, and also that your vote matters?

I’m pretty sure I didnt say either of those things; I don’t wish to argue about the semantics regarding the first statement, and the second statement is definitely correct for large parts of the population in some nominally democratic western countries (specifically US and UK whose electoral systems are a fucking disgrace).

Also yes i am speaking about the notion of democracy itself, that’s why I put the words in theory there lol

Alright, but it’s clear that I dismissed this idealist/theoretical mode of dealing with politics in my first comment, and I don’t really see any arguments for reestablishing it.

Yeah, “(in theory)” - that doesn’t have to be inside brackets, all you speak of is a theoretical, ideal democracy. But what we have is, for many good and bad reasons, not even close to that (as can be seem from the actual process of any elections), and it is delusional and useless to act like it is.

No. What does liquid nitrogen have to do with “real science”, and since when do people get shooed away from it?

Those videos are the sciency equivalent of fidget spinners.

Would you mind pointing me to somewhere where I could be educated on this matter?

You are giving consent when you vote. You are saying this choice is fine.

Actually, when you vote, you just vote.

That’s it. It’s not a magic ritual, you don’t telepathically send your message to the Holy Ghost of Democracy when you vote, Anubis isn’t going to weigh your ballot against a feather before deciding on the fate of your soul.

You circle something or you don’t and then you deal with whatever happens however you want.

I have seen multiple businesses closing down due to poor marketing promotion/budget.

Only because they were competing against businesses with possibly shittier products but certainly better marketing. Remove all the marketing, good and bad, and suddenly it’s a real merit-based competition.

It is very idealist, but IMO worth considering. There can (or at least should) be less intrusive means of letting people know of a product.

Facebook tier meme

Idk, I remember seeing some of his emails that were funny-rude, but this one is… just rude.

We’re four months into the 24-hour peace talks to end the 3-day military operation that’s been going on for three years.