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Cake day: August 19th, 2023

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  • Depends on where you live and your situation. You either limit your personal CO2 or the society’s CO2 or even both. Most of my suggestions will make or save you money over time.

    For personal you could do these, most of these will pay themselves back within 10 years in savings.

    • Swap gas stove for induction stove
    • Swap a gas boiler to heat pump + electric boiler
    • Buy solar panels for the roof and/or battery
    • Heat pump for domestic heating for colder regions.
    • Home insulation such as triple glass windows
    • For hot regions getting an awning for the windows facing the sun goes a long way.
    • Selling car to buy EV (CO2 neutral at 1 year, less CO2 after that)
    • Buying an E-bike if you have short trips and would like to bike more (CO2 negative almost instantly if you prevent car trips)

    Otherwise if you don’t feel like any of those investing in solar companies or battery production companies will make it easier for them to finance expansions to their operations and maybe even make you some money along the way.

    If you live in the UK or applicable countries getting in on Octopus energy co-op energy production is a good way to invest the money and reduce CO2 at the same time.

    Don’t forget that an easy way to limit your carbon footprint is free. Notably plastics, aluminum, steel, other metals, concrete and beef.

    To limit society’s footprint you can show up to city Council meetings and advocate for bike paths and public transport which really goes a long way. Showing up with a couple of buddies, making them talk and buying beer for them after in one of the most cost effective ways to stop climate change. Often city council members just need some people to back them up when proposing the CO2 negative urban planning improvements.

    Stopping climate change is all about taking small steps towards the solution, asking this question on lemmy is a great start.




    1. Make a text adventure game that runs in the console.
    2. Tic tac toe in the console.

    Then if you want to go for a GUI web app with react use “dotnet new react” and create a to-do list with a client/server setup.

    If you want to learn to make games you could make a tic tac toe again but with a GUI in Godot.

    Once that’s done make tetris.

    You research what you need right before you need it and use it immediately so it sticks better. You’ll need to get comfy with typing systems and I recommend using an IDE like Rider or Visual Studio to program it since they help out a lot.












  • I love to follow a tradition with set pieces even though they are a bit stressful. Agenda for Christmas is meet, snacks, eat, open gifts, tea or coffee, leave. I try to stay home for the rest of the time and lay a couple of 1000 piece puzzles, watch some shows and relax at home.

    New year’s I go for moderate drinking and watch Áramótaskaupið (Icelandic New year’s sketch show) then watch the immense amount of fireworks people blow up at midnight. After that head to a small party for a couple of hours as a reunion and at 3am go home and have a short video game session.

    It sounds like a lot but since it’s always the same and there’s no loud music at any point it’s manageable. :)


  • This one is a bit nuanced. “What’s up” can be used both as a greeting and a question depending on where in the conversation it appears. If it’s a greeting a reply is not expected but rather a greeting. Here’s an example.

    1. A: What’s up?
    2. B: How’s it going?
    3. A: All good (note this is void of information, things are not necessarily good.

    Another

    1. A: Hi
    2. B: Hey
    3. A: Soooo, what’s up? - Here a proper reply to the question is expected, optional to reply with “Not much, and you?” to skip the question. Normally people that ask in this way want to be asked this question in return.

    Annoyingly, it depends on the context which makes it weirdly complex for a simple interaction.