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Don't listen to the OP, he's just bitter
 
 

That looks way better than mine, and I can grab it off walmart for 15 bucks, so great price! Thanks for the info!

Maybe it's just me, but when I saw the title of this thread I thought you were asking for our thoughts on something else!

I really hope the /s wouldn't be necessary there XD

everyone here is ignoring the most obvious solution!
Obviously you should plug in a long RGB strip and wrap the cords in blinding rainbow vomit rgb. It will be so blinding you won't be able to see the wires

Omg I can’t imagine what political and religious debates look like.
 
And these wall of texts are still too hot to ignore.. 

too soon man, too soon 😞

Why hide them?  You can turn them into art.

Hey LiLAsN, sorry to hear you encountered this issue.
 
It sounds like your desk pad may have become dirty. This occurs during normal use, even if you keep tidy, just due to the dust/dirt/oils that exist on our hands on the micro-level.
 
I'd recommend giving your desk pad a thorough wash and seeing if that fixes the issue. Usually, wiping it down with a damp cloth should be all that's necessary, but if that doesn't help you can try machine-washing it (cold, delicate, no bleach, and air dry with the graphic facing up) as another commenter above me mentioned. This is recommended only for extreme cases and shouldn't be relied upon on a regular basis, but we've found that desk pads can usually stand up to being washed in this manner.
 
After that you should try running any calibration software that may exist for your mouse. If that is available, it'd be a feature of your mouse's driver utility in most cases.
 
If none of the above tips resolve your issue, send a message to support@lttstore.com and we'll be happy to take care of you. 🙂

Will be fixed in the next update

Northern Australia has enough sunlight to make a huge difference solar wise, unfortunately it's also some of the most baron parts of our land (or it's rain forest which I strongly oppose cutting down for the sake of solar).  Most of the population live in Sydney and Melbourne (just under half Australias total pop), which is several thousand Km's from the best places to have a solar farm.   For domestic housing we are good with solar, unfortunately the size we need to really make it work is out of the price of most Australians.   More political and economic barriers to making a change 😞.
 
You're welcome.
Problem is the people who want to shut them down think they are saving the planet while completely ignoring the fact we need to replace that energy source with something just as reliable.   
With all the current technology we have today, the biggest and most immediate impact would be to replace our coal power with nuclear power, but the powers that be are trying to brainwash us into thinking that nuclear does not make sense in a land with plentiful Uranium and some of the worlds best scientists and engineers.  
 
If we ignore the ecological impact of solar and wind, they are both great in Australia, however they still don't hold a candle to nuclear, especially here where we have the best mining, uranium resources, engineers and our power grid is already setup up for centralized power distribution.  Building nuclear power plants right next to the old coal plants (there is plenty of room because they were specifically built were they were for the room to expand) would literally take our electrical CO2 output to almost zero. Certainly it would take it low enough that planting a few more trees would almost legitimately offset what co2 it did produce (unlike the current system where some clown goes into the bush and kills a half dozen wild goats and camels then sells the co2 credits to the bank who then pretend they have a carbon neutral footprint).  
 

I think a good documentary would give you examples of the regulations as well as providing you with the information necessary to verify it yourself. 
Just saying "fast-food in India is worse than in French because of regulations" is vague and potentially quite hard to verify. 

That cartoon is ironically incorrect.
 
Weather is the state of conditions at a given place and moment.
 
Global warming is the term used to describe the upward trend in global temperature over the last 170 years. Climate change is a term used to indicate a changing climate over time.
 
Not that difficult of a concept to grasp, yes? 

How can you say this
 

I kind of agree, but let's also not downplay the inherent problems linked with nuclear, one of which is the waste caused by the operation of the plant and the dismantling.
 
Again, I kind of agree... But Chernobyl is succession of human mistakes, and if we're honest, there's nothing preventing us that it would happen again. That said, risks are inherent to any energy source. Hydro caused more deaths than nuclear and for now there's more risks letting the CO2 escape into the atmosphere so...
 
I just wish the debates around nuclear energy were a bit less emotional. At the end of the day it's mostly a technical question. I understand that there's a lot of fear surrounding the topic, and it's important to address that too. I'd probably feel different if I lived close to a nuclear plant. But it's a bit frustrating sometimes.
 
Sure Exxon should also be held accountable, and by a lot more than the average Joe. But whether they like it or not, there's always a moment the average Joe shakes hands with Exxon when they tank their car. It has to go both way. If a mayor thinks of starting a new policy to put bike lines everywhere on the roads of the city, but no individuals even thought of riding their bikes to begin with, it's never going to happen. And vice versa, if you just ride your bike to feel better about yourself but never reach out to those regulating the infrastructure... Well it's good, but would be better if you dragged other people along with you

"No,you don't understand. Fukushima. Chernobyl"
*refuses to elaborate any further*
*leaves*
 
Nuclear should be the backbone of any energy grid.

it has nothing to do with too big, it was cancelled for public health. So 2023 will depend on what the public health situation is.

1. Electric cars with a green power grid will get you to work without polluting, so you don't have to ride a bike to be green
2. Why do you think those large corporations exist? To sell products to those casual people you seem to think are negligible. So without market drive from us casual people, those big corporations won't be doing what they are doing. Corporations certainly play their part, but to call the individual negligible is just ignoring the reality of why the corporation is there at all
Also your point is simply not even close to accurate.
https://pubs.acs.org/doi/full/10.1021/es803496a
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2214629618310314
72% is not negligible
3. Cycles are nothing new over thousands and hundreds of thousands of years, but a rapid global temperature increase in the span of a few decades IS new. This attempt at ignoring our impact has been debunked time and time over by the scientific community. This is no longer a scientific debate. Human caused global warming is extremely well documented and studied. It is a fact whether you'd like to take responsibility or not.
Read above, this simply is not even remotely accurate. Heck you walking on the grass in your yard 'affects' the ecology, building a house affects the ecology, non pourous surfaces like streets and driveways affect the ecology greatly. You cannot honestly claim you have no ecological effect unless you live in a tent in the woods and forage for food.
I get what you're saying, but I think it lends to a false dichotomy where because China has more to shut down, they need to shut down and not yours in australia. Both can be shut down to help. Will yours have quite the impact as china, no, but every bit helps
1. It will have a positive impact if done correctly, but it's not about finding one thing that magically saves the world. It's about finding any impact we can and making it count.
2. I can't speak for anyone else, but I certainly wouldn't expect you to shut plants down without a replacement, you're absolutely right that would be awful PR. But Australia is a great location for solar, and geothermal I'd imagine would be great too. And as you point out, nuclear is a great short term get rid of coal while we make other renewables better.
The above information has that 'negligible' point debunked, but I want to make a separate point. individual action ON ITS OWN cannot solve anything. But collective individual action across tons of individuals absolutely WILL make a difference. If we as individuals say it's not worth it, then why wouldn't every other individual say the same? Then you've got a whole planet worth of people who think their efforts don't matter and that's just not true. Think of those CC scams where people took a few pennies out of people's accounts. just a few pennies, made essentially no impact to the individual. But the criminal did this for millions of accounts and made a fortune from pennies at a time. Collective action matters. You choosing to be someone who cares does matter. That one action might not make a significant impact, but it will make some impact, and every impact you make adds up over time to a larger impact, and then the world making that small impact every day makes a GIANT impact. On top of all the reasons we have to make this effort, there's simply no reason NOT to make the effort. Pollution affects health, extreme weather damages lives, economies and infrastructures. We are already seeing people driven out of their homes permanently due to the affects of climate change. The impact is already happening and it's simply not worth ignoring.

I don't watch documentaries very often so I won't speak to the specifics here, but I did wanna clarify the words here. 
Propaganda is 'ideas, facts, or allegations spread deliberately to further one's cause or to damage an opposing cause' according to merriam webster
So propaganda is just an intentional spread of ideas and info. It's literally just the act of persuasion by spreading info and ideas.
On it's own the act of persuasion is not bad. Any documentary worth it's salt IS trying to persuade you of it's point. The reason propaganda is often considered bad is it is used with BAD information often for political means. All gaslighting is persuasion, but not all persuasion is gaslighting and persuasion is important for lots of good things. As with any information, you need to watch a documentary with a critical mind and basic common sense. If something seems so mindblowing you can't believe the claim, do some reasearch. Be critical of WHO is making the documentary and whether there is any conflict of interest. I might give less trust to a documentary about the health benefits of cheese if made by the Dairy Farmers Association. Don't discount a documentary because it is persuading you, but also don't let your self be persuaded JUST because it's a documentary

It's important to distinguish between a long-term cycle and the rapid warming (the anthropogenic global warming/climate change) that we observe today. You mention it yourself: those cycles operate on hundreds of thousands to millions of years, not the 150 years or so as we are seeing now. It hasn't been a debate in the scientific community for a long time that we have caused it. See the articles referenced here, for example, and this study from last year.
 
The example that a single person doesn't use or contribute much ignores that there are millions to billions of people that could think that way. If one person uses 1L of fuel less or more per day that doesn't amount to much, but if 20 million people do it, that adds up. If millions of people dropped the thermostat from 22 to 20, that does add up etc. Unfortunately we live in a "compensating" society. Once we see that something is technically possible, a decrease in something will likely be seen as an opportunity or allowance to increase it somewhere else. If people use less, probably the companies will simply use more, so we do definitely need to tackle this from the top by cracking down hard on large corporations' emissions and dumb stuff like "CO2 vouchers". Individuals indeed won't avert climate change. Despite that, I do think it a bit of responsibility goes a long way and that it is exaggerating to say you need to go "full crazy hippie" or that the individual is meaningless. This is of course a two-way street and things like bikes over cars should be accomodated by the government as well, by changing infrastructure, for example.
 
 
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If I owned a house I would put in solar panels, a heat pump etc. For now I try to be conservative with my heating that still runs on gas, separate waste and be more mindful about wasteful packaging. My old tech usually finds second life as e.g. a NAS or something.
 

Whatever stance you take on causation, global warming still exists, takes 2 seconds to Google a graph showing the trend… 

My guess, along with every other climate science body in existence, is co2:
 

 

Hm I see what you mean and I agree. Though I would call that green washing and it's not really what I meant by symbolic. A lot of the change has to happen collectively, and one way to do that is inspire each other by contagion. If one country makes an effort in their policies, many others can be inspired by that. Humans have a tendency to copy each other's behaviours. I worked in a kitchen for a while, and oddly enough, if one person ordered the chicken, 3 similar orders followed once the dish made it to the table. It sounds a little silly, but I wouldn't downplay the effects it can have, especially in an era where news travel fast and governments are sensitive to what's happening on twitter.

*hits the banhammer activate button, sends an FBI raid, reports to the UN for crimes against humanity, and pulls out the nuclear codes and begins typing furiously and hitting big red buttons

i have an oversized solar panel system and battery so my power usage is negligible.
though it wasn't to be green or eco, i am just sick of my power going out once a month for god knows how long because powercor is shit.
 
so good side effect.

'eco friendly' is a weird critter in the tech space, and like most debates, there's extremists on both sides.
 
the problem with the "is it all worth it?" question is that it really is a misnomer in a lot of ways. as it turns out more efficient transport methods are good for the wallet of transport companies, so advancements in technology mean that these enormous ships, despite burning lots of fuel, burn a LOT less 'per unit of freight' than they used to.
 
beyond that.. here's the problem:
this isnt a "big picture" problem, because all of this technology that is supposedly extremely harmful to our environment is also the same technology that allows us to protect it.
- computers in cars meant that they can run more efficiently than a mechanical carbeurator can.
- the exchange of information means better healthcare and more awareness about what impact our lifestyle has on other parts of the world.
- chemical industry has given us fuel additives to reduce pollution (as opposed to.. .sticking lead in it), better insulation for our homes, and tyres that optimize friction against drag to have us drive safer and more efficient.
 
in my opinion, there's also another, much more 'sinister' problem with the "is it worth it" question:
Let's say we assume it's all really not worth it, and we should reverse technologic advances for the sake of environment and well being... what do we get rid of? how far back do we go? it really ends up being the "should we all go back to living in caves?" thing, because any step beyond that is a step downhill in at least some way.
 
NOW... cynical me aside.. here's some realistic things:
- single-use plastics are a problem, especially if recyclation efforts, or just propper disposal, are inadequate. the very benefit of plastics (they dont degrade as quick as, say, paper) are the very problem. reduce, reuse, recycle.
- the power consumption or 'how high end' your computer is, is irrelevant in the bigger picture. disposing of tech that is still usable, planned obsolesence, and people unnecessary leaving things running 24/7 are the bigger problem. learn to turn off your computer, you dont need the latest iphone every year, and you dont need the latest GPU every year.
- Fossil fuels are a problem, but so are batteries and electricity generation. dont buy an EV to be eco friendly if you often make long distance drives, or if your local power plants are running on fossil fuels. you're literally just moving the problem elsewhere to make yourself feel better with your 2 tonnes of rare earth metals. on the flip side, if you literally only commute 20km.. do you really even need a car at all?
- DONT. TRHOW. AWAY. FOOD. by god this is something i have serious issues with in my family. we're pretty well off, we dont have to look at 50 bucks more, but the amount of food some family members bring home to let spoil, and then throw away.. is shocking. thrown away food is wasted power to have it refrigerated, wasted transport cost, wasted warehouse staff processing it, wasted farmland, and wasted chemicals used on said farmlands to keep the wasted crops healthy.
 
as for what i do...
- i use my computers basicly until they fall apart.
- i try to dispose of waste as correctly as possible
- i buy foods that have a shelf life of "most likely longer than i will take to eat it". it's not difficult, it just requires your brain to be *on* in the supermarket.
- i turn off my desktop every day, and because i'm a home server type of person, i try to account for that to the best of my ability: in the summer the servers sit well away from airconditioned rooms, so i dont have to aircon more because of them. in the winter they move to the (then) heated rooms, so the power they use is essentially used as heating, essentially reducing the power usage on that side.
- i do my research when buying things, to make sure they will last a sensible lifespan. this fuels my hatred for cloud-connected stuff, and devices that are difficult to maintain.
- i try to buy things 'as local as sensible', and use transport companies with a good track record where possible otherwise. next-day free shipping to my front door is actually impossible if you arent breaking labor laws.. oh, i guess you are then. and if i have to order, i prefer to combine stuff into one big order, because i really dont want that minivan to have to drive to my house every week.
- personal pet peeve i like to add: i dont use eco mode on my dishwasher. the problem with eco mode on a dishwasher is that you have to do so much pre-rinsing, and have so much 'oh the dishes arent clean', that for what it saves on paper, you've lost all that and then some in reality. oh.. and dont use detergent packs, use powder.
 
i know that a lot of this isnt "tech" as in the scope of this forum, but in my opinion tech also is that one thing that we as "the people" cant change a thing about, other than to change our purchasing habits. other stuff like transport, shipping, and 'managing the household' can have a much more direct impact not only on the world around us, but funnily enough.. also save us money. it's odd how it all comes back to greed in the end, isnt it? 😄