#e-Solutions

[cinamun]

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[reasonsforhope]

"As the world grows “smarter” through the adoption of smartphones, smart fridges, and entire smart houses, the carbon cost of that technology grows, too. 

In the last decade, electronic waste has become one of the fastest-growing waste streams in the world. 

According to The World Counts, the globe generates about 50 million tons of e-waste every year. That’s the equivalent of 1,000 laptops being trashed every second. 

After they’re shipped off to landfills and incinerated, the trash releases toxic chemicals including lead, cadmium, arsenic, mercury, and so much more, which can cause disastrous health effects on the populations that live near those trash sites. 

Fortunately, Franziska Kerber — a university student at ​​FH Joanneum in Graz, Austria — has dreamed up a solution that helps carve away at that behemoth problem: electronics made out of recyclable, dissolvable paper. 

On September 11, Kerber’s invention “Pape” — or Paper Electronics — earned global recognition when it was named a national winner of the 2024 James Dyson Awards. 

When she entered the scientific competition, Kerber demonstrated her invention with the creation of several small electronics made out of paper materials, including a fully-functional WiFi router and smoke detector. 

“Small electronic devices are especially prone to ending up in household waste due to unclear disposal systems and their small size, so there is significant potential to develop a more user-friendly end-of-life system,” Kerber wrote on the James Dyson Award website. 

“With this in mind, I aimed to move beyond a simple recycling solution to a circular one, ensuring long-term sustainability.” 

Kerber’s invention hinges on crafting a dissolvable and recyclable PCB board out of compressed “paper pulp.” 

A printed circuit board (PCB) is a board that can be found in nearly all modern electronic devices, like phones, tablets, and smartwatches.

But even companies that have started incorporating a “dissolution” step into the end life of their products require deconstruction to break down and recover the PCB board before it can be recycled. 

With Kerber’s PAPE products, users don’t need to take the device apart to recycle it.

“By implementing a user-friendly return option, manufacturers can efficiently dissolve all returned items, potentially reusing electronic components,” Kerber explained. 

“Rapidly advancing technology, which forms the core of many devices, becomes obsolete much faster than the structural elements, which are often made from plastics that can last thousands of years,” Kerber poses. 

PAPE, Kerber says, has a “designed end-of-life system” which anticipates obsolescence. 

“Does anyone want to use a thousand-year-old computer?” Kerber asks. “Of course not. … This ensures a sustainable and reliable system without hindering technological advancement.”"

-via GoodGoodGood, September 13, 2024

[acopytopy]

The Trust Value system being quantity over quality

It reduces individuals to mere numbers, as if emotions like trust and belief can be quantified. The numbers can be seen on your wrist at all times, reminding you exactly what your worth is.

For a hero to exist, there needs to be a not-hero. Nobodies. People like Lin Ling or Yang Cheng who will always be defined by what they’re not, and it takes a noticeable toll on their self-esteem.

Everything revolves around how many people like you—and you can change those numbers by changing “yourself”. The values change day by day, decreasing if your believers stop paying attention to you—and start paying attention to your competitors. The heroics industry pits well-meaning people against each other by necessity. People are a finite resource. So you can never stop acting.

To be a hero, you need everyone to like you, forever.

[shrews-art]

Pain reminds us that we are alive or something I guess

[darkwood-sleddog]

the dear neighbor of mine (who is genuinely a family friend) keeps having to escalate her response to keep her reactive working bred labrador from running at our dogs when we walk by her house. First it was 'oh he comes when called' and then he didn't. and then it was 'he has an electronic 'fence' he won't cross it' until he did. then it was 'oh well i'll just grab him when you walk by' until you weren't able to and now it's escalated to 'he has an additional e-collar on that i'll zap him with when he reacts to your dogs'. like this is not working. at all. i just wonder what will be the trigger for actual containment of this dog (tie out line or fence would be acceptable as they use on their OTHER DOG) will it be your dog getting into a fight he can't win with ours as they try to calmly walk by? will it be him running out at a car or person biking and getting injured? Like he already has two separate shock collars on. you can't escalate much further without giving in and getting some goddamn containment. which is what she should have done the first time.

[verilog-official]

I don't like how prominent Windows and MacOS are because they make people need to get new hardware all the time.

my daily driver laptop is literally almost 15 years old. it has a first generation, dual core Intel i3 at 2.4GHz with 4GB of RAM, integrated graphics and a 128GB SSD. and it's perfectly usable for daily activities. I can browse the web, watch YouTube, I can even play some games.

and then I look at people saying that they're surprised that companies still sell laptops with 4GB of RAM. 4GB is perfectly usable! with like 10 tabs open in Firefox I'm using only 3GB.

I got this laptop for free because somebody was going to throw it away like 8 years ago or something, because it was getting slow. it ran windows 10 and was definitely slowing down, but by changing some settings on windows it ran a lot better but still not great.

but by putting Linux on it, it suddenly became perfectly powerful enough. even a heavy distro like Ubuntu ran like a breeze on it. I could play games on it again, I could run a bunch of programs at the same time again, I could watch YouTube at 1080p again.

and to this day it's still perfectly usable with modern software. I switched to Debian, and used a more lightweight DE, and it still runs great. it does have hiccups every now and then, namely Firefox no longer uses hardware video decoding on the GPU which makes it a little jittery with 1080p60 YouTube, but other than that, it's perfectly fine.

and installing and using Linux isn't nearly as advanced as people say it is. with just a little bit of knowledge you can easily install and use Ubuntu, Linux Mint, and others, and bring life to computers again.

it's windows that's making your computer slow. stop buying new computers and contributing to e-waste.

and if you don't want to switch, I'm more than happy to take your computer off your hands when it inevitably becomes too slow to use.

[teamdarkweek]

Personally I really enjoy projecting OCD tendencies onto Shadow. Both because misery loves company, and also I think that Rouge and Omega would be so up to that challenge as supportive tough-love friends. You have an unflappable, pro-explosions realist, and a woman who could out-loophole a genie. Compulsions and Intrusive Thoughts have met their match.

[twinktor-frankenstein]

The Great Freddy Fazbear's Pizza Debate

Mike accidentally brought Freddy's when they were eating at Sparky's and then laughed when Abby called it a restaurant. Vanessa and Abby gang up on him and say that it's a restaurant, in the middle of their argument Ness walks over and says, "Listen, there's four different things that something can be qualified as if it's job is to have food in it. First is a person, the second is a grocery store, the third is a grain silo, and the fourth is a restaurant."

[hotelraleigh]

y'all i was so ready to edit my academic rivals au on the plane tomorrow - like fuck yeah, 3 hours, perfect! - and i just tested my laptop privacy screen. it is not good enough lmfao.

ain't no way i'm letting these strangers see me type out harvey getting RIDDEN!!!!! i'm sorry!!!!!

[knightofleo]

Phew, that wasn't too ha-

*ground rumbles*

...well, one more time, I guess, fine.

OK! Surely now we're do-

*ground rumbles again*

[alphabetcompletionist]

i cannot, for the life of me, figure out the E puzzle. am i stupid or is there something im missing here? im losing my mind

man (wrong?). i already gave one hint. go find some peers and work it out together. make a forum or something. you'll want it later

A CDEFGHI KLMNOP RSYUVW YZ

22/26

[chronotopes]

if this bracket comes down to eponine/cosette vs jbm that'll be........ well that'll be.

[silvyslayer42]

here’s an idea: what if the “anti-aging” device that kuusuke made was originally an attempt at finding a way to slow down or even reverse the uncontrollable growth of kusuo’s powers?

[didsomebodysaypancakes]

When I'm watching a show/movie or reading a book, I have this thing called the Sam and Dean Test where I try to figure out whether, if one character died, the other would sell their soul to hell to get the other one back. Passing the Sam and Dean Test means that the characters would sell their souls to hell to get the other back.

Anyways, I'm 100% sure that Starsky and Hutch pass the Sam and Dean Test.