So oder so ist es umständlicher für den Kunden, und ein Pfandsystem macht es nochmal umständlicher und teurer.
So oder so ist es umständlicher für den Kunden, und ein Pfandsystem macht es nochmal umständlicher und teurer.
Ist die Frage ob der Umwelt damit gedient ist wenn der Paketdienst ein zweites Mal kommt um die Verpackung abzuholen…
Mich würde auch interessieren wie die Rücklaufquote beim Tchibo-experiment war. Ich würde erwarten, dass Kunden nicht begeistert sind, wenn der Händler extra “Hausaufgaben” produziert, und das Teil einfach in den Restmüll kloppen.
That sounds like something Jackass would do.
To put it in perspective, let’s assume 10W lights (there are stronger and weaker ones, but it’s a good number for a strong LED bulb).
If you leave 5 of them on unnecessarily, for 5 hours a day, that’s 0.25 kWh. Repeat for 365 days a year, and it’s 91 kWh.
If you live in Germany (notorious for high electricity prices), that’ll be… about 40 EUR per year.
Wahnsinn. Strafbefehle sind eigentlich für Lappalien gedacht. Hier haben sowohl der Richter als auch die Staatsanwaltschaft ihre Jobs nicht gemacht.
(Für die, die den Artikel nicht lesen wollen: erledigt im Strafbefehlsverfahren, womit die Angehörigen als Nebenkläger auch keine Berufung gegen das zu niedrige Urteil erheben können).
I see two three pin 3.5mm stereo plugs (one of them color coded for the headphones and one for the mic), and zero 4-pin combo plugs?
Weird. The article does have today’s date but only mentions the Nov 10 decision. I think maybe what happened today is the publication of the full text of the decision?
It’d be great if that was how it works, unfortunately it seems like the penalties are closer to once every 3-5 years than monthly, skewing the balance even further to “screw the law, just pay the fee”:(
I’d say that’s a huge problem actually.
For a normal company, abusing data is a small part of their business and profit is a few percent of revenue, so such a fine would be devastating.
For some tech companies, profit is in the double digit percent of revenue and half of it comes from breaking the law, so the 4% are a tax they can happily pay and still be more profitable than if they followed the law.
Same misleading nonsense. If you follow the links it becomes obvious that it’s the old news banning FB from using the data on the basis of contract and legitimate interest - which they’re avoiding by claiming “consent” after people choose that they’d rather not pay a triple-digit amount per year to use the site.
No, the article is just regurgitating old news and the old misleading claim (omitting the critical part that they’re only banned from using data “on the basis of contract and legitimate interest”).
This “news” is what made Facebook start with the “agree or pay” bullshit.
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Sometimes they also came up with literal malware as DRM.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sony_BMG_copy_protection_rootkit_scandal
Enforcing DRM has a big downside: it paints a massive target on the DRM implementation, and it will likely end up getting broken.
Bullshit article/study:
These numbers are estimates based on the assumption that the Bitcoin mines run on water-dependent cooling systems typical in large data centers.
So they took the typical datacenter water consumption per MW, applied that to some estimate of Bitcoin power consumption (wouldn’t be surprised if they did the usual “use current output rates and multiply with power-per-output numbers of long obsolete hardware”, often seen in “studies” “showing” how tech X is horrible for the environment), and assumed that would be it.
All pictures of Bitcoin mines I’ve seen used (direct) free cooling which doesn’t use water. That has changed now, but simply assuming it’s the same as for normal data centers is an obviously questionable assumption.
Fun experiment: look up the CO2 intensity of electricity, look up prices for industrial electricity, look up claims of “CO2 emission per Netflix movie streamed”, then compare with the cost of your Netflix subscription and wonder whether Netflix would really be profitable if streaming was that power hungry.
(Also, the author misunderstood how this system works: “However, some data centers and crypto mines use a different system that keeps computers cool and cuts down water consumption by immersing them in a non-conductive liquid.” Now that DC has a hot liquid, which they could cool in a number of different ways, some using water some not. Which system they use to get the heat from the chip to the cooling system doesn’t matter if they aren’t freecooling)
Within Germany, those are typically seen as extremely old-fashioned, “verkrustet”. Bad at innovation, not modern in culture, etc.
I have no idea how true that is, but it’s a perception that doesn’t help them attract talent.
The other issue is that big tech are money printing machines. Google makes a profit of more than $300k per employee (that’s already after paying the high salaries!), Bosch less than $5k.
Tech companies are paying much better because they can also afford it, unlike everyone else.
Piped experience: page loaded, play button did nothing. After a large number of taps it finally played, for about 20 seconds, then reloaded mid-play.
Imagine, 100 people trying to load a video from your single hard drive, it’s not fast enough for that.
YouTube 1080p is 8-10 Mbit/s according to what I could find. That’d be 100-125 MByte/s for 100 people. I think my SSD is more than fast enough for that.
Even better, a 1 Gbps connection is also (just) enough to actually upload the video to those 100 people.
And with 100+ people watching, P2P distribution should work really well too.
If they need to drop the wage threshold, the problem doesn’t seem to be a lack of skilled labor, it seems to be a lack of cheap skilled labor.
Ich wollte zu dem Thema gerade einen Post schreiben, der aber vermutlich genau wegen diesem Bug verloren gegangen ist.
Ich weiß, dass das für euch genauso frustrierend sein muss und ihr das auch nur freiwillig macht, aber letztendlich hab ich social media apps also Unterhaltung, und die letzten Wochen unterhält es nicht, es frustriert nur. Und wiederholt Apps und Instanzen wechseln wird auch sehr schnell sehr öde.
Nicht als Vorwurf gemeint, nur als Feststellung: Ein paar Tage downtime oder Unzuverlässigkeit kann man wegstecken, aber solche langen Probleme töten nicht nur die eine Instanz oder Lemmy, sondern auch die Bereitschaft sich in Zukunft auf alternative/offene Systeme einzulassen.
Ich hab den Eindruck der content wird auch immer weniger/schlechter, hab Lemmy in letzter Zeit immer weniger genutzt, und bin vermutlich bald ganz raus.