It’s Helium, it’s not exactly rare.

Why don’t you switch to a different ISP? Last time I checked I could choose from 13 different ISPs on fiber alone, and that’s in ‘socialist’ Europe. I can’t even dream of how many options someone in ‘free market’US must have.

Yes, it can slow down downloading.

(The explanation below is simplified quite a bit)

When you download the server that is sending you the file doesn’t just dump all the data onto the network in one go. They don’t know how fast you can receive and it’s not like the routers along the way will buffer large amounts of data. It needs to figure out how fast it can send.

So how does it do this? The sender sends a few packets of data and then waits for the receiver to acknowledge reception before it sends more data. Now the acknowledgment message isn’t that big so when downloading the amount of data sent back (uploaded) is just a tiny fraction of the amount downloaded, so that usually doesn’t matter.

The problem occurs when your local network is much faster than your internet upload and your router isn’t smart about which packets to send first. A good router will not allocate all the spots in the outgoing queue to the connection doing the large upload and instead will make sure the connection with smaller amounts of outgoing data will get a fair turn.

If your router isn’t smart like that the ‘data received, please send more’ packets may be delayed because of all the other outgoing packets and thus slow down the download.

If one upload slows down your internet you probably need a router that has a better packet scheduler. I recommend you look for one that uses FQ-CoDel

Not only is it good, I don’t think it’s enough.

Your vote should be weighed with an inverse relationship to age. That is: the older you are the less your vote should count. Older people who are closer to death have an incentive to vote for short-term gain over long-term improvements. This is how we got into the climate crisis, the world is being ruled by reheated corpses who don’t give a crap about the future.

Astro’s Playroom - SSD

The GPU song is also a banger but more energetic.

Aloy’s Theme

Final Fantasy IX - Melodies of Life

the urge for a midnight snack is completely gone.

So what do you do to entertain yourself at night?

Lemmy isn’t just for FOSS enthousiasts.

Personally I run Linux/FreeBSD on my servers but use macOS / iOS on my laptop/tablet/phone, best of both worlds.

You can trigger the ‘find phone’ function on your Apple Watch. The phone will make a sound and your watch shows a live view of how far away the phone is and a general direction.

That’s mainly the US though. Here in the Netherlands they are planning cities with the intent to discourage car use as much as possible.

Do you own a large container ship, coal plant or private plane?

The title mentions not owning a car and voting, that’s not in the chart either.

You can drive 12 hummers powered by crude oil and eat steak every day at not have even a fraction of the impact of just one child. Having one less child results in a ecological-footprint reduction equivalent to 58.6 tonnes of CO2 a year. By contrast, living car-free saves 2.4 tonnes a year, eating a plant-based diet saves 0.82 tonnes a year.

Not reproducing is the single most impactful thing you can do for the environment by a huge margin.

That probably would have killed him even faster yes. Usually with crucifixions people weren’t nailed but tied to the cross with ropes.

Yes, it makes it harder to both inhale and exhale because it makes it difficult to expand or compress your chest since your whole body weight is keeping it stretched.

Basically, once your feet/legs get too tired to carry your weight you hang from your arms. This basically means to breathe you have to push up your entire body weight with your chest muscles. After a while you get too exhausted to breathe and suffocate.

Crucifixion didn’t lead to death by starvation but by suffocation.

But it’s not “his independence” if it wasn’t his choice to buy those shoes. You cannot be proud of your own choices when they weren’t your own choices.

1:30, the water isn’t hot enough. 2:00, the water is too hot and cup is at the back of the oven. The right amount of time, for tap water

Wait… you microwave cups of water? Why the hell would you do that?