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Cake day: September 21st, 2023

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  • Look into your municipality’s recycling process, see how it’s done, what the inputs are, what the total energy use is, etc, etc.

    I’d bet a year’s salary it’s far less effective (if at all) than most people think.

    “Recycle” was/is a marketing grift developed by the oil industry in the 70’s. It largely isn’t effective.

    As someone else mentioned, aluminum (and steel) are very recyclable, and are already extensively recycled in manufacturing (don’t forget that reusing scrap within a factory is considered recycling).

    Everything else largely isn’t, yet. Glass is very recyclable, but the transport costs are exorbitant, so I suspect it’s a negative for things like drink bottles, while the energy costs on most plastic recycling makes it not yet viable, from what I’ve read.

    Someday, just not today.

    If the 3 R’s, Reduce is the one that truly makes a difference.
















  • Interestingly (I just found this out) Android permits 1 VPN connection per user profile.

    So I run a VPN in my regular profile, and found my work profile wasn’t using it. So I installed Tailscale there, and it works only in the work profile, while my regular VPN only works in my main profile.

    If always assumed VPN config was a system-wide thing.