Carighan Maconar

The strength of life to face oneself has been made manifest. The persona Carighan has appeared.

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Cake day: July 1st, 2023

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  • I think the problem is not in pod-based single-serving coffee machines. Those are common, and well-loved for a reason.

    But there are easily available alternatives that do the exact same thing without requiring so much plastic, namely Senseo coffee pads (they’re grounds in coffee filter paper) or CoffeeB and its compressed coffee grounds balls (so it’s all just coffee ground, both the coffee and the pod). Probably a fair few more I don’t know about personally.

    Possibly even Nestle with their Nescafe pods. They’re aluminium but some countries achieve effectively 100% recycling on that, then the only issue is the filter membrane they place inside and I don’t know whether that is easily separated during recycling or not.


  • Thank you for beating me to mention this.

    K-cups are really amazinlgy bad. And it’s not like there aren’t much better solutions available. Philips has those fully bio-degradable pads, a local store now sells a type of coffee maker that uses just the coffee powder in balls where the outer shell is compressed grounds that is cracked open to get to the powder inside.

    But no, Keurig and their fucking oceans of plastic waste.






  • Bobby responded that the desktop PWA prototype that Mozilla built a few years ago got “some pretty negative feedback” in user testing and they didn’t have the bandwidth to take another crack at it.

    I love how much people forget about this. PWAs were not liked when they came out. And that’s putting it very very mildly.

    And morover, at the time, people in general did not like PWAs as a concept. Independent of the browser. It’s a bit funny when nowadays people always ask for PWA support, considering it was once yelled at until it was axed, and the whole concept ridiculed.


  • I swear every time Mozilla does anything people find some way to be negative about it.

    I mean, Lemmy is pretty much mostly for curmudgeons if we’re being honest. Or at least that’s what non-cat posts feel like. Mozilla isn’t even all that special.

    But yeah, it’s annoying. Just stop using the browser if you’re that annoyed by it, and more importantly, stop letting us know about it! We know, you’re upset. Go post on Twitter like the rest of the angry people do!




  • if only we had acted sooner

    Doing what, exactly? Create a fork? Done. Fill their feedback queue with endless screeching about how everything is dooooooom? Done, 10x over. Use another browser instead, say, Chrome? That’s what virtually everyone did, yes.=

    Plus shouldn’t this on paper be positive news? Mozilla can, if they run Anonym well enough, be independent of other ad networks. Run their own. Which in turn means they can control the data and where it’s stored, an important issue with third-party ad networks.




  • I worried about this a lot back after uni, too.

    I studied 8 years for a diploma that was supposed to be done in 5, and I had done nothing with the extra time. I just wasn’t in a good place to be done any faster.

    However, it turns out to just not be a problem. Companies generally could not give a flying fuck about what I did at university, and as soon as I had been at one company, they only cared what I had done before in the industry.

    Now of course, going for a masters is different, but I wouldn’t worry too much about it, it probably matters less than you think it will. If you want to explain gaps, I’d just cite it as “personal reasons”. If they ask - which is kinda not-okay - you can always say you had family matters that precluded you from focusing on your studies until now.