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Just looked it up and I found a video, hell yeah, this looks like a great idea! Tbh I've been thinking about if I could tinker a bit and upgrade my wheelchair to go really fast... right now it goes about as fast the average New Yorker walking (literally, I looked it up XD). I lack tinkering skills. But this sounds like a good way to get them c:<

I haven't tested one, but I looked into them recently as a potential option for getting around a little faster than my wheelchair. A lot of places in the US classify them as a motorized vehicle, therefore legally they should be ridden on the road, which I do not feel great about - there's a reason why I didn't look into e-bikes as an option for me and it's because due to my brain fog I lack situational awareness to be able to dodge cars. But luckily my city has no regulations about them and so I could probably get aware with riding one (slowly) on the sidewalk, except our sidewalks are insanely bumpy, so there goes that.

I've heard a lot of people enjoy them for short distances though. It just didn't end up being viable for my needs

TL;DR: looked into e scooters as an option for getting around with a disability (can't drive), determined that I'd be better off with an e-bike which I can't use anyway

I have a powerful air purifier inside my home, but for leaving it, I would really like to protect my lungs from particulates (my area is being hit hard by wildfires right now). Is my best option just buying and wearing KN95s like usual or is there something better I could get and buy a box of filters for?

UPDATE: I gave it a shot with the smaller fan pulled back from the window about one and a half feet (I didn't have anything to rest it on to move it further back) and there was very little air movement. I tried with the box fan pulled back as well and it was the same. So for last night I just put the box fan back in the window because I was roasting XD

Haven't seen the video yet, but I've been placing our box fan facing outward in the room adjoining our bedroom and opening a window beside the bed. It feels like it's blowing hot air out and sucking cold air in but I could be wrong.

EDIT: incredible!! I'd have never thought to move the fan away from the window but it makes so much sense. I wonder if it could be related to Bernoulli's Principle as well? I'll be giving this a shot tonight when the temperature drops again. I'm thinking I can set up our smaller fan back from the window and use the box fan to move air from one air of the house to the next.

I didn't think about that... thank you!! I can definitely get my hands on an old cellphone.

No, but it's not the energy use I'm talking about (though I'll do some research on video games now, there's always more for me to learn!) - I'm referring to the water usage. The average ChatGPT session (with multiple queries) is the equivalent of destroying roughly a bottle of water. But if we are thinking about power, data centers also run diesel powered generators when there's a high demand for queries which spew out pollution. And then its worth considering that each data center as a whole is pretty awful, and if there were less demand for them, i.e. people not using genAI, the CEOs would be motivated to make them less shitty... every query shows them that, yeah, this IS a great idea and they should build more data centers :/

I don't mean to like make you feel bad for making a quick tl;dr using AI, it's just that this is pretty important to me! We all have to pick and choose our battles, but of all the things we do in our day-to-day lives that impact the environment and the world around us, typing up our own summary instead of using AI seems like a really easy option to me.

thank you for being honest about it but please remember that each and every AI query is absolutely devastating to the environment!! It's pretty easy to just type up a quick summary (or let someone else do it) rather than do that damage

oooh very useful, thank you! I am hella broke (like rationing my SNAP money broke) but I'd quite like to get into this hobby

Unironically, reading this made me so inspired I got really emotional. An internet of the community for the community. This whole post is beautifully written <3

That's cool as hell!! Am I understanding correctly that this was made by a high school club? Maybe the kids are alright

Here's a question, then - is it possible for us to start DIYing our own internet and move away from ISPs?