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  • Well. Play stupid games, win stupid prizes. Now your org gets to pay for cleanup if they don’t just tell the 2 that got arrested “Good luck, you’re on your own now”

    What’s the correlation with Stonehenge and the fossil fuel industry? No one visiting is going to see the vandalism and think “Maybe I should lessen my personal dependence on fossil fuels.”, they’re just going to hear how it was this asshole group that happens to be named ‘Just Stop Oil’. I highly doubt that’s changing anyone’s mind (for the better).

    Don’t get me wrong, I’m all for activism. Hell, I’m all for destructive activism; Block access to oil wells, sabotage infrastructure (preferably in a way that doesn’t cause more environmental damage in the process), burn down some private jets. But don’t go around being an asshole unrelated to your cause just to get your name out. That’s not helping anything.








  • seathru@lemmy.sdf.orgtoSteam@lemmy.mlHow do I schedule a steam download manually?
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    18 days ago

    Probably not exactly what you’re looking for but I use a batch file to accomplish this (in linux but windows should be similar). For example:

    #!/bin/bash
    sleep 2h && steam
    sleep 8h && killall steam
    

    Executing that will wait 2 hours, start steam so it can download whatever it wants while I sleep, then shut steam down 6* hours later before other people start needing to use the internet.

    *maybe 8 hours, I can’t remember now if it runs commands sequentially or in parallel.

    Edit: better single line command for linux:

    (sleep 2h; steam) & (sleep 8hr; killall steam) &


  • Really the only thing we disagree on is that not tipping does/doesn’t hurt the business. I’m with you on everything else.

    I really don’t have a dog in the fight tho. I don’t work in food service nor do I participate much in the dine-in restaurant portion of it. I can count the number of times I’ve sat down and ate at a restaurant in the last 4 years on one hand. I’m also a hypocrite, I over tip for takeout/delivery and perpetuate the problem.

    But I do believe if people collectively ditched tipping, the problem would sort itself out. Not that it wouldn’t be painful for the workers. And not that there aren’t better options (I’m 110% for minimum wage to be the same across the board).