Better than the alternative, over here it's so cheap that people waste it and the government wants to increase production instead of forcing us to be responsible. There's about 25 TWh we could save and instead we're investing to produce an extra 10 TWh from wind turbines... At least we're already 100% green, but still...
Sure, utilities need to be nationalized (like they are here), it's still ridiculous that we're flooding land by building hydro dams so we can be the place where we have the most private pools per capita or people can run their AC 24/7 even if it's 20° outside... Instead we should be working towards getting people to reduce their energy usage.
The 25 TWh includes waste by companies as well but over here the biggest commercial users generate their own electricity. Still doesn't explain why hotels and offices just leave lights on at night... Or why people leave lights turned on in rooms they're not in in the middle of summer while they're trying to cool their house using AC! My province is the world leader in private pools (they use a shit ton of electricity in a cold climate, 70% of electricity needs on average for houses that have one) at twice the US average (the leading country)...
Because creating more infrastructure to generate more energy is a waste of resources and still pollutes a whole lot even if it's "green energy"?
What do you think happens with the ecosystem behind a dam? See these lakes? Look at the scale at the bottom of the map to give you an idea how big they are. Well, they're not lakes, they're reservoirs, land that was flooded because a couple of rivers now have seven dams on them.
Same for solar panels and wind turbines, the resources necessary to build them didn't come from nowhere, it comes from huge mines that destroy the land they're on.
We're wasting the equivalent of Slovakia's annual electricity usage and instead of pushing people to start being responsible our government will just force the State corporation to increase its capacity.
What's funny is that if we were talking about the quantity of petrol that we use no one would question the fact that it's stupid to not push people to stop wasting it...
A waste is a waste is a waste, all energy production comes with an environmental cost. While we're wasting green energy our neighbors use dirty energy, if we stopped wasting 25 TWh we could sell the surplus to our neighbors so they reduce their carbon footprint OR we simply could have went without wasting earth's resources to create the infrastructure necessary to generate that 25 TWh.
It's a limited resource as well because the infrastructure is built using limited resources, the energy that gets transformed into electricity might be limitless, but you can't transform it once you can't built the infrastructure anymore.
We just act like it's not the case at the moment the same way we acted like petrol would never run out 100 years ago.
Recycling uses even more energy than producing from scratch and also has a huge environmental impact from the (non renewable) products used in the process and never ends with a product that's as high quality as what it began as.
Remember the three Rs, reduce, reuse, recycle, in that order as the environmental benefits go down when going from one to the other.
Part of the reason why you can't afford your bills is climate change and it's going to get worse, doesn't prevent people from taking their car to drive 500m to drop their kids to school!
I dream of a world where leaders realize that we all live on the same planet and everyone would would be much happier if we cooperated together instead of competing.
We don't use it on the computer we share because profiles work like crap, when I posted about it there were a couple of people saying "Yep, Chrome's implementation is much better" and a lot of people saying "Just use this extremely convoluted way of half fixing the issue you have with it"
Depends, it's the computer in the common room that's never locked and it would be a pain in the ass to have to switch OS profile every time one of us wants to check something on the internet that requires access to our personal accounts and bookmarks. The web browser is the only thing that needs to be separated. I don't think it's a particularly rare situation that people in the same family share a computer but want separate browser profiles so it's in sync with their cellphone.
With Chrome we each have an icon in the taskbar and our instances are merged under our respective icon in the taskbar.
With Firefox "vanilla edition" we either need to access about:profile to switch or we can use a workaround to have separate icons in the taskbar but then because it's not Firefox's regular icon that we're using but a shortcut modified to open a specific profile, each shortcut creates a new icon in the taskbar when we click on it and that's where the instances merge, that means that if we both have instances opened we now have four Firefox icons in the taskbar and because of muscle memory we tend to click on the shortcut instead of the icon where our instance actually is so we end up opening a new instance instead of just opening the instance where we already have our tabs opened.
I'm comparing how it's handled by Chrome vs Firefox
In Chrome you go to your profile, check a box to confirm that you want separate shortcuts, done and it's handled properly when merging multiple windows opened by the same user. Each icon is visually distinctive as well.
In Firefox there's no native solution to have separate icons for each profile, the way to do it is to create a shortcut to the .exe file and to edit the path so the shortcut opens Firefox with a specific profile selected. Because the new shortcut isn't the "regular one", the windows don't merge under the existing profiled icon in the taskbar, they instead add a separate icon in the taskbar where the windows merge, it means that you end up with two icons to open Firefox (one for each profile) and two icons where you actually find the windows currently opened. Add to that the fact that because it's just "regular shortcuts" under the hood, it ignores the custom icon you're using to differentiate between profiles (again, because it's not a native solution) when creating the new icon where the windows are merged. You end up with two profile icons and two default icons and the only way to know which one is yours is to go over it to see what windows are opened underneath. Three users with each one having their own profile? That's six icons in the taskbar if everyone has windows opened, three of them with the actual instances "in them", all three using the same icon and they're not in a specific order.
The (native) alternative AND official way to handle profiles in Firefox? Open about:profile every time you realize you're browsing under the wrong profile.
There's no real user-friendly solution. Downloading an extension to fix a UX issue is ridiculous, that's on the actual devs to make it native. Installing Firefox twice (one beta and one regular) is a waste of space and potentially exposes one of the two users to vulnerabilities from using a pre-release versions of the program.
When I mention that issue the reaction is always the same as yours "Don't see the issue with it" from people who haven't compared to the alternative or whose use case has nothing to do with two (or more) person using the same computer and only needing separate browser profiles and having no reason to need separate OS profiles.
Yeah, sharing a computer with my girlfriend of the last 7 years isn't much of a privacy issue as you can imagine and it's not confusing as long as the taskbar icons are distinct.
The shortcut in the taskbar when you pin a program isn't the same as a shortcut as you create it when you right click a file and create a shortcut. If you use a workaround to pin the second type of shortcut to your taskbar it doesn't behave the same way as the first type.
And again, that's using a workaround that I had to do some research to find, Mozilla's way would just be up access about:profile each time one of us wants to access our version of the browser.
Even for people who use multiple profiles but don't share their computer with anyone else, it's much simpler to have separate icons in the taskbar and the associated windows merged under their respective icons.
To me it becomes a Firefox issue when their competitor offers a much more logical way to deal with profiles.
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