Its worth noting that this settlement is technically just kicking the can down the road 10 years and 99 mil is just a rounding error when it comes to corpos at this scale. In my opinion, the endgame of right to repair is robust legislation.

The pyrolysis process that the article refers to can turn organic material into biochar which is essentially charcoal. Organic material being anything that has carbon in it which does include sewage and critically plastics. There are studies about using biochar as reusable microplastic adsorption material but I’m not really qualified to draw any conclusions

I saw some tech a while ago referred that used hydrothermal carbonization which from what I can tell is a kind of “wet” pyrolysis. There was a company with a working demo system for sewage treatment which seemed promising, but I haven’t heard any new developments since I heard about them a few years ago. I don’t know if it’s just all up in regulatory processes or if it fizzled out.

bagless is a non starter for me at this point. Im tired of the stuff i just vacuumed going airborne when I go to empty the thing out. I heard that repairability for sharks to be basically bottom of the barrel since they keep coming out with new models and stop supporting old models.

The market for vacuums seems pretty enshittified. That much plastic getting replaced every 5 years just doesnt seem that sustainable. Repairability seems to be an afterthought for a lot of the popular brands. Im looking at sebo right now, its just a heavy investment for my current situation

I think this should be a warning to anyone running a federated socmed node. Since twitter had to deal with an absolutely massive userbase and high content generation rate, moderation required a full time department and even then it wasn’t perfect. Imagine having to deal with that as a large node admin.

I think everything laid out here is perfectly reasonable. Lemmy hasn’t made it easy and easy doesnt seem to be on the horizon for that development team.

My personal thoughts is that I don’t think that the currrent implementation of lemmy is going to reach a point where the capabilities of the platform is going to meet the requirements of the beehaw project. Definitely not in the near term, and low probability in the scale of years.

If the worse comes about ill probably follow along to where ever beehaw ends up and ill just set up an lemmy acc elsewhere.

I don’t envy the situation

// the commenter gives yet another unsolicited solution

I think it would be interesting if yall and other like minded instance admins were to start a federation pact/ code of conduct which would layout the requirements for federation. In my opinion, fostering the kind of online community that beehaw strives to be (as I see it anyways), requires acting outside of the capabilities of the lemmy the platform. Granted, this would require a critical mass of instances willing to sign to such a pact but this may ease the workload from a moderation point of view.

Have you checked out hide glues yet? Hide glue is a type of adhesive made from boiling animal hides. It has a pretty long history. Titebond sells some under their brand, and Old Brown Glue is also a pretty respected brand. It’s a bit more expensive than Titebond 3, but that’s not too bad imo, especially since it’s natural and relatively easy to find. You could try using granules instead of the ready-made stuff, but it might not be worth the hassle for a one-time project. Plenty of information on usage on yt if you want to look into it, the search term has a exceptionally high percentage of old geezers which is interesting but also expected.

Even if youtube wasnt already recording watch history under the table, all the data that youtube needs to generate meaningful recommendations is already there in my subscription list.