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Microsoft Is Pausing Carbon Removal Purchases | The tech giant had been by far the nascent industry’s biggest customer. (heatmap.news)
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Microsoft made 90% of all carbon removal purchases worldwide last year, according to data from the third-party industry monitor CDR.fyi. The company is generally cited as making somewhere between 79% to 90% of all historic carbon removal purchases.

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[–] 30 points 7 months ago (1 child)

Carbon Removal Purchases

I read that and immediately figured it was just corporate green-washing. Then read this on cdr.fyi , which basically confirms it.

2.7% of purchases have been delivered

I assume this "market" is just a way for corpos to get tax incentives, since the "demand" (purchases) will never, ever catch up with "supply" (actually removing carbon).

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    • [–] 18 points 7 months ago (10 children)

    I really need to switch to Linux Mint. I'm going to start experimenting with it on my wife's old laptop.

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  • [+] -6 points 7 months ago (9 children)

    I would advise Opensuse Leap. I, personally don't use it but I have tried both.

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  • [–] 14 points 7 months ago (8 children)

    I've been told that Mint is easy to use, pretty much plug and play, especially for my non-gamer needs.

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  • [–] 7 points 7 months ago (2 children)

    Go for Linux Mint. Keep it simple starting out.

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  • [–] 3 points 7 months ago (1 child)

    Just jump into Arch blind, don’t even bother with the wiki.

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  • [–] 2 points 7 months ago*

    Haha, as long as you simply run arch-install as your first command, you will be fine.

    Linux Mint is still easier by default. But any user willing to even try installing Linux, especially Arch, likely has the time and intelligence to do some extra configurations after using arch-install.

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  • [–] 7 points 7 months ago (3 children)

    You have been advised with solid info. Stick with Mint, openSUSE isn't nearly as user friendly to newbies in comparison (not sure why that other user is suggesting it instead).

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  • [–] 2 points 7 months ago (2 children)

    Well I figured they were trolling me, given the specific wording they used, plus their call sign ends in @lemmy.ml. I'm aware that place is full of those who take it up the rump for Trump, so a grain of salt the size of the Moon was taken by me in regards to their advice.

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    • [–] 2 points 7 months ago

    Translation: scammer realizes they were being scammed.

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