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- Comment on I like my Rii K06 keyboard. I have one small problem I'm hoping for some help with. The IR remote will turn off my TV but won't turn it on. 1 day ago: federation: confirmed
I believe this is the answer. If you can turn off the TV but you can't turn it back on then you're probably just using the wrong code.
- Comment on "We were already running a tight ship": Elder Scrolls 6 devs are worried about Xbox's layoffs causing even more delays to the long-awaited RPG 3 days ago: federation: confirmed
These things are not like normal businesses. You end up with something so irrationally large that it would be immoral to let a single person make any decisions, which makes no sense for a creative endeavor.
- Comment on Canada is a Warning to the Rest of the World! 6 days ago: federation: confirmed
People don't realize how bad things are in Canada right now. Not sure how most people keep roofs over their heads and food in their bellies, though the massive homeless camps I suppose show that a lot of people don't.
- Comment on Switzerland’s solar railway has been a success. What happens next? 1 week ago: federation: confirmed
And the giant money incinerator!
- Comment on [Episode] Hell Mode: Yarikomi-zuki no Gamer wa Haisettei no Isekai de Musou Suru 2nd Season - Episode 1 discussion 1 week ago: federation: confirmed
Sad because hell mode is one of my favorite LNs, they're doing my boy dirty.
- Comment on What the hell is this horseshit? 1 week ago: federation: confirmed
I mean, I care.
- Submitted 1 week ago to federation_audit@social.fbxl.net | 3 comments federation: confirmed
- Comment on Ackshually, groups are perfectly natural for a mastodon-style microblogging site. 1 week ago: federation: confirmed
Ok, it outbound federates after follow on FBXL Lotide (which makes sense considering I've made FBXL Lotide federate with everything), so that just leaves lemmy proper.
- Comment on We Can Still Stop California’s 3D Printer Surveillance Scheme 2 weeks ago: federation: confirmed
I mean... I'm not American...
- Comment on We Can Still Stop California’s 3D Printer Surveillance Scheme 2 weeks ago: federation: confirmed
If this was about guns, they would ban hardware stores. It's just about controlling everything so they can parcel it back out to friends.
- Comment on Expect RAM prices to stay high with Micron locking in deals for 5 years 2 weeks ago: federation: confirmed
Hey, that ain't your 256MB of RAM.
- Comment on The Ultimate List of DRM-free Bookshops https:// libreture.com/bookshops 2 weeks ago: federation: confirmed
Surprisingly, amazon can be a DRM-Free bookstore, as long as the publisher chooses to publish DRM-Free. As of early this year, if publishers choose such a thing, users can download the works DRM-Free.
- Comment on Another Universal Launcher??? [Hydra Launcher] 2 weeks ago: federation: confirmed
It's interesting, I almost immediately got the "this is gonna ask for money" scent from the way the website looked.
But if they're asking for money, I just don't really see why you would pay for a mid launcher.
- Comment on I am begging the mods to make this into a rule 2 weeks ago: federation: confirmed
Context: history memes are often posted without context and so people don't get a chance to immediately learn the history behind the meme.
- Comment on Donald Trump, Champion of Renewable Energy 2 weeks ago: federation: confirmed
The problem, as I often say, is that just because something demos well and it's easier to buy something doesn't mean it's going to be good in production. If you have a solar farm but you need to build a coal plant large enough to power the island anyway because you don't have dispatchable power, then you end up with Australia, California, or Ontario, where "the cheapest power" causes electricity costs to rise. Meanwhile, In places like Norway, Quebec, and iceland, those renewables actually drove down electricity costs because the marginal cost of energy is very low and you don't need to double up your infrastructure even if it's expensive and difficult to build up-front.
- Comment on You wrote the history book vs You were in the history book 2 weeks ago: federation: confirmed
One of my favorite history truisims is that history isn't written by the winners; history is written by the people who write and maintain the history books. The distinction is subtle, but matters.
- Comment on Steam Machine pricing and launch announced and yes it's pricey 2 weeks ago: federation: confirmed
For a gaming PC in 2026 that's not actually bad. Pretty sure I paid more than base for an Xbox one series x a few years back we got for a friend's graduation gift when they were particularly rare.
- Comment on Donald Trump, Champion of Renewable Energy 2 weeks ago: federation: confirmed
Imo one of the examples of renewables that someone needs to push (and I don't care who, whichever team does it takes the win) is geothermal in hawaii. They import massive amounts of coal to generate 90% of their electricity and thus have some of the most expensive electricity in the US.
Easy win, it would make everyone on the islands life way better, and of course it isn't even on the radar because it wouldn't cost that much and it'd be really effective immediately.
- Comment on Who would win? 3 weeks ago: federation: confirmed
Memento Mori. Most people in history community will know, but it means "remember your death", and it was allegedly something Roman emperors or generals made sure to have someone whisper into his ear during the celebrations of him.
A lot of things that look absurd in history are just a mortal man who had done great things being mortal. In the end we're all going to die, it's the great equalizer.
In the end, then, the question stops being about trying to achieve literally mortality by being great, and instead making sure that the life that you lead is great and that the thing that you leave behind is great. Because as we've seen, great kings can die from a bad swim, mighty emperors can fall to a single bullet, men who conquered the known world died to some bad booze, and feats alone don't stop those things.
- Comment on Donald Trump, Champion of Renewable Energy 3 weeks ago: federation: confirmed
Ya got me.
I registered a domain 23 years ago, maintained the site in various ways, set up a threadiverse instance with the least used federated link aggregator back around 2021, Expressed opinions that got me defederated by tons of instances and pissed off most of the remainder, and stayed following this community for years, all so that I could use a bot to respond to a post.
I don't even know why I needed a bot at that point, since apparently I'm friggin Xanatos the chess master.
- Comment on Donald Trump, Champion of Renewable Energy 3 weeks ago: federation: confirmed
Feels like a category error to say that Trump is necessarily against renewable energy rather than just against specific types of renewable energy.
A lot of greenies are against hydroelectric because even though it provides base load power for decades or even centuries, the building of reservoir and the damning of a river typically has major environmental impacts that they feel override the benefits.
If there's concern about offshore wind because of the potential -- the actualized potential by the way in a limited number of cases -- then that would explain why there would be the pushback against offshore wind.
The problem with water is that unlike land which tends to be fairly localized, just a little bit of pollution can affect an absurd amount of water. That's why they tell people not to dump their motor oil in the ground, because one drop of motor oil can pollute thousands of gallons of water.
I tend to be less interested in solar because empirically speaking it seems to drive up electricity costs for actual consumers regardless of the cost of a specific kilowatt hour of electricity at peak production, and less interested in wind because sometimes it is bright or cold and the wind doesn't blow, the Germans already have a word for this because it is relatively common.
That being said, there's no reason to be against good technology that actually does what it's supposed to do, and that can mean hydroelectric, it can mean well regulated nuclear, it can mean geothermal, but just because something is marketed as green doesn't mean that it is actually good for the environment. Everything at an industrial scale is a out trade-offs. Different people will look at things through different lenses and find different trade-offs more example and other trade-offs less acceptable.
- Comment on Yor (by Champi) 3 weeks ago: federation: confirmed
"Yors world he's the man! Yors world he's the man!"
- Comment on Cuba: Between charcoal and solar panels 3 weeks ago: federation: confirmed
Let them eat cake, n'est pas?
- Comment on Does Anyone Know What The Fediverse is Doing In Response to Age Verification Laws? 3 weeks ago: federation: confirmed
Typically they'll set up the laws with a floor, because otherwise some kid setting up phpbb would need age verification and that's not gonna fly.
- Comment on Humans Were Using Fire Long Before Scientists Thought Possible, Study Says 3 weeks ago: federation: confirmed
Source: I made it up!
- Comment on Tip #825 3 weeks ago: federation: delivered, unconfirmed
Lots of sites forget about ease of importing.
- Comment on Humans Were Using Fire Long Before Scientists Thought Possible, Study Says 3 weeks ago: federation: confirmed
Can confirm, used fire in 2011.
- Comment on Lordy me, you gave me a case of the vapors 3 weeks ago: federation: confirmed
"Your proposal is acceptable."
- Comment on Chinese economy stuck in slow lane as consumption heads for drop 3 weeks ago: federation: confirmed
Think of all the multi-million dollar single family homes they'd have!
- Comment on What does it mean when the vs code says this ? 3 weeks ago: federation: confirmed
git isn't part of your powershell path.