lemmylommy

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨CATL announces sodium batteries that cost as little as $10/kWh, a massive price reduction compared to the current average of $115/kWh for lithium-ion batteries.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Are they as safe as lifepo4?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨hoarding⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Way of the road

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Meta will cease political ads in European Union by fall, blaming bloc’s new rules⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  While pushing right wing and Russian „news“ I assume.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Prince Andrew must be seething that Donald Trump gets to chug along like nothing happened.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Only if it’s drinking by butt.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How big is your media library?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  ~2000 movies ~200 tv shows

  Many English only, many German and English, some German only. A few in different languages, if it’s the original language.

  ~50TB

  Mostly 1080p h264. Lately, due to free space running out, I have started prioritizing and redownloading accordingly. Low bitrate h265 1080p for less important stuff, 4K h265 for important things and normal bitrate h264/265 (preferably the latter) 1080p for everything else.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YSK that apart from not having a car, the single greatest thing you can do for the climate is simply eating less red meat⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  You are right of course, but „per kg product“ is not a fair comparison when it comes to how the population is fed. Cheese (3000-4000kcal/kg) vs. milk (500. kcal/kg) is the best example for that.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Ted Cruz's plan to punish states that regulate AI shot down in 99-1 vote⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  “I have Democrat friends and Republican friends. I get along with almost everyone, but I have never worked with a more miserable son of a bitch in my life.”

  • John Boehner

  „Everyone hates Ted“

  • Donald Trump
• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Your TV Is Spying On You⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Hundreds of snapshots a second? So my tv has at least 200 Hz? Or do they snap the same frame multiple times just for fun?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I despise ads because they steal time, and their very existence is an insult to the people that are exposed to them. All ads tell me is „your time is worth very little and we believe you are easily manipulated“.

  Based on average ad length and cost on YouTube, ChatGPT has calculated that advertisers pay about $9 per hour of ads. While that seems a bit high to me, it is plausible. My time is worth more than that.

  Yes, I do pay for YouTube premium. Though in a cheaper country, because the normal price is excessive imho.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Looking for the perfect 5 year anniversary gift?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Glados, is that you?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Most American headline⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Yes, but kids in foster care are easy to abuse, so your tax dollars might be worth it for some.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨In North Korea, your phone secretly takes screenshots every 5 minutes for government surveillance⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  How? If authorities seize your computer, don’t you think the recall screenshots is the first they will look at?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Putin says services like Microsoft, Zoom should be 'throttled' in Russia⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Putin also.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Prototype of RTX 5090 Appears With Four 16-Pin Power Connectors, Capable of Delivering 2,400W⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I wouldn’t use that kind of power continuously. AFAIK the sockets are supposed to handle 16A for at least six hours, when they are new. When charging your car on Schuko sockets it’s good practice to limit it to 10A and check for the socket temperature after a while. Also, any connections in the cabling can have increased resistance with age and heat up with heavy continuous use. That shouldn’t matter that much when running a kettle or toaster for a few minutes, but charging a car or gaming for hours can become a problem.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Can Tesla's Self-Driving Software Handle Bus-Only Lanes? Not Reliably, No.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  „Not reliably, no“ sums up Tesla pretty well.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Are standing seats on airliners actually going to be a thing?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  You are right, that’s a problem. Can’t throw out precious cargo.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Are standing seats on airliners actually going to be a thing?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Evacuation time is not a problem. They can just put a trap door under each „seat“.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨7 for me⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
  18. When it’s cold 8.
• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I use Zip Bombs to Protect my Server⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Before I tell you how to create a zip bomb, I do have to warn you that you can potentially crash and destroy your own device.

  LOL. Destroy your device, kill the cat, what else?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Trump, in blue, sleeping at Pope Francis' funeral⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Not a tan suit though.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why does the pharmacist add these little ticks/checkmarks with a pen on my medication box?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  What if they make you pregananant?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Put him on the cart.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The inventor of this method: „he was dead before I hit him. I was totally just checking with my medical hammer, you guys. Believe me.“

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Airbnb will now show users the total cost of their stay right away⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I must admit that I am biased in that regard, but still I believe blaming Airbnb is mostly a distraction. Even in the worst of the worst places like Barcelona they reach around 10% of rental properties. Usually it’s a few percent in touristy places and much less everywhere else. Is it good for renters? Of course not. But it’s not the biggest factor, by far.

  Now if I look at the whole rental market in my country, Germany, what’s on Airbnb is just a drop in the bucket. And still people are struggling to pay rent, especially in the cities. Even in those places that nobody in their right mind would go as a tourist unless threatened with serious physical harm.

  Rents here started increasing uncomfortably after rental properties owned by local governments were privatized for a quick buck. Those new, publicly traded companies quickly raised rents sharply, because of course they have to earn back what they paid for the properties, plus a nice payout to investors. For the last two decades they have continued raising rents, neglecting maintenance and bought each other until now we the biggest company alone has almost half a million rental units, in a country of 80 million people. Of course, they don’t own three houses in villages here and there, but whole blocks in cities, with local market shares of up to 25%. That is much more significant than a few percent that are lost to tourism.

  And don’t get me started on cost of construction, the chronic lack of new buildings, empty real estate owned by speculators or money launderers,… or I might rant again 😉

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨This is real⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  You are right. Please pm me your name and address and if you are ever deported to a torture camp in a foreign country I will let all senators know that you don’t want them to visit and will only accept help that meets lemmy.ml fever dream standards.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨AdNauseam is a uBlock fork that goes further: it actively attacks marketers by auto-clicking every ad before blocking⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Some ads have used browser exploits to infect visitors in the past. So this is a very, very bad idea, if it actually is implemented in a way that is hard to filter for ad networks.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨DeepSeek's V3 AI model gets a major upgrade - here's what's new⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  People are conflating the LLM and the app.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Which is the cheapest way to manage my body after death ...⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Depends on where you live. In Germany the government will of course take care of the burial of no one else does it, but parents or children are responsible for whatever burial cost is left after using the estate, even if they refused the inheritance.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How do the Republicans feel about Project 2025 now?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Ask the guy who had his wife deported and is still supporting Trump.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Self-hosted media server to share with 5+ people?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I am running plex server on a low power i3-7xxx. thanks to the igpu that thing can handle a few 1080p transcodes at once. Even 4K HDR transcoding is possible, though I never get more than one or two of them at the same time. Unless you need it to encode subtitles into the video or you have many simultaneous HDR to SDR conversions going at once any cheap old PC with an intel 7th gen or newer and igpu should do well. Oh, and I don’t think they can handle AV1, but that is still very uncommon.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Cellebrite Dumps AI Into Its Cell Phone-Scraping Tool So Cops Can Hallucinate Evidence⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Even less shitty LLMs tend to hallucinate.