SolOrion

@SolOrion@sh.itjust.works

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why is coal and fossil fuels still used?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Swapping entirely to renewable energy is cool and all but not as easy as “just use a bunch of solar panels???” The issue is that most renewables are some mix of a: unreliable, and b: geographical.

  Wind isn’t going to be blowing 24/7 in most places, so wind is unreliable. The sun isn’t always shining in most places, so solar power is unreliable. Hydro is amazing if you have it, but it isn’t the kind of thing you can just build anywhere. Geothermal is also great if you have it, but again isn’t the kind of thing you can just build.

  Meanwhile, the power grid requires reliability. It’s incredibly important.

  Also, like other people have said: coal/gas are cheap and ubiquitous. Both of those words might as well be synonyms for ‘more money’. Realistically, that’s the primary reason.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Games on my PC start stuttering pretty badly when they aren't the active window for a while. Have to close the game and restart to resolve the stuttering issue. What exactly is causing this?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Reinstalling windows is hardly a laborious task, but even then my main point was that buying a 32GB SSD is pointless when you can get much larger ones for extremely cheap. Even if you don’t use it as a boot drive, more fast storage is never going to be a downside.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Games on my PC start stuttering pretty badly when they aren't the active window for a while. Have to close the game and restart to resolve the stuttering issue. What exactly is causing this?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  You could add an SSD specifically to serve as a pagefile location and nothing else, in which case you could just get a small cheap one (a 32GB SSD would be more than enough for 16GB of RAM)

  Honestly, assuming OP isn’t somewhere that the market for PC parts is extremely wonky compared to the US, if you’re going to get an SSD you might as well go ahead and get one big enough to serve as a boot drive. A 256gb SATA SSD is ~$20, and should be fine for that purpose. It probably won’t have DRAM at that price point, but realistically it’s not really necessary and still going to be a night and day upgrade over an HDD.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is it normal to be constantly scared about how your friend will react to anything about you?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Okay, so: is it because you reasonably expect that from your friend? Have they given you reason to expect these things? Or is it more just an anxiety thing? Like, you know it’s not a reasonable fear, but your brain still won’t let go?

  If A: no, that’s not normal and he’s hella toxic. Especially the online anonymity thing- what the fuck?

  If B: no, that’s not exactly normal but anxiety is a bitch sometimes.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Did the western world just suddenly go back to pretending wrestling is "real" for some reason?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve never seen ‘drag race’ used in this context, and I was wondering how you were about to compare drag racing (like with cars) with wrestling.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Did the western world just suddenly go back to pretending wrestling is "real" for some reason?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Nah, at least this once it’s definitely not a US defaultism thing.

  As an American, this is the first time I’ve thought about pro wrestling in a very very long time.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Did the western world just suddenly go back to pretending wrestling is "real" for some reason?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Why not? What definition of ‘athlete’ are you even using? Did you just decide this?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I feel that lines are drawn, and I'm no longer on your side.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Okay, bye.

  Also, I’m utterly shocked that an ai generated header is even a minor issue in comparison to the rest if your fallback instance of choice is Hexbear.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How can I create a Lemmy instance without coding or the use of Ethernet/router wiring?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  You don’t need to be wired in order to self host things? It’s better, ofc, but far from required. You can just do it via wifi.

  My experience with self hosting begins and ends with video game servers and jellyfin, though, so maybe I’m wrong here.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Given how paintball guns work, could you swap paintballs for a waterballs?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  yes. It’s a thing. mcsus.com/products/68-water-balls-tube-of-10 No clue if they’re good or not, but they exist.

  There’s also paintballs with clear paint, or reballs which are basically just rubber balls meant to be fired out of a paintball gun.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Found money. What do?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I assumed. I know it’s similar where I live, but for all I know Montana has some strangely restrictive finders keepers law where if you drop your wallet and someone else finds it you can only legally reclaim it via a duel to the death.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Bad news dominate headlines, do you think journalists will write about people behaving normally?

  This is a funny mental image.

  “Breaking news: Man gets normal sized plate a buffet. More at 11.”

  Front of a newspaper in giant bold font:

  “MAN TAKES NORMAL ROUTE HOME FROM WORK”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Found money. What do?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Where do you live? That matters, unless you’re just asking from an ethics perspective. I’m not asking you to dox yourself, country/state is plenty.

  Assuming you’re Canadian(based off your instance being lemmy.ca) technically speaking you should report in to the police, and they’ll hold it for 6 months. After that if someone hasn’t claimed it you’re free to claim it yourself. At least in Vancouver. Maybe the laws are different in other parts of Canada.

  Realistically, it’s not even $200. Probably keep it for a week or two and then tell the kid the cops couldn’t find the original owner.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Current 50% sale on Valheim on Steam⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I’d highly recommend modding that OUT for sanity/time sink reasons.

  No mods needed anymore! That’s just a slider now in ‘world modifiers’. It’s quite nice.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What's so important about keeping military operations secret?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Because surprise is important, and if the enemy has precise intelligence on what’s going to happen they can act to make it not happen. Which means that any assumptions your plans make might be outdated or even actively countered.

  To quote Sun Tzu, “All warfare is based on deception.” The lengths militaries have historically gone to in order to keep operational security or obfuscate the details of an attack is utterly absurd.

  A real world example: In WW2, ahead of the allied invasion of Sicily the British launched Operation Mincemeat. They took the body of a homeless person that had recently died, gave him an entirely fictitious service record/life, and some fake letters heavily implying that the allied invasion of Sicily was a feint and the true invasion was going to be in Greece and Sardinia. Then they took the corpse onto a submarine and let it go where the tide would take it to Spain. The Spanish shared the letters with the Germans, and the Germans then reinforced… all the wrong places. Which made the Allied Invasion of Sicily easier than it potentially could have been.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How the fuck do I find out where and when all these protests and rallies are happening?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Always been like that in my experience.

  I remember being frustrated asf as a teenager by people not understanding words or knowing how to spell things. My brother in christ, you have a phone and an internet connection in your pocket with access to basically the entirety of human knowledge. Fucking Google it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why are Maries Sues hated while Gary Stus are loved?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I used to be into HP fanfiction and my god I got so tired of hearing about HPMOR. I didn’t hate it, I didn’t feel nearly that strongly. I got a handful of chapters in and put it down, but that’s reasonably normal for me. But my god you could not escape that fic. It’s fans were rabid and it’s detractors were even worse than that. If it could vaguely fit a req, they’d bring it up. And then get three replies about how it doesn’t fit the req and it’s the worst thing since My Immortal within fifteen minutes.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How likely is the US government going to identify and arrest every online user who have disagreed with the current administration?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  By nature, the fediverse is hard to tie back to individuals… But if they’re looking for you individually, they can find you

  Yeah. Bonus points if your instance isn’t hosted in the US. I’m pretty sure mine is hosted in Canada, and with the way it’s going currently in a year or two Canada wouldn’t be willing to piss on the US government if it was on fire much less hand over a server full of IP addresses.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How likely is the US government going to identify and arrest every online user who have disagreed with the current administration?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Further, pretty sure the entire contents of the internet have been sucked down into that NSA Utah Datacenter since it opened in May 2014.

  There is a truly prodigious amount of weird porn on a government server somewhere if true.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Do zinc tablets and toothpaste counteract each other in the mouth?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I have no clue about your stupid question but it’s inspired one of my own.

  Why are you taking zinc? I was under the impression that intaking zinc is a terrible idea and should be avoided at all cost.

  Maybe it’s specifically inhaling it that’s the issue? I’ve always heard this in a metallurgy context: that you should be careful heating up brass/welding galvanized steel etc because the zinc will turn into a fairly toxic gas.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Suppose you were a dissident facing political persecution, how would you preserve your personal files so that you can retrieve it many years later, in case of imprisonment?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Even if they’re obsolete there will almost certainly be some way to retrieve your data unless you’re expecting to go away for a LONG time- if you went away in the 90s and did this I’m pretty sure it’d be as simple as buying a sata-IDE adapter.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨low iq in love with high iq person, is that bad??⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s literally their fifth most recent post, from three days ago. I found it by just looking at the community and searching IQ. It was on page 2 for me.

  Also, what do you even mean doxxing them? Nobody said anything about posting their real name and address.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why does most religion talk about their GOD being male? Especially Christains and Muslims. Is there a prominent female god that as big as the other two that I am missing?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s a little more complicated than that.

  I’ve been interested in mythologies for a long time and in my experience this phrase literally always applies.

  But I didn’t actually know most of that, really interesting! Thank you.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What are the democrats actually doing to help?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Pete Buttigege

  Jesus christ. And when he bombs they’ll go, “everyone wanted a younger candidate!”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why does most religion talk about their GOD being male? Especially Christains and Muslims. Is there a prominent female god that as big as the other two that I am missing?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Shinto’s Izanagi wasn’t really the “head god” I thought? From my understanding that was Amaterasu. Wikipedia agrees, for whatever that’s worth.

  Often considered the chief deity (kami) of the Shinto pantheon, she is also portrayed in Japan’s earliest literary texts, the Kojiki

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What is a season pass in computer games?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s just a preorder for DLC, basically, or if they’re all released it’s just a DLC bundle pack.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why was Hitler so mean and hateful toward one group or another? I find it hard to believe he woke up one day and said you and you suck but these people over here are good. Taking it so far as killing?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t know. I have played very little CK3.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨what are “female jocks” called?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Honestly I’ve never really considered Jock a properly gendered term. I think personally I’d probably just use Jock as a gender neutral term.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨what are “female jocks” called?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  idk about that. Tomboy means more than ‘girl that does sports’. If anything, I’d say the sports aspects are the additional connotations it’s gained more recently.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why was Hitler so mean and hateful toward one group or another? I find it hard to believe he woke up one day and said you and you suck but these people over here are good. Taking it so far as killing?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  “Expelling the Jews” is a mechanic in Crusader Kings 2. And it gets abused like it did historically, too- borrow a shitload of money and then expel the Jews. Suddenly you found free money.