jdnewmil

@jdnewmil@lemmy.ca

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Windows 10 LTSC – the version that won't expire for years⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Stick with Windows. Microft will deliver paradigm shifts and you will have no say in the matter. They are already removing options for disabling Copilot, and for all the promised backward compatibility they are letting go of features that lots of old Windows software depended on, as they introduce features similar to ones in Linux. I cannot really fault them for all of these changes, but the difference is actually one of choice and privacy, and not really the one you seem to think it is.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Trump administration orders halt to in-progress wind farm construction⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  If you convert the chemical energy in a unit of coal to heat (burn it) you can calculate how much energy exists in that coal, measured in appropriate units (e.g. kWh). That is evidently what this author is trying to dumb down as “invested energy”. The amount of energy extracted as electricity is typically 40% of that… the rest ends up as heat which is much less useful than electricity.

  I agree that this is not particularly useful in discussing the merits of different energy sources because good design tends to do as well as is practical and the supply of fuel and negative impacts of that process can’t vary dramatically.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨copper⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  A policeman? is that unusual?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Apple Maps now shows the Gulf of America⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Maybe if enough people file feedback on the name change they will reconsider. At least they will have a glut of feedback to deal with.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I miss when you could get a flagship phone that could fit in your hand⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  As you add more compute per user interaction (“smart” features), you increase power consumption. To keep an 18hour discharge cycle, you have to have more battery. Since phone thickness is a negative marketing feature but increased screen size is a positive marketing feature, you end up with bigger phones.

  Every time they reduce compute power consumption, feature inflation overtakes the gain and more power is needed over time. Try turning on battery saver in the morning… even with “normal” use the battery will last significantly longer due to disabling background power consumption.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It is time to ban email.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  “Email clients?” … boom! ;)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How screwed would one be if their email provider shuts down?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I think you meant “propagated”.

  How do you monitor your email functionality? How long would it be before you noticed it was offline? What about paying for and configuring the new email server?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Calcrelatable⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Clear and Clear Entry.

  The better option is to use an RPN calculator as Hewlett-Packard used to make. Then the back arrow button just eliminates one digit at a time.