Croquette
@Croquette@sh.itjust.works
- Comment on New sodium ion battery stores twice the energy and desalinates seawater 2 days ago:
Well it’s a pretty big deal, especially for large power storage.
- Comment on New sodium ion battery stores twice the energy and desalinates seawater 2 days ago:
My very uneducated understanding is that sodium batteries can be produced virtually anywhere.
Not every battery application needs to maximize energy density, so sodium batteries are good where that is the case.
I also did not read about sodium ion batteries characteristics versus lithium ion, so there might also be other use cases where sodium ion batteries are better.
- Comment on New sodium ion battery stores twice the energy and desalinates seawater 2 days ago:
It takes time to scale production and even more time to adopt a new technology.
- Comment on LibreOffice blasts 'fake open source' OnlyOffice for working with Microsoft to lock users in 5 days ago:
At least, they didn’t SLAM Microsoft.
- Comment on My phone, iPad, and laptop finally all use the same USB-C charger. The galaxy is at peace. 6 days ago:
If we burn the planet for more economic productivity, we made more money but made human life worst.
So what is the point of economic productivity if it makes our everyday live worst?
- Comment on My phone, iPad, and laptop finally all use the same USB-C charger. The galaxy is at peace. 6 days ago:
Stifle wasn’t the right word. Sorry about that, I wrote my comment too fast amd English isn’t my first language.
Innovation isn’t an all or nothing thing.
There is a difference between removing all the red tape and saying “fuck it” and making sure that the said innovation isn’t outright dangerous. If we need to take thing slower to make sure that people aren’t killed directly or indirectly, then so be it.
- Comment on My phone, iPad, and laptop finally all use the same USB-C charger. The galaxy is at peace. 6 days ago:
History has shown us again and again that corporations can’t behave decently if let to their own device.
I would much rather have the government stiffle innovation if that means that consumer are safe and benefit from said innovation.
- Comment on my bf says sleeping with your balls out is the male equivalent 1 week ago:
Yeah but it’s an awkward talk in the morning.
- Comment on my bf says sleeping with your balls out is the male equivalent 1 week ago:
I get grumpy when I don’t sleep at home and I need to sleep with boxer briefs. It fucking sucks. Let me be an animal for the time I sleep at the very least please.
- Comment on Discord Alternatives, Ranked 2 weeks ago:
Is SimpleX based on Matrix? I have this recollection that it is, but I don’t if it’s a false memory or not.
- Comment on Chatbots Make Terrible Doctors, New Study Finds 2 weeks ago:
Doctors are a product of their training. The issue is that doctors are trained like humans are cars and they have tools to fix the cars.
Human problems are complex and the medecine field is slowly catching up, especially medecine targetted toward women, which was pretty lacking.
It takes time to transform a system and we are getting there slowly.
- Comment on OpenAI start showing ads in ChatGPT 2 weeks ago:
My uneducated guess : they are bleeding money and need to show that it is slowly stopping and the trend is reversing.
Once that is done, pipe the IPO and make bank before it crashes and burn.
- Comment on Start-up idea 2 weeks ago:
Yes, I’ve heard about that theory. The boot example is good because everyone can relate.
- Comment on Start-up idea 2 weeks ago:
One caveat I would note: lots of people can’t afford expensive, durable appliances.
It’s expensive to be poor.
- Comment on It Turns Out That When Waymos Are Stumped, They Get Intervention From Workers in the Philippines 2 weeks ago:
And for the rich that fucks other rich people.
- Comment on It Turns Out That When Waymos Are Stumped, They Get Intervention From Workers in the Philippines 2 weeks ago:
It’s a mega corpo. Laws don’t apply to them silly you.
- Comment on Rent is theft 3 weeks ago:
Cities would rather pollute a new parcel of land than fix the contamined ones.
There is a city nearby that has an abandoned industrial district and they plan on building a new industrial district instead of razing the old one and decontaminate it.
And shocker, they want to make the new district on farm land.
- Comment on Rent is theft 3 weeks ago:
This is mental that we sell arable land to build expensive, low quality condos or big buildings like a data center.
- Comment on Ah, customer service 3 weeks ago:
The typical customer service is 45 mins ++ of waiting on the line, to be greeted by an agent with a heavy Indian accent that will go through the script before having any chances to have a shot at maybe fixing your issue.
- Comment on Apple to Soon Take Up to 30% Cut From All Patreon Creators in iOS App 4 weeks ago:
It’s a holdover from retail where had to physically hold your product and had limited space.
Now, the shareholders demand even more money and Apple has complete control on the OS and they are signaling that you can’t do shit and they will take whatever they want.
They can fight anyone in courts, and as long as the laws have no teeth, they will get away with it.
- Comment on Bye, X: Europeans are launching their own social media platform, W 4 weeks ago:
No worries, no offense taken.
Hopefully people will see discussions like ours and learn a little something about how things work.
- Comment on Bye, X: Europeans are launching their own social media platform, W 4 weeks ago:
I understand that. Just like Lemmy where all the instances that are federated have a copy of the posts and comments you make.
However, you have the option to create your own instance and federate or not with any community you want.
If there is one mega instance, deferating from it effectively kills the social media. Thus my train of thoughts.
- Comment on Bye, X: Europeans are launching their own social media platform, W 4 weeks ago:
More and more people are moving away from tech giants because of their shitty behaviour. So I think it is important to note how the data is used and stored, thus my follow-up question.
Thanks for the detailed response.
- Comment on Bye, X: Europeans are launching their own social media platform, W 4 weeks ago:
More and more people are moving away from tech giants because of their shitty behaviour. So I think it is important to note how the data is used and stored, thus my follow-up question.
Thanks for the detailed response.
- Comment on Bye, X: Europeans are launching their own social media platform, W 4 weeks ago:
I didn’t know that.
- Comment on Bye, X: Europeans are launching their own social media platform, W 5 weeks ago:
Thanks for taking the time to explain.
Follow-up question : doesn’t ATProto run into the same issue as Bluesky for example, where even though the protocol allows for decentralization, the vast majority of users are on the same servers, thus negating the pros of decentralization?
I feel like this would be the case here where one server will contain all the modules.
- Comment on Bye, X: Europeans are launching their own social media platform, W 5 weeks ago:
For non-believers in that format of social media, is ATProto good or bad?
- Comment on If it fits... 1 month ago:
I would bet that a lot of trucks are larger than the Smart is long.
- Comment on EU lawmakers to study ban 'loot boxes' and other addictive features in video games 1 month ago:
What about the other side?
- Comment on EU lawmakers to study ban 'loot boxes' and other addictive features in video games 1 month ago:
Loot box are still a thing, in a big way. Look at CS2 or the yearly soccer games.
And gacha games on mobile are a plague.
Lootbox is the first step, battlepass close second.