Bytemeister
@Bytemeister@lemmy.world
- Comment on What would happen to the US if it denaturalised and deported all non-whites? 3 days ago:
I don’t think “deportation” is the reich word to use at that point.
- Comment on What would happen to the US if it denaturalised and deported all non-whites? 3 days ago:
Immediate collapse. No one would take the deportees long term. There would be a huge swell in support for the deported people, but very rapidly other countries would shut their borders. The only way to realistically deport that many people is to get them to self deport by intimidating them.
I’m not so sure this question is hypothetical anymore.
- Comment on Solar powered personal umbrella with battery? 3 days ago:
“Rollable” solar panels are still pretty stiff. You would need a beefier mechanism to handle the extra forces required. They also have a pretty significant “minimum turn radius” so they would need an entirely new design for their mechanism to work without damaging the panels.
They do make personal solar array with a surface area comparable to your umbrella idea, but those would take days to charge a cellphone, so the char you get walking around for a few hours is negligible.
It’s a cool idea, and would be a fun project to build and show off, but it’s not going to be marketable or practical without a whole lot of development in solar, battery and umbrella tech.
- Comment on Adblockers stop publishers serving ads to (or even seeing) 1bn web users - Press Gazette 4 days ago:
Adds in the 90’s and 00’s would just layer toolbars onto your browser. Is still have a a nervous twitch when I see a thick toolbars or animated cursors.
- Comment on Adblockers stop publishers serving ads to (or even seeing) 1bn web users - Press Gazette 4 days ago:
Goodput vs shitstream.
- Comment on This comic hung in my office for years 1 week ago:
For a fair comparison, I need to see the chess program give me my grandma’s family recipe for napalm.
- Comment on This comic hung in my office for years 1 week ago:
There is an aquarium supply store near me that has an open-top mudskipper display with a tree in it. Those guys definitely can climb trees.
- Comment on You can drive 74 hours and still be in Germany. The American mind can't comprehend this. 1 week ago:
Self-limiting system. As you black out, the circle gets looser, the Gs fall off, you wake up more, turn tighter, the Gs build again…
- Comment on Linux Reaches 5% Desktop Market Share In USA 1 week ago:
Thanks for the advice. Much appreciated. I don’t mind old hardware. It’s a rescue. Poor thing was in a disposal bin, and I gave it a forever home.
- Comment on Linux Reaches 5% Desktop Market Share In USA 1 week ago:
HP Elite x2 1012 G1. Has an Intel Core M5 processor.
Frankly. I was expecting to spend hours getting this thing in a useable state, but Mint had everything working on a clean install except for the the volume button on the tablet itself and the function buttons on the KB. Honestly very impressed. If I did a clean windows install I would be pulling drivera from HP and installing them for about an hour to get this level of functionality.
I figure a quick script or something that turns on the On Screen KB when the physical KB isn’t detected is possible, and that I can manually config the volume buttons and keyboard shortcuts. Then this tablet will have all its features working.
- Comment on Linux Reaches 5% Desktop Market Share In USA 1 week ago:
My newer hardware is circa 2015.
- Comment on Linux Reaches 5% Desktop Market Share In USA 1 week ago:
I’m helping!
Just put Mint on my 2-in-1! So far so good, except my volume buttons don’t work, and I have to manually toggle the on screen keyboard for text entry if I detactch the keyboard cover.
- Comment on Scientists make game-changing breakthrough that could slash costs of solar panels: 'Has the potential to contribute to the energy transition' 1 week ago:
Bad read on my part, sorry for the snark. Carry on.
- Comment on Scientists make game-changing breakthrough that could slash costs of solar panels: 'Has the potential to contribute to the energy transition' 1 week ago:
My interpretation of your comment was that bifacial solar panels are a useless gimmick which allows companies to charge more for a cheaper product.
Is that correct?
- Comment on Scientists make game-changing breakthrough that could slash costs of solar panels: 'Has the potential to contribute to the energy transition' 1 week ago:
Sure, but if you wanted solar panels to work on both sides of your East/West facing fence, you’d have to buy 100% more panels, so bifacial saves you 70% there. Seems like a good deal. I’m sure you read the “Model Overview” of that article and caught that the monofacial panels were facing the equator, and the bifacial panels were facing East/West…
- Comment on Scientists make game-changing breakthrough that could slash costs of solar panels: 'Has the potential to contribute to the energy transition' 1 week ago:
Kinda works if you use bifacial panels.
- Comment on Spiritual Safety Tip! 1 week ago:
“You should be in church right now!”
“If I was, then who the fuck would be serving you at Cracker Barrel right now?”
- Comment on Spiritual Safety Tip! 1 week ago:
…if they don’t convert you, you’re going to burn in hell for eternity when you die.
Some like it hot. Leave me alone.
- Comment on Every time 1 week ago:
Yeah. It would be applied equally. Being an asshole “I got mine fuck you” politicians shouldn’t be something we tolerate, regardless of party affiliation.
- Comment on Every time 1 week ago:
I’d like to see a law in place that says if a congressman votes against aid for another state during a disaster, then they must resign immediately after requesting aid for their own state during a disaster.
Put your money where you mouth is.
- Comment on Every time 1 week ago:
Frankly, Cali, Oregon, and Washington ought to form a Western Coast Pact, where if one of them gets unfair treatment from the feds, they all lock down their ports. Trump’s tartif tax on Americans, plus shipping delays and extra shipping costs would make the general public pretty mad at the situation. Hypothetically, companies can (they won’t) absorb tariff costs, but supply line interruptions are immediate total chaos, and can have knock-on effects for decades
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
Fuck god. We’ve got dibs.
- Comment on Exclusive: Evidence of cell phone surveillance detected at anti-ICE protest 2 weeks ago:
That’s okay, then you dress as yourself and be super nice to crows. It evens out.
- Comment on Exclusive: Evidence of cell phone surveillance detected at anti-ICE protest 2 weeks ago:
Honestly, the real answer is to dress up like ICE and then be dicks to crow. Trump’s SS won’t be able to operate in your city for years!
- Comment on Why Americans Can’t Buy the World’s Best Electric Car 2 weeks ago:
Right? The only thing on the market for EVs in the US right now is “luxury” crossovers and trucks. What people really want is an electric civic hatchback.
- Comment on Why Americans Can’t Buy the World’s Best Electric Car 2 weeks ago:
Hmmm. I think US cars can absolutely compete. Here is the problem. Foreign manufacturers make cars that people want to buy. American manufacturers make cars that they want to sell. These two things are not the same.
- Comment on Exclusive: Evidence of cell phone surveillance detected at anti-ICE protest 2 weeks ago:
Better yet, give it to a friend who isn’t attending the protest, and have them drive around with the phone. Pull it out and check some sites with it every few minutes, maybe send a few messages.
- Comment on Exclusive: Evidence of cell phone surveillance detected at anti-ICE protest 2 weeks ago:
I know this sounds crazy in 2025, but you can still buy standalone digital cameras. You can even get discreet devices that record constantly.
- Comment on what 2 weeks ago:
Huh. Usually refurb them and offer them up for free. E-waste recycling is a fancy term in my area for “trucking it across the country to a port, loading it on a boat, shipping it across the ocean and then having a 6yr without PPE burn it and bury it.” Honestly, throwing it in a landfill is less damaging at that point.
- 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 2 weeks ago:
Consent is a social construct created by humans
Consent exists outside of humans, it just what we’ve decided to call “respecting autonomy”.
I don’t think it is forced birther ammo. Something that does not exist cannot consent. A fetus is just a collection of cells, it has the same ability to consent as a finger or a liver, in the vast majority of abortions it has no more individual identity than a tumor. Consent of the fetus shouldn’t be a criteria for abortion anyway, it’s consent of the individual that it is taking resources from that matters.