Skydancer

@Skydancer@pawb.social

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Applying 'extreme heat' to lithium-ion batteries reportedly restores their capacity, and I think it's the sustainable tech breakthrough of 2025⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  That still doesn’t follow. For every mole of particles dissolved in a liter of water, the boiling point of water increases by about 0.5°C.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Okay, who had Trump loyalty pins for Apocalyptic-Bingo this Sunday? Games just getting started, stay tuned!⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Nah. He’ll insist they swap the first two.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YSK You can substitue blood for eggs in recipes⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Ground flax seed and water is another easy one for baking: 1 tbsp (7g) ground flax seed to 2.5 tbsp (37 ml) water

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Question about flip cap bottles on mastodon, do you have any suggestions where to get them?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Do they need to be wine bottle shaped?

  If swingtops that are shaped for beer work for you, find a local independent bar or pub. Stop by before opening and ask if they’d mind saving their swingtops for you.

  When I did this, the answer “Sure, just bring one back for me with your first brew.” More, they already had a box of them set aside.

  Grolsch bottles are by far the most common and will be 450ml, green, and with a raised glass patterning. Those are the most common. 9 ounce bottles from small commercial breweries will be smooth clear or brown with paper labels you’ll want to soak off, and they’ll have significantly fewer of these.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Are the inside parts of toilets universal?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Except even flappers aren’t universal. Some toilets use flapperless flush valves

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Signal gets new video call features, making it a viable alternative to Zoom, Meet and Teams⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Nailed it. Yes, it’s a US thing.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Signal gets new video call features, making it a viable alternative to Zoom, Meet and Teams⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  No, that was an excuse. They claimed people could mistakenly send unencrypted messages. Easily resolved by changing the color of conversations and send buttons to flag SMS as insecure.

  It was really about moving development resources to features like this one. Unfortunately, it makes it much harder to convince people to use (or keep using) Signal, meaning more messages that go by insecure messaging instead.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Signal gets new video call features, making it a viable alternative to Zoom, Meet and Teams⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Great. Now can we get text messaging back so that it’s possible to convince people to use it again?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨We are at the Wolfenstein stage of capital.⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  That makes sense.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨We are at the Wolfenstein stage of capital.⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  And how is it nobody seems to have noticed the two jawbones mounted above?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Polk salet, anybody?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The 1900s⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Early second millennium CE

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨When can we expect 500TB drives to be available?⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Absolutely not. At those densities, the write speed isn’t high enough to trust to RAID 5 or 6, particularly on a new system with drives from the same manufacturing batch (which may fail around the same time). You’d be looking at a RAID 10 or even a variant with more than two drives per mirror. Regardless of RAID level, at least a couple should be reserved as hot spares as well.