Bahnd
@Bahnd@lemmy.world
- Comment on Why Shouldn't I Use A Small Gaming PC 2 days ago:
Seconding steam deck, but also need to add in the docking station. That formfactor has stolen my heart, it does mobile gaming, along with having the horse power to be a PC substitute at home.
In addition to SteamOS, but ill let others promote linux and sticking it to microsoft now that linux desktops are finally crossing the “it just works” finish line.
- Comment on 5 tomatoes 5 days ago:
You dont write the number of feet in a mile as 14A0 (base-16 for this example).
Your complaining about ratios used for unit conversion, not base numeral systems… Fuck, this feels like a slashdot comment.
- Comment on 5 tomatoes 5 days ago:
The feet to mile conversion is still in base-10… Its the ratios between the units that are seemingly arbitrary. Come on…
- Comment on Where have you been? 2 weeks ago:
Im getting Chuck Tingle vibes…
- Comment on The entire Social Security database was uploaded on a random cloud server, Whistle-Blower Says 2 weeks ago:
I dont have a problem with that, but what I will object to is the current regime making the replament ID system. 1) there is no way they would design it well or securely, smart people capable of building such a system are usually the first to bounce to another country as they will have the means to do so. 2) it would be too easy for them to lord the new ID over peoples heads (like they are with immigration status now) and impliment a social credit score like China does.
Your correct that SSNs should not be used as IDs, but getting the government to build a modern system for that opens too many avanues for abuse (especially with darth cheeto in charge).
- Comment on Harvard dropouts to launch ‘always on’ AI smart glasses that listen and record every conversation 2 weeks ago:
Tell that to silicon valley, its a marketing bit now. Being “Too cool for school” is part of the tech startup playbook.
- Comment on Stop children using VPNs to watch porn, ministers told 3 weeks ago:
If I had a nickle for ever time the UK did something pants-on-head stupid or short-sighted from a minor survey or public poll, [counts change jar]… How much are big macs these days?
- Comment on 7 years later, Valve's Proton has been an incredible game-changer for Linux 3 weeks ago:
Destiny 2 was the old game I played 2 years ago when I switched to linux full time that does not play nice with Proton. And given how its driven itself off a cliff. I will miss the old space opera, but nothing of value was lost.
- Comment on Meanwhile in America 5 weeks ago:
You make me sad…
- Comment on Meanwhile in America 5 weeks ago:
Index, its the Waffle House Index! And its very important to FEMA.
- Comment on Meanwhile in America 5 weeks ago:
I prefer the French Toast or Waffle House Indexes for unofficial silly weather measurement.
- Comment on How do you reconcile staying sane while keeping yourself up-to-date with the news? 1 month ago:
Sanity is over-rated, now if yall dont mind. Im going to spend the rest of my day swimming in a lake that thinks its a gin+tonic.
- Comment on Americans have been trained to hate foreigners by Fox News, owned by a foreigner. 1 month ago:
[OPs post = top text]
- Comment on President Trump threatened to break up Nvidia, didn't even know what it was — 'What the hell is Nvidia? I've never heard of it before' 1 month ago:
Oh neat, the tech flavored distraction, place your bets on whats next. My bet is he tried that freedom fries shit again.
- Comment on You can only bring back one. Which do you choose? 2 months ago:
Old Radio Shack, not that thing from 2015 that was functionally a brick and mortar cellphone stand.
- Comment on Babe can you refill my drink from the cloaca dispenser please? 2 months ago:
For the bottom machine, run the faucet for a few seconds before you put your cup under it. Last thing anyone wants is half-watered down cherry coke or homeopathic fanta.
- Comment on How to combat large amounts of Ai scrapers 2 months ago:
Wern’t there a few AI maze projects in the works? I wonder if running one of those for a bit will cause you to be added to an ignore list, clearly they dont respect your robots file.
- Comment on Men are opening up about mental health to AI instead of humans 2 months ago:
My mental image the solution of your last paragraph is a guy and their counsoler just chatting outside chopping firewood or other simple/quiet lawn work.
“I need a therapist, and a lumberjack”
- Comment on Fairphone announces the €599 Fairphone 6, with a 6.31" 120Hz LTPO OLED display, a Snapdragon 7s Gen 3 chip, and enhanced modularity with 12 swappable parts 2 months ago:
The GrapheneOS team makes their hardware security requirments very clear.
Its up to the hardware manufactures to include a few additional components used for securely storing keys, so far Google Pixles are the only consistent line of products that do so.
- Comment on Eve Online developers CCP are being sold off, according to reports 2 months ago:
I dont blame you for that being the change that made you win EvE, I also think fondly of that era, but also recognize that MMO players in 2025 would not have hated the old game. The timegating of skills made it so characters had value, now they dont, people do and the shifting dynamics in 0.0 have come to reflect that (See the N+1 problem and the attempts to claw back an out of control ISK faucets).
I do think the game is in a healthier place, but thats only been over the last year or so.
- Comment on Have a look around. Anything that brain of yours can think of can be found... 2 months ago:
We’ve got a million different ways to engage.
- Comment on xAI Data Center Emits Plumes of Pollution, New Video Shows 2 months ago:
We have similar products where I work as well, they are just expensive thermal imaging cameras. They would not be able to identify the chemical contents of a gas cloud at a distance, just that there was a cloud. The point is that in the age of digital media, its very hard to prove anything is what you say it is. Between photoshop and AI making a mess of the digital media landscape, it makes things increasingly difficult to validate, and shouting “do your own reaserch” will only add to the ambiguity as the internet is not static and can be changed by anyone at any time.
- Comment on xAI Data Center Emits Plumes of Pollution, New Video Shows 2 months ago:
You misconstru uninformed for skeptical, an eco-themed news site will have a bias against anything related to data centers, supreme leader musk, or burning hydrocarbons. So apologies if I took the article with a grain of salt.
- Comment on xAI Data Center Emits Plumes of Pollution, New Video Shows 2 months ago:
Compared to the data center sprawl in other areas, yes. As others have pointed out, this appears to be a gross over-utilizarion of the local utilities and is just burning shit to make the building work where noone is paying attention to it.
- Comment on xAI Data Center Emits Plumes of Pollution, New Video Shows 2 months ago:
This article and what they are doing feels fishy, for a few reasons.
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Data centers usually have steam plumes, but only with older cooling systems, newer designs dont vent off nearly as much water vapor and even newer designs have liquid-to-chip, and im not sure how those vent the heat, but its definitly not venting their treated coolant+water. (Because that would be dumb and expensive, but that seems to be the flavor of the day, so lets roll with that)
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If the building was not designed by a monkey, then this is likely just a generator test. I want to put the emphasis on “TEST” because a data center only runs its very inefficent generators when utility power fails. (They will generate exaust, but usually its diesle generators or something with cheap fuel). Fancy gas turbines sounds very “extra” because the reason that deisle generators are used is that they can turn on and hold the load of the building quickly (and the building should have a battery bank to hold that for exactly what ever that time is)
To me, one of two things is wrong, either the camera is just imaging thermals and thats a normal steam plume and they are being sensationalist. OR (and more likely answer). Musk is building some bespoke data center in the middle of bum-fuck nowhere without the local infrastructure to support it and is doing all sorts of expensive additions to make it do what it would be able to if it was clustered with other data centers that share utilitites.
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- Comment on 10000 hours to become an expert, avg person poops for ~12 minutes a day. It would take 137 years to master. 2 months ago:
[Sing in the voice of Elmo] My boss makes a dollar I make a dime That is why I poop on company time.
UK version: My supervisor makes a pound. I make a pence That is why I shit at the companies expense.
- Comment on The new Helldivers 2 "Force of Law" war bond is dropping on June 12th. 3 months ago:
Looks like explosion resist, chest HP, and bleed prevention. Neat.
- Comment on The new Helldivers 2 "Force of Law" war bond is dropping on June 12th. 3 months ago:
Any indication on what the armor perk is?
Also emp on stratagem call-in seems fun, but is a much lower priority than the usual (enhanced stims, pod optimization, anti-chip damage, and stamina recovery)
- Comment on Hot spaceships in your Lemmy instance 3 months ago:
SPACESHIP!!!
- Comment on If it ain’t broke… 3 months ago:
Daniel Radcliff famously did something like that when he was on broadway. Got 10 sets of the same shirt, hat, and jeans, left half at home and half at the theatre. Came and left wearing the same thing for year so the images coulden’t be dated. Paparazzi made no money off him and threw a fit over it, twas glorious.
