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- Comment on That explains it. 1 month ago:
- Comment on AI comes up with battery design that uses 70 per cent less lithium 10 months ago:
And it’s more ethical and environmentally friendlier than Lithium-Ion, right?
Norway has just started a deep sea excavation for cobalt and copper which as I understand (I’m clueless) can be omitted from sodium-ion batteries. The excavation is roughly of the size of equador and will take place in an area that may contain previously unknown lifeforms and critically endangered eco-system.
A paragraph of an article seems to show their non-chalance regarding the ecosystem impacts and unknown side-effects:
“The Norwegian government recognizes that it can’t be sure any mining would be sustainable—it’s not been able to determine the likely environmental impact of extracting minerals in its waters, nor exactly what minerals are there to be found. “We do not currently have the knowledge needed to extract minerals from the seabed in the manner required,” says Næss.”
These are the guys whose grid runs on 99% hydropower but they keep drilling for fossile fuels and now rare earths to export them and in addition are still hunting wales.
So to summarise: I’m very happy that there seems to be an eco friendly battery where its main component is the overambundantly availabe sodium. And the short wikipedia entry seems to reflect, that it’s a more simple tech.
- Comment on Has google stopped working for finding anything? 10 months ago:
I just read the movie plot (which seems to differ from the book) on wikipedia and searched in a non-logged-in google for “movie horror two friends dimensions drug dealer jamaican”. First result is the wanted movie. How are people searching that they get so bad results?
- Comment on 4202 g 10 months ago:
Laying hens also are productive way beyond BH to their ancestors with 10-20 eggs takes a big toll on their bones. According to a study from the university of Kiel an estimated 23-69% per flock come to the slaughtering line with broken keelbones, wings and legs from egg calcium depletion, rough handling and crammed cages.
Egg factory farming is all around brutal and despicable industry. Look up what forced molting and maceration means and get your own chickens if you’re able or eat scrambled tofu.
- Comment on Lemmy Comments for YouTube is now available! 11 months ago:
I’m a millenial and I write exessively researched comments backed by papers on youtube whenever I see stupid BS takes. Even under shorts. Glad those get more traction.
- Comment on Redditor finds heavy block of iron shavings inside cheap PSU, also appears to lack safety protections 11 months ago:
6 years on a Ryzen 1600 with an Asus Mobo now. Intel before. Best buy I ever made in my PC-history, apart from my curved WQHD Monitor. Not playing very much but games like CS2, Deus Ex Mankind Divided, Far Cry 5, Yakuza 0, Ghostrunner, Witcher 3 run very well on moderately high settings (Most of them on Linux). If I’d invest in a good AMD graphics-card, I’m convinced I could play most modern games on high settings.
Congrats for going the AMD route. You will be so blown away by your 12-core monster.
- Comment on New gameplay 11 months ago:
- Comment on Here's your mirror kings 11 months ago:
This comment explains Egypts stance it in the last paragraph.
- Comment on Checkmate round-earthers 1 year ago:
SUSE CEO is a round-earther confirmed!
- Comment on Microsoft may replace the Start button with the Copilot AI in Windows 12 1 year ago:
So Linux is just the kernel. You still have to choose a distro and a Desktop Environment (aka DE) with an included Window Manager (aka WM) or a pure WM (like i3, awesome, QTile etc.) if you dare.
KDE is the DE you want that does all that Windows can do and much much more.
You can layout everything how you want it. Beautiful Widgets (e.g. for monitoring hardware, RSS, network activity) are built-in. You can put them on the desktop or into tray-bars (aka panels). You can have multiple panels, order them on any monitor edge you want or have them floating and show only when mouse-hovered. Multiple virtual desktops is a given since ages in most DEs (e.g. Mate, Gnome, Cinnamon).
It has a built-in facility to download new themes, widgets and scripts for kwin (KDEs WM). A lot of themes are gorgeous. Most of the scripts, themes and widgets are user-contributed.
If you own an android device, you’re in for a treat as KDE comes with KDE-Connect. Best thing since sliced bread. Your phone will become part of KDE. Send files from the file-manager (Dolphin) and from the phone. Enter text on your phone from the PC-keyboard. Send the clipboard content. Use your phone as a remote via the acceleration and gyro-sensors. Show notifications from your phone within the desktop tray. Control music and video players on the desktop from your phone and vice-versa.
The file-manager (Dolphin) has Tabs and split panels to show two file-trees at the same time to easily copy files. It can easily integrate things like nextcloud or other remote filesystems like SFTP.
It’s got KRunner which is a unified application-starter, calculator, search engine for your documents or the web and to quickly switch between open apps. It’s a small textbox that shows up if you press alt-F2. It’s fast and you can configure en detail what searches it should do (e.g. only your installed apps). If you dare you can remove all panels and the start menu from KDE via a few clicks and only use KRunner.
It’s got a new built-in tiling manager (Bismuth is cool too) and much more.
So you need to decide which Linux Distribution (distro) you want. You mostly get them by downloading single-file iso’s. Put those (even multiple) on a USB-Stick prepared with Ventoy. Start from the stick. Choose one distro from the start menu and boot into the live-system (which won’t touch your hard-drives). You can start the installation on your hard-drive from a prominently placed button in the live-distro which usually starts Calamares (an easy as pie graphical installer). I can’t stress enough what a good idea it is to buy a second SSD just for your linux system. Don’t do win/linux dual-boot from one disk. Then within Calamares make sure you choose the correct SSD. Use systemd-boot instead of grub if there is an option. Choose not to many DEs while installing. Preferably only one. Applications are often programmed on specific DE-libraries (like gtk for gnome or Qt for KDE) but you don’t need to install the full DE to use applications from another DE you haven’t installed. The package-manager (you’ll love it) takes care to install a small subset of those libraries automatically if you want to use an app from another DE.
The distro basically is an opiniated selection of packages, DEs/WMs and default settings for your desktop. Also they’re mostly based on different base distros. Mint, MX, Ubuntu, Kubuntu, Pop! OS are based on Debian. Manjaro, Endeavour, Steam OS are based on Arch. Then there are base distros that seem to have spawned a lot derivatives like Fedora and OpenSUSE (both very good).
A big distinction between Debian based and Arch-based is, that the latter is a rolling release distro. That means that all your software, the OS, the DE gets constantly updated and you’re always on the latest version. That means you can get some gigs of updates daily/weekly. So better don’t be on a metered connection. If you aren’t then rolling is a fantastic for gaming, e.g. OpenSUSE Tumbleweed, Arch or Endeavour. With other Debian-Based distros you often have to re-install everything on a major distro-upgrade.
Linux has another big plus: you won’t have to ever surf to a website for bleeding edge software. The package-manager takes care and another big distinction of distros: from where comes the software (repositories), how was it build and how does the end-user install it. Arch based has something very special in its sleeve: The AUR (Arch User Repository) which is an addition to Arch’s official repos and completely managed by users. If a package doesn’t exist for Arch someone will prepare a script, that directly builds it from github (or other sources) and put that in the repos. In my 5 years on an Arch, I never had to reinstall the OS and there were a handful of times I need to download software via a browser. The other big advantage. The package-manager takes care of always keeping the apps up-to-date. You won’t ever have to identify which apps need updates or where to download the installers. One click. Wait 1-5 mins. You’re whole system is updated. No need to restart.
If you go with arch (on which the Steam-Decks OS is based), choose EndeavourOS. If you don’t know something look into the Arch-Wiki which is often praised to be one of the best documentations out there. OpenSUSE has very big repos too and comes from a german Enterprise but they’re very Open-Source, it doesn’t cost a dime and is heavily praised in the community.
It all sounds very complicated and overwhelming. But it actually isn’t. Buy SSD, USB-Stick, download OpenSUSE Tumbleweed, EndeavourOS and maybe Fedora or Mint. Boot. Install. Your Windows is recognized by the installer and will show up together with Linux in a boot menu upon restart.
This is my current KDE desktop: