Blue_Morpho
@Blue_Morpho@lemmy.world
- Comment on New Cars Don't All Come With Dipsticks Anymore, Here's Why 6 hours ago:
Knowing the exact oil level is very important for new cars. The piston rings are now made of softer metal to get a few more mpgs. If you overfill oil, you will get blow by, damage the rings, and start burning oil. Toyota now has an involved process of changing oil, running the engine, then topping off the oil while the engine is hot so as to not overfill. But not even my dealer follows that official procedure Toyota put in their manual.
- Comment on When will all the folks complaining about loss of Snap and health insurance realize the GOP wants us to die and has ZERO empathy for fellow Americans? 6 hours ago:
The only reason Fauci was on TV and setting policy on COVID was because Trump hired him to the Trump task force. Trump could have removed him from the Task force. Instead Trump acted like he had no power over Fauci.
That Fauci had been previously working for the government is irrelevant. Trump hired Fauci to the Trump COVID Task Force. Everything Fauci did was under Trump’s control.
- Comment on Heat setting magnets is bad. 1 day ago:
So how do the magnetic build plates work? Some materials need high bed temps. 80C for nylon.
- Comment on Why do so many piece of Hardware come with windows only software requiring admin right for installation 1 day ago:
It’s new hardware. It needs to interact with Windows or Linux at a level that gives it hardware access. That requires admin (Windows) or Root (Linux) for software to be installed that has the ability to interact with new hardware that neither Windows nor Linux knows about.
Software talks to the Operating System. The Operating System talks to drivers (small programs that understand the hardware). Drivers talk to hardware. Windows and Linux come bundled with hundreds of drivers. But they don’t come bundled with drivers for everything. That’s why you need to install the driver. If software could access hardware directly as a stand alone program, then anything you click on or run on the internet could also directly access hardware and install viruses, Trojans, spyware, etc.
Software that could run stand alone and directly access hardware is how PC’s running DOS worked.
- Comment on When will all the folks complaining about loss of Snap and health insurance realize the GOP wants us to die and has ZERO empathy for fellow Americans? 1 day ago:
Here’s the official text from TrumpWhitehouse.gov that Trump released on Jan 29 2020 announcing that he hired Fauci for his Corona Virus Task Force.
- Comment on When will all the folks complaining about loss of Snap and health insurance realize the GOP wants us to die and has ZERO empathy for fellow Americans? 1 day ago:
Fauci was director of NIAID. Trump picked him to lead the White House COVID Task Force. Then Trump threw him under a bus.
- Comment on When will all the folks complaining about loss of Snap and health insurance realize the GOP wants us to die and has ZERO empathy for fellow Americans? 1 day ago:
??? Trump hired Fauci to lead the Whitehouse Corona Virus Task Force. Then Trump threw Fauci under the bus when his base didn’t like what Fauci said.
- Comment on When will all the folks complaining about loss of Snap and health insurance realize the GOP wants us to die and has ZERO empathy for fellow Americans? 1 day ago:
Trump hired Fauci to lead the Corona Virus task force. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthony_Fauci
- Comment on When will all the folks complaining about loss of Snap and health insurance realize the GOP wants us to die and has ZERO empathy for fellow Americans? 2 days ago:
And they blamed Fauci who Trump hired and could have fired at any time.
- Comment on HBO, Which Was Always HBO, Is HBO Again 1 week ago:
It was pre AI craze. Probably million dollar marketing consultants.
- Comment on Learn 15 Print-in-Place Mechanisms In 15 Minutes 1 week ago:
I thought the #PitchMeetings guy got into 3d printing.
- Comment on Boxie – A Gameboy-Esque Audio Player 1 week ago:
That’s a lot of SD cards! I was expecting something like rfid that I’ve seen with other mp3 players.
- Comment on Maybe Trump's Presidency Will Make Everything So Awful It Will Facilitate Actual Positive Change Nationwide 1 week ago:
People forgot what Trump was like 4 years ago and re elected him. So no, it will not facilitate any change.
- Comment on The onion writers crying 2 weeks ago:
- Comment on how to get unbanned from communities? 2 weeks ago:
I think because I warned some users a couple of times over a year ago, that he thinks I’m a sock puppet of the person/people he has banned. When he got angry about my warning the user, I didn’t engage at all. But a year later in that thread about Discovery, I wasn’t paying attention and didn’t notice that I replied to him.
He seems to have a lot of drama around him.
- Comment on how to get unbanned from communities? 2 weeks ago:
Look at my history. That wasn’t the reason I was banned. Over a year ago years ago I warned another user that I saw that mod ban an account for arguing. That post history was there and flying squid warned him to not do that sort of thing in Ten Forward. A year later I made the mistake of replying to a post that he posted to me. The post was about the writing in Discovery.
You can see my last post on tenforward that got banned. He deleted it but of course in Lemmy it’s only hidden so you can still view it.
So yeah, not only did he ban me but he lied about the reason.
- Comment on how to get unbanned from communities? 2 weeks ago:
I got banned from tenforward for saying the ending of Star Trek Discovery didn’t make sense. No name calling, no back and forth arguing, just my statement and a reply explaining one point of my previous post. But that reply was to a mod who didn’t like my explanation.
I messaged mods and nothing.
- Comment on Why I don't use AI in 2025 2 weeks ago:
If gta5 was the only game sold, it wouldn’t be an energy issue!
- Comment on Why I don't use AI in 2025 2 weeks ago:
I addressed that in my second paragraph.
In another thread someone brought it up so I did some quick math to see if it was true:
Gta5 cost $300 million. 4000 developers each with the latest GPU burning hundreds of watts per employee to create the assets. A rough estimate of 750watt pc, 4,000 developers, 8 hour a day, 300 days a year, 5 years = 36 giga watt-hours. That’s the energy to power 3.6 million homes for a year and I’m not even including the HVAC costs of the office space. For 1 game.
AI training energy use is small in comparison. ChatGPT 4 cost $80m to train.
- Comment on Why I don't use AI in 2025 2 weeks ago:
However if I used AI more, I would still play the same amount of video games, thus increasing the total energy use.
Then that’s like writing about the evils of cars while driving a giant SUV for fun.
Do you agree with me on my other main point on reliability?
The Google AI forced on me in searches has seemed correct because every sentence has a footnote with a link to source that I usually click. The OpenAI code generation I used a year ago was brilliant. It wrote working VBScript for me which was a language I had no desire to learn. The microcontroller code for another project was also fantastic because it gave me an outline to start working with.
- Comment on End of 10 - Windows ten is ending. Microsoft wants you to buy a new computer. But what if you could make your current one fast and secure again? 2 weeks ago:
I thought Apple started the stopping support of Intel Mac’s a couple of years ago? If you had the newest Intel from 5 years ago, support is supposed to end this year.
- Comment on Why I don't use AI in 2025 2 weeks ago:
make profiting AI companies pay for UBI
As I said, many companies steal content and repackage it for sale. Google did it long before AI. AI is only the most recent offender. Courts have been splitting hairs for decades over music similarities and that’s ignoring that entire genres are based on copying the work of influential artists.
- Comment on Why I don't use AI in 2025 2 weeks ago:
There’s a huge difference between an outright Nazi like Musk and an average techbro.
- Comment on Why I don't use AI in 2025 2 weeks ago:
These endless “AI bad” articles are annoying. It’s just click bait at this point.
Energy use: false. His example was someone using a 13 year old laptop to get a result and then extrapolating energy use from that. Running ai locally is 10x more energy than playing a game for the same time on a Nintendo switch. 2 minutes of AI is 20 minutes of playing Mario Kart. No one screams about the energy footprint of playing games.
AAA game development energy use ( thousands of developers all with watt burning gpus spending years creating assets) dwarfs AI model building energy use.
Copyright, yes it’s a problem and should be fixed. But stealing is part of capitalism. Google search itself is based on stealing content and then selling ads to find that content. The entire “oh we might send some clicks your way that you might be able to compensated for” is backwards.
His last reason was new and completely absurd: he doesn’t like AI because he doesn’t like Musk. Given the public hatred between OpenAI and Musk it’s bizarre. Yes Musk has his own AI. But Musk also has electric cars, and space travel. Does the author hate all EV’s too? If course not, that argument was added by the author as a troll to get engagement.
- Comment on If you had $1500 to spend 2 weeks ago:
There are a ton of great printers under $1000 these days. If I needed a larger bed I’d get a Qidi Max 3. I got an Anycubic s1 with an ams that dries for $600.
- Comment on 4 fundamental forces 2 weeks ago:
You can do nuclear without irradiating everything just like a nuclear plant doesn’t irradiate everything. The only reason it isn’t done is safety. Rockets fail too often.
The argument that gravity is in anyway a more powerful force than weak force (fission) or strong force (fusion) is wrong. The only thing gravity has is distance. The strong force is 100 trillion trillion trillion times stronger than gravity.
- Comment on Pope 2 weeks ago:
I don’t understand the Katy Perry hate. William Shatner took the same space trip and wasn’t dumped on.
- Comment on When your Powerbank is dying and u can smell electrolytes escaping 2 weeks ago:
Ooh, that smell Can’t you smell that smell? Ooh, that smell The smell of death surrounds you
Lynyrd Skynyrd
- Comment on 4 fundamental forces 2 weeks ago:
That, and have you seen the amount of propellant required to overcome gravity? Compare that to the amount of fissile material you need to make a viable nuclear device. It’s peanuts.
You inadvertently argued against your point. It takes only a tiny amount of fissile material to generate the energy needed to escape the gravitation of an entire planet.
But not really because you only compared chemical energy to fission.
- Comment on Marc Andreessen predicts one of the few jobs that may survive the rise of AI automation 3 weeks ago:
Well of course owners aren’t going to replace themselves. They’re the owners, not the lowly workers. It’s like how owners exempt themselves from return to office mandates or how employees are fired if they find out you have another full time job yet owners “run” multiple businesses.
