Blue_Morpho
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- Comment on Funny how that works 5 days ago:
It is frustrating when they raise property tax every year, claim it’s for schools, and then announce that music and art need to be cut for budget reasons. Meanwhile they also announce tens of of millions for renovating the business district and tens of millions for the restaurant district.
- Comment on Lemmy is a tech literate echo chamber 5 days ago:
It was only car enthusiasts, and more specifically motorheads, that has those skills. Did more older folks know how to work on their cars then today’s youths? Likely
Yes and you are a techie surrounded by techies. You didn’t see the millions your own age who used computers in the 80’s and 90’s without ever understanding them. I ran a mid sized ISP in the mid and late 90’s which meant training and supporting the help desk staff to handle the phone calls. I’m very aware of how stupid the average Millenial was about technology. I hired many smart kids. But they were rare. My company had a relationship with a private school where we’d get some high school students to work at my ISP and it counted as their “computer class”. There were maybe two kids per class of 100 students each year that knew how a computer worked rather than just how to click the buttons on their Mac or Windows.
There were more computer techies in the 90’s. There were more motorheads in the 50’s. Computers are more complicated now such that even an average techy can’t modify an iPad just like an average person can’t fix a car today because of its encapsulation of complications.
Your much older brother is an anomaly. There are exactly 0 people that I know that are 50+ years old that would know anything about fixing a TV.
Wrong generation. I’m 50+ (Gen X) and have no idea about how to fix a TV at the component level. Because I grew up with TV’s everywhere like kids today grow up with iphones everywhere.
TV repair was a thing. Radio shack and even Woolworths (Walmart of the 1950’s) had a tube tester so that people could walk in with the tube from their TV and test it without paying for professional repair.
Average people knew more about repairing TV’s than today!
Again, it’s not “everyone”. It’s the techies of each generation. It’s the same subset of the population that has the interest and skills to understand things. The only thing that changes is the popular technology that the techies focus on.
- Comment on Lemmy is a tech literate echo chamber 5 days ago:
The studies are on all forms of Computer Technology, not car transmission or TV repair.
The people that built the home computer and the Internet were all Boomers! Woz is a boomer. Vint Cerf is a boomer.
- Comment on Lemmy is a tech literate echo chamber 5 days ago:
My brain had to bridge the gap between two different worlds.
As did past generations with new technologies. No car- cars everywhere. That generation could rebuild a transmission whereas it’s a mystery box you have a specialist fix for you.
No TV, TV everywhere, tubes in tvs, then transistors. My much older brother in law can identify and fix any TV at the component level. Like identifying a bad capacitor and not only replacing it but understanding the circuit to know that a larger ufarad capacitor will not only work in that part of the circuit, but prevent a future problem.
I suspect that like me, your TV repair knowledge ends at matching cables on the back to ports and replacing batteries.
- Comment on What are your go-to sites to find free 3D files to print? 6 days ago:
But using Makerworld without buying their printer or uploading models is hurting Bambu. So downvoters must be Bambu fans.
And Anycubic isn’t locked down like Bambu. It supports Orca and you can put Klipper on it.
- Comment on As governments around the world are set to make the Internet more restrictive and privacy-invading, we need a solution 6 days ago:
Lora is typically 50k max (theoretical 256k). So less than dial up speed.
It is in no way a replacement technology for wifi.
- Comment on Another Google Pixel 6a catches fire after battery-nerfing update 6 days ago:
What other hardware supports open source like Graphene?
- Comment on Stealthburner extruder grinding 1 week ago:
Yeah if is completely gone it won’t help but if the noise changes, he’ll know it’s the bearing.
- Comment on What are your go-to sites to find free 3D files to print? 1 week ago:
Makerworld and Makeronline. It’s Bambu and Anycubic but they have a lot of files.
I’m always looking for boardgames for my kids.
- Comment on Stealthburner extruder grinding 1 week ago:
It sounds kind of like a bearing. Maybe from the top metal gear. Spray some lithium lube into the bearing?
- Comment on Nvidia plans to boost presence in Israel with multibillion-dollar tech campus in north 1 week ago:
We don’t know how big AMD is in Israel because they keep it secret.
- Comment on This Tiny Radio Lets Me Send Texts Without Wi-Fi or Cell Service 1 week ago:
Eisenhower had probably the worst foreign policy record because of the Dulles bros. Almost all the CIA government coups that happened occurred during Eisenhower and ended up in disasters decades later.
- Comment on This Tiny Radio Lets Me Send Texts Without Wi-Fi or Cell Service 1 week ago:
Eisenhower gets credit for building the Interstate Highway system despite not pouring any concrete.
- Comment on This Tiny Radio Lets Me Send Texts Without Wi-Fi or Cell Service 1 week ago:
Ok, rant time!!!
I worked for Vint Cerf back in the early 90’s. I became aware of the politics around it when Al Gore pushed for funding so the Internet could grow into something bigger than a University/Military communication system. Rush Limbaugh was on the radio daily railing against Al Gore’s Boondoggle. Clinton/Gore secured funding and the Internet exploded in use.
During the 1999 Presidential election, Republicans took Al Gore’s greatest political accomplishment, getting Congress to fund the creation of the Internet, and made it a joke.
Vint Cerf wrote this letter as a result:
- Comment on This Tiny Radio Lets Me Send Texts Without Wi-Fi or Cell Service 1 week ago:
You can’t expect me not to reinvent the wheel.
As we post on Lemmy, which is a reinvention of a reinvention of a reinvention of Usenet from 1979.
- Comment on Nvidia plans to boost presence in Israel with multibillion-dollar tech campus in north 1 week ago:
Some of Amd GPU work is in Israel.
- Comment on Nvidia plans to boost presence in Israel with multibillion-dollar tech campus in north 1 week ago:
And is already in Israel.
- Comment on The next time you hear someone say they're just vibing in life without a job, just look at this image. 1 week ago:
Cleaning up toxic waste at a single lake or river site
It wasn’t a single river and single lake. It was everywhere. There wasn’t a clean river, large lake or bay in the US. The examples I gave were only the most publicized.
The air in all cities, everywhere, was so polluted the moths evolved to be black.
ocean.si.edu/ocean-life/…/signs-recovering-harbor…!
…jhu.edu/…/baltimores-swimmable-harbor-movement#%….
californiasun.co/photos-when-l-a-smog-was-so-bad-…
We’re at 415 parts per million in CO2 concentrations. That’s orders of magnitude in difference, and the carbon that is already present will take multiple human lifetimes to be removed via natural means.
Unchecked CFC’s would have resulted in the sterilization of the entire planet. In the 1970’s pollution was at a level where all life was destroyed in many local ecologies. It wasn’t “It’s too hot here so native species died out and were replaced with desert species.” It was complete annihilation of all life in the area.
Global warming means a few billion die. It’s an extremely serious problem but we are improving.
- Comment on OpenAI Seeks Additional Capital From Investors as Part of Its $40 Billion Round 1 week ago:
You don’t necessarily need tech to monopolize an industry. Amazon is warehouses with delivery service.
- Comment on The next time you hear someone say they're just vibing in life without a job, just look at this image. 1 week ago:
Climate change isn’t the same as cleaning up litter?
I didn’t mention cleaning up litter at all! In fact I specifically said it wasn’t.
It’s on a global scale of gigatons of emissions,
I already mentioned CFC’s which required global cooperation on a scale never seen before.
This is bigger than anything in human history
Everything is bigger than anying human history because we have more people.
Stop fucking comparing it to cleaning up some fucking tires in a river.
WHAT THE FUCK? QUOTE ME.
- Comment on The next time you hear someone say they're just vibing in life without a job, just look at this image. 1 week ago:
Difference is that, those problems had relatively easier solution which was being worked on.
It required global cooperation to ban CFC’s and restore the ozone layer. It required destroying large corporations so the the rivers could be clean again. These things were done and can continue to be done.
This does not hold for global warming, we are not even trying!
Absolutely not true. 1.08 terawatts of power are solar in China. 1.6Terrawatts in US. 107.6 GW in Germany. France has always been Nuclear. Massive EV adoption in China and Europe.
it’s pathetic that you try to look at things rose-tinted
I grew up in the 1970’s when you couldn’t swim or fish in the rivers. The city was filthy, and not in today’s sanitized “oh there’s some trash”. Every surface in the city was covered in black grime. Moths in cities evolved into black variations because cities weren’t white concrete- they were black grime. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peppered_moth_evolution
Statues were crumbling from acid rain.
The world is so much cleaner than 50 years ago.
This is what has been done recently: Image Image
Past improvements don’t mean we need to stop!
- Comment on The Future is NOT Self-Hosted 1 week ago:
It would have to be a national mandate that is available in every city or everyone would use the free service from one city but not vote to raise the taxes in their city to pay for their own.
If it’s a national mandate, then might as well make it a national service.
- Comment on The Future is NOT Self-Hosted 1 week ago:
yhe power or water bill pointed at your name and residence
Many people live in cities without owning their house. So they never see those bills. Renters are usually two levels away from the actual owner. Then there are all the people who live and work in cities but aren’t official renters.
- Comment on The next time you hear someone say they're just vibing in life without a job, just look at this image. 1 week ago:
50 years ago most waterways in the US were so polluted as to be dead to wildlife. Cities buildings were black with pollution.
Global warming is actually minor compared to the immediate death people were facing decades ago. For example unchecked ozone depletion could have resulted in the destruction of all rice crops on Earth. An analogy that comes to mind is the Black Plague vs Covid. It’s not that Covid wasn’t (isn’t) a problem. And like Covid we are deploying modern technology to fix the problems. Solar is being installed everywhere. The US is going backwards temporarily. But the US isn’t the world. Europe and China are getting things done.
People who see the problems are the absolutely not the ones who should be killing themselves. They’re the only ones that can contribute to the future.
- Comment on The Future is NOT Self-Hosted 1 week ago:
That quickly becomes a tragedy of the commons. The city pays for it but how do you verify “citizenship”?
- Comment on OpenAI Seeks Additional Capital From Investors as Part of Its $40 Billion Round 1 week ago:
IPO after becoming a monopoly has been a thing for a while. Amazon ran negative revenue for an extremely long time to run all competition out of business.
- Comment on The next time you hear someone say they're just vibing in life without a job, just look at this image. 1 week ago:
Your premise is that it’s going to get a lot worse. But the past 50 years has been improving. It’s therefore reasonable to believe we will keep improving.
- Comment on The next time you hear someone say they're just vibing in life without a job, just look at this image. 1 week ago:
The Antarctic used to have a giant ozone hole. In the late 1960’s, Lake Erie was dead from pollution. The Cuyahoga River in Ohio was so polluted it caught fire. Rain was so acidic that statues in cities were dissolving.
Read history instead of following social media hype. Despite Trump turning back the clock a few years, the environment has improved dramatically over the past 50 years.
- Comment on Why do some companies like a utility put out ads? 1 week ago:
Are you sure there’s no competition? I’m aware that competition is allowed in my market but their marketshare is so tiny I doubt anyone knows it exists.
- Comment on Is it wrong that i would like to start a small 3d print business? 1 week ago:
I think there is plenty of room for a home print business.
YouTuber 3dpprofessor sent models he printed himself to Slandt3d to see if he could recommend them for his 3D print game when people are short of time to print their own parts. Skant3D knew it was him ordering and still sent garbage prints back.
So quality prints is something no one is doing except at ridiculous costs of the big name professional companies that charge hundreds per tiny print.
At the other end of simple prints I went to look for Multiboard panels because it’s taking me too long to make a wall on my own. Etsy users are charging $10 per small panel.