CucumberFetish
@CucumberFetish@lemm.ee
- Comment on The Magic Keyboard and Mouse now use USB-C! 3 weeks ago:
Logitech m330 with a single AA Ni-MH battery. Have been using the same battery for the last 4 months, wondering when will it die.
I also have a smart charger for the batteries, so I can just keep them in there without the risk of damaging the batteries. The moment the battery dies, I’ll just take another one and swap it quicker than it would take me to find a usb-c charger.
- Comment on After 16 years, Ecobee is shutting down support for the original smart thermostat 6 months ago:
If you have a home office or someone is at home 24/7, then yes. Otherwise it would make sense to reduce the heating/cooling of the house when no one is home and setting the correct temp again when people are about to get back. Saves quite a few bucks.
- Comment on After 16 years, Ecobee is shutting down support for the original smart thermostat 6 months ago:
Wtf is a smart scale?
- Comment on USB hubs, printers, Java, and more seemingly broken by macOS 14.4 update 8 months ago:
What I meant by “turned pink” is that the display showed only bright pink color and the mac display had a single corrupted line of pixels on it.
- Comment on USB hubs, printers, Java, and more seemingly broken by macOS 14.4 update 8 months ago:
Yup. Yesterday my mac turned my external display pink. The monitor was connected directly to the HDMI socket on the M1.
Tell me a more iconic duo than external devices and a panicking mac.
- Comment on Pornhub shuts down in Texas... and predictably, VPNs benefit 8 months ago:
I mean, it is?
- Comment on [deleted] 8 months ago:
I hope all Erasmus trips in the next year are funded by Apple
- Comment on Killer drones pioneered in Ukraine are the weapons of the future 8 months ago:
Inertial guidance sucks balls for any meaningful amount of time. Combining it with ground tracking gets it a lot better, if you have good time of flight sensors to measure the distance from the ground. But this also falls flat on its face when the ground is too uniform (grassland, wetland, snow etc).
- Comment on Sustaining Proton’s mission over time | Proton 9 months ago:
Keeping a simple nas alive, with automated backups from linux + windows based machines with proper authentication already sometimes feels like a second job. Hosting all of your own services is way more effort than people realise
- Comment on Sustaining Proton’s mission over time | Proton 9 months ago:
What I love about them is that recently they had more people buying their password manager, than they planned for. This reduced the cost per user for them.
Instead of pocketing all of the profit gained from it, they sent out an email to all of their paid users, to let them know that they can now update their subscription for a discount.
- Comment on Mozilla CEO quits, org pivots, but what about Firefox? 9 months ago:
Ah, seems like it works now, it has been a while since I’ve used it. But it still doesn’t have an option for moving the url bar to the bottom of the screen and blocking trackers.
- Comment on Mozilla CEO quits, org pivots, but what about Firefox? 9 months ago:
There are features, like swiping the url bar to switch tabs, that are missing on the pre installed Chrome, but the firefox has them. Chrome has nothing to offer over firefox, besides your data collection
- Comment on Apple’s Vision Pro battery pack is hiding the final boss of Lightning cables 9 months ago:
On buying their bs
- Comment on Apple’s Vision Pro battery pack is hiding the final boss of Lightning cables 9 months ago:
That’s… not how it works.
- Comment on Japan's lunar lander is dying before our eyes after setting down on Moon 10 months ago:
Amen
- Comment on The Self-Checkout Nightmare May Finally Be Ending 10 months ago:
Self checkout should have those mobile scanners that you can use to check items out while you’re still shopping. We have them here and it is a godsend for larger purchases. You scan the items, put in your bags and at the self checkout, you can just register your card and pay.
- Comment on A tiny radioactive battery could keep your future phone running for 50 years 10 months ago:
The batteries are already connected to a “heatsink” in the phones we use now. Fast charging can be as lossy as 86% for lithium ion batteries qt very high charge rates, so the 60w fast charging will dissipate more than 6w of heat already.
- Comment on Betavolt's miniature battery could spell the end of smartphone chargers 10 months ago:
Also, the thickness of the phone:
The power density is about 0.01125m³ per watt. A high end smartphone (snapdragon 8 gen 3 uses 11w of peak power) with a body size similar to Galaxy s23 ultra, would be almost 10 meters thick.
- Comment on Betavolt's miniature battery could spell the end of smartphone chargers 10 months ago:
Yes. After a few centuries it will be harmless.
- Comment on Betavolt's miniature battery could spell the end of smartphone chargers 10 months ago:
Too many of those floating around. Another gem I stumbled upon was power consumption of 4.7 watts per watt.
- Comment on A tiny radioactive battery could keep your future phone running for 50 years 10 months ago:
They do, if you give them enough room. And if you are born into an oil family.
The power density is about 0.01125m³ per watt. A high end smartphone (11w of peak power) with a display size similar to Galaxy s23 ultra, would be almost 10 meters thick.
- Comment on A tiny radioactive battery could keep your future phone running for 50 years 10 months ago:
The issue is not the radioactivity, it’s the power density. Per the article, this is ~24x smaller than an average phone battery, but can supply only 100uW.
I have a relatively conservative phone use, and on average, my phone uses 450mW. That means that you’d need 4500 of those batteries in your phone. But the battery would also need to cover the power usage peaks, which are multiple times higher than the average power consumption.
- Comment on A gel injected into the scrotum could be the next male contraceptive 10 months ago:
Under proper storage, sperm will last indefinitely. At least based on what sperm banks say