shortwavesurfer
@shortwavesurfer@lemmy.zip
- Comment on True Wireless Power is FINALLY here (building a TRULY wire-free desk setup) 2 days ago:
Math, since it has a 10 watt minimum power draw, that would mean it would use 7.5 kilowatts per month just to have it turned on. Now at least where I live, that’s $1.11 extra.
- Comment on This new 40TB hard drive from Seagate is just the beginning—50TB is coming fast! 4 days ago:
For my wallets
- Comment on This new 40TB hard drive from Seagate is just the beginning—50TB is coming fast! 4 days ago:
This is good to know. I might need to upgrade the storage for my Monero node.
- Comment on New fuel cell could enable electric aviation 5 days ago:
Um, hold up a second. That snippet of the article said that it produces something that’s commonly used as a drain cleaner. That does not sound safe. I don’t particularly go around breathing drain cleaner fumes.
- Comment on Meta shareholders overwhelmingly rejected a proposal to explore adding Bitcoin to the company's treasury, with less than 1% voting in favor of the measure 5 days ago:
Which is why they take the bribe in monero
- Comment on The value of the dollar is dropping. What does that mean for Americans and the world? 1 week ago:
Not all of crypto is a scam. I can think of three projects that I know are not. Monero, Ethereum, and Bitcoin. Monero and Bitcoin are both decentralized enough that the US government cannot shut them down or influence them and Ethereum is more of an app platform anyway.
- Comment on FBI Wants Access To Encrypted iPhone And Android Data—So Does Europe 1 week ago:
Want in one hand and shit in the other and see which one fills up first.
- Comment on Why 3D-Printing an Untraceable Ghost Gun Is Easier Than Ever (Podcast 18mins) 1 week ago:
Which is obviously why you buy them with Monero instead.
- Comment on The U.S. Just Ran a Solar Storm Emergency Drill. The Real Deal Would Be a Catastrophe 2 weeks ago:
The voltages involved are more likely to cause the transformers to explode rather than just tripping the breakers.
- Comment on The U.S. Just Ran a Solar Storm Emergency Drill. The Real Deal Would Be a Catastrophe 2 weeks ago:
During a normal power outage, you’re right. That does keep you isolated on your own island. But in a case like this, the voltage is likely to spike to incredibly high levels on wires that aren’t meant to carry it and cause arcing and possibly fires. That’s why you want to be physically disconnected.
- Comment on The U.S. Just Ran a Solar Storm Emergency Drill. The Real Deal Would Be a Catastrophe 2 weeks ago:
That’s known as a grid tie system and my edit mentions that. The only way it’s going to help is if the grid is physically disconnected from the building as in the wire is not connected to the building at any point.
- Comment on The U.S. Just Ran a Solar Storm Emergency Drill. The Real Deal Would Be a Catastrophe 2 weeks ago:
I’m glad this threat is at least starting to be taken seriously. As an amateur radio operator, I got incredibly interested in how the weather on the sun affects radio propagation and power management here on Earth.
Better a CME than an EMP just simply because there is at least some time to prepare for a massive CME. Whereas an EMP has absolutely no warning whatsoever.
In the event of a massive CME off-grid homes and buildings are likely to fare much better because they are not connected to the power grid. The problem comes with long transmission lines where incredibly large charge differentials can build up over distance. shorter wires can’t build up nearly the same amount of charge differential
- Comment on What does it mean to ‘accept’ or ‘reject’ all cookies, and which should I choose? 2 weeks ago:
If I’m given the option, I always choose to reject all. I don’t know if the company behind it actually sees that or not, but it makes me feel better anyway.
- Comment on Governments continue losing efforts to gain backdoor access to secure communications 3 weeks ago:
Lol, fair point. I suspect though that so many people would just ignore that as unlawful that they would have no way of possibly enforcing it.
- Comment on Moody's downgrades United States credit rating, citing growth in government debt 3 weeks ago:
I saw this coming and have been getting out of assets priced in US dollars for that exact reason.
- Comment on Governments continue losing efforts to gain backdoor access to secure communications 3 weeks ago:
If the law ever says that we are not allowed to have encryption, I am absolutely going to be one of the first ones going to jail because I’m not going to put up with that.
The way I see it is you can throw me in jail where you then have to feed me, give me proper climate control, give me a place to sleep, etc. all on your dime.
- Comment on The worst tech event ever: looking back at Google I/O 2024 3 weeks ago:
I started my de-googling journey and mostly completed it in 2019 and then ended up fully deleting my Google account in 2023. I still watched IO for the newest Android updates because of Lineage OS but other than that I wasn’t interested and last year’s IO was just total shit. If you are running base AOSP Android, it has not changed very much in several years.
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I’ve never used Gopher, but what do you think of Gemini?
- Comment on 13 Creepy Things Your Smartphone Knows About You 4 weeks ago:
Don’t use a major bank then. Use a smaller bank.
- 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? 4 weeks ago:
I honestly couldn’t agree more. From 2011 to about 2017, I was always distro hopping, trying out different things. And then for the longest time, I just stayed with Ubuntu. And now I’m like, you know what? I’m just gonna fucking use Linux Mint, because it just fucking works.
- Comment on Nowhere to Go When The Sky is the Limit 4 weeks ago:
It is really good to find that point where you’re just like, alright, that is good enough. I have done what I set out to do.
- Comment on 13 Creepy Things Your Smartphone Knows About You 4 weeks ago:
Access your bank through your web browser. And if your bank does not allow you access through your web browser, get a new bank. That’s what I did.
- Comment on 13 Creepy Things Your Smartphone Knows About You 5 weeks ago:
Using open source software on lineage OS or graphene OS with no Google Play services solves the vast majority of the problems brought up in this article. It doesn’t solve all of them, but it solves most of them.
- Comment on The Machine Fired - No human could do a thing about it! 5 weeks ago:
No idea. I know individual creators can mirror their own videos from YouTube over to AP or tube instance, but I don’t know of anything on mass.
- Comment on All four major web browsers are about to lose 80% of their funding | by Dan Fabulich | Apr, 2025 5 weeks ago:
Have a look at Gemini and the Gemini capsules. Seems more like what a browser should be, in my opinion.
- Comment on "You Wouldn’t Steal a Car”... But Would You Pirate a Font? 5 weeks ago:
Why exactly would I pirate a font? Sans Serif is like the only font that you need.
- Comment on The Machine Fired - No human could do a thing about it! 5 weeks ago:
I’ve been making an effort recently to replace all the YouTube channels I watch with peer tube channels. I haven’t been totally successful yet, but I’m getting there.
- Comment on Starbucks' new drive-thru in Texas is the coffee giant's first 3D printed store in the US 5 weeks ago:
Well, that’s unfortunate because they had the old building to get rid of. It would be cool to find out just how quickly it was able to be printed and everything so that we could figure out whether it would be shorter to print buildings that way. I would think it should be, but there’s an awfully large difference between should and reality.
- Comment on Starbucks' new drive-thru in Texas is the coffee giant's first 3D printed store in the US 5 weeks ago:
They didn’t say in the article just how long it took to build. If you are in the area, did you notice about how long it took to actually put the thing together and get it open?
- Comment on Google’s dominance on search is declining – for the first time ever! 5 weeks ago:
Ditched Google for DuckDuckGo in like 2019 and used that for a long time until Kagi came out and now I use that and I’m quite happy with it.