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- Comment on 6 hours ago:
These are called “storage heaters”. They’re still available. www.which.co.uk/…/storage-heaters-aokoz3G2Em9L
- Comment on 6 hours ago:
Most homes here are heated with gas - ours is.
So electricity doesn’t factor in to heating (other than a tiny amount for controlling the boiler and thermostat).
- Comment on 6 hours ago:
I’m sorry you didn’t read my article. If you had, you would have seen me say…
Remember, this is just a bit of fun. There’s no practical way to build domestic batteries with this capacity using the technology of 2025.
And
Is this sensible? Probably not, no.
And
remember, this is an exercise in wishful thinking.
At no point did I say it was a reasonable idea. I went out of my way to demonstrate how impractical it was.
I accept your admission that you didn’t read my post means you are stupid rather than evil etc.
- Comment on 7 hours ago:
(OP here) Typically, UK homes don’t use HVAC.
I’ve had a few EVs, but moved somewhere with electric buses instead.
- Comment on 7 hours ago:
(OP here) Sorry mate, are you accusing me of being in the pocket of Big Oil? Here’s everything I’ve written about solar over the last decade - shkspr.mobi/blog/tag/solar/ - feel free to point out where I’ve said “yay fossil fuels!”
I didn’t include AC because that’s not a thing in the UK.
Oh, and I don’t use electricity for primary heating. Solar thermal is pretty useless in my part of the world because you don’t need much hot water in summer (mmmm! Cold showers!)
As I said in my post, this is a purely theoretical discussion about what future technology might look like. Your argument is like someone from 2001 going “a recordable CD can hold 650MB - so you only need two for a really long car trip. There’s no way people in the future will have 1TB hard drives! For anything else, just use AM radio.”
Basically, one of us is braindead - and I’m not so sure it is me!
- Comment on 7 hours ago:
The secret ingredient is gravity!
- Comment on 7 hours ago:
Not really. As I say in my article, our roof is full. On a bad day in winter, we might generate 0.5kWh (assuming the panels aren’t covered in snow). So we’d need 20x the panels - there’s no room for that.
- Comment on 14 hours ago:
1 Watt is the equivalent of moving 1Kg 1 metre in 1 second.
If you want a kilowatt - you need to move 1,000Kg 1 metre in 1 second. Or, I guess, 1Kg a Km.
Plug the numbers together and you’ll see that you need a massive physical load and a huge distance in order to store a useful amount of energy.
- Comment on 15 hours ago:
I’m pro-nuclear energy in theory. But I’ve got to ask - where do you get them spicy rocks from? Do you have to dig them up from a mine? Do they regularly replenish themselves? Does the energy generation have to be constantly checked for pollution leaks?
OK, they may not literally be fossilised bio-matter - but the end result is pretty much the same. Scar the landscape as you dig, release pollutants as you refine, hope you don’t run out of material, make sure someone else pays to clean up the mess.
- Comment on 23 hours ago:
(Author here) Yes, this is how it works in the UK. I sell my excess electricity back to the grid. The selling price is a bit smaller than the buying price.
- Comment on 23 hours ago:
(Author here) As I say in my post, our roof is full. We have 16x 320 Watt panels - 8 on each side of the roof.
- Comment on I bought a £16 smartwatch just because it used USB-C 1 month ago:
On Android you can designate certain notifications to be high priority.
Or, in GB, on the notifications app list you can click the cog next to an app and use those filters. I haven’t played much with it yet though.
- Comment on I bought a £16 smartwatch just because it used USB-C 1 month ago:
It doesn’t have storage or a headphone port. But it will stream music over Bluetooth. So if you want to annoy everyone you job with, you can listen to its tinny speaker :-)
- Comment on I bought a £16 smartwatch just because it used USB-C 1 month ago:
Yeah. GadgetBridge allows me to set up an allow-list / block-list for notifications. So I can get SMS on my wrist but ignore social media pings.
- Comment on I bought a £16 smartwatch just because it used USB-C 1 month ago:
It has a small rubber lug - which has worked so far at keeping out the grime. But I don’t have a manual labour job.
- Comment on I bought a £16 smartwatch just because it used USB-C 1 month ago:
Get something which works with GadgetBridge. You’ll be in complete control.
- Comment on I bought a £16 smartwatch just because it used USB-C 1 month ago:
Thank you 😄
I wrote about it at shkspr.mobi/…/graphing-the-connections-between-my…
- Comment on I bought a £16 smartwatch just because it used USB-C 1 month ago:
Happy to say the latest nightly does support notifications. My wrist is buzzing with action!
- Comment on I bought a £16 smartwatch just because it used USB-C 1 month ago:
I’m the author. I’ve now set up notifications on the advice of just about everyone. It’s pretty cool!
- Submitted 1 month ago to technology@lemmy.world | 128 comments
- Comment on Asking for suggestions on managing media 1 month ago:
OK, but why do you care about uniformity? If it’s just some OCD-adjacent urge - that’s fine; do what makes you happy.
But from a technical point of view, VLC will play back no matter what the codec and compression level.
- Comment on Asking for suggestions on managing media 1 month ago:
The question is why do you want to convert them?
If you use something like JellyFin as your media server and client, it will transcode them as you watch them. If you’re on your phone using crappy WiFi, it will adapt the bitrate down automatically. If you’re at home using a projector connected by Ethernet, you’ll get the original file.
If you think you’re running out of space, it’s often easier and cheaper to buy more HDDs. H265 and modern audio codec will save you a maximum of 50%. For about £200 you can get a 15TB HDD.
- Comment on 1 month ago:
Pros? It is cheap, it uses USB-C, step counter and heart monitor work, bluetooth calls work.
Cons? App is a bit crap, but works with GadgetBridge. UI is a bit slow and janky. Lots of watch faces but you can’t design your own.
Full review on my blog later today.
- Comment on 1 month ago:
I’m not discounting the negatives - I’m saying it is possible and feasible.
As I point out in the article, the Pixel watch is now on its third charging format. None of which seem to be compatible with Apple or Samsung.
There are also compromises with the pogo-pin connector. You can’t charge while wearing it. You have to bring along another cable. Bits of metal can be attracted to the magnets and cause mechanical or electrical damage.
- Comment on 1 month ago:
I don’t know if you looked at the photo in my post - but there’s a rubber flap covering the USB-port.
- Comment on 1 month ago:
And yet, I literally have one on my wrist now. It’s not noticeably bigger than the Pixel 3 watch.
Here’s a video of it in action - tube.tchncs.de/w/vYTnG6eKghnicdNj5nkhVx
- Comment on 1 month ago:
I agree with all this. The thing which caused me to uninstall was suddenly being pushed lots of abusive message with disturbing contents.
When I complained about it, Matrix told me that my public complaints were hurting the ecosystem and I should be quiet.