ExcessShiv
@ExcessShiv@lemmy.dbzer0.com
- Comment on [deleted] 2 days ago:
IMO the issue is not that OP shared a video, it’s that they shared a video from YouTube that’s the issue.
- Comment on Japanese Power Plant Turns Saltwater Into Electricity 2 days ago:
The upside is getting power from an otherwise waste-product. Yes it’s low output compared with traditional turbine-driven power plants, but that doesn’t mean in should be disregarded. Sure it’s not applicable everywhere, but neither is hydro or geothermal. After all, why not use the geography of your location to your benefit? Not everywhere needs to get power in the exact same way, and what’s most feasible is highly dependent on location.
- Comment on Japanese Power Plant Turns Saltwater Into Electricity 2 days ago:
It generates 880.000kWh/year, where I live that enough for 176 families (2 adults, 2 kids) with an average consumption in a house, and almost 350 in apartments. That’s not an insignificant amount IMO.
- Comment on The Browser Wasn’t Enough, Google Wants To Control All Your Software 3 days ago:
The answer is the same, very average.
- Comment on The Browser Wasn’t Enough, Google Wants To Control All Your Software 3 days ago:
Oh yes I forgot that pointing out the flaws in privacy-related things, so people who are interested in switching know what they’re potentially getting in to, is a big NoNo here…all hail the perfect FOSS which can do no wrong.
- Comment on The Browser Wasn’t Enough, Google Wants To Control All Your Software 3 days ago:
GrapheneOS is not worse than other custom ROMs, never said it was. it’s a mediocre experience best described with a “meh…” and a shrug.
- Comment on The Browser Wasn’t Enough, Google Wants To Control All Your Software 3 days ago:
It’s very “meh…” with the added benefit of several (non-google) apps not working. I choose to live with this inconvenience, but it still bothers me that my smartphone is significantly less useful with grapheneOS in my daily life.
- Comment on The entire Social Security database was uploaded on a random cloud server, Whistle-Blower Says 5 days ago:
You should put a little star next to the tag
- Comment on OpenMower: Let's upgrade cheap off-the-shelf robotic mowers to modern, smart RTK GPS based lawn mowing robots! 1 week ago:
No…NPR is National Public Radio, its the broadcasting organization, not a show.
- Comment on OpenMower: Let's upgrade cheap off-the-shelf robotic mowers to modern, smart RTK GPS based lawn mowing robots! 1 week ago:
This probably wouldn’t be something that you as a person is running the HW for, so you have no direct expense to HW or maintenance. This would likely be government driven and paid through taxes. Its basically just NPR, but with low bandwidth internet instead.
- Comment on The Looming Social Crisis of AI Friends and Chatbot Therapists 1 week ago:
A rusty and filthy clanker
- Comment on Microsoft workers occupy HQ in protest against company’s ties to Israeli military 1 week ago:
Yes very sad. It is terrifying that this is also somewhat necessary in countries where they tout “free speech” as a core value.
- Comment on Microsoft workers occupy HQ in protest against company’s ties to Israeli military 1 week ago:
Use of the Palestinian flag is censored and targeted, so people replace it with a watermelon with the same color scheme to still show support but with a symbol that they can’t really censor.
- Comment on Mozilla warns Germany could soon declare ad blockers illegal 1 week ago:
Not just capitalism, under any system…this is a people problem that exists within all ideologies.
- Comment on Mozilla warns Germany could soon declare ad blockers illegal 1 week ago:
It’s not capitalism, it would happen under any system. It’s caused by psychotic power hungry narcissists willing to do anything to stay in control…you know, the type of people willing to do anything to obtain power in the first place. It is the bane of society, only the people who are unfit to have the power are the ones who seek it.
- Comment on Sweden’s most powerful laser delivers record-short light pulses 2 weeks ago:
The custom-built laser system, called the Light Wave Synthesizer 100
Man they really missed the mark with the name…you always use numbers in the thousands! Light Wave Synthesizer 3000 sound so much cooler
- Comment on 2 weeks ago:
Wouldn’t it be even cheaper to design the next version modularly and interchangeable?
The extra labor to manage more components and check/verify each single vehicle fits it’s unique specs would eat up the saving really fast. It’s so much easier to do a single HW config and manage it through SW, and electronic components are generally cheap.
- Comment on So Long to Tech's Dream Job: It’s the shut up and grind era, tech workers said, as Apple, Google, Meta and other giants age into large bureaucracies. 2 weeks ago:
Just be prepared to integrate with 40 year old equipment and add new features in to a PLC that should have been decommissioned a decade ago and the program is a mangled Frankenstein piece of shit made by 50 different people, many with no real understanding of programming or how to structure things…oh, and various “temporary” hacks upon hacks to keep production running with minimal downtime.
- Comment on This website is for humans 2 weeks ago:
The number series changes with every refresh…I’m intrigued
- Comment on Pebble Time 2 Design Reveal 2 weeks ago:
If you never had issues, why do you have that many?
- Comment on UK government suggests deleting files to save water 2 weeks ago:
Good for you, that’s not the norm though and you know that.
- Comment on UK government suggests deleting files to save water 2 weeks ago:
Which is why I mentioned limiting it to data centers as an option
- Comment on UK government suggests deleting files to save water 2 weeks ago:
Most people save these thing in some sort of cloud storage solution.
- Comment on UK government suggests deleting files to save water 2 weeks ago:
A small data center has been estimated to use upwards of 25 million liters of water per year if it relies on old-school cooling methods that allow water to evaporate.
So pass a law banning evaporative cooling systems from all industrial and commercial applications, give them 6 months to comply and start handing out fines every day past the deadline.
- Comment on YouTube just quietly blocked Adblock Plus — the internet hasn't noticed yet, but I've found a workaround 2 weeks ago:
Sure, if paying them ment that they also didn’t data mine the shit out of you and sold it to 3rd parties…but no they insist on double-dipping so they can get fucked.
- Comment on Tesla applies to supply electricity to households in Great Britain 3 weeks ago:
They’d have to call it “Not tesla”
“Cyber Power” it is then
- Comment on Can I build a fully decentralised website? 3 weeks ago:
But also fairly dead according to the description
- Comment on Router suggestions for a complete noob 3 weeks ago:
What WAPs are you using?
- Comment on Router suggestions for a complete noob 3 weeks ago:
I’m looking for a new router and some APs as well, and this one seems to offer what I want at a somewhat decent price point…but good lord that thing is seriously ugly, everything about it is just terrible.
- Comment on Looking for suggestions: Task scheduler ideally with reminders 3 weeks ago:
I use an app called Everyday Tasks, it’s just local on my phone, no need for hosting anything.