BarbecueCowboy
@BarbecueCowboy@lemmy.world
- Comment on Work from home 18 hours ago:
That’s a fair point. Microsoft says that they don’t… but, not that they can’t. It’s especially tricky on iOS.
- Comment on Phone calls still assume the people on the receiving end are attached to a desk. 2 days ago:
This makes me irrationally angry because whenever I hear this, putting the time it took to ask would have been enough time to just type up a few sentences in an email that would explain everything everyone needed to know and then we’ve also got it in an easily searchable format so we can reference it later if needed.
I may be a little bitter.
- Comment on Shopping app Temu is “dangerous malware,” spying on your texts, lawsuit claims 3 days ago:
The ‘But, everyone is a bit evil’ argument is such bullshit, the concern here is obviously the extent of the surveillance, but no one can say you’re entirely wrong because the definition of that is so broad.
It’s kind of technical, but there are comparisons on the report itself, even a fancy table, to other popular shopping apps and there are some legitimately troubling items.
- Comment on Ironing 5 days ago:
If I have to choose between keeping nature around and not having to buy an iron again, is gonna be a tough choice.
- Comment on "Plus-Sized Elf" Character Elfuda Named Ambassador for the Japan French Fries Association - Collaboration Visual 1 week ago:
They’re in the top 10 for the lowest obesity rate worldwide. An overweight person isn’t someone with a problem there, it’s just someone who knows their food.
- Comment on Five Men Convicted of Operating Massive, Illegal Streaming Service That Allegedly Had More Content Than Netflix, Hulu, Vudu and Prime Video Combined 1 week ago:
Plex operates a service on their end that mostly covers you if you fuck up the network routing. It’s probably the least user friendly part of the setup, so kind of a big deal.
- Comment on Five Men Convicted of Operating Massive, Illegal Streaming Service That Allegedly Had More Content Than Netflix, Hulu, Vudu and Prime Video Combined 1 week ago:
There are resellers in the US who will set you up with the infrastructure to do it yourself. You don’t need much and it’s less expensive than you’d think, almost turnkey.
- Comment on Five Men Convicted of Operating Massive, Illegal Streaming Service That Allegedly Had More Content Than Netflix, Hulu, Vudu and Prime Video Combined 1 week ago:
You might be overestimating how much content that was. Streaming services try to maintain an illusion of neverending content but last I saw except for prime, the amount of content they offer has been trending down.
Those numbers are fairly accessible for an average person with 3 or 4 large hard drives.
- Comment on I Will Fucking Piledrive You If You Mention AI Again — Ludicity 1 week ago:
Honestly, I use it because it does a better job, the items it adds to the Job descriptions usually actually exist.
- Comment on I Will Fucking Piledrive You If You Mention AI Again — Ludicity 1 week ago:
It’s consistently pretty good for writing items with low technical importance and minimal need for accuracy.
I’ll never write a job description myself again and my need for getting with communications for mass correspondence is almost gone.
- Comment on Share your special interest with anyone who will listen 1 week ago:
But yes, what kind of unit is this?
How lifelong friendships are made.
- Comment on EUROBEE 2 weeks ago:
That brings up an interesting point, they’ve been here 400 years, at one point does something stop being classified as invasive?
If we say never, then the term invasive kind of loses all meaning, but I wonder where the logical cutoff might be.
- Comment on YouTube offers virtual trophies so you can feel bad about quitting premium 5 weeks ago:
These badges look like someone at Google decided to copy the system from Google Maps / Local Guides in some cases verbatim and it’s just odd, you can tell the idea wasn’t designed for Youtube.
This is also your regular reminder that if you’re avoiding Youtube Premium because it’s too expensive for what it offers instead of just avoiding it completely on principle, then you might look into subscribing using a VPN in a country where it’s cheaper (Usually considerably cheaper).
- Comment on Netris is an open-source cloud gaming platform with Stadia-like features using Proton 5 weeks ago:
I don’t know that we’re bitching per se, just kind of a weird choice. It’s like they went to Popeye’s and tried to order a salad, it’s just like yeah, the ingredients are technically there, but why?
- Comment on Texas power prices briefly soar 1,600% as a spring heat wave is expected to drive record demand for energy 5 weeks ago:
This does bring up kind of an interesting question for me at least.
I would expect that a significant contributor to the surge prices is from HVAC units and similar needing to work harder/etc. My brain also feels like solar panels are likely to work better when it’s warmer, but I realize that I don’t have any proof of that or know how that would work beyond ‘when hot, feels like more sun rays, more sun rays good for solar?’.
On to the question, do solar panels work better in warmer temperatures and does output of solar panels scale anywhere close to comparatively with ambient temperature and/or need for HVAC and similar systems?