el_abuelo
@el_abuelo@programming.dev
- Comment on Post your setup. no matter how uggo 2 days ago:
I have a pi4 and been very happy with the dimensions and low power usage. What could I get for the same price and power use?
Genuine question. Im looking at a pi5 right now.
- Comment on Post your setup. no matter how uggo 2 days ago:
Care to elaborate? What’s wrong with “hosting” on a rpi?
- Comment on Anon questions our energy sector 4 days ago:
Exactly, bad PR.
Waste isn’t actually much of a problem - it’s just been portrayed as one.
- Comment on Anon questions our energy sector 4 days ago:
Funny how people think waste is why we don’t use nuclear power.
You noticed how we’re all fine breathing in poison and carcinogens? Still haven’t banned burning fossil fuels.
It’s a money problem and a PR problem
- Comment on The Great Migration to Bluesky Gives Me Hope for the Future of the Internet 5 days ago:
Yeah, what’s stopping the richest guy in the world just buying blue-sky as well?
- Comment on Optimisation is a Slow Process 1 week ago:
Maybe I’m misreading your tone, but I’m not trying to argue with you - I’m genuinely curious about this and if you have superior knowledge I’m open!
My understanding from a quick skim of Wikipedia citations suggests we understand what’s involved (particles and receptors) but the actual mechanism around encoding of signals seems to be theory.
We also can’t teach a computer to think, but we still have quite a good idea of how it works.
- Comment on Optimisation is a Slow Process 1 week ago:
Science shit?
I dont know…but I wouldn’t say that’s a good reason to doubt it, for example I don’t know how they proved black holes exist but they seem pretty confident.
- Comment on Optimisation is a Slow Process 1 week ago:
That’s how they kill the germs…very clever really.
- Comment on Optimisation is a Slow Process 1 week ago:
Isn’t smell just particulate matter hitting receptors not dissimilar to how taste receptors send taste signals to the brain? I thought science had this stuff nailed down now?
- Comment on You have a bad friend if he isn't willing to help you bury a dead body or if he is willing to help you. 3 weeks ago:
Must every use of a singular pronoun be called out? This isn’t offensive, it’s slip of the tongue. Get out your own arse and give people a break.
- Comment on I'll share a troubling fact with you if you share one with me 3 weeks ago:
Every day is a school day! Thanks
- Comment on I'll share a troubling fact with you if you share one with me 3 weeks ago:
Wtf is smegma
- Comment on New largest prime number discovered by former Nvidia software engineer 4 weeks ago:
I wouldn’t bother arguing with this person. They’re either trolling or intentionally ignorant - either way, you will lose to their vast experience.
- Comment on New largest prime number discovered by former Nvidia software engineer 4 weeks ago:
Is this Poe’s law? I genuinely thought this was satire but the downvotes and responses are very serious!
- Comment on Syncthing Android app discontinued 4 weeks ago:
That’s a bugger! Maybe report it as an issue on their github so you can track when it’s fixed?
- Comment on Internet Archive breached again through stolen access tokens 4 weeks ago:
Interesting, thanks
- Comment on Internet Archive breached again through stolen access tokens 4 weeks ago:
I wonder if someone can come up with some kind of distributed storage that isn’t insanely slow. Kinda like a CDN but on personal devices. I’m thinking like SETI@HOME did with distributed compute.
- Comment on Syncthing Android app discontinued 4 weeks ago:
Never used GrapheneOS. Did it export and import okay? Looks like not.
- Comment on Syncthing Android app discontinued 4 weeks ago:
Yes
- Comment on Syncthing Android app discontinued 4 weeks ago:
Yes you can. I just did it without any issues.
- Comment on Syncthing Android app discontinued 4 weeks ago:
I just installed syncthing-fork from f-droid and it worked flawlessly as far as I can tell:
- “Export” in syncthing
- Uninstall syncthing
- Install syncthing-fork from f-droid
- Import in syncthing-fork
- Comment on Ukraine graphics is crazy 4 weeks ago:
WTF is jock itch!?
- Comment on Ukraine graphics is crazy 4 weeks ago:
Have some respect. He had to get his pants on first.
- Comment on Explains a lot... 5 weeks ago:
The time taken to traverse is less than the time taken to suffocate. That’d be my guess.
- Comment on Beware Hollywood’s digital demolition: it’s as if your favourite films and TV shows never existed 1 month ago:
I wish this worked, but it only does for things that are popular.
As it stands I think I’m just going to have to back up my entire media collection for fear of not being able to get a copy during retirement - when I plan to watch a shit tonne of TV.
- Comment on What's that light? 1 month ago:
I think that’s fair. Comets don’t appear to move across the sky unless you’re observing for a long time…and anyone observing for that long needs a more complex diagram.
- Comment on End nuclear fusion! 1 month ago:
Yes. Yes it was.
- Comment on End nuclear fusion! 1 month ago:
Ah very interesting, and yes theoretically I believe. Some people are experimenting with other gases due to the price and low availability of Helium.
Rebreathers are becoming a lot more accessible these days and so are making dives much cheaper, but they’re still $20k so it takes a while to recoup the cost.
- Comment on End nuclear fusion! 1 month ago:
At a stretch perhaps, but it’s more recreational - I liken it to going to visit a castle, or going on a safari…just underwater!
- Comment on End nuclear fusion! 1 month ago:
Most welcome! I can talk endlessly about diving so welcome the question.
I added an edit with some more information incase you’re more curious.