CompactFlax
@CompactFlax@discuss.tchncs.de
- Comment on What's brewing in May? 10 hours ago:
Someday I’m gonna do a spruce tip Sahti but I missed the window. I’ve been busy, and I’ve got a backlog of beer. Either it’s too much or too little somehow.
- Comment on Why aren't Americans filling the manufacturing jobs we already have? 2 days ago:
I think some of lionization may have roots in the need to recognize and legitimize those professions as a prerequisite for unionization, and to recognize post hoc the men and women who struggled to unionize and get respect in the form of reasonable working conditions and pay.
Coal mining has almost never been enough to support a family, though it was regular work. Regular work is a thing of the past in Appalachia.
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- Comment on Why is coal and fossil fuels still used? 3 days ago:
I recently set up some solar panels. Turned them on very close to noon. Well, look at that! So much power! Four hours later, i was getting 10 percent of that number.
I know that solar power levels change throughout the day. But when it’s put into concrete terms like “I can run my refrigerator on this … oh, only for 2 hours a day” it helped me really understand.
So to answer your question - we use fossil fuels in the grid to as a disposable battery to handle changes in demand and times when renewables aren’t available.
As for EVs - many train routes aren’t electrified. EV trucks are impractical for long-haul, and the infrastructure is nowhere to be seen. Even in EV friendly areas, it’s hard to find a charger that is easy to reach with a heavy-haul truck. That’s before we talk about whether there’s trucks to drive, and the cost of the truck. For individuals, an EV is simply beyond the finances of many people. Road trips are an edge case, but some people travel a lot for work and can’t afford to stop every 3 hrs for 30-60 min, if the charger is available, and twice as often in winter.
- Comment on Tesla bait-and-switch: Cybertruck owners won't get Autosteer feature they paid for 1 week ago:
Is that the same lane-keeping that Full-Self-Drives into concrete barriers? cnn.com/…/tesla-trial-wrongful-death-walter-huang
- Comment on Tesla bait-and-switch: Cybertruck owners won't get Autosteer feature they paid for 1 week ago:
I don’t think they can, because they’re suffering so much from the rectal-cranial inversion that Musk started with his FSD.
Muskrat insists on using computer vision entirely, and building it in-house. Tesla (probably EM) as I recall also insulted MobilEye so they refuse to do business with them. Mind you, I think lane keeping is generally a computer vision problem.
- Comment on Tesla bait-and-switch: Cybertruck owners won't get Autosteer feature they paid for 1 week ago:
It’s absolutely pitiful that they can’t figure out lane-keeping when a cars a fraction of the price have it.
It’s also a huge red flag that they are shipping “self driving” but can’t do lane keep assist.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
I didn’t say “teach the kids to count calories”. I said “teach the kids to understand where the calories come from”. It needs to be a constructive conversation about, like you said, diversifying the food they eat and fuelling their bodies appropriately. Understanding things like when iced coffees have the calories of a cheeseburger.
There’s certainly a lot of psychological factors that go into deciding whether a client can handle calorie counting, but refusing to provide this information as part of a nutrition class enables charlatans to take advantage of ignorance, leading down a path of repeated failure.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
I understand your point and I think it’s a difficult subject to navigate with teens. Science-based education is important to offset misinformation .
I think it’s tremendously valuable to understand what macros and calories mean, and where they come from in the diet. There’s a global obesity epidemic and there’s significant incentives for people in the health/fitness/weight management industry to muddy the waters with crash, fad, or various unhealthy diets, “cleanses”, and “supplements”. And that’s before we get to the food product industry of Nestle et al.
- Comment on If it's good enough to keep your house warm, it's good enough to keep your insides warm 1 week ago:
Ugh, I resemble this comment. I need to wear more PPE around the house.
- Comment on Farmers are making bank harvesting a new crop: Solar energy 1 week ago:
Honestly this is probably a better use of the land than growing lettuce in a freaking desert.
- Comment on Jellyfin / Remote Access Help (windows) 1 week ago:
Jellyfin has a pile of security issues regarding unauthenticated enumeration of the media that’s shared. That’s probably not awesome on the public internet. 
I’d suggest setting up Tailscale. github.com/jellyfin/jellyfin/issues/5415
- Comment on Seriously Jesus, who was doing that for that to be added 😭 2 weeks ago:
Milk-braised veal is a thing; perhaps it is tasty.
- Comment on Duolingo said it just doubled its language courses thanks to AI 2 weeks ago:
I am not a biscuit.
The owl has a menu. I do not have a menu.
How much worse can it get?
- Comment on List of Alternatives to Adobe Programs 2 weeks ago:
I’m no layout expert, but I did do some desktop publishing about 15 years ago 10 min in Scribus had me tearing my hair out. Installed InDesign and, while it’s still not easy to catch up on the modern capabilities, it’s not there yet.
GIMP is just fine for casuals. It’s not close for professionals.
Truthfully I think that one major issue with open source programs that don’t have corporate involvement is that people who are great at code don’t always have the same skill in UI/UX. However, with support and a larger community, great things can happen. The barrier is getting that adoption level. If more people casually use the product and contribute financially or in code, it will help tremendously.
- Comment on Even the U.S. Government Says AI Requires Massive Amounts of Water 2 weeks ago:
Evaporative cooling.
- Comment on Even the U.S. Government Says AI Requires Massive Amounts of Water 3 weeks ago:
Generally true and that’s why I often read these articles scratching my head. Make them closed loop! They almost always use chillers…
Water use becomes a concern if the water is moved too far and/or too fast like your Sahara example.
- Comment on Windows 10 LTSC – the version that won't expire for years 3 weeks ago:
I see your point but the correct answer is to install current branch. If you want pain and suffering, skip the appetizer and go straight to Linux.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
It can be disabled.
You need the PIN.
You’ll also need to leave the Apple Family.
- Comment on Windows 10 LTSC – the version that won't expire for years 3 weeks ago:
Simply, because Microsoft says so. The amount of “omg micro$oft is such garbage” more professional versions of that that can be attributed to not RTFM is fairly significant. It’s interesting how much effort people will put in to making a OSS project work, and give up fairly quickly in Windows land. Merely an observation; all respect to those who daily drive on Linux (and to be fair it’s been quite a few years since I tried).
More specifically, you can run into driver and software issues both inside and outside of the Microsoft space. The “Feature Updates” that are put out do include a fair bit under the hood sometimes and you miss that. Less likely in the personal use space, but quite significant in the business space. When the IT curmudgeon deploys LTSC across 1500 devices and 2 years later needs to implement a newer capability, it’s a hell of a lot of work.
Your use case is realistically the intended use case, outside of industrial equipment/embedded systems. You’re using WINE for most stuff and poke your head into Windows occasionally.
- Comment on Windows 10 LTSC – the version that won't expire for years 3 weeks ago:
LTSC is supported, yes, but it’s an edge case not intended for desktop (or most server) applications.
If you don’t want to move to 11, install a flavour of Linux. Don’t run LTSC.
- Comment on Help setting up fail2ban for jellyfin both in docker? 3 weeks ago:
Thanks for sharing; I was unaware. Just closed off that network hole.
- Comment on Do you hate French people too? If so, why? 3 weeks ago:
Cheese-eating surrender-monkeys, the lot of them!
But don’t impugn Captain Picard.
- Comment on Apple to Analyze User Data on Devices to Bolster AI Technology. 4 weeks ago:
I guess you didn’t see the several points in the article where they make it clear that it is “opt in”?
I do look forward for the bursting of the LLM bubble, but the article isn’t just about LLM.
- Comment on Even his doctors are full of it 4 weeks ago:
There’s no way he’s 100kg.
- Comment on Apple to Analyze User Data on Devices to Bolster AI Technology. 4 weeks ago:
Ben Thompson has been saying that they need to collect user data (like google) for a decade.
It seems the botched Apple Intelligence release changed some minds, a little bit.
- Comment on Commerce Secretary Lutnick says tariff exemptions for electronics are only temporary: Lutnick said "semiconductor tariffs" will likely come in "a month or two.". 4 weeks ago:
This makes sense. Give the companies like Apple and nvidia time to set up some local factories. How long could it take to acquire land, set up a chip foundry, and train up staff? 90 days?
- Comment on FTTH upgrade - getting my LAN multi gig ready 4 weeks ago:
To be pedantic, there is no 6e. Just 6A. I am looking at a spool labelled 6e as I type this, but that’s just a manufacturer thing, not an actual spec.
- Comment on Smartphones and computers are now exempt from Trump’s latest tariffs. 4 weeks ago:
$AAPL stonk go up.
- Comment on [deleted] 5 weeks ago:
The 1 year chart puts it in perspective. DJIA 1 year chart
