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- Comment on NAS Power Consumption 1 week ago:
Some local libraries (e.g. in Heidelberg) or ecological initiatives lend devices to measure electricity consumption at the power plug. In particular, this is useful to measure other appliances as well.
Specifically for computers, they probably have some means that tell you their own consumption, but they may not be accurate or complete and will most certainly omit any peripherals, e.g. external hard drives.
- Comment on YSK about SomaFM, an independant non-commercial internet radio with really nice and diverse curated channels 2 weeks ago:
For a simple distraction-free control via Linux’s command line, you can install mpg123 and add the following to your ~/.bashrc or ~/.zshrc:
function soma() { mpg123 -@ http://somafm.com/nossl/$@.pls; } alias somaoff="kill $(pgrep mpg123)"
Then from your console:
# Tune into station "Lush" soma lush # Turn Soma off somaoff
The specific station names to enter after
somaare the ones in the URL of each station’s webpage, e.g. “folkfwd” for Folk Forward, as its URL is somafm.com/folkfwd/. - Comment on YSK you can permanently hide entire domains from your search results with DuckDuckGo/Google/other engines through this user script 2 weeks ago:
This (e.g. on DuckDuckGo) only excludes the results for that one search, by adding the option “-site:example.com” to the query. When one conducts an entirely new search, the domain is included again. (Also, one will probably quickly reach a limit if one were to append a growing number of domain exclusion options to the search string.)
- YSK you can permanently hide entire domains from your search results with DuckDuckGo/Google/other engines through this user scriptgreasyfork.org ↗Submitted 2 weeks ago to youshouldknow@lemmy.world | 23 comments
- Comment on Black Mirror AI 2 weeks ago:
Thought: There should be a federated system for blocking IP ranges that other server operators within a chain of trust have already identified as belonging to crawlers.
(Here’s an advantage of Markov chain maze generators like Nepenthes: Even when crawlers recognize that they have been served garbage and delete it, one still has obtained highly reliable evidence that the IPs that requested it do, in fact, belong to crawlers.)
- Comment on YouTube's new ad strategy is bound to upset users: YouTube Peak Points utilise Gemini to identify moments where users will be most engaged, so advertisers can place ads at the point. 4 weeks ago:
THIS IS AWESOME, THANK YOU!
(Apologies for my capslock, but I really am stoked.)
- Submitted 4 weeks ago to technology@lemmy.world | 26 comments
- Comment on List of Alternatives to Adobe Programs 1 month ago:
See other comments: Got bought up by some company and then enshittified.
- Comment on Thank you guys for the advice last post. I found a tech support job now. One step closer to leaving homelessness 1 month ago:
Congratulations! All the best to you and the people you care about.
- Comment on List of Alternatives to Adobe Programs 1 month ago:
Look into PhotoGIMP, afaik it precisely delivers Photoshop-like symbols, maybe even layout, and shortcuts
- Comment on List of Alternatives to Adobe Programs 1 month ago:
Browser is nice. On Linux though, Okular is superb.
- Comment on List of Alternatives to Adobe Programs 1 month ago:
What’s your opinion on Affinity?
- Comment on List of Alternatives to Adobe Programs 1 month ago:
Apparently Audacity has been bougth by a company which subsequently did crap with it. reddit.com/…/help_tenacity_a_fork_of_audacity_aft…
Not sure how good Tenacity is currently
- Submitted 1 month ago to technology@lemmy.world | 197 comments
- Comment on Microsoft rolls Windows Recall out to the public nearly a year after announcing it 1 month ago:
This is a huge opportunity. All of us Linux geeks now need to be on mainstream social media platforms and actively seek out and help everyone who expresses an interest in switching from Windows to Linux.
- Comment on AI Energy Demand Can Keep Fossil Fuels Alive, Tech Backers Promise World’s Two Biggest Oil Producers 1 month ago:
Well, shit. But at least there’s this:
It’s also far from clear that the tech industry will prove to be as hungry for fossil fuel power as some predict. First, advances in AI technology could drive energy consumption down. Concerns are emerging that the technology may not fully live up to the hype, at least from investors’ standpoints, with Alibaba Group chairman Joe Tsai telling a Hong Kong investment summit in March that data construction may have already reached “the beginning of some kind of bubble.” Plus, the Trump tariffs have injected extraordinary levels of uncertainty into global markets, leaving some experts wondering if the upheaval could derail an AI boom.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
I can’t help with personal experience unfortunately. I think some (a lot?) of people are satisfied, but one does need some tech skills to get it up and running.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
Worth noting: Affinity, while not open-source, can be brought to run under Linux. This may be helpful for people wanting to ditch Windows.
- Comment on Elevated 1 month ago:
Why doesn’t it have more jpeg? That’s the real question here.
(The answer is: I was lazy and just took the image as I found it somewhere else.)
- Submitted 2 months ago to [deleted] | 79 comments
- Comment on Chinese EV maker BYD says new fast-charging system could be as quick as filling up a tank 2 months ago:
Also, just to indicate the orders of magnitude: The German electiricty grid roughly operates at a power of 200 000 MW.
Source (the graph at the bottom of the page). (Be mindful that the absolute numbers in the graph are given in “MWh per 15 minutes” (power*time/time), so to get the Watt number (power), one has to multiply all numbers by 4.)
- Submitted 2 months ago to fediverse@lemmy.world | 8 comments
- Comment on All about the Dons: House GOP bill would put Trump's face on $100 note 3 months ago:
Talking of bait, am I the only one who thinks that this proposed bill is just a red herring to distract from much more tangible stuff that Republicans are doing right now?
