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- Comment on I bought a £16 smartwatch just because it used USB-C 6 hours ago:
It was pretty good 10+ years ago I’d say, then it slowly got worse and worse
- Comment on I bought a £16 smartwatch just because it used USB-C 7 hours ago:
I’ve had the same experience you did but didn’t feel like writing it all out. Thanks !
- Comment on I bought a £16 smartwatch just because it used USB-C 7 hours ago:
I’m familiar with it, I’ve ordered more than 100 items off aliexpress.
And I feel like the modern amazon experience got worse and is closer to the intense searching required to find the good stuff at the right price from aliexpress.
- Comment on I bought a £16 smartwatch just because it used USB-C 13 hours ago:
I wouldn’t say aliexpress stuff is good, but rather that amazon stooped down to aliexpress-levels of quality, to which we got ourselves used to.
- Comment on Yeah 5 days ago:
🤯
- Comment on Yeah 6 days ago:
That’s ridiculous.
I write mine on paper in cursive so no one can use it anywhere
- Comment on Yeah 6 days ago:
I think you may be mixing up git, which is a command line tool that’s still open source, AFAIK, with github that’s a closed source, git-based code hosting platform bought by Microsoft.
You can use other hosting services with git, and get an almost identical experience. Gitlab does it, as well as many others.
- Comment on Thirty dead as northern China hit by heavy rain, landslides 1 week ago:
Yet coal keeps being dug and oil burned.
- Comment on Three dead, several injured after train derails in Germany 1 week ago:
Rail underinvestment (likely) strikes again.
- Comment on Some people think that proprietary software for a 3d printer is a plus? 1 week ago:
It’s not because the dev is on their own that others can’t offer separate support.
One can acquire experience anyway offer to review the code of the solution upon noticing an error at a client that can be fixed with some google-fu.
- Comment on Some people think that proprietary software for a 3d printer is a plus? 1 week ago:
Just like most marketing selling points, it was a lie too.
- Comment on As Spotify moves to video, the environmental footprint of music streaming hits the high notes 1 week ago:
Using VLC is easy. Having good musical taste and finding the time to renew your library so it doesn’t grow stale is hard.
I know, I used to download all my stuff and now I just get YouTube music started on a piece I like and let it autoplay forever while I work, do a tabletop campaign, play videogames… I find that this way, I find the music it plays to be in the right mood 98% of the time.
It disgusts me to say it but it just works and saves me a lot of time.
- Comment on Solar + Battery (covering 97% of demand) is now cheaper than coal and nuclear 4 weeks ago:
What’s the exclusion zone of rare earth mines ? Of the terrible chemicals required to extract those products ? Same question with the batteries. What’s the impact of the shade on agriculture ? How about all the steel, concrete and composites on the environment, how do they degrade ? Is it in micro plastics ?
I didn’t say nuclear energy was good, just that solar panels are worse. The perfect energy source doesn’t exist but currently all the data I’ve come across points to the direction that nuclear is significantly better than all other renewables and don’t require significant battery storage.
Also if anti-science ecologists hadn’t blocked so many fast neutron reactors, we’d be further along to a tech that can burn existing thorium stockpiles for 8000 years without further mining and while producing significantly less dangerous waste than current reactors. I guess we’ll just buy the design from China and Russia who didn’t stop the research and have currently operating reactors right now.
- Comment on Solar + Battery (covering 97% of demand) is now cheaper than coal and nuclear 4 weeks ago:
Even for offshore wind, you gotta add the necessary battery capacity for a reliable power grid…
- Comment on Solar + Battery (covering 97% of demand) is now cheaper than coal and nuclear 4 weeks ago:
docs.nrel.gov/docs/fy21osti/80580.pdf
I’m using table 1.
PV panels alone produce 43g/kWh, batteries 33.
Nuclear (light-water or pressurized) are at 12.
We’re talking complete life cycle analyses.
- Comment on Solar + Battery (covering 97% of demand) is now cheaper than coal and nuclear 4 weeks ago:
This is still more polluting to mine than going nuclear, even accounting for nuclear waste.
- Comment on "Recommended System Requirements" for buying a used PC for selfhosting 5 weeks ago:
You’re right, although I’d be considering narrower cards and maybe blowers. This is a server build, not a main rig. So I’d get a GPU that’s as close as possible to a glorified encoder ad possible and pocket the power savings. I don’t have ac where I live…
- Comment on "Recommended System Requirements" for buying a used PC for selfhosting 5 weeks ago:
If going m-atx, there’d be enough pcie slots to get a cheap SFP+ 10G nic or better, tho…
I’ll look at the jonsbo stuff tho, thanks !
- Comment on "Recommended System Requirements" for buying a used PC for selfhosting 5 weeks ago:
If OP need compactness, maybe micro atx or mini itx could help.
- Comment on An Experimental New Dating Site Matches Singles Based on Their Browser Histories 1 month ago:
I can’t wait for the match group to buy them and make them just shitty enough that the couples think they’ll vibe but won’t actually work out.
I hate capitalism.
- Comment on The Engine of our dreams exists. It's Clean, Powerful, Supercharged and 2 Stroke 2 months ago:
So do catenaries, rails, etc…
- Comment on Prototype of RTX 5090 Appears With Four 16-Pin Power Connectors, Capable of Delivering 2,400W 2 months ago:
I’m a little jealous of you guys, but we have mostly maxed out our potential in Europe for hydro power already…
- Comment on Prototype of RTX 5090 Appears With Four 16-Pin Power Connectors, Capable of Delivering 2,400W 2 months ago:
France has taken away electricity subventions a long time ago, they were temporary relief during COVID only.
In fact, there are pretty high taxes here too, just the base cost is lower.
And I started this debate to challenge the notion that all of Europe doesn’t have as unreasonable prices as Germany does.
- Comment on Prototype of RTX 5090 Appears With Four 16-Pin Power Connectors, Capable of Delivering 2,400W 2 months ago:
Judges you French 0.20€/kWh nuclear prices
If only you guys had listened to the science…
- Comment on Prototype of RTX 5090 Appears With Four 16-Pin Power Connectors, Capable of Delivering 2,400W 2 months ago:
That’s why I started my sentence with “In Europe”
- Comment on Prototype of RTX 5090 Appears With Four 16-Pin Power Connectors, Capable of Delivering 2,400W 2 months ago:
In Europe, this is no biggie
- Comment on YSK how to unclog a toilet 2 months ago:
This is for Americans. Many of them are dumb enough to flush wet wipes.
- Comment on Grieve with me 2 months ago:
You can get magsafe cases for basically any phone these days
- Comment on Why is coal and fossil fuels still used? 2 months ago:
Geopolitics. Coal is available in tons of places and cheap to use and extract.
- Comment on Thats fair 2 months ago:
It definitely didn’t end the way I expected