MalReynolds
@MalReynolds@piefed.social
- Comment on Spiralling costs spark 'urgent' overhaul of $2.3b battery subsidy scheme 3 days ago:
Isn’t that just a portable battery with a solar charger (MPPT) integrated ? We were talking about solar roof setups combined with large fixed batteries, which will largely cover all your needs most days. The diesel genset I used as a placeholder for reliable personal electricity generation from some other mechanism for the rare other / high usage days. Biodiesel is a good option, but there’s hydrogen (or LPG) fuel cells and a number of other options, you don’t have to put them in the same room as you either.
Also kW is power, kWh is (stored) energy (kW you can deliver for an hour), units matter.
- Comment on Spiralling costs spark 'urgent' overhaul of $2.3b battery subsidy scheme 6 days ago:
The power companies primarily provide a grid, high availability and secondarily charge for power (which should be rapidly headed towards zero given renewable uptake). FWIW, I think the grid is a natural monopoly and should never have been privatized, and certainly the power companies are doing the the bare minimum of maintenance and bugger all expansion to cope with solar input and EV output. If they leave it get bad enough the Government will have to step in and do it for them, pure profit.
The real threat to power companies is people with a big battery have the option to go fuck it, I’m getting a genset and some diesel and disconnecting, which means they no longer have the entire population over a barrel and might have to provide some value. The real solution is to cut the Gordian knot and re-nationailze the whole grid (instead of statewide as it was), which will also be easier with the weaker bargaining position they have with a large battery population.
- Comment on Why do I always have "dreams" that give me anxiety (aka: nightmares)? Why do I never just get to re-live my happy memories in my dreams? Wtf brain?!? This is outrageous! It's unfair! 3 weeks ago:
Observational bias : You remember only the bad ones, especially as they are the ones most likely to wake you, and thus cross the memory barrier to the conscious. You likely have good ones as well that you don’t remember.
If it really bothers you consider keeping a dream journal for a few months which should make you able to remember more, and more of your dreams. If it turns out you really have no good dreams, the next step is to learn lucid dreaming and fix that shit. If that’s too much work, you can try repeating “I will have good dreams” in your head as you go to sleep, you might be lucky.
- Comment on Anyone tried Syncthing Tray on Android? 3 weeks ago:
Eh, Syncthing-Fork is basically feature complete, it’s not even a significant exploit threat (on gOS and constrained to local network and storage spaces in my case, but probably in general). I just pinned it at v2.0.11.2 in F-Droid and will wait for things to shake out. If things go badly there’ll be a Syncthing-Fork-Fork, it’s too critical to too many peoples workflows.
- Comment on Gamepad for Linux Gaming? 5 weeks ago:
Sorry, don’t use Lutris, either Steam or straight to Bottles. But I’ll guess yes, with the dongle it comes up as a normal XBox controller unless you jump through hoops to get extra buttons going.
- Comment on Gamepad for Linux Gaming? 5 weeks ago:
I have an 8bitdo and like it as well, one thing to consider tho is Steam Controller 2 is "extremely close", might be worth holding out for that to drop atm, the original is pretty legendary and 2 seems based on steamdeck layout.
- Comment on Where do I even start? 5 weeks ago:
Zeroth, consider GrapheneOS on that Pixel.
First, Syncthing on the PC and Syncthing-Fork. Now you can sync (and anything else) your photo files from phone to PC and vice versa. Congrats, you have photo storage backup.
Second, either a vpn to your home network so you can backup on the road, or Immich (as elsewhere suggested) for your own google photos experience.
Third, whichever of second you didn’t choose.
Fourth, get ye an offsite backup (search 3-2-1 backup). rclone is your friend, but encrypt first locally with Cryptomator, then you don’t have to trust your storage provider.
- Comment on Male Fantasies (by Nhim) 1 month ago:
Cis male FWIW (think of myself as an ally to all), nothing here appeals in any way, unless I’m digging a hobbit hole, and I’d rather a treehouse, and even more a solar boat…
- Comment on Mozilla to Require Data-Collection Disclosure in All New Firefox Extensions 1 month ago:
So, sandbox the extensions, a practical, sensible step on the path to browser as OS (contentious, but doesn’t that seem where things are going, and if we lose firefox…). I get it, it’s mr right now harm minimization, as opposed to mr right (linux or flatpak) general purpose computers in service of their users with usable security control.
- Comment on sagan/sanders 1991 1 month ago:
Right you are, if a tad US centric, not sure the topic actually was Sagan and Congress, although Sagan for Sanders might give you some credibility. I suspect we’re on the same general side anyway and the ancientness of the argument helps both…
- Comment on Relatable. 1 month ago:
Notable absence of Cowboy Bebop,
3,2,1 Let’s Jam…
- Comment on sagan/sanders 1991 1 month ago:
Cool, never implied you did,(suggest that Carl Sagan invented climate science in 1985) and happy the spirit continues in you, here for it. Science is never proven (mathematics aside), just more and more probable in most cases, at this point the “Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence” is anything against climate change…
- Comment on sagan/sanders 1991 1 month ago:
While I adore Sagan, the greenhouse effect was was proposed as early as 1824 by Joseph Fourier (yes Fourier transform dude).
- Comment on Its a solar powered phone / webserver! Made from a pixel 6a, solar panel, and hopes/dreams. 1 month ago:
I’ll assume it’s cool, but currently hugged to death for me. Just wanted to point out batteries are replaceable even if glued, fixed my GrapheneOS Pixel7 after it killed itself (spicy pillow) charging in heat in a warmer country. iFixit kit + video worked, then got a Chargie which lets you set a temperature above which it will not charge (33C for me, only charges at night in summer). Probably relevant in your case.
- Comment on Google flags Immich sites as dangerous 1 month ago:
What is the usecase for exposing jellyfin to the outernet anyway ?
- Comment on How many people would a generation ship need to have for inbreeding to not be an issue? 1 month ago:
Not what you mean, but one woman and a shit-ton of frozen sperm and ova would probably work, say 3 for redundancy…
- Comment on arborholing 1 month ago:
Eh, oxygen builds up, fire, CO2…
- Comment on New home server, NixOS vs Proxmox vs Arch 2 months ago:
podlet does a pretty good job of spitting out quadlet .container files or entire pods from a dockerfile.
- Comment on 2 months ago:
Pocket high power laser to burn out the camera ? Just make sure not to hit their eyes (or don’t). /s
- Comment on The best of both worlds with IEMs and TWS buds maybe? 2 months ago:
I like my qudelix-5k, does flawless 96Khz/32bit LDAC to my Pixel7 (not that I use media that high, but it works well). Balanced output, onboard equalizer, usb DAC as well., been solid for 2 years+, goes great with IEMs. It’s a bit pricey and likely to be a pain when I have to go in to replace the battery, but I find myself charging ~ weekly, so Li-ion is good for ~ 1000 charges, perhaps 500 before significant degradation, which is 10 yrs or so. Worth it for my use case.
- Comment on TIL about Android Translation Layer (ATL), a way to port Android apps to Linux Mobile 3 months ago:
You should be fine on gOS for 6 yrs+, which is how long google promised to keep up with security updates. The device tree (think hardware drivers), which is what google removed with pixel 10 is what is causing grief, is already there for lower pixels. Unless, of course, google comes up with some new fuckery to invalidate the usability of the security updates (pray I don't alter the deal further...)
- Comment on Google: 'Your $1000 phone needs our permission to install apps now'". Android users are screwed - Louis Rossmann 3 months ago:
Annual rentseeking incoming, 3.2.1...
- Comment on 1U mini PC for AI? 3 months ago:
It's PCIe 4.0 :(
Boo! Silly me thinking DDR5 implied PCIe5, what a shame.
Feels like they're testing the waters with Halo, hopefully a loud 'waters great, dive in' signal gets through and we get something a bit fitter for desktop use, maybe with more memory (and bandwidth) next gen. Still, gotta love the power usage, makes for one hell of a NAS / AI inference server (and inference isn't that fussy about PCIe bandwidth, hell eGPU works fine as long as the model / expert fits in VRAM.
- Comment on 1U mini PC for AI? 3 months ago:
Pretty sure that's a x4 PCIe slot (admittedly PCIe 5x4, but not many video cards speak PCIe5), would totally trade a usb4 for a x8, but these laptop chips are pretty constrained lanes wise.
- Comment on The time and expense of commuting is theft, if that job can be done from home. 3 months ago:
Historically unpaid commute originated before urban sprawl, car culture and a massive spike in population, it's been grandfathered in, but it's absolutely theft in the current environment, whether the job can be done at home or not. Posit 1 hr commute either way, that's 10hrs a week, and should probably get hazard loading as well. When unpaid commute originated it was more like 10-15 minutes walk per day.
One of the most significant and efficient policy changes to combat CO2 and other pollutants would be to legislate paid commuting (with just protection against discrimination for both employee and employer). Just watch every employer WFH everyone who can be, not to mention improved quality of life, local services and being hugely popular.
- Comment on If I stood on a precision scale and farted, would I get lighter or heavier? 3 months ago:
You seem to be assuming that the volume is immediately replaced by the external atmosphere, which I doubt is valid, more likely that the volume of the person would decrease, at least temporarily. The weight of 1 Liter (assuming a massive fart) of air is 1.275g according to wolfram, so, using your density numbers above, 1.275 * 1.06/1.2 = 1.126g lighter. Measurable with a really good scale, if the 90ml fart volume is realistic (has to be more realistic I guess), that's ~.1g,
Think of yourself as a hot air balloon with a very tiny chamber, and when you release a 90 milliliter fart, you lose a little buoyancy and sink a little. You get heavier when you fart.
No, you get denser, but not heavier.
- Comment on This website is for humans 4 months ago:
Perhaps a poisoning the well attack on AI scrapers?