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- Comment on Whoa! Windows 7's market share surged, tripling in users last month 4 days ago:
+1 on Mint. Ubuntu is fine, but things like Ubuntu’s Snaps can cause headaches that just don’t exist elsewhere.
- Comment on "I’m Canceling My Subscription": Xbox Players Call to "Boycott" Game Pass "Hard" Over 50% Price Increase As Microsoft’s Website Crashes from Mass Cancellations 4 days ago:
Paying extra just to have access to multiplayer is one of the core reasons I sold my 360 and haven’t bought a console since. PS2 and latest PC are both golden!
- Comment on why can't a PC-laptop boot without datetime? 1 week ago:
The BIOS on that is clearly a bit odd, I haven’t seen that as a requirement before. That said, the BIOS battery is probably dead. Replace that and it should fix the issue.
- Comment on Spare mini PCs? What would you do with them? 1 week ago:
Ebay, Cragslist.
- Comment on How do I stop sleeping through everything? 1 week ago:
You are having a pretty big issue here. Don’t try, do. You can wean yourself in just a few days. Or cold turkey if you don’t think you can keep to a weaning schedule.
- Comment on Cracker Barrel Outrage Was Almost Certainly Driven by Bots, Researchers Say 1 week ago:
I mean, a bunch of my friends thought the logo change was dumb too.
A bit rude to call them bots.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
After having lived though many of these. Just turn off the news for a few weeks. You probably won’t even notice when it comes back without someone telling you.
- Comment on 'Windmill': China tests world’s first megawatt-level airship to capture high winds 1 week ago:
Focusing on this is usually a pretext for doing much less energy transition work than China does.
The point is to redirect praise from China to countries who actually deserve it; like France, Sweden, Norway, and Finland. It’s just fucking wild to praise a country that gets most of their power from coal for doing well on power generation while shitting on a country that has done more than them.
- Comment on 'Windmill': China tests world’s first megawatt-level airship to capture high winds 1 week ago:
Showing a snapshot of coal usage also makes no sense in this context.
It’s the most tangible way to show who and who is not taking this seriously. Power generation used to be heavily coal in every country. The countries who have replaced it with better power generation sources are taking things much more seriously than the others.
USA is the only country where I hear the president say that green needs to go and fossil fuels are the way to go.
Meanwhile, Germany’s on-lining coal plants. Actions >>>>> words
You know who is taking things seriously? France. They are kicking fucking ass. And it’s because they went nuclear, where they get 70% of their power.
you’ll see that the share of green fuel is actually rising in China
Praising China for green fuel while their primary power generation is coal is fucking wild. It’s certainly better they are improving things, but until they do, everyone else with a better shade deserves more praise than you are giving China. Give that praise to France.
- Comment on 'Windmill': China tests world’s first megawatt-level airship to capture high winds 1 week ago:
Meanwhile, in reality, large chunks of the world still use coal as their primary power source. Hell, Germany’s coal share is higher than the US’.
- Comment on 'Windmill': China tests world’s first megawatt-level airship to capture high winds 1 week ago:
Why can’t the airship automatically raise and lower itself?
Because it doesn’t just need to be lowered. It would need to deflate itself/reinflate itself, while also strapping the deflated bits down or put itself into a massive hangar.
Weather has always been an issue with airships. It’s the main reason you don’t see them in everyday life.
- Comment on 'Windmill': China tests world’s first megawatt-level airship to capture high winds 1 week ago:
With a traditional wind turbine, if the wind speeds get too high, the turbine locks the rotation and feather the blades. For the airship however, people will have to manually take it down and later erect it again. Hopefully they get to it in time, otherwise it’s going to violently take itself down and/or fly off. Either way, that is a bunch of extra cost incurred on a regular basis.
- Comment on proof of wormholes 1 week ago:
Nothing but to agree.
Cancer existed before cigarettes. Therefore "anyone trying to tell you that cigarettes cause cancer is entirely full of crap”.
But we are way past the point of facts.
Clearly, since this ‘meme’ is using some real bad arguments to try to prove facts.
- Comment on proof of wormholes 1 week ago:
No, it just makes you look dumb for refuting a false statement with another bad argument.
- Comment on proof of wormholes 1 week ago:
The logic of the ‘meme’ is faulty. Something being identified before something else does not mean the second thing cannot create the first.
Cancer existed before cigarettes, yet cigarettes still cause cancer. Using this ‘meme’s’ logic, “anyone trying to tell you that cigarettes cause cancers is entirely full of crap”.
- Comment on Asbestos Paint? 2 weeks ago:
Asbestos is only an issue if it gets in the air. If you are worried about it, grab a respirator, break off the loose parts and paint over it.
- Comment on OpenAI admits AI hallucinations are mathematically inevitable, not just engineering flaws 2 weeks ago:
A hallucination is something that disagrees with your active inputs (ears, eyes, etc). AIs don’t have these active inputs, all they have is the human equivalent of memories. Everything they draw up is a hallucination, literally all of it. It’s simply coincidence the hallucination matches reality.
Is it really surprising that the thing that can only create hallucinations is often wrong? That the thing that can only create hallucinations will continue to be wrong on a regular basis?
- Comment on Microsoft starts rolling out Gaming Copilot on Windows 11 PCs 2 weeks ago:
But, why?
- Comment on Microsoft announces it will automatically install the Copilot AI app alongside desktop versions of 365 products like Word, Excel and PowerPoint this October 2 weeks ago:
I STILL don’t fucking know how to get row/column headings to work in Calc
I’m assuming you are referring to column filters and/or keeping the first row at the top of the screen:
- Filter: Select Header Row > Data > Auto Filter
- Row Freeze: View > Freeze Cells > Freeze First Row
- Comment on 2 weeks ago:
Nobody is building it
France built the fuck out of it, 71% of their power is nuclear. Works darn well.
it’s not because regulators are blocking it
In the US, the over-regulation makes it too expensive. Every plant is bespoke instead of mass produced, with exchangable parts, personell, and knowledge.
- Comment on Samsung brings ads to US fridges 2 weeks ago:
Our fridge dings when the door has been left open. I’m not sure why you would need anything more than an audible ding for the door being left open.
- Comment on 2 weeks ago:
What makes power when the sun isn’t out and the wind isn’t blowing? Nuclear, gas, or coal.
By being anti-nuclear, you force it to be gas or coal.
- Comment on 2 weeks ago:
O, absolutely. The reality is the most economic way to do off-grid is with solar, battery, and a diesel or propane generator for the times the solar isn’t cutting it.
- Comment on 2 weeks ago:
Small wind turbines are really, really poor. You need to go high to access the good air-streams and wide to get useful efficiency out of the turbine. Any wind turbine you put on your roof will vastly under-perform for the cost spent on it.
- Comment on 2 weeks ago:
Damn, those winter numbers would mean a full off-grid really is going to be hard with pure solar. A propane or diesel generator to top off the batteries would probably be required for winter.
- Comment on 2 weeks ago:
they generate about 3,800kWh per year. We also use about 3,800kWh of electricity each year
Obviously, we can’t use all the power produced over summer and we need to buy power in winter. So here’s my question: How big a battery would we need in order to be completely self-sufficient?
O, god, it’s going to be huge. You really can’t do the off-grid thing unless you have enough power production to satiate you over any given 3-day moving window. Trying to store power from summer until winter is going to be too expensive, instead buy more panel.
- Comment on Mods react as Reddit kicks some of them out again: “This will break the site” 2 weeks ago:
Yeah, during the last blackout they removed hundreds (thousands?) of moderators who wouldn’t toe the party line. These people aren’t coming back and there aren’t quality people lined up behind them to donate their time.
- Comment on Hell Is Us lead says Silksong's short notice release date was "a little callous," even if he's happy they didn't delay it 2 weeks ago:
The alternative is to release a date early, have everyone shift around your schedule, find out it’s not done, delay it, have everyone shift around your schedule again, find out it’s still not done, have everyone shift around your schedule YET AGAIN, etc, etc.
Naw, release games when they are done. Silksong did it right.
- Comment on Simplify home hardware for selfhosting 3 weeks ago:
Yeah, that is my standard way of doing things. Old desktop becomes the server, and it’s specs blow everything I want it to do out of the water, so things like file storage (and the CPU required to encrypt-on-disk), etc have no chance of ever presenting an issue. Though, I do have a pair of Pis with POE hats on them, because I really like POE.
Then I set it up for auto-updates and proceed to ignore it. Love very simple home networking setups that still accomplish every goal.
- Comment on Far Cry series will push multiplayer "more predominantly" going forwards, according to Ubisoft boss 3 weeks ago:
Lol, wut? The entire point of the Far Cry series is the single player.
Though it has been clear for awhile the single player experience in Far Cry games has been going downhill. With this announcement, any shred of worth in the series is clearly in the past.
