tallwookie
@tallwookie@lemmy.world
interested in stepvans, offgrid, pugs, tech, gaming, food, and conversations
- Comment on Intel’s new 14th Gen CPUs arrive on October 17th with up to 6GHz out of the box 8 months ago:
or an amd rig
- Comment on what are these floating on the surface 9 months ago:
give it a few days & that ache will mature into a stabbing sensation
- Comment on what are these floating on the surface 9 months ago:
shmegma
- Comment on A 'mob of criminals' stole more than $300,000 worth of goods from an LA Nordstrom 10 months ago:
hopefully all the thieves will be arrested and imprisoned.
- Comment on The best-selling video game of each year since 1993 10 months ago:
eh, consoles maybe. Starcraft wasnt in that last though.
- Comment on ISPs complain that listing every fee is too hard, urge FCC to scrap new rule 10 months ago:
almost like they’re asking to be nationalized…
- Comment on LionGlass: New Type of Glass That's Greener and 10x More Damage Resistant 10 months ago:
pass, I want clear glass.
- Comment on Do you exerience back spasms pain so intense it makes you black out? 10 months ago:
lift with your knees, not with your back
- Comment on [deleted] 10 months ago:
manually reset the browser. make sure it’s not running in the background, then go into %localappdata% & rename the folder for that application. on next launch it will be forced to go into firstrun & create a whole batch of new settings.
- Comment on After rise in climate direct action, Europe cracks down 10 months ago:
good
- Comment on Scientists at Fermilab close in on fifth force of nature 10 months ago:
interesting that it’s happening at fermilab and not cern
- Comment on Georgia doctor decapitated baby using 'excessive force' in delivery 10 months ago:
should have gone with a c-section…
- Comment on BMW 10 months ago:
better than IBM I guess
- Comment on [deleted] 10 months ago:
hexbear looks really tame compared to some of the tankie nonsense on lemmy.ml, and as far as I can tell we havent defederated with them yet.
- Comment on Why must it be this way? (but also I'd like shark please) 10 months ago:
shark scent? eh… like, chum? pass
- Comment on You just won the Mega Millions 10 months ago:
I’d give my folks a couple million, extended family a few million total. money needs to be moved around and my family absolutely excels at spending lol.
- Comment on X user “super pissed” that Musk ordered takeover of his @music account 10 months ago:
oh no!
anyway…
- Comment on Question: Can I throw a squirrel faster than its terminal velocity? 10 months ago:
depends a lot on you. I know I could.
- Comment on Would a re-elected Donald Trump ruin Democracy across the globe in a domino effect? 10 months ago:
maybe that’s the best timeline?
- Comment on HP printer USB port covered with warning sticker in hopes you won't use it | Boing Boing 10 months ago:
I’ve been really happy with my samsung laser printer - bought it 10+ years ago, works flawlessly to this day
- Comment on How to inflate your foldable phone 11 months ago:
I find that inflated phones operate better with a residual charge - like that found in objects that have been in a microwave
- Comment on Some dystopian doublespeak from Micky D 11 months ago:
what the hell is loyalty fraud?
- Comment on My patio or new escape? 11 months ago:
looks nice!
- Comment on Fable Studios created an AI-generated episode of South Park... during a Hollywood strike over AI. 11 months ago:
SP is already really shitty animation though, so they’re setting the bar really, really low
- Comment on Ally (bank)mobile app fails without connection to graph.facebook.com 11 months ago:
online only banking seems like a scam with extra steps
- Comment on Fervo Energy hits milestone in using oil drilling technology to tap geothermal energy 11 months ago:
that’s an innovative use of existing tech - relatively low startup costs/no r&d, etc. do they pump the hole with water then & run a steam turbine then?
- Comment on What do you think about the renewables vs nuclear debate? 1 year ago:
nuclear is far cleaner than coal, has less impact on the environment than geothermal or hydroelectric, and newer reactor designs (ie: thorium salt) can even use the waste uranium/plutonium of a traditional reactor, but there are a number of issues with nuclear as you have listed.
renewable/sustainable power sources have their own issues though - solar is "clean" but basically useless at night or if there is heavy cloud cover (and the manufacturing process requires a lot of chemicals), wind turbines are also "clean" but do nothing if there is no wind, hydroelectric has the same issue and it also requires a reservoir/lake, ruining hundreds/thousands of acres of habitat (some would say changing the habitat, but it's underwater now), and geothermal is not widely available due to geography - it may have the lowest impact of all of the preceding options.
ANY and ALL energy generation sources are required though - we're only 0.6 on the Kardashev scale, after all.