BrainisfineIthink

@BrainisfineIthink@lemmy.one

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨US joins in other nations in swearing off coal power to clean the climate⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  YES, methane stays in the atmosphere a shorter duration as methane, but most of it naturally breaks down into CO2 which then stays in the atmosphere just as long as all the other CO2. It is much worse than CO2 as a greenhouse gas.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨US joins in other nations in swearing off coal power to clean the climate⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Don’t worry, your pessimism isn’t totally misplaced. See that big “natural gas” line?

  Natural gas is just a more palatable word for methane, and burning methane is still putting an enormous amount of CO2 in the atmosphere. But methane by itself is like 10x worse than CO2 and the EPA estimates as much as 10% of all methane for domestic use ends up in the atmosphere. Fun!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How do I change the lights⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Have an electrician come map your outlets. They find the connections in the breaker panel, then they trace them out to figure out where they go and what they do. Your contractor may be right, but as someone that bought a house that’s over 100 years old, it’s just as likely that the switch goes nowhere/isn’t live, or powers something you’d NEVER think of, or powers something that you can’t even see because someone put a drywall facade over it or some other weirdness!

  We discovered that we had a LIVE outlet, under our living room floor. For some reason, at some point someone decided that needed an outlet literally in the middle of the living room floor (coffee table lame is my guess). The previous owner/flipper put feaux-hardwood laminate down in the whole house and instead of deactivating it, they just put the flooring right over the top of it and its live 100 year old cloth wrapped wires, leaving us a lovely little fire hazard! That outlet was controlled by, you guessed it, the mystery switch on the wall next to the front door that didn’t seem to do anything.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is there a way to block hexbear⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  If you’re using the connect app (if not, you should try it!), just tap the three dots any post you see by them, and click “block instance.” Easy peasy.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Roxann Dawson (B’Elanna) passed on directing new Star Trek but has returned to science fiction with Foundation⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Its kind of fucked either way. They’re too short but a lot happens because each book is broken into thirds that are separated by huge time gaps, and inside those thirds there are also time gaps. A movie, even a long one, would be incredibly disjointed and the pacing would feel bizarre.

  I imagine it’s probably why nobody has made it a series or movie before even though it’s such a beloved sci Fi series. You’d have to take a lot of creative liberties with it, which is for better or worse, what they’re doing.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Roxann Dawson (B’Elanna) passed on directing new Star Trek but has returned to science fiction with Foundation⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve just started the show, and I feel like from the outset they made it clear that a LOT of the show is creative fiction to fill in the gaps. I feel like a lot of people forget just how short the original trilogy is. F, F&E and SF, collectively, are like an 8 hour read! I don’t love everything the show has done (and some of the acting is atrocious) but I love how they chose what boils down to allusions in the books and focused whole episodes on what that would’ve looked like in real time.

  I also really like how they are not afraid to completely abandon cliff hangers for several episodes at a time, while still keeping you invested in what’s happening. Asimov dwas notorious for that and did it SEVERAL times on the trilogy. Oh you wanna know what happens? Well I’ll tell you eventually, but first, here’s forty pages introducing brand new characters on a completely different planet…300 years in the future. Bitch.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Uh yeah, totally.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  You thought this was …Ceti alpha six…

  It was at that exact moment Kahn realized he was about to fuck all kinda shit up.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Zoom has “Zoom fatigue,” requires workers to return to the office⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I suspect that’s actually part of the problem. Zoom is being ditched for teams left and right - so many enterprise companies already have Office on all their machines on the network. Why would they continue to pay for zoom (who I believe jacked up their prices to capitalize on the COVID influx) when teams is included in their software suite and serves the exact same function, with additional functionality? Not saying teams is as good/better/worse than zoom, but it serves the same purpose. There are also concerns over zooms security, which isn’t helped by a huge inrease in cyber attacks just about everywhere - that’s also very problematic for zoom since Teams already requires MFA through authenticator to help prevent the latter.

  The Zoom peak declining combined with a competitor rapidly growing means they’re losing money, and of course the only solution to that is to force employees back into the office. I mean what else could you possibly do? There’s simply no other solution to this problem. They’ve tried nothing so far and it hasn’t worked so, really theor hand has been forced.