GreyEyedGhost
@GreyEyedGhost@lemmy.ca
- Comment on Google: 'Your $1000 phone needs our permission to install apps now'". Android users are screwed - Louis Rossmann 1 day ago:
I’m pretty curious about the C2, as well, but don’t live in their market, and don’t want to pay 100% of the phone cost in shipping fees, etc. And after all that, I have no guarantee of support. As for the €60 per year, my latest phone is an S22 Ultra, half of whose features I no longer use due to the updated Samsung TOS. I can absorb that cost for the sake of updates, if they’d let me.
- Comment on Japan Just Switched on Asia’s First Osmotic Power Plant, Which Runs 24/7 on Nothing But Fresh Water and Seawater 1 day ago:
Well, yes, dumping irradiated water into the ocean was always an option. So long as the power-generating components aren’t the same as the desalination components, you’re good as far as the potable water is concerned. This isn’t much of a solution for the irradiated water, though, any more than just dumping it into the ocean was in the first place.
- Comment on Japan Just Switched on Asia’s First Osmotic Power Plant, Which Runs 24/7 on Nothing But Fresh Water and Seawater 2 days ago:
It really depends. Osmosis is a chemical process, so if the source of the radiation would be filtered, then it would remove the radioactive component. If the water is made with radioactive isotopes of hydrogen and oxygen, it would just flow through.
- Comment on Japan Just Switched on Asia’s First Osmotic Power Plant, Which Runs 24/7 on Nothing But Fresh Water and Seawater 2 days ago:
I think it’s more like:
(salty water + unpotable fresh water) → (salty water + potable fresh water + energy)
…with a few steps in between. Even if most of the power is used in running the plant, you end up with potable fresh water and no brine being dumped into the ocean, which is a net win.
- Comment on Japan Just Switched on Asia’s First Osmotic Power Plant, Which Runs 24/7 on Nothing But Fresh Water and Seawater 2 days ago:
Turning unpotable water into potable water with little or no additional cost, while not harming the environment, isn’t exactly a loss.
- Comment on Uninvited pool guest 3 days ago:
In an advertisement‽
- Comment on Life Hacks 6 days ago:
Well, there was a recent AI mistake which recommended sodium bromide, which causes psychosis. So results may vary, particularly by quantity.
- Comment on 🎶 picture this we we're both butt naked banging on the bathroom door 🎶 1 week ago:
When a highly educated genius has shower thoughts. Or gets high.
- Comment on The forgotten war on the Walkman 1 week ago:
No, I keep pointing out how you’re cherry-picking how conservatives are good.
- Comment on The forgotten war on the Walkman 1 week ago:
Progressives say, “We live in a society, so let’s not harm each other.” Conservatives say, “Do what I want, not what you want, or society will crumble.” Take a look at all the morality laws, and try to find even two where the ultimate result isn’t punishment for daring to live in a manner they don’t agree with. And the overwhelming majority of those morality laws are passed by conservatives. Even libertarians complain if someone has the audacity to tax them for the roads they use, especially the ones they use indirectly.
Even when the laws are for good reasons, control is applied. Do you not see how unnecessary regulatory burden can be used as a tool for gatekeeping? As for environmental laws, it’s a bit audacious to talk about Nixon given what Trump has done in the last couple months. Who in their right mind (who isn’t profiting from the sale of coal) wants to keep coal plants that operate at a loss around, whether you believe in climate change or not?
- Comment on The forgotten war on the Walkman 1 week ago:
And you think conservatives are genuinely trying to pass these other laws for the good of society and not for control?
- Comment on The forgotten war on the Walkman 1 week ago:
Well, you are taking the excuse given at face value. Do you also think laws for back doors in encryption systems are to protect the children?
- Comment on Americans’ junk-filled garages are hurting EV adoption, study says 1 week ago:
Does your apartment have a garage? No? Then what does this add to the conversation?
- Comment on Americans’ junk-filled garages are hurting EV adoption, study says 1 week ago:
The big thing i see in my mom is she grew up with almost nothing, and all this stuff keeps her a little further from ever being in that situation again. I get it, but it isn’t a healthy way to deal with that fear, and you’d be better off saving the money instead. But she doesn’t trust banks, so that’s another negative. 🤷♂️
- Comment on Meta Quest 3/3s XR headsets finally rooted after 2 years 1 week ago:
Yeah, i saw that note later. I can wait.
- Comment on Meta Quest 3/3s XR headsets finally rooted after 2 years 1 week ago:
I’m kind of curious. Is the Quest 3 actually profitable, or is it a loss leader? If it’s the latter, I’d be even more inclined to take their product and have them lose money in the process.
- Comment on i just think they're neat 1 week ago:
Someday in the distant future, there is going to be a very confused archeologist.
- Comment on CrowdBucks is a new payment system for the Fediverse 1 week ago:
Which is that? All I see is “*******”.
- Comment on CrowdBucks is a new payment system for the Fediverse 1 week ago:
Remember, Passw0rd1! is a handy filler, meets most password requirements, and is a strong password!
- Comment on CrowdBucks is a new payment system for the Fediverse 1 week ago:
It also helps that Canada has a non-fee option that only has the downside of being traceable.
- Comment on Shit like this is why we need open source printers! 1 week ago:
Not to dismiss the very real problem you raise, but that only has to be solved once per hardware configuration. This is why digital piracy is so successful - you only need the efforts of some very talented individuals to solve that particular problem and you’re good. As hard as that may be, it’s still simpler than manufacturing and assembling hardware where accuracy to 1/1000" in a dust-feee environment is a requirement.
- Comment on SpaceX says states should dump fiber plans, give all grant money to Starlink 1 week ago:
I had Starlink for over 2 years while waiting for my fiber to be installed. Worlds better than the marginal DSL I had available before (5 Mbps down, 1 Mbps up), but I’m far happier with the fiber I have now.
- Comment on SpaceX says states should dump fiber plans, give all grant money to Starlink 1 week ago:
This makes no sense on the face of it. Let’s say the satellites are 100 km (or miles) above the earth. If I was to connect to a server 10 km (or miles) away, my complete route over fiber is 10 km. My complete route over satellite is just over 200 km (assuming it’s between those two points). Now, let’s say the server is 500 km (we’ll assume the earth is flat over this expanse, even though that’s about 5° around the earth). So our fiber link has to go 500 km, more or less. Our satellite link has to go about 540 km, best case scenario. If we raise those satellites, it only gets worse (it’s probably closer to 860, best case scenario, for satellites at 350 km).
I just did a quick check, and the curvature of the earth over that 500 km scenario is about 20 km (it won’t be 20 miles for 500 miles).
Now, you might start to argue that were talking about straight lines, and that’s true for satellites but not for fiber. And that might be true. But we’ve already shown that the hop to space and back is already increasing that distance by 60% or more. But those two or so straight lines are just til you get to the Starlink hub, so you aren’t going to reduce this much more than the numbers above. And yes, fiber will have some extra distance due to following the grid rather than straight lines. But, again, that only matters to the ISP hub and then you’re back to the same distances.
The other argument you listed is the speed of light in space/atmosphere vs. fiber, and it’s a valid point. Not there are some interesting things done with guiding light to the center of the fiber, which is another way of saying there are multiple refractive indexes, but let’s go with a refractive index of 1.5. That means the speed of light in glass is 2/3×_c_, or that light in space can go about 50% farther. And that’s about the added distance for using LEO satellites.
tldr: All the benefits of transmitting through air or space are basically negated by the added distance, where the best-case scenario is only slightly better than the worst-case scenario for fiber.
- Comment on Anyone else guilty of this? 2 weeks ago:
My kids didn’t see an ad connected to videos until the youngest was about 7 (outside of a movie theater, at least). When they first saw them, they were flabbergasted about what they were or why people would just sit there watching them, and absolutely refuse to put up with them. I’d say they are better off seeing how things could be, so when they see how things are now they recognize how utter shit it is.
- Comment on Blackbird Interactive acquires full ownership of Hardspace: Shipbreaker IP 2 weeks ago:
Having played it, it works pretty well. I would be happier if more games with 6 DoF used the same control scheme on the Deck, but that’s my biggest concern.
- Comment on How do I get started designing and making and/or acquiring my own pcb? 3 weeks ago:
I’m not sure which how-to’s you’ve come across, but my wanderings led me to this guy, who seems to have a very comprehensive video.
- Comment on What is the maximum number of potatoes you could grow in your house or on property you own before it becomes a crime? 3 weeks ago:
Pretty sure I played that game…
- Comment on Microsoft suddenly bans LibreOffice developer's email account, blocks appeal 4 weeks ago:
Office 97 was the last good Office. No auto-adjusting menus, no ribbons, you could actually provide phone support and have confidence that both people were seeing the same thing.
- Comment on "Steam Did Not Respond To Us": Collective Shout Defends Calling On Payment Processors To Ban Adult Games 4 weeks ago:
I dontbelievethis…
- Comment on Lemmy has a problem 5 weeks ago:
Statistics is to guesswork what data is to anecdotes.