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- Comment on Britain’s grid battery storage record is maddening | The UK is great at building renewables but not the batteries needed to use green electricity effectively 1 month ago:
I mean in the UK that’s almost exclusively the form of grid scale energy storage takes, indeed one of the largest generating plants in the UK is a pumped hydro facility.
As to why ti’s not deployed more it’s matters of location and cost often feature heavily.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
Broadly no but there are some tlds that are controlled entirely by certain entities that don’t allow use by people other than them, governments being most if not all of these. Also some countries will only allow residents/citizens to use that nation’s tld.
- Comment on ICANN approves use of .internal domain for your network 3 months ago:
Either ignore like I do or add a self signed cert to trusted root and use that for your services. Will work fine unless you’re letting external folks access your self hosted stuff.
- Comment on Stonehenge tunnel scheme scrapped by government 3 months ago:
Well small mercies from the revived austerity bollocks I guess that this project is dead.
- Comment on Funny, those guys don't usually agree on that much 6 months ago:
I am the only true leftist. The rest of you are posers and/or feds.
- Comment on As a leftist when I saw this post in twitter I had to be rushed to the hospital. My blood pressure read 2567 over 1547 6 months ago:
If you were more racist these things wouldn’t happen to you. Probably.
- Comment on we are in dire need of new memes to criticize marxist-leninists 6 months ago:
I misspelt sorry I meant Dengist. Named after Deng Xiaoping who was a leader of the ccp after Maos death and his political ideology is a big part of china’s current political landscape. I dont have any resources though I know he wrote a couple of books that will be a good resource.
- Comment on we are in dire need of new memes to criticize marxist-leninists 6 months ago:
Surely China would be best described as dengost at this point?
- Comment on Two charged over Sycamore gap tree 6 months ago:
I feel we should return to our pagan roots and sacrifice them at the foot of the tree to stave off the anger of the gods. You don’t just go around cutting down fancy trees. That’s the kind of nonsense that causes big problems.
- Comment on YouTube Tests Showing Ads When You Pause a Video, Calls it ''Pause Ads'' 6 months ago:
They tried but they’re losing.
- Comment on Google fires 28 employees after protest over Israel cloud contract 7 months ago:
I mean for many (myself included) setting up shop in Israel is reason enough for boycotting an organisation.
- Comment on Valve: Windows 11 market share on Steam drops to 41.61% 7 months ago:
There is a lot of inertia behind windows both in market share and user knowledge that will take a lot to get over. For example a bug part of why I stay on windows is because I’m simply a lot better at using it than Linux so troubleshooting is easier and quicker. Plus I haven’t found a distro yet that feels as idiot proof as windows as macos can be.
- Comment on Canadians Are Buying $12,000 Yurts To Avoid Ridiculous Rental Prices 7 months ago:
That’s bad.
- Comment on More believable for a Linux OS 8 months ago:
Yeah I’m a big fan of it. People complain about the verbosity of it but I like that for readability and autocomplete makes that a non issue I find. Plus if you really want to save on typing when using it as a terminal tool you can just make aliases for all your common commands.
- Comment on Sudo is coming to Windows 11 9 months ago:
The trick to powershell is to make incredibly liberal use of tab completion to speed yourself up. Or make aliases for commands you use really often.
- Comment on Sudo is coming to Windows 11 9 months ago:
Sentinel is MS’s SEIM product, defender is likely people referring to their paid av offering, Entra is what they renamed AzureAD recently which is their identity management platform. Not sure why they renamed the last one azureAD was a good name for it.
- Comment on USB-PD is a de-facto low-power DC voltage standard, with USB-C being the universal plug. Hurray! 10 months ago:
For phones I’ve found the issue is lint/dust getting in the port and clearing that out makes the port work like new again.
- Comment on Gravity Storage 101 Or Why Pumped Hydro Is The Only Remotely Real Gravity Storage 10 months ago:
Did Williams ever actually race the flywheel kers? I know it got used in WEC and some road applications.
- Comment on Gravity Storage 101 Or Why Pumped Hydro Is The Only Remotely Real Gravity Storage 10 months ago:
There are places and use cases where batteries aren’t a great idea for energy storage and there are environmental concerns. I’m interested to see how mechanical flywheels progress for energy storage as while they lack the density and have higher upfront costs they have much lower maintenance costs and longer serve life.
- Comment on Microsoft is adding a new key to PC keyboards for the first time since 1994 10 months ago:
If you’re into custom keyboards you can also configure the entire PCB using things like QMK so any key can be anything you want. It is a significantly more expensive route the AHK though.
- Comment on Fairphone has created a smartphone that owners can repair themselves - This sustainable smartphone aims to reduce global electronic waste 11 months ago:
I’ve just never had that be a problem for me. I’ve had wireless charging phones before and I never really felt having a wireless charger any more convenient than just plugging my phone in. Really the only time I used wireless charging was on an old phone when the micro-b port failed but with the advent of type c being and the ease of swapping a charging port on the FP5 it just seems to be adding needless expense to the device to have a less efficient method of charging the device.
- Comment on Fairphone has created a smartphone that owners can repair themselves - This sustainable smartphone aims to reduce global electronic waste 11 months ago:
Usable battery size? The FP5 has a 4200mah battery which is about 500mah less than the s23 plus which is pretty reasonable and I’ve found it very usable for day to day use. Wireless charing is a pointless gimmick personally and I don’t see the utility of it. Lack of a headphone jack is a pain though.
- Comment on Mr. Bean, vulkanized 1 year ago:
And here I was expecting him to be covered in rubber.
- Comment on Leaks confirm low takeup for Windows 11 1 year ago:
You can check the games you want to play here :www.protondb.com
Overall its a mixed bag but generally getting better quite quickly. Some games are one click launches and some do require some config.
- Comment on … da fuck? 1 year ago:
It’s very nice of the people of south Carolina to dedicate a lake to my life’s work I wild like to thank my local dealer, my school for all the abuse to make this happen and global capital for the extra sprinkling of universal bad.
- Comment on Review: Framework Laptop finally gets an AMD Ryzen config—and it’s pretty good 1 year ago:
The upcoming 16 inch model will have a dedicated gpu.
- Comment on But my WiFi is just fine! 1 year ago:
Also WiFi is half duplex so you only get those speeds in one direction at a time.
- Comment on And no, just taking 5 min to do the thing is not an option. 1 year ago:
Ah fuck you just reminded me I didn’t do the dishes today before I left for a holiday. Oh well they’ll be there for me when I get back I guess.
- Comment on NHS waiting lists: estimated 340,000 died awaiting treatment in 2022 1 year ago:
No she said Tony Blair and new labour where her greatest achievement.
- Comment on Hexbear federation megathread 1 year ago:
I’m all for staying federated. They’re style of posting isn’t to my taste but I’m not seeing any broad trends that lead me to see the requirement for defederation.