kbin.life - A general use kbin instance with a slight emphasis on the technical

Because AI and Crypto use so much electricity, what if a law was made that they had to power it with green energy?

Something on the lines of if your company facility is using over X amount of energy the majority of that has to be from a green source such as solar power. What would happen and is this feasible or am I totally thinking about this wrong...

I’m curious about building a laptop but am getting hung up on motherboards

I’m aware of things like framework and they’re a cool system, but they’re limited in what chipsets can be used by the mother boards they offer....

Anti-doom-and-gloom post

I was writing this out on my local !letstalkaboutgames and realised I was basically making a patient gamers post, so here’s a copy and paste:...

TIL that there are two words in the English language that rhyme with 'purple'

I always believed that there were none, but on a rewatch of QI, I learned there are actually two:...

What's the reason for high refresh rates?

I was reading an article on the new LG display with a refresh rate of 7680Hz and it says:...

When somebody tells you something, sometimes it's something they personally experienced and sometimes it's something they heard from somebody else. How do you tell the difference?

PhysX on Batman Arkham Asylum

I have a Nvidia gpu with the latest proprietary drivers, and I’m trying to play BAA from egs (using heroic) but physX doesn’t work....

CD Projekt Red are splitting from GOG somehow?

Just had the following email from GOG about account migration for CD Projekt Red games, not quite sure what to make of it. Don’t CDPR own GOG? Why do they need to be separated? What does this mean for the long term future of the services?...

If Tasha Yar stayed on the show, what do you think would have happened? How would she have been written?

The show really started to hit its stride S3 and everyone was written differently.

Uncomplicated firewall rule set for a *arr stack.

I set up an *arr stack and made it work, and now I’m trying to make it safe - the objectivly correct order....

Why do so few Industrial product come with Linux support ?

I was thinking about the recent story about the DB looking for windows 3.1 administrator....

Diagon Lemmy - A Harry Potter-themed Lemmy Server is now live (before you block me instantly, please hear me out)

Harry Potter Fandoms will be a part of the Fediverse one way or the other. It’s better to shape this development rather than being overwhelmed by it....

Are there any localized Fediverse Apps?

In Germany there’s an app called “Jodel”, which is essentially like a localized reddit/lemmy. That means, you only see posts from people near you (the default is something like 10km, I think)....

What if Boney M. was short for Boney Montana?

Sign up on services without phone number? Is it possible?

How to sign up services without phone number?...

LMDE on Dell Precision

Hey all. Going to take advantage of dellrefurbished sale. Dell is all abour Ubuntu. But I’d like to play around with LMDE....

This 'lil CLI application WILL change your life! (You don't have to be a programmer to use it, it's for everyone)

I know this is Wendy’s goddamit. I have made a Markdown pager and I’m currently busy with my other stuff such as my compiler, but I will add more features to it soon. I did not put much time on it and there was not much of fanfare for this, although what fare could be? I spent 5 days making an application that is only useful...

How do you tell the difference between dream and reality?

Who, in your opinion, is the most annoying character in any game?

Personally, it’s Faith from Farcry 5 for me. Uninteresting dialog that can be summed up to “I was bullied once” and that’s it. Literally every other character is so much more interesting. Jacob gives you a sequence where you run through a gulag which he then uses against you, John tries to kill you and is openly hateful...