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ephemeral_gibbon , 16 days ago to android in It's time to stop thinking plastic phones can't be premium

Nah, it’s mostly because all the tech reviewers trashed phones with plastic backs saying they felt cheap. If you look at any of those reviews they always talk about the premium feel.

It also changed from aluminium to glass backs mostly for wireless charging.

Plastic backs are better, but the tech reviewers did a lot of damage there. If they’d tried to influence people and explained why particular made sense instead of trashing it we may have more plastic phones.

ephemeral_gibbon , 1 month ago to asklemmy in To date, what do you think is the greatest invention or discovery and why?

Yep, I was talking to my grandpa about what invention his parents thought was the most significant in their lifetime, and they had said the radio. They had lived through both world wars which had brought about many many inventions and that was the one they thought was most significant.

Up to that time news was incredibly slow and you couldn’t put what was going on on the other side of the country without a massive delay, let alone the world.

ephemeral_gibbon , 2 months ago to programmer_humor in Three monitors, and i feel insulted

And brown poop fans

ephemeral_gibbon , 3 months ago to technology in Online vape seller has ‘no intention of stopping’ shipments to Australia, despite nationwide ban — ‘We have no intention of stopping just because of one twat in Canberra.’

Sort of, but honestly the vapes have created a new generation of smokers and they should have banned them much sooner (unless you have a prescription and actual plan to use them to quit smoking). They were much easier for new people to get into and we went from smoking dying out to a sizeable number of young smokers.

The tobacco companies have done very well out of vaping

ephemeral_gibbon , 6 months ago to lemmyshitpost in Godlike

You can do that at any doneness, a cast iron heated up for 10 mins will do a perfect sear in a bleu steak

ephemeral_gibbon , 6 months ago to technology in Apple responds to the Beeper iMessage saga: ‘We took steps to protect our users’

They’ve chosen the green so there’s a much lower difference in contrast between the white and green when compared to the white and blue

ephemeral_gibbon , 6 months ago to technology in Apple responds to the Beeper iMessage saga: ‘We took steps to protect our users’

Also Apple has intentionally made the Android text bubble less readable, so it has a concrete impact

ephemeral_gibbon , 6 months ago to news in The Guns Were Said to Be Destroyed. Instead, They Were Reborn.

Or have both, and a replacement barrel needs to be stamped with a serial number as well

ephemeral_gibbon , 6 months ago to world in EVs have 79% more reliability problems than gas cars, says Consumer Reports

How are mini that high up? It makes no sense. The BMW minis (everything from the last 20 years) are notoriously unreliable. The old ones aren’t great either but they aren’t stand out bad for the time. Cool little cars, but complete shit mechanically.

ephemeral_gibbon , 7 months ago to cat in A+ cat

Yep, grew up on a farm in Australia with kelpies. They’re great dogs and really lovely.

However, I’ve seen them appearing in the city a bit and that’s just a terrible idea all round. They need much more space and stimulation than they can get off a farm.

ephemeral_gibbon , 9 months ago to memes in Murdoch never saw it coming

It’s not happening as much at the moment. That tends to happen as people buy houses, have family and feel comfortable. All of that is happening less for the younger generations than those that came before them so they aren’t going as conservative as they age

ephemeral_gibbon , 9 months ago to til in TIL that John Lennon's son had to buy back postcards sent to him by his father from his widow Yoko Ono

It’s both. The way the first commenter used it was unambiguously “they’re a fucking shit person”. There has to be a qualifier for it to be positive.

ephemeral_gibbon , 9 months ago to technology in Buyer Receives Fake Core i9-13900K With i7-13700K Guts From Amazon

Except worse because they mix inventory so it’s easier for sellers to get away with scams

ephemeral_gibbon , 9 months ago to world in New research shows renewables are more profitable than nuclear power

Because we could use the money spent on nuclear to build more renewables and supporting infra (storage and transmission) than if we also built nuclear. The renewables will snap be finished and replacing the fossil fuels a lot sooner than the 10-15 years for a nuclear reactor.

If you look up studies into it you need a lot less storage than you’d expect to run a fully renewable grid, as the scale of the grid stabilises it to weather fluctuations. Winter also is a problem that can be overcome. That gencost report is a decent starting point, there are plenty of other studies into it though. The low cost of storage is also especially true if you’re looking at the first 99% of the grid.

Maybe those studies are wrong and nuclear would be economic for that last 1%. However, if we can get to 99% years earlier by just building renewables then discover that it’s harder than expected to get to 100 (somewhat unlikely, especially as more storage tech is developed), we can build nuclear then. The net carbon from getting off the majority of fossil fuels years earlier will probably make it the better decision anyway.

Also just noting that my views are based on what I’ve read about Australia so you should also find peoperly researched cost analysis for your country. Also for renewables to work well in smaller countries they’ll need to develop more interconnects their neighbours etc.

ephemeral_gibbon , 9 months ago to world in New research shows renewables are more profitable than nuclear power

Hydrogen works well with a renewable grids because you can take advantage of the times there is excess energy production so that power doesn’t just go to waste.

We do need to be careful because hydrogen is often sold as a pipe dream by gas companies to convince us to use gas (e.g. “this new gas turbine power plant can be converted to hydrogen”, even though that’d be a workload less efficient than fuel cells).

As for its use in transport, it looks like battery electric vehicles have won that battle for personal vehicles. Both have their advantages but in practice there are few enough fuel stations for hydrogen and enough chargers that that’s not going to flip.

However, batteries are entirely unsuitable to long distance, high load transport like trucks. Ideally they’d be replaced by rail, but that’s not happening anytime soon in many places so hydrogen likely will be the solution there.