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the_third ,

Yep. I dabble in recruiting related stuff at conferences and expos for our company occasionally and I usually meet one or two young people that get the “get in contact!” remark on the protocol sheet. They’re out there, they’re just rare.

Shower thoughts are wasting water.

My city is in the middle of the worst drought in recorded history. My showers are typically under 2 minutes and I have to shower with a bucket to catch otherwise wasted water to use to flush the toilet. I also shut the water down when I am wet enough so I can scrub myself without having unneeded water flowing then start it back...

the_third ,

Who here really has the time to stand, think and waste in the shower?

Me, my village gets its water from a spring in the mountains above that provides many times what we consume. Water is just a flatrate utility. The energy to heat it comes exclusively from photovoltaics and solar thermal panels between April and October. Standing under the hot shower is literally free for me in those months.

Rest of the year, eh, okay I either pay for electricity or stuff four more pieces of wood into the stove for half an hour worth of hot shower water, so, basically free as well.

the_third ,

So, you go ahead and build one then.

the_third ,

That is what I did and what I do. I accept that duty the moment I begin to take care of them as a young puppy or rescue.

the_third ,

Yep. I held my father’s hand when he died. When it was over I hugged him and told him we’d be okay on our own now and that we’d manage.

I was mostly right. Mostly. The waves came and went and I thought I’d be over the worst - but now, a year later I sometimes miss the guy with a pain that feels like it will never end in that moment.

I planted a tree and put a bench under it at the end of a small valley where I now own some meadows and where we used to go together and chop firewood. When it gets too bad I take my dog up there and sit down and tell my dad what’s going on.

the_third ,

It’s bound to happen, right. However, it’s a thing I have to learn how to deal with and I’m pretty certain I’m going to finish that process as a different person.

Interestingly, being there at the bed wasn’t that hard. It was just the right thing to do and I would always want to be there again.

The part where I’m missing him hard is when I feel like picking up the phone because something good happened but then I realize, no, not today, not tomorrow either, never again.

the_third ,

To be fair, personal greed causes the same as well. In non capitalist countries, the answer to this might have been “because Dimitri the quality assurance engineer now has a very light and sturdy hunting stand at home”.

the_third ,

Herbert Feuerstein, a german journalist and entertainer went as far as to record his own one hour feature for his previous employer, a public ratio station in the western part of Germany to broadcast after his death. It’s an hour of his favourite music, him telling the story of how all that came to be and some remarks on life and everything. I quite liked the idea and the way he executed it.

the_third ,

People around here usually have trailers behind their normal cars for that. Works fine.

the_third ,

Same with mine. When he was new to us, he ran away twice so I put him on a leash strictly and put a GPS tracker on him. Thought he just wasn’t one of those off the leash dogs. A year later a friend of mine told me “just cut him loose”. I told him he runs, he looked at the dog and said “nah. He isn’t going to. Try it.”

Was hectars and hectars of his private forest, so I thought “what the hell, we’ll find him with the tracker when he’s hungry” and massive surprise: He really never ran off. Not that day and never since. 20m ahead, 20m back, never have to worry, as soon as people can be heard or he loses sight of me he’s by my side immediately.

the_third ,

That’s what I guess as well. Well, he’s got that figured out, I think:

Dog, lying on its side, half asleep.

the_third ,

Yes. And awake-keepening because my arm tends to die off like that, but what can you do 🤷

the_third ,

I drive an electric vehicle and the unfortunate reality is, that brakes that are large enough for an emergency stop get underutilized during everyday, regenerative braking. So they rust.

My solution is: Every time I get back to our village in wet weather, I accelerate hard on the last long straight and brake hard to almost a standstill once. No more brake trouble, all four rotors squeaky clean, but any measuring device would write me up as the biggest idiot on the roads out there.

the_third ,

The severity of the problem depends on external factors:

  • do you live in a dry and salt-free environment? No problem.
  • did the maker of your car implement disc wiping as a precaution? No problem.
  • did the maker of your car implement intermittent brake blending during recuperation? No problem.
  • is your car less driven in wet and salty conditions and then always store in a dry, warm garage? No problem.
  • does your car have drumsin the rear and near-undersized discs in the front? Less of a problem.

Should I reinstall linux mint (error during installation)

I recently dual booted linux mint on my laptop, and I came across the infinite squashfs error (an infinite amount of “SQUASHFS error: Unable to read page” and "SQUASHFS error: Unable to read data counting up, I think because I took out the usb and pressed enter too quickly) I couldn’t do anything, so I shut down and...

the_third ,

Yep, that can happen. At that point everything installation related should already be unmounted, so just power it off hard and be done.

Or just press AltGr-Print-S to emergency sync the disks and AltGr-Print-B to the reboot hard, magic sysrq keys.

the_third ,

That is too general of a statement. I have three EVs in my family, none of them do any temp condition of the battery just by being plugged in. However, EVCC turns off the wallbox when they reach 75% SoC and there is no appointment that day in our shared calendar. Sitting at high SoCs kills batteries, especially in warm climates.

A PR disaster: Microsoft has lost trust with its users, and Windows Recall is the straw that broke the camel's back (www.windowscentral.com)

It’s a nightmare scenario for Microsoft. The headlining feature of its new Copilot+ PC initiative, which is supposed to drive millions of PC sales over the next couple of years, is under significant fire for being what many say is a major breach of privacy and security on Windows. That feature in question is Windows Recall, a...

the_third ,

I usually buy refurbished Thinkpads with a year of warranty. There are at least two resellers for those in Germany that I know of, AfB and Lapstore.

the_third ,

The OS equivalent of having licked the train station toilet.

the_third ,

YT Music Premium delivers 256kBit/s Opus now, Deezer delivers FLAC.

the_third ,

Eh - YT music (premium) offers 256kB-ish Opus now. That’s on par with 320kBps MP3.

the_third ,

If I had to guess…

Finally an alternative to Big Tech, your new open-source mobile ecosystem (f-droid.org)

Have you ever wondered what it would be like to engage in a mobile ecosystem outside of the watchful eye of the Big Tech giants and gatekeepers? A system that includes everything from operating systems, to app stores, to cloud services, messaging apps, email servers and more? A system that puts your privacy first, believes in a...

the_third ,

We had that with Sailfish OS.

the_third ,

If you want a supported version for your phone then yes, it’s paid for. You can create a free build yourself though.

the_third , (edited )

🤷sri

the_third ,

That’s why OpenStreetMap and a user friendly client app like Komoot is usually the better option for planning offroad activities.

Even if this state isn’t mapped yet, you’d just add the surface state and the blockage for the next person.

the_third ,

Not necessarily. While running parallel to the grid or needs to sync to it of course, but when running in island mode it can do whatever it feels like - if it supports that. My Fronius runs at 52Hz e.g. to keep other generators in the island from starting up.

the_third ,

An engineer dabbling in such things explained to me, that it is hard enough to regulate a small island network frequency and voltage-wise from a single point. Reacting to whatever another source (something like another solar inverter out in the garden with a few panels of its own, e.g.) in the same island grid does could easily lead to potentially destructive oscillations in the regulation circuit. Large grids have “mass” - literally, because large generators and electric motors are spinning at whatever speed they are spinning in whatever phase they are in. So small disturbances from regulating too quickly or a little wrong just disappear into that. The same doesn’t go for a small island grid, so at Fronius they have decided to put 52Hz on the grid which by standard prevents other sources from syncing. Electric utilities do the same when they have to power small villages from diesel generators temporarily - 52Hz and the house mounted solar generators don’t sync.

the_third , (edited )

Yep. And in my case, the backup battery is connected to another DC input on the inverter and the inverter pretty much manages everything. As I understand the documentation, there is no other way to use solar AND a battery at the same time as a power source for islanding. Switching over manually with a short disruption in-between is always possible of course, as is charging an AC coupled battery from an islanding solar inverter.

@Pretzilla

the_third ,

That sentence does not make any sense whatsoever. SATA and SAS are hot pluggable as well.

the_third ,

Hydrogen generators don’t pay for themselves if they only run now and then, that’s why nobody has built one just to use the excess energy only.

the_third ,

A manufacturing company around here is currently building their own energy solution involving solar panels and three wind generators, iirc. They do set up a hydrogen generator because they need the hydrogen for some processes but they are not building it bigger than necessary for that, citing that using it for energy storage as well would be less cost efficient than some short term energy storage using battery buffers on site and relying on the grid for the rest.

the_third ,

Any better idea how to prevent scraping or, at least, be able to fight it after the fact?

the_third ,

That’s like saying “If you don’t want corporations to steal your sourcecode, just don’t publish it.” That’s just not the right conclusion to come to.

I think it should be absolutely possible to communicate with other people in the open while still maintaining some kind of control over your creation.

the_third ,

That’s not how copyright works. In my example: Publishing code on GitHub still means that code remains under whatever license I put on it, no matter how GitHub feels about that. They can not go ahead and sell my little helper library to Sony for use in their PlayStation OS update to make a buck. If I put it under GPL e.g., Sony would still have to stick to that.

Same goes for posting on a public Lemmy instance. I publish content, I can limit it’s usage. The only thing the instance could do about that is remove my content if their usage of it is in conflict with whatever limitations I put on it.

Should, in some form of future, courts rule that those LLM generating companies can’t just use everything they get their hands on as they please, the poison pill is in their models. That’s why that thing matters now. Could it be done more elegantly than a persistent footer? Certainly. Right now though? I don’t see it.

the_third ,

Yes, that is how that works, correct. CC-BY-NC specifically prevents commercial use and as far as I see that, that’s the point of those people that add that footer to their posts.

the_third ,

Not everywhere is the US. It’s not that simple here.

the_third ,

Never heard of latex

Fuck, I’m old.

the_third ,

I’m in that that as well. I’m my age™ everybody wrote their bachelor and master thesis in LaTeX 🤷

the_third ,

During the gold rush, shovel manufacturers had a steady income.

the_third ,

What’s the efficiency of the process then? Say, I generate 1kWh of electricity somewhere in the middle of the day on a sunny field, how much of that kWh arrives at the wheels of a car at the end of this described H2 workflow?

the_third ,

Yeah, yeah, but, numbers please, not the PR talk.

the_third ,

Have you recently been to, you know, an actual concert?

the_third ,

Then go ahead and do it again. My experience in (agreed, small-ish avenues and small festivals) is still the same as it was in the 2000s. If anything, I’ve found people in the metal and synthcore scene to be more aware of each other and care more for those around them.

A lot of things that are posted online are just ragebait.

the_third ,

Nah, I think it’s more like: people that have constantly experienced being second row in everything suddenly have something they can feel smarter than everyone about. So they do.

the_third ,

I’ve got some 20-ish kWh LiFePo in the basement. The internal temperature barely reacts to a forgotten window in a cold winter night. The whole thing is just many kilograms of thermal mass. Are you sure the battery temp was your problem?

the_third ,

Lead acid is pretty inefficient though, something like 80% iirc.

the_third ,

Of course it’s relevant. My LiFePos reach about 92% efficiency. Losing 12% of energy in the storage process or not losing them is a big difference.

the_third ,

Yep. But also you need to run lead acid in a smaller charge window so you need more of them and when running out of space more panels might not be feasible - many variables in the whole thing, I don’t think there’s a universal answer, one can’t really get around setting up a small spreadsheet.

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