dosenbrot

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by dosenbrot 1mo ago
Dennou Coil had this exact same concept.
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by dosenbrot 3y ago
It’s off topic, but am I the only one who wanted to press the x button in the top left corner to close the window?
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by dosenbrot 4y ago
Homer Simpson invented a make-up-shotgun.
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by dosenbrot 4y ago
At this point maybe nobody knows this for sure. IF industry is going to have an energy-problem, then everybody else WILL have a financial problem (and many become poor - we heave just now 9% inflation and industry is running fine, what wil
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by dosenbrot 4y ago
dec 2017 $19100 -> feb 2018 $6800 -> dec 2018 $3300 -> thats 35% of it's peak value after 2 months and 18% after 1 year. nov 2013 $1130 -> apr 2014 $400 -> jan 2015 $200 -> thats 35% of it's peak value after 5 mo
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by dosenbrot 4y ago
And the other months it's a not-so-strong dip in production (Jan 16%, Feb 31%, Mar 57%, Apr 94%, Jun 100%, Jul 100%, Aug 87%, Sep 60%, Okt 41%, Nov 22%, Dec 13%). This means (for germany) we have to install more than 170% PV and store
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by dosenbrot 4y ago
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cost_of_electricity_by_sourc... Depends. With just the cost per kWh is photovoltaic cheaper, but you would need additional storage for the nighttime, so it would become more expensive th
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by dosenbrot 4y ago
I’m with you. Many people constantly complain about windows but most of them still using it. They say it’s going to get better, but it won’t. You could spend five years trying to make windows run ob an M1 und MS would break it within an hou
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by dosenbrot 4y ago
This was my first thought when I saw the pen. (Still waiting for mine)
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by dosenbrot 4y ago
If you have enough bitcoin you could also buy and run many bitcoin miner, it’s PoS with extra steps.
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by dosenbrot 4y ago
Or maybe better. In the first days of bitcoin nobody cared about a lost key. A few thousand bitcoin on an account nobody has access to? These bitcoin shouldn’t count, but it’s hard to count them. Maybe declare all bitcoins that didn’t move
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by dosenbrot 4y ago
I used Apple Maps Navigation a few minutes ago because I was to lazy to enter the destination in the car navigation system. And so I got really annoyed of Apple since all directions were 200m to late. I really like the feature where the pho
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by dosenbrot 4y ago
You should take a look at SailfishOS. I switched from Android to Sailfish OS 8 years or so ago. The original Jolla Phone was really nice and the OS too. Later I switched to an Sony Xperia X with Sailfish OS, but it goes only downhill from t
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by dosenbrot 5y ago
Precisely. Firefox is the only real opponent to Chrome (and Google is evil) and have just a few percent market share. So whats the matter, Mozilla needs money to develop Firefox and as long nobody wants to pay for, it has to be an ad from t
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by dosenbrot 5y ago
I've been using BackInTime ( https://wiki.ubuntuusers.de/Back_In_Time/ ) since 6 years and happy with it. - it's using rsync and hardlinks, the files on the backupdrive are just normal files - it got "smar
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by dosenbrot 5y ago
How about the stock market? Everyone I know that invested in stocks did so hoping to trade it back later on for more fiat than they paid.
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by dosenbrot 5y ago
Without knowing if this has anything to do with these glasses I remember something called „in eye projection“. The trick is to create the image with a laser direct in the eye ignoring the focus distance, line a hologram. A quick search show
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by dosenbrot 5y ago
> We should be extending the lives of existing machines as much as possible right now, encouraging people to purchase new computers right now is irresponsible. Not just now ..., our entire economy is based on shoving perfectly fine hardw
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by dosenbrot 5y ago
They did. https://ag.ny.gov/press-release/2021/attorney-general-james-... Also: https://www.singlelunch.com/2021/05/19/the-tether-ponzi-sche...
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by dosenbrot 5y ago
We already store a lot of data at home. And ssd and hdd storage has sometimes read errors. With terabytes of data we come across a handful error s per year, most of them will nobody notice. I use btrfs everywhere I can and see sometimes er
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by dosenbrot 6y ago
> I use this feature. On a large monitor, Firefox wastes quite a lot of space with the default layout. Ditto, I hate programs wasting space with these things. The compact design matches really good with other toolbars and stuff in KDE. (
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by dosenbrot 6y ago
As European citizen I don't really trust the Euros or Dollars. Just think about the loss in value If you own money. Even if the official 2% inflation, its still 2% lost of value. And now with Corona they printing billions of Euros and
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by dosenbrot 6y ago
> With built in and inevitable deflation. Why is everyone thinking deflation is a bad thing? "Oh no, how horrible, my money isn't loosing value over time so I dont't have to buy things I don't need and can start to s
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by dosenbrot 6y ago
This. Using the app should be dead simple - with a default server, a default username, maybe even a pre set password (bound to the phone number or whatever, I'm not a fan of this but they all do it this way) and a feature adding contac
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by dosenbrot 6y ago
I like the fun-facts on this page: "The amount of electricity consumed every year by always-on but inactive home devices in the USA alone could power the Bitcoin network for 1.8 years" Where is the discussion about the smart home
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by dosenbrot 6y ago
The only thing is, with Bitcoin we have the numbers. The classic banking system look like a few thousend banks with thousends of buildings with hundreds of thousend computers and million of emloyees. The employees again need to eat, sleep,
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by dosenbrot 6y ago
Browser-based paperwallet generators are not necessarily a bad thing. App-based is not necessarily a good thing (apps can leak data too). Best approach would be: disconnect LAN -> boot you computer from a live-CD -> don't connect
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by dosenbrot 6y ago
Dito on this. Also what happens after the vaccine? Is there even something like "after" the vaccine, we are supposed to get this vaccine every 4-6 months until what?