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by ephbit 4y ago
Yeah, Portugal should simply tear down all the old mouldy buildings of Lisbon and replace them with shiny skyscrapers, so each and every Portuguese can have their very own flat in Lisbon. Or if they're crazy enough to want to keep thes
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by ephbit 4y ago
Haven't most companies that produce home electronics converged to device designs that guarantee steady revenue streams (as opposed to: sell once every 20 years devices)? By doing things like: opting for subscription models, short devic
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> ... next to no demand for a RISC-V based desktop computer .. One thing that RISC-V enables is open source hardware CPUs. There are quite a few people who're upset by stuff like the Intel Management Engine IME making them distrust
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by ephbit 4y ago
One of my "favorite" things about cookie banners .. this blatant lie of a message: "We value your privacy" Nope, you don't .. you value selling my data and ads revenue. Of course you value those, because it's t
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by ephbit 4y ago
I really liked that one time, when recoll brought up more than 10 year old photos I had mostly forgotten about. I had searched the name of a person and a few photos still had exif tags in them from when I had used Picasa back then to tag th
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by ephbit 4y ago
Have you considered using recoll for your use case? I guess it should fit your "centralized private search engine for my house" application quite well.
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by ephbit 4y ago
@StarFive: please bring ECC RAM to SBCs like this one. It's got already most of what I look for. Now if I'm going to use it as a lightweight home server, I want it to take good care of my data and not corrupt anything or have rand
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by ephbit 4y ago
If you want to replace the 80 MW of a big engine [1] you'll need quite some square meters. Let's assume the solar array operates at some medium yield of 4,5 kWh / (sqm * day) [2]. Assuming you have some big enough battery on
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by ephbit 4y ago
Maybe the answer will be sodium batteries: https://www.altris.se/ Sodium is pretty abundant and much more easily accessible than lithium.
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Do you have some source for this? According to the linked website: > This video features an electric bus with a new type of lithium polymer battery
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by ephbit 4y ago
> Biomass and Biogas for example. Right. And this has a very important implication. For home owners who're currently deciding which heating technology to replace an oil or gas furnace with. Biomass and Biogas will be needed urgently
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My point wasn't about google results possibly being superior to other search engine results. But about them having become worse and diluted by SEOed sites that sell something over time.
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> If only DuckDuckGo existed, search algorithm quality would stagnate and then get worse ... You appear to be one of the people who surprisingly still get good results from google. There are dozens if not hundreds of discussions here in
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by ephbit 4y ago
> ... we all live and have to make decisions in an increasingly messy/complex/interactive environment. Sorry for isolating this one aspect from the rest of your post. But this is IMO a very important yet too seldom discussed as
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by ephbit 4y ago
> You miss the point about the tropics, again. Places with reliable insolation will be exporters of synthetic fuel. None will have monopoly power, because the sun shines on them all equally. Northern countries may buy as much as they can
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by ephbit 4y ago
Do you know any person in your circle of acquaintances who follows this "majority of calories through red meat" diet? > Does the presence of vitamin fortification give processed cereal an unfair advantage? I'd guess so. &g
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> Crompressed hydrogen is way too big and dangerous .. The linked company appears to be able to handle this. Although there aren't that many installations of their system. (Which is probably due to the system not yet reaching break
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> ... many places ... Yet I'd assume _most_ places in the global west still have fluctuating irradiation and wind to a degree that makes weeks worth of storage necessary. > Do you think utilities store months of fuel, nowadays? T
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Sure everyone does. Let's say renewable electricity generation capacity increases significantly (which needs to happen as we all know), then due to fluctuations around the year of solar irradiation alone there need to be weeks if not m
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> ... The only relevant question is whether we can find a cheap and efficient way of storing it ... Not sure which percentage of the cost of the whole system comes from the hydrogen storage in these standardized steel containers. To me i
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> ... any kind of battery (and iron battery is a promising one!) is much better. Good luck trying to break even with as many batteries as would be needed for weeks or months worth of energy/electricity.
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by ephbit 4y ago
I owned an AEG washing machine. The plastic tub that contained the rotating drum was hung up on springs just like in any other washing machine. The holes in the tub where the ends of the springs went through were just that, holes without an
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by ephbit 4y ago
I think it is indeed an important part of the "solution". Whenever people choose/buy a hardware device or the software they use, they collectively shape the landscape of products. The people who want less locked digital life
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by ephbit 4y ago
I agree. Using electricity for the things you mentioned would provide more benefits to society measured in material goods. The "problem" is, that obviously society apparently has measures of benefit that are more important than ma
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by ephbit 4y ago
> There is no reason why one cannot do both, ... I want to agree but I think this is not completely true. People's mental capacity to consciously decide what little things they do in daily life and how they do them is a limited ress
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You can even invert and distort the example in my last paragraph to the extreme and ask yourself which (A or B) will more likely lead to a better outcome for the ecosphere. A) You work as a consultant for a company that advises other compan
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by ephbit 4y ago
I'm aware this is somewhat besides the point. But still .. The way I see it, carefully choosing a job doesn't matter much (compared to other things you can do) for helping avoid the ecosphere catastrophe as an individual. Most job
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> It is hypothesized that environmental contamination by per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) defines a separate planetary boundary and that this boundary has been exceeded.
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3 .. power HDD You can use a powered USB hub. Also. Remember the old 2,5” external USB HDD y-style cables that had an extra USB 2 plug (connected with a thinner cable with just 2 wires for the power and not data) that you could plug into a
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