Powderhorn
@Powderhorn@beehaw.org
Editor and tech enthusiast
At some point, I have to admit neither is true. Let’s see …
Wage slave and vandweller.
- Comment on Western Digital details 14-platter 3.5-inch HAMR HDD designs with 140 TB and beyond 8 hours ago:
Imagine if we were still doing full-height 5.25" HDDs!
- Comment on Western Digital details 14-platter 3.5-inch HAMR HDD designs with 140 TB and beyond 8 hours ago:
So, rebuild the array offsite after swapping in the good drive?
- Western Digital details 14-platter 3.5-inch HAMR HDD designs with 140 TB and beyondwww.tomshardware.com ↗Submitted 9 hours ago to technology@beehaw.org | 8 comments
- Comment on How Big Tech Killed Online Debate 1 day ago:
I only use my phone under duress. The screen is entirely too small. It’s a phone. It’s meant for calls and texting.
- Comment on How Big Tech Killed Online Debate 1 day ago:
There’s a time and a place for everything, with apologies to John Lennon.
Lemmy is a great place for longform discussions, but the vast majority of my posts and comments tend to be of the one-line, weary-columnist snark variety.
Much of the news this days is “this is objectively bad,” making attempts at discourse difficult.
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- Comment on Turns Out They Didn’t Really Want You To Bring Your Whole Self To Work 2 days ago:
I mean, most services have decided to price themselves out of the business. A great example is fast food. I remember the 99-cent Whopper and $1 McDoubles. At that price, it was acceptable food. It got the job done.
That any chain claims to still have a “value menu” befuddles me. And don’t get me started on $3.79 fountain drinks.
The problem isn’t RTO, it’s that there’s simply no value anymore. Time was, grabbing a burger on the way home was cheaper than making dinner. Those times have passed, and if you have to drive for an hour, why pay $7 for something you can make at home for $2?
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- Comment on CATL unveils battery with 12-minute charging and 1.5 million mile life 3 days ago:
OK, but where are the data that they’re inflating claims? From where I’m looking, they keep iterating. Your approach feels like sinophobia. What are we doing here in the states? Certainly not announcing new batteries.
- Comment on CATL unveils battery with 12-minute charging and 1.5 million mile life 3 days ago:
I’ve been living exclusively off Chinese-made solar panels and batteries for nearly two and a half years. I don’t exactly view them as liars.
- Comment on CATL unveils battery with 12-minute charging and 1.5 million mile life 3 days ago:
I first ran into this story on /r/energy (yeah, I cheated on Beehaw because I had to see what was going on in /r/journalism with the Post news), and while most comments were useful, there was also a tinge of “but it’s China, so that’s bad.”
Well, we were on our way to building up production and infrastructure here in the U.S., which I know because I fucking covered federal grants for green-energy projects and battery production until being laid off Jan. 20, 2025.
I mean, this is like complaining that another kid has a chocolate bar on the playground and you don’t. China invests for the long term. The U.S. needs quarterly returns. We did a lot better at advancing the state of the art in everything when we had robust corporate R&D departments than we do going with share buybacks.
We have lost our edge. Period, graf.
- Comment on Adobe Animate is shutting down next month 4 days ago:
And nothing of value was lost. Fuck Adobe. You want me to pay you monthly? Prostitutes have better terms.
Not that I’m bitter.
- Comment on You Are Being Misled About Renewable Energy Technology [Technology Connections] 6 days ago:
Basically, there are three possible outcomes. The preferred one when you flip that master switch is that everything works.
The second is that nothing happens, and now you have to figure out what the fuck has gone wrong.
The third is an electrical fire.
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- Comment on You Are Being Misled About Renewable Energy Technology [Technology Connections] 6 days ago:
When you’ve bolted the panels to your roof, wired everything up, charged the batteries off the mains and flipped the breaker on the solar ahead of turning the master switch, there’s more apprehension than waiting in your own wedding processional.
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- Comment on You Are Being Misled About Renewable Energy Technology [Technology Connections] 1 week ago:
If you know about PV and LFP, just skip to the politics for the last half hour.
- Comment on You Are Being Misled About Renewable Energy Technology [Technology Connections] 1 week ago:
It was nonetheless satisfying.
- Comment on You Are Being Misled About Renewable Energy Technology [Technology Connections] 1 week ago:
That’s certainly something you could look into. I provide original sources.
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- Comment on How ICE Already Knows Who Minneapolis Protesters Are: Agents use facial recognition, social media monitoring and other tech tools not only to identify undocumented immigrants... 1 week ago:
Ms. Cleland, the Richfield resident, said that three days after the encounter with the ICE agent, she received an email from the Department of Homeland Security saying her Global Entry and Transportation Security Administration travel privileges had been revoked. No explanation was provided.
Ms. Cleland said she had swung from anger to fear. “I don’t know how far-reaching ICE can be,” she said. “I’m struggling to figure out what I can do, without putting myself at greater risk or putting other people at risk.”
Scary shit.
- Comment on Tesla: 2024 was bad, 2025 was worse as profit falls 46 percent 1 week ago:
Feels like we had a surge of them a while back, but that’s subsided in favour of Waymos.
- Comment on Amazon axes 16,000 jobs as it pushes AI and efficiency 1 week ago:
Further proof the the AI bubble is the only thing concealing that we’re in a recession. Overhired for Covid? Fine. But that was six fucking years ago, so you’re not really being proactive.
- Comment on Unity launches Walmart SDK to "seamlessly integrate products" into games 1 week ago:
- Comment on “IG is a drug”: Internal messages may doom Meta at social media addiction trial 1 week ago:
Seems most people under 40 from my online interactions. Though “Insta” is more popular in my experience.
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