TranquilTurbulence
@TranquilTurbulence@lemmy.zip
- Comment on What's going on with imgur right now? 3 hours ago:
Yeah…… and that’s exactly why I’m still here.
- Comment on What's going on with imgur right now? 4 hours ago:
The old web is dead. The fediverse lives.
- Comment on Do farts at least nominally increase the overall temperature of the room in which they are extruded? 20 hours ago:
Expelling gas removes that bit of thermal energy (heat) from your system, but it shouldn’t alter your temperature in any way. Next, the warm gas mixes with air. The new gas mixture will have more heat than it had before, which will increase its average temperature a little bit. Probably not an easily measurable effect.
- Comment on I’m Fighting for My Freedom Using Outdated Technology 1 day ago:
The corruption problem could be solved with RAID 1. You just need to have two floppy dives, and mount both disks at the same time.
- Comment on Is This Social Media? 2 days ago:
One of the broadest definitions I’ve seen included email in the list. People don’t really think of it as a social media, but it fits the description.
This highlights the problem with binary definitions — they rarely fit in the real world. Like, where you draw the line between religion and way of life/philosophy/etc. Same thing here. If you look at the list of things that are commonly considered social medias, you can derive some rules from them. As usual, applying the rules leads to some bizarre classifications where email gets labeled as a social media or Lemmy gets excluded or whatever.
Real life is messy, and doesn’t fit neatly into a binary box. Sone tentacle will always peak out from some of the corners, holes or cracks.
- Comment on If copyright on a work expired immediately after death, would be that a bad or good idea? 2 days ago:
I was just thinking about that. If the copyright is tied to the author being alive, that’s essentially putting a huge target on your back. People have mysteriously died for much less than that.
- Comment on Is it better to: [A] watch videos content on a flagship/midrange smartphone that you already have, OR [B] get a cheap tablet (say, around $200 USD) to watch videos? 6 days ago:
On top of that, location matters. Not that many people carry a tablet with them when sitting in a tram, or waiting at a subway station. A phone would be so much nicer in that case. If you’re just chilling at home, a tablet will be more convenient.
- Comment on MIT report: 95% of generative AI pilots at companies are failing 6 days ago:
Once the DRM crap gets that bad, I’m going to have to get a RISC-V laptop.
- Comment on MIT report: 95% of generative AI pilots at companies are failing 1 week ago:
Gartner got it right. AI is on its way down.
- Comment on What weight would you this to be at 4’11? 1 week ago:
The correct weight.
- Comment on Is there a lemmy app that you can group communities in a feed? 1 week ago:
I haven’t found a good solution to it, so I’ll give you a bad solution instead. If you need five stacks of communities, you can make five accounts and use each to follow specific communities. Like, one account for sports communities, second one for memes, third one for politics etc. it’s not an elegant solution, but it gets the job done.
- Comment on How would one exit a black hole? 1 week ago:
As if being shredded atoms wasn’t harsh enough, you don’t even get keep your neutrons and electrons in this process. I guess it still counts as “exiting” the black hole, but just barely.
- Comment on If there's a sort of "apocalyptic" event but there are still surviving communities, will people be able to make eyeglasses again, or are people with vision issues gonna be fucked? 1 week ago:
That is also true, but low output production doesn’t get the benefits of economies of scale. That means that the number of people we need per amount of stuff produced will be higher if we do things small scale. If we have a city of a million people, you can totally arrange various things in a more centralized way, which brings the benefits of large scale production.
Ever wondered why waste water purification or energy production tends to favor large scale facilities? Same applies to farming wheat, grinding it to flour and baking bread.
If you have only small towns, everyone will just focus on making the basic necessities happen. Who has the time to design new electric motors, when you need to spend your time milking your sheep and harvesting berries for next winter.
- Comment on If there's a sort of "apocalyptic" event but there are still surviving communities, will people be able to make eyeglasses again, or are people with vision issues gonna be fucked? 1 week ago:
Restarting production chains and manufacturing facilities is going to be the biggest bottle neck.
If we imagine something like climate change wiping out 99% of the population, there just aren’t enough people to do all that. It’s going to be all hands on deck just to produce enough food for everyone. It will take a few centuries of rebuilding to get to that point.
- Comment on What are some good "frugal" movie viewing setups? (Recommendations) 1 week ago:
Speaking of laptops, many years ago, I saw a huge laptop. I thought 17” was big, but this one was just ridiculous. May have been something like 21” or something. Those things have been around for years, so finding a used one should be possible.
- Comment on How difficult would it be to live in a modern-day developed country without a smartphone? 1 week ago:
Kids and elderly people are already doing all of that, so it is technically possible, but inconvenient. You would also need to outsource your smartphone activities to someone else to actually make it work.
Option 1 seems semi-feasible, but it is getting harder every year. Also, certain activities are already beyond your reach if you’re in this group. As long as you don’t want to do any of those things, you should be fine though.
Option 2 is impossible unless you outsource your phone needs to someone else.
Option 3 is hard, but possible. You would need to limit your activities quite significantly. BTW some homeless people have a dumb phone as their only electronic device. You kinda need to have a phone number in order to barely survive.
Option 4 is the most extreme one. Children and elderly are living like this, but they are also outsourcing everything, so does that count?
- Comment on Could I just create my own drive format? 1 week ago:
Don’t introduce anything too radical, so no tunneling electron microscopes just yet. However, you should be able to use empirical science to debunk BS ideas and move things along that way.
For example, the phlogiston idea was proven wrong in the 1770s when people started burning metals and realized their mass increased in the process. Also, certain compounds can release oxygen, which can maintain a flame in an otherwise empty container. Sounds simple to us now, but back in those days, it was revolutionary.
The idea is that, you have to work within the framework available at the time.
- Comment on Could I just create my own drive format? 1 week ago:
Besides, having your own FS is pretty bad ass in the same way as running Linux From Scratch.
- Comment on Could I just create my own drive format? 1 week ago:
Doesn’t have to be world changing or even practical. A project like that would still teach you a ton about storage hardware, how file systems work, programming, mathematics etc. Some of these lessons could even be useful, but above all, a project like this should be fun and interesting.
Why do you think people install Linux and run Doom on all the weirdest hardware they can find. This is the spirit that drives innovation.
Don’t let expectations hold you back. Make your own FS, and have fun.
- Comment on Could I just create my own drive format? 1 week ago:
I think I’ve read about a similar project where someone would send packages across the internet, and use the delay as a form of memory. The capacity wasn’t great, but the idea was really cool regardless.
- Comment on Could I just create my own drive format? 1 week ago:
Reminds me of something a coworker once told me. If you had a time machine and went back to the year 1825, there would be an absurd amount of basic chemistry you could discover. Some of it doesn’t even require any fancy equipment, but if you had a proper lab at your disposal, you could become famous in no time.
- Comment on Could I just create my own drive format? 1 week ago:
Making something comparable with ext4 would probably take an autistic genius who dedicates their every waking moment to this project. Someone who eats, drinks and breathes numbers.
Other people can hope to make a fun little project that teaches them about file systems and storage hardware. Might not be a competitor to anything, but it doesn’t have to be. People like to tinker with all sorts of weird stuff, like installing doom on a toaster or something. The way I see it, this FS project is probably in that category.
- Comment on Could I just create my own drive format? 1 week ago:
But we’re on Lemmy, and that comes with a huge selection bias. In fact, you don’t really find that many typical individuals here. A significant part of the population here uses Linux as a hobby, does something technical for a living. Possibly both!
I really don’t think it’s that far fetched to imagine that it’s possible to find someone in here who has the time, energy, enthusiasm, patience knowledge and intelligence to build a new file system. I’m pretty sure you can also find more than one person capable of writing their own drivers or libraries.
- Comment on If suffering is good because it gives life meaning, wouldn't it follow that hurting people is good? 2 weeks ago:
Throwing money on lottery can make you rich. Or it might not. Honestly, the odds are stacked against you.
What doesn’t kill you, may make you stronger… unless it maims you for life. People who have survived wars aren’t necessarily stronger. Quite the contrary actually.
- Comment on anyone have personal experience with industrial tourism? 2 weeks ago:
LOL. I knew I should have read it 4 times before posting.
- Comment on anyone have personal experience with industrial tourism? 2 weeks ago:
Some factories have public tour days every year. Just look it up on their website.
If you have some kind of an organization behind you, it’s also possible to arrange such tours during other times. You could also make your own industrial tour association, get a bus full of people and start arranging tours with different companies. Just contact the PR disarmament in advance, make some phone calls etc. and you should be able to visit a whole bunch of interesting places.
- Comment on Hackers Went Looking for a Backdoor in High-Security Safes—and Now Can Open Them in Seconds 2 weeks ago:
Lovely. Goes to show that everything can be hacked, but that company just made it easier by leaving the back door wide open. It’s just a matter of knowing where the door is.
- Comment on Why are some/most of the links on this account broken? 2 weeks ago:
I’ve seen the same thing too. My guess is, it may have something to do with the instance you’re using.
- Comment on White House Orders NASA to Destroy Important Satellite 2 weeks ago:
Just for reference:
The Mussolini government was the longest-lasting government in the history of Italy. The Cabinet administered the country from 31 October 1922 to 25 July 1943, for a total of 7,572 days, or 20 years, 8 months and 25 days.
When people talk about fascism, they usually mention his most famous apprentice, but Benito is the real deal. He wrote the book. If you follow this path, you can expect find the bloodbath in a few decades. Realistically though, there’s also a safer way out when the king is too sick to continue, but that could still take too long.
- Comment on Why is the colour of sunlight different in every country? 3 weeks ago:
Angle and atmospheric composition. Midday sun doesn’t always come at the same angle, because certain countries are closer to the equator. Also, pollution contributes to the color as well. Just look at some photos from China, and you’ll see what I mean. Natural phenomena like sand and ice can contribute as well.
