PupBiru
@PupBiru@kbin.social
- Comment on What is the admin team stance on meta's threads federation? 1 year ago:
lemmy.world may have an impact on lemmy, but there are a lot of much bigger mastodon instances. in fact, lemmy.world is #9, and every other instance ahead of it is mastodon (except 1 which is misskey)
- Comment on What happens if flat Earthers go to space? 1 year ago:
and also the flip side: who the fuck cares if it’s flat and the government is lying about it?
- Comment on [deleted] 1 year ago:
also (somewhat ignorant myself), possibly useful to distinguish between palestine and hamas… palestine the state might be more amenable than hamas
… but idk
- Comment on Snapchat's new avatar design 1 year ago:
“you know what worked real well? the metaverse! let’s copy their avatars!”
“ooooh yeah great idea bob! we don’t have any legs either so it’s perfect!”
- Comment on Follow up. They fixed the light bulb 1 year ago:
not multiple bulbs no, but those bulbs have multiple LEDs in them… LEDs only have a single colour, but you can produce variable colour (or colour temperature) bulbs by mixing R/G/B or warm white and cold white
philips hue bulbs for example have red, green, blue, warm white, and cold white LEDs so they can mix any colour or colour temperature
to have variable colour temperature requires a warm white and a cold white LED that get mixed, so they’re always being used at 50% or less (because 50% emission on both is the same brightness as 100% of 1)… commercial fixtures are likely to not give that option and only include a single LED at fixed colour temperature to avoid 2x the parts
- Comment on Follow up. They fixed the light bulb 1 year ago:
colour temperature is only changeable when you “mix” other colours in: usually you have cold white and warm white LEDs and you mix them to get whatever temp you want
for commercial, i doubt they’d double the LEDs so you could adjust them… the name of the game in commercial lighting is but what you need, buy it cheap, and don’t pay for things you won’t use
- Comment on 6 reasons the gender critical right and the woke left are both WRONG about pronouns 1 year ago:
i just default to they/them for everyone unless i know for sure… nobody has ever been annoyed about it, and nobody has ever felt misgendered
- Comment on Should there be an "ALL OFF" button to instantly shut down all these new AI Defense bots that the Military in the US want to build and deploy in the thousands? 1 year ago:
Would you like to add a tip for your robot defenders to this months subscription fee for AI Protection Max Ultra (tm)?
- Comment on We need to have a serious talk about this instance being federated with Lemmygrad, Hexbear, and tankies in general 1 year ago:
i happen to agree with your point, however i don’t think it’s kind to people with a disability to use that disability as an insult
- Comment on People who back into parking spots: Why? 1 year ago:
and you’re looking from the front of your car out toward the back of your car, where you vision is often blocked on either side… worst case scenario you have a truck either side of you in which case you literally can’t see more than a few degrees angle past the back corner of your car in either direction
- Comment on We need to have a serious talk about this instance being federated with Lemmygrad, Hexbear, and tankies in general 1 year ago:
probably best not to call people retards if you want to stay on the high road
- Comment on People who back into parking spots: Why? 1 year ago:
parking spaces like that too: they’re not high speed, but people are often distracted, there are pedestrians wandering around… lots of unknowns you’re reversing into
- Comment on Is charging electric car at holiday house "theft"? 1 year ago:
AFAIK (and i could be totally wrong here; 3 phase is where my knowledge of electricity takes a sharp dip!) you can get up to 480V total on a 3 phase circuit in the US… 3 phase is what a lot of dedicated car charging circuits would run off
i had heard that US properties get 3 phase power by default and a lot of your circuits are split between the phases, where a lot of 230/240V countries get a single phase, and that you have certain 240V circuits for speciality things like clothes driers that operate somehow using multiple phases at once? or that could be total nonsense misremembering
… but also, houses in 240V countries (i’m in australia for example and we have 240) can also get 3 phase, and that’s often what’s added for electric vehicles
- Comment on Is charging electric car at holiday house "theft"? 1 year ago:
garden plug outlets should have an appropriate breaker on them for whatever they’re rated at… you can use them for whatever you like: they’re no different from an inside plug other than being weather proofed… why would they be any different? old extension leads are also fine for charging a car, as long as the insulation is fine and they’re rated the same as the breaker… again, why would they not be? its not like extension lead technology has exactly changed much: it’s a chunk of copper surrounded by non-conductive material
it doesn’t become a fire risk simply because it’s old…
- Comment on Is charging electric car at holiday house "theft"? 1 year ago:
world war 2 wiring kinda isn’t the issue… if the wires can handle 5a they should have a 5a breaker… the only problem with old wiring is the insulation could be done for and then it’s an issue of arcing which will cause a fire whether there’s something plugged into the socket or not!
electrical fires and safety here is not an issue unless the house isn’t up to code… so either they’re using it as a poor excuse, or they’re admitting that their house is unsafe under any circumstances
… or, possibly just as likely considering they’re concerned about “30hr” of charging: they’re just ignorant
- Comment on Is charging electric car at holiday house "theft"? 1 year ago:
that’s literally what the fuses and breakers are for
- Comment on Is charging electric car at holiday house "theft"? 1 year ago:
and if they have banned EV charging they should realise nobody is going to honour that rule anyway and stop being such a dick, suck it up, and get on with running their airbnb like a normal person that doesn’t care about a few of £ of electricity per mo
- Comment on People who back into parking spots: Why? 1 year ago:
if you think it takes more time, or that it doesn’t make it easier to pull out then you sir don’t know how to reverse park and are so wrong that i’m not sure you have ever reverse parked
- Comment on People who back into parking spots: Why? 1 year ago:
the easy part of driving is manoeuvring the vehicle… the hard part is dealing with shit drivers… reversing out is reversing into an unknown situation on a high(er) speed road full of shit drivers
- Comment on People who back into parking spots: Why? 1 year ago:
… american HOAs are fucked
i have legitimately never heard a single positive thing about HOAs. i don’t think they exist in australia?… like we have owners corporations and stratas but i think they don’t have nearly the same power