Broken_Monitor
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- Comment on Microsoft extolling the benefits of cloud storage in their Office save dialog 2 days ago:
Yeah fair enough, same shit where I work too. It’s a little crazy how protective they are of their proprietary secrets, but they just straight up rely on microsoft to handle all the data, be it via email, cloud services, or that Sharepoint shit. I wonder how many companies would have their secrets exposed if that data was ever stolen from the MS servers?
- Comment on Microsoft extolling the benefits of cloud storage in their Office save dialog 2 days ago:
It is BEYOND time to switch to Linux
- Comment on We can do all three things at once 1 week ago:
My opinion is that to be truly decentralized we should do both. Not just physically decentralize by location, but decentralized in a sense of having multiple options. We should do solar, and wind, and nuclear power. The power output of solar and wind is just not where it needs to be to replace both nuclear and fossil fuels, so I do have to argue in favor of building more nuclear power, but that doesn’t mean I am against building any other renewables as well.
- Comment on We can do all three things at once 1 week ago:
So this kind of got lost in the weeds, and I see the argument below. The real reason I wont provide sources is partly because it is very easy to look up, and the reality is I could write a thesis with a ton of fucking sources and never cover it all. Typically, in an actual scientific debate, the onus is on you to provide a source which debunks my claims. However, I can give a short summary with some general, but verifiable numbers. I did a quick search for all of this, and most of it is on wikipedia with sources listed.
The average American nuclear power plant provides about 800-1000MW of energy, and has a life time of about 35-40 years. The US has 88 of them, most of which have been running since the 70s. Their age means many should be considered for decommissioning soon, but since we haven’t been building new ones to replace them the old ones continue to be serviced while we seek alternatives.
America’s largest solar farm produces ~350MW, which is less than half of a nuclear plant. That’s actually pretty decent, but this is the high end of the scale for solar, and this output is only achievable in perfect conditions (weather, daytime, location). At night it produces nothing. So the major problem many solar / wind enthusiasts ignore when discussing this is what happens then? How do we store enough power to sustain a city, or something larger, through every night? Those mighty big batteries aren’t eco friendly either, since at the moment our best option is lithium. That may change soon but we can’t really move on maybe.
My point to start with was that we should have never stopped building nuclear - we could have pushed fossil fuel out ages ago, but lobbyists really fucked that. Solar is great, but we need like 200 more of those major solar farms and an absolute fuckload of massive batteries, and the logistics of that is a nightmare that is unlikely to see fruition in time. It will be a long time before we have enough solar / wind to do more than supplement our power grid. We should keep building it in the meantime, but it is also a slow process, much like building nearly any large scale power generation.
To be clear, I am in favor of both. Nuclear should have always been the back bone of our power grid. Solar should be coming online as supplementary power supply allowing us to decentralize and support the transition to greener tech. This is not an either/or situation - we really need both, or fossil fuels will royally fuck our planet first. Maybe someday we will be efficient enough to go all solar, but expecting it to replace fossil fuels AND nuclear in the near future is just unrealistic idealism. We will die before hitting such ideal goals - in the meantime we must compromise.
- Comment on BREAKING: Microsoft has closed Redfall's Arkane Austin, HiFi Rush's Tango Gameworks, and more in devastating cuts at Bethesda. | IGN 1 week ago:
Oh hahaha I know them. Yeah they suck, havent released anything good since like… Fallout 3? Maybe Doom 2016? I do mix uo the dev and the publisher in this case but wow the latest fallout games and starfield were utterly tragic
- Comment on BREAKING: Microsoft has closed Redfall's Arkane Austin, HiFi Rush's Tango Gameworks, and more in devastating cuts at Bethesda. | IGN 1 week ago:
I dont even know what BGS is so they must suck.
- Comment on Comedy has peaked ladies and gentlemen 2 weeks ago:
Makes me wonder what the EU men do
- Comment on We can do all three things at once 2 weeks ago:
The number of people who still think nuclear is bad and solar / wind will make up for it is really depressing. We could have had an unrivaled nuclear power infrastructure but those NIMBY assholes stopped it 50 years ago and now we rely on extending existing plants past their lifetimes while running in fucking circles about how to save the planet. Has anyone who wants to “go green” without nuclear ever looked at the power output of these things?? It’s not even the same league! AaagggghHhHhhhhhhhh
- Comment on After promising free DLC forever to some players, Escape from Tarkov locks a new PvE mode behind $250 edition 3 weeks ago:
Now this is some grade A bullshit right here. I haven’t played this game in ages, so all the extra crap in a $150 edition is news to me. Good god I would never ever buy that, but these people that did have every right to be pissed. The verbal gymnastics these guys are doing to pretend this doesn’t count as DLC is just absurd. Asking $100 for ANY PvE game is ridiculous at best. Tacking that on in addition to a $150 price tag is so bonkers I need to go buy a thesaurus to continue describing it. WTF. Who the hell is buying this!!! Whhhhyyyyyy???
- Comment on Over 10 years later 7 Days to Die is going to leave Early Access 3 weeks ago:
Its kind of crazy they will actually raise the price for this. Last I played it was janky as hell, looks over 10 years old, and at this point it’s been mostly forgotten about. If you haven’t bought it by now I don’t think a price increase is going to grab a lot of new customers.
- Comment on dun dun dundun 4 weeks ago:
I actually loved this album. This is just the song that got most of the radio play. Tonight, tonight and 1979 are the other radio play songs which represent the overall band better, in my opinion.
- Comment on dun dun dundun 4 weeks ago:
Its a reference to Bullet with Butterfly Wings - by Smashing Pumpkins. An old 90s song all us middle aged Americans heard on the radio so much that even people who don’t like that band would probably recognize it
- Comment on dun dun dundun 4 weeks ago:
Hold you up to the flame
- Comment on land shrimp 5 weeks ago:
Link to the rest of the cookbook? I hear a feast is coming…
- Comment on Windows 10 and its shortage of "Never shove this screen in my face again" buttons 1 month ago:
Nothing more specific than just the learning curve. Having to use the terminal, learn commands, etc. Just basic program installation requires me to look up how to do it. I’m currently learning via my steamdeck too, so cumbersome typing doesnt help matters, but I plan on installing on a desktop PC so I can experiment more easily. Picking a distro can be complicated too - I think I just want to use the same as what’s on the Steamdeck but I need to do research to figure out if I should. That research alone is a bit of the pain in the ass. I can do it, but I needed to be motivated but corporate bullshit to actually do it.
- Comment on Windows 10 and its shortage of "Never shove this screen in my face again" buttons 1 month ago:
Learning Linux is a pain in the ass. The line is where Windows becomes less and less convenient until it is more of a pain in the ass than Linux. It’s a blurry line for some people, but for me the combination of hiding settings so I need to enter the fucking registry to change them and then serving me pop up ads on my own machine crossed the line.
But fucking hell learning linux is still a pain in the ass.
- Comment on This place kinda *feels* like a B, y'know? 2 months ago:
Futurama
- Comment on Can you survive on pickles alone, for a while? 4 months ago:
Are you stuck in a pickle factory? Blink twice if you’re under duress.
- Comment on IT support work be like 4 months ago:
You were doing very well until everyone died.
- Comment on So that's why they're hateful abominations 4 months ago:
There are perfectly logical reasons outside of face planting to hate them. I get that the weather can be shitty outside sometimes, but I’ll take some scenery over a treadmill any day.
- Comment on Heres an idea, Fromsoft should make the Soul Reaver sequel 4 months ago:
My real hope is that they sell off the IPs to a capable group. They sure gobbled up some great IPs and then did fuck all with them
- Comment on Teardown - Stunning Physics & Destruction - PS5/Xbox Series X/S - DF Tech Review 5 months ago:
Makes me wanna play red faction guerrilla again. Might have to pick this up and give it a shot.
- Comment on Ark: Survival Ascended XS X/S Release Date Delayed One Day Before Launch 5 months ago:
This company keeps tripping over itself. My expectations are pretty low for this game
- Comment on What are some alternative to soulless videogame franchises? 6 months ago:
Tunic was shockingly good. Looks like its for little kids but there is a lot of surprises and neat puzzles tucked away in there. Absolutely worth checking that out
- Comment on What are some alternative to soulless videogame franchises? 6 months ago:
Rock and Stone!
- Comment on Is It Still Worth Going to the Movies? 7 months ago:
Huh, I never realized that was an American word.
- Comment on A pastor invited to DeSantis' Disney board meeting quoted the Bible telling people not to 'resist authority' as it strips workers' park perks 8 months ago:
OBEY. DO NOT RESIST. OBEY.
- Comment on PlayStation Plus headliner for September 2023 has leaked 8 months ago:
They’re gonna struggle to even give this one away. It’s not worth the time
- Comment on Armored Core - Show off your Tank Cores 8 months ago:
I cant show mine, but I gotta say I just unlocked the tetrapod legs last night my inner child is loving it. Those things were awesome in the old playstation days and they seem pretty fucking awesome still now. I wanna load it up with firing stance weapons and go ballistic