IsoKiero

@IsoKiero@sopuli.xyz

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Replacing an old mini fridge⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t have answer for you, but Alec over at Technology Connections made a video few days ago related to the topic. That might not have the answer for you either, but as his videos (and there’s a ton of those, even for refridgerators) are among of the best at youtube that is worth cheking out.

  But as a rule of thumb, new materials and hardware are better on pretty much every metric. And if your current one doesn’t work properly anymore it’ll most likely uses way more power than it should, as coolant flow/insulation/something isn’t in fully working condition and thus compressor needs to run more often than on a new unit.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Logging depends on the instance. Many admins choose to not log any data which could be used to identify any individual, but verifying their claims (without a doubt) as a single user is pretty much impossible and there’s nothing stopping an instance admin of gathering all the data (s)he wants to.

  Like are they protected or encrypted so the hackers can’t use them ?

  Passwords are encrypted, but in case of a security breach on an instance they are still vulnerable, like with any other password leak. Majority of the systems today use one way encryption with their passwords, but still millions and millions of user accounts are leaked almost daily.

  Also what is stoping the instance owners from abusing or selling these behind our back ?

  Nothing.

  or running a modded version of lemmy are they detectable ?

  If done properly, no, you can’t detect them.

  But that’s not any different from any of the services around the net. Companies like Meta and Google make their money by selling user data, advertisers track you and all the other things you’re most likely already aware of.

  Administrator of my instance said that they don’t gather IP addresses or any other data they don’t need to keep the servers running and I trust them on that, but your mileage may vary. And then there’s different legal systems around the world where an admin might be forced to give out information about individual user, but where I live that’s not a thing.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨New cars are great...⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  In our local craigslist for cars website someone has been selling a -84(or so) Nissan Sunny for ages with electric conversion. The seller did just that, took combustion engine out, attached a electric motor into transmission and the result is that you have 80’s car, with manual transmission and batteries so small that once you’re out of the driveway you’ve depleted 10% of the batteries (give or take, but that’s pretty much what you’ll get). And it had something like 15kW minus losses of the drive train.

  But the parts are so expensive (at least for now) that listed price is almost 10k€. I can understand that seller wants their money back and it isn’t the most serious conversion out there, but the reality is that you’ll get a shitty 80’s car with a even shittier EV conversion (since the frame has it’s limits and high quality components are expensive) while you can sell a similar car with a combustion engine for 350€ on a good day and a tank full.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨New cars are great...⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Power train conversion is reasonably simple. Just throw combustion engine and transmission box away, make brackets for electric motors and attach them directly to the wheels (with axles if necessary). Conversion of controls is (I assume) is also somewhat simple since existing brake system and power steering is quite straightforward to run with electric motors since you just need something which can run a belt drive and gas pedal is most likely already electric. For all the electronics you have plenty of space in where the engine used to be.

  But. And there’s a pretty big but. Batteries are pretty big and pretty heavy. On any given combustion engine car there’s just no room for them (at least if you’re after a conversion with similar range/power than a readily built electric car). And even if you cut the floor panel off and modify it to accomodate battery pack (or whatever the route you choose might be) it’ll heavily affect weight distribution, frame stability and many other things, suspension included. Model S battery is apparently 540kg, so if you’ll do a conversion to your corolla you might save around 150kg of weight by removing old engine+transmission but you’d still have additional 300kg of mass to deal with.

  For a van which is designed to haul heavy loads from the start it might be pretty simple to just raise floor of the cargo space a bit but for a common sedan that’s a whole another thing.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why does Lemmy (and reddit) show posts from previous page on next page?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Because new content got posted while you were browsing trough the page. If you refresh the page you’re on it shows different entries on the top and the bottom ones are pushed to 2nd page.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How do bad actors' sites/servers stay afloat when someone has to handle the hosting?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s the latter. As long as the bad actor gives money to the hosting company they don’t really care (and for legal reasons they either can’t or won’t monitor things too tightly) what you do with the capacity you paid for. And when it becomes annoying enough they’ll suspend the account. Rinse and repeat.